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Hello my dear Moonriddengirl, it's always a pleasure to visit your talk page. Here is the thing I want to ask you about. A user copied and pasted a gastropod species description from a new paper into a species article. The user believes that he can do this, because 1. he is one of the authors of the paper, and 2. he is the editor of the journal. Is that or is that not a copyright problem?
The species description he copied is currently in the article Conasprella edpetuchi, and also in a fork of that article which is at Dalliconus edpetuchi. Needless to say the fork is a problem in its own right and needs to be deleted. The user left a note about this on the talk page of the first article.
Thanks for everything, Invertzoo ( talk) 18:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Crow for your reply. This afternoon I turned the fork into a redirect. One thing to understand is that User:Shellnut is both one of the three co-authors of the paper that described the species (and thus he is one of the co-authors of the species), and also he is the editor of the journal/magazine that published the paper. That creates a COI of course, and thus I suppose he should not be editing this article at all. But either way, we need to determine if the journal The Festivus is published under a "compatible free license". How do we determine that? I have a copy of the journal but there is no indication on the masthead what kind of license it is published under. Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 20:21, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you so much to both Crow and Moonriddengirl. First rate advice as usual! Much appreciated, Invertzoo ( talk) 17:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I have come across the article Delaware, Ontario about a small village outside of my hometown, which a user has expanded a great deal without providing any sources at all. At least one large portion of text is directly quoted from a book (noted in the article, but still inappropriate), and I am concerned that the user has lifted portions from other works, although my quick searches have not revealed anything. Would you mind taking a look? Ivanvector ( talk) 20:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Heya,
in order to get more users and get some good editing going on the Wikispecies admins have created a Facebook page for the group. I just wanted to check would this be a reasonable use of the Logo? for the Wikispecies project. On this Facebook page. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers Faendalimas talk 02:57, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
For reasons that I assume will be obvious to you, I suspect that Sutton Forest Public School (except for the first and last sentences) is a copyvio of the source cited in the article. That book is unfortunately not viewable online and is sufficiently obscure that it's unlikely that a request at WP:RX would help. What does one do in such a situation? Deor ( talk) 20:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi :) I came here thanks a very nice user who told me you are the person I need to speak. I would like your opinion on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_locations_in_Once_Upon_a_Time Clearly, it is copied from the Wiki without mention or anything else. But apprently, you are able to determine what to do :) 77.193.106.198 ( talk) 08:46, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Since I am new, I was searching for pages that already exist that I may be able to contribute to. I searched for the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) since I am a member of this organization. I noticed that a page previously existed and was deleted. I did review your policies about copyright but I wanted to ask if you could tell me why the old page was deleted so I don't make the same mistake in attempting to create a new page. SMPS has not asked me to do this. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Bitsybubbles ( talk) 21:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
This image File:ISO-IEC-9899-1999-cover.png is currently up for review at NFCR. I believe the image would fall within PD-text (on the assumption that the two logos are also within PD-text - both exist at Commons). A user asked if the amount of text might be a problem, and I wasn't sure. As most of the text appears non-creative, I would think this would not be copyrightable in that nature, but I wanted to check first. -- MASEM ( t) 05:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Moonriddengirl, as I read your reply at AN, I'm wondering if I was not assuming enough good faith on your part. I certainly didn't mean to single you out. I now see that it would have been better if I had made that clear then.
If your reply means that one can only AGF up to a certain point, then I agree. I am afraid that AGF is so rigid that it breaks too easily, or encourages hypocrisy. For that reason, many years ago, when I was more active as a mediator, I therefore inserted the little word "for" - see User:SebastianHelm/principles#AGF. — Sebastian 00:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, As you can see, I managed to write the show info on Matt's Monsters on the temp page and update character info to avoid copyright using my own words and close paraphrasing. Now that the info is next to the title, the Synopsis is no longer needed. Let's see if this works. Agentmike41 ( talk) 18:37, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Soft robotics was deleted as a copyright violation, and restoration was requested at WP:REFUND by SirJamesHunt. I went through the draft finding and removing passages copied from several sources, while leaving the framework and references in place to facilitate a possible reconstruction, and Fuhghettaboutit removed some more. The requester has now explained at User talk:JohnCD#Soft robotics that a group of researchers in the field set out to make an article, quoting passages from their various papers. It looks a promising article, and I would like to help them.
The paper which was the source of the largest number of quotes, here, is actually released under CC-BY. It was my impression that a {{ CC-notice}} template at the end of the article would make it legal, but Fuhghetttabout it says on my talk page that more specific attribution is needed; and anyway it is desirable in order to avoid plagiarism. Assuming that the authors of the other papers quoted make a suitable copyright release, the same issue will arise.
So my question is, where an article incorporates whole paragraphs copied, with a suitable license permission, from a previously published work, how should that be acknowledged in the article? It looks as though we need a variant of {{ CC-notice}} that says "This paragraph incorporates text from this source... " Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:09, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you Moonriddengirl (talk) for your support. We are still discussing a number of possibilities at JohnCD's talk page ( talk) → [ [1]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirJamesHunt ( talk • contribs) 20:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello M. Last year you were helpful in explaining a copyvio situation at this thread Talk:Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century#Copyright violation. If you have the time would you please take a look at the conversation I started here Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Question regarding a list article waiting for approval. The situations seem similar to me but - a) they might not be or b) things may have changed in the last 10 months. Whether it is a thing to be concerned about or I am way off base any input that you can give will be appreciated. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 23:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
Since you are the OTRS-agent who originally death with the ticket related to the images created by Tom Frost I would like to inform you about Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Photographs by Tom Frost. Given the complaint this seemed like the best course of action.
Regards,
Natuur12 ( talk) 15:11, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl. There has been an ongoing dispute about the paraphrasing at Rose–Baley Party that I think will take someone like you to sort out. Are you willing to take a look? Rationalobserver ( talk) 18:19, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, long time, no pester :) I've just found a massive chunk of copyvio at Sahajanand Saraswati. I've removed it but I think something might have to be done with the history. Can you help? - Sitush ( talk) 04:51, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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I just wish these could be real ones. Thank you so much for your advice on the Rose-Baley article. I know how busy you are and really appreciate you taking the time to give us such a detailed and helpful analysis. As always, you're a guiding light. Voceditenore ( talk) 13:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC) |
Please would you help. This draft is, as far as I can tell, a word for word translation of http://www.dartn.de/EDC and thus I suspect a copyvio. But I am not clear on the law of translated material. Fiddle Faddle 18:50, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
This edit introduced a pastiche of copy-paste from a number of different sources, and I have now reversed it. I put a speedy tag on it but it was ignored for the best part of 24 hours, so restored an early stub version. However, it seems that the current practice is to oversight the offending text, so I would request that you do that. In fact, I think it would be better if it was deleted outright. FYI, I have a "clean" version waiting in the wings, so if you would see fit to delete it so I can move the clean version into place. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 00:43, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
May one be right to-reight a wrong?
Or does that just make a eleft? My sincere regards, Drazardous. DraZarDouSc8leS ( talk) 05:56, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I saw you deleted my additions to the Ann Packer article. You mention copyright concerns. Any quotes were footnoted. Like a lot of stuff on Wikipedia the existing article was fairly crappy and it not do her justice. Firstly, it was badly written and most of it seemed to be anecdotal. I just reorganized it. I am not sure what your copyright concerns were. Is there an appeals process? If there is not I won't bother in future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Hutchens ( talk • contribs) 19:37, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, Would you be willing to weigh in here [2] as to whether this is a copyright problem? Thank you. 32.216.140.250 ( talk) 00:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Deema Shehabi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deema Shehabi until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Edison ( talk) 19:01, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your nice message. My current students created the page. I have a hard time getting them excited about wikipedia. If you finalize the page and make it live I think my students would get excited. This would help to show them the usefulness of their contribution. That is, that people care and their sharing of knowledge is real and tangible. If you make it live let me know if there is anything else they need to do to help polish up the page. Great hearing from you.I would love to tell them on monday that their page is official :) 174.237.129.216 ( talk) 00:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I Shetketu Mitra is employed to the famous Artist Aloke Dasgupta. I have his permission to create and upload contents. All the contents provided on the page are free source. All linked to my employer's webpage. Please let me know how to unblock the restrictions that I have regarding the creation of this page called "Aloke Dasgupta".
With Regards, Shetketu
I just noticed your comments.
These are very simple sentences. Would it not have made more sense to just delete them rather than everything I changed?
Ann packer claimed that she was the favourite for the Olympic 400 metres in a Youtube interview. I just changed that quote to one of the favourites. Please delete.
In terms of the other sentence I am stating facts. Please delete if it is problematic.
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Hi Moonriddengirl. Regarding the history scrub of Menace Demarco, I encountered VRTS ticket # 2015010510001101 today, which may be of interest. -- B ( talk) 02:59, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
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Regarding Roxane Butterfly, I processed ticket 2015012410013376, which seems to be valid. I'm a little confused, though, when I look at the copyvio report. The report claims that the infringing text was from [3], which is a third party site and I would normally inquire further ... but I can't find any relevant text on that site and the duplication report seems completely useless - it only matches a few words. Does the copyvio duplication report cache the text or does it retrieve it live? I'm guessing/assuming that the text disappeared from the other site sometime in the last few months. (Though I have restored the article because copyright was the only reason given for deletion and that appears to be resolved via the OTRS ticket, if you would like to re-delete it for G11, I have no objection.) -- B ( talk) 04:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I see you've previously been engaged in discussions around the APA's copyright assertion on DSM-5. I haven't seen a clear explanation of where the line falls on lists, but would you please have a look at DSM-5_codes. It may be fine, but I can't tell. Thank you, LeadSongDog come howl! 21:26, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Number 04267 reads "guided tissue regeneration--nonresorbable barrier, per site, per tooth" but could have read "regeneration of tissue, guided by nonresorbable barrier, one site and tooth per entry". Or "use of barrier to guide regeneration of tissue, without regard to the number of sites per tooth and whether or not the barrier is resorbable". The first variation is linguistic, the second substantive; in each case the decision to use the actual description is original to the ADA, not knuckling under to an order imposed on language by some "fact" about dental procedures.
Hello. Thanks for your edits on the article. There seems to be some confusion, though, when it comes to how many km/mi Holtorf travelled. The "official site" says 900,000 km (i.e. 559,353 mi), other sites say "almost 900,000 km" or "556,000 mi" (i.e. 894,300 km) and others yet say "884,000 km" (i.e. 549,400 mi), so maybe we should say "approximately 550,000 miles" (with a convert template) in the article. The mention of Guiness Book of Records also seems to be a mistranslation. The only source for it seems to be an interview with Holtorf himself in Spiegel Online where he says "ein Eintrag ins "Guinness Buch der Rekorde" ist in Vorbereitung", i.e. that "an entry in GBoWR is being prepared", which is not the same as a confirmation that the submission has been accepted by GBoWR as a world record, or even that GBoWR have received such a submission yet. Thomas.W talk 17:35, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Hmm. Written about in Iceland, too. But I really can't use that: [6]. Just noting for my own interest. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:53, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, thanks for fixing Organ transplantation in China. I looked up the article after viewing a TV program on the subject, broadcast on an Australian national TV network on 7 April (which accounts for the spike in page views on and after that date). It's a pity that the article was in such a bad state for such a long time - the refs weren't visible - not a good look for WP! Anyway, I've now added an EL to the TV program. Cheers, Bahudhara ( talk) 08:04, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl --
Two things:
1. I noticed in a wiki discussion that I was given credit -- by you, I believe -- for most or all of the content of the article on this song. But that is not true. I only provided the literal English translation from French, and the new English song version -- see below. Someone else provided all the historical information.
2. You may have had nothing to do with removing my credit as the writer of the new (2011) English version of the song Un Canadien Errant, but FYI I restored it. I wrote the new version because I love the song and was very disappointed with the Gibbon version. It took me parts of three days to do a "singable" version that adhered closely to the original, and as you can seen from the editing history I continued to improve it for a while. I didn't copyright my lyrics because I wanted people to be able to perform it anywhere, any time, without concerns for copyright violation. As you can also see from the editing history, I made sure that the copyright issue was taken care of prior to publication. In the interest of history, accuracy, and because I spent some significant effort on the work I would like to retain my writer credit in the wikipedia article. Brian Puckett <redacted>
Best regards, Manfromtexas ( talk) 20:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. I came across a copyright issue that spans two pages, so I'm not sure how to deal with it through the templates.
The draft Draft:Hedda Gabler (2014 film) was created September 25, 2014, and the same material was added to Hedda Gabler (2014 film) on October 2. There is an edit summary stating that permission for the plot summary would be mailed. Sure enough, there is an OTRS ticket on the draft talk page. However, more than just the plot summary is copied from this source, which predates the Wikipedia draft. I am thinking of history merging the draft with the mainspace article, moving the OTRS ticket template to the mainspace article talk page, and rewriting whatever is not part of the plot summary to be less promotional. Does this seem right to you?— Anne Delong ( talk) 05:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I know that you work more with article-related permissions on OTRS than with image-related permissions, but I wanted to alert you to this proposal. I haven't really given much consideration to how to incorporate article permissions into what I am proposing (or whether we should even incorporate them at all). I would like to propose that we move to monthly {{ OTRS pending}} and {{ OTRS received}} categories and that we have a bot help out with automatically tagging images for deletion where the tag has been in place longer than the current {{ OTRS backlog}}. The purpose of this exercise is twofold: (1) it reduces potential duplication of effort in checking on images and (2) it prevents images for which we do not receive appropriate permission from sitting around longer than need be. My idea is at Wikipedia:OTRS_noticeboard#Proposal to move to dated pending and received categories and I would welcome your input. Thanks, -- B ( talk) 14:26, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
This is kind of a left-field question...and it's not necessarily Wikipedia-related,it might be more of a larger, ethical-edge issue. But it comes after years of trying to talk my kids out of listening to music that was clearly pirated. Supposing a Youtube song video is preceded by ads sponsored by what seem like major corporations? Home Depot or similar? Can we assume these were approved by the artist or the music publishing company that holds the rights? No hurry - it's just that I can't figure it out from G-searches. Hope you're enjoying spring, Novickas ( talk) 17:38, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I mentioned you and your advice at User talk:Gamaliel and User talk:Adam Cuerden - about the user we were talking about, user:WPPilot's edits. Gamaliel is one of the main editors on Signpost and Adam is main editor responsible for Featured content at Signpost. I pointed out the issue in both places. I don't know if I succeded to explain how the correct attribution has to be done. I don't know that either. If it has to be done in the edit summary, then it is too late now. WPPilot is ideffed now, so I guess somebody else has to do this now. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:09, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, with a site like Wikipedia, we are all volunteers, and people who choose to take responsibility are the responsible parties. I can share your frustration and weariness, but I have no magic solution. :) The best I can do is tell you how to request review at the appropriate forum if you don't want to fix the problem yourself (that's WP:CCI). I wish I had the capacity to shoulder this and all the other copyright problems that come Wikipedia's way, but I don't. Due to issues in my personal life, my time volunteering is sadly truncated, and I spend almost every minute I have on here working on copyright problems. (I miss the days when I wrote an article every other day. Those were good times. :)) I know that there other volunteers who are similarly sinking in copyright work. Just look at the number of names we have listed at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations. People care and care quite deeply, but there's just so few of us and so much to do. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:32, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
At the top of every issue of the featured content report, it says This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted to featured status from [date] to [date]. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; refer to their page histories for attribution.
I'm getting a bit annoyed. Under my watch, FC turned from something where everything was copy-pasted blindly to where most things are rewritten. I changed the header because consistency with using quotes to attribute wasn't happening, but, otherwise, I think we've been managing fairly high-quality reports for a while.
I'm seriously considering giving it up, because Hafspajen has been deoing everything in their power to fling drama everywhere. Misquoting me, quoting me out of context, trying to pull me into disputes.
I'm largely on wikibreak, and I'm still having to deal with major wikidrama, and it's been going on for months. I cannot handle this.
Hafspajen: Drop the stick and step away. Please. This would have blown over three months ago if you hadn't made it your sole crusade to keep bringing it up over and over. And not to Gamaliel or anyone who could do anything, but to as many formerly unconnected people as you could drag in.
I don't ask for a lot of time off of Wikipedia. But when I am taking time off, it would be nice if I wasn't getting constantly pulled into squabbles anyway through being tagged, pulled in, criticized for not doing things when I'm not freaking here and, worst, regularly misquoted and made out to have opinions I don't have.
I wanted two months where I could just spend the little time I had for Wikipedia making sure Featured content worked, so I could spend time with my mother. What happens? Constant drama as Hafspajen actively picks a fight with another FC contributor, then brings people into it until he reacts, and they can use that as reason to ban him, throwing in a few other issues which never get discussed with him as everyone's rushing to help Hafs who started it.
I didn't want to say anything, but that it's still going on, and Hafs is actively opening new threads everywhere still is getting ridiculous. I have an anxiety disorder, and I don't want freaking Wikipedia to be causing me anxiety on top of everything else. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 13:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Moonriddengirl: As a minor point of possible interest, you don't mean a null edit, you mean a dummy edit. — Mudwater ( Talk) 02:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed some text from this article which was copied from the website of the organisation. I think I can send a permission about this text, as I am working for this organisation. Would it be OK? I am a long term editor here. Regards, Yann ( talk) 17:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG. I was just looking at the Morton Gould article, and came across the Library of Congress page for his collection there. As part of it, there's a striking publicity photo dating from 1963, which has more information about it here. It doesn't seem to fall under the staff photo exceptions listed here, so I assume it's still under copyright. There's currently a photo in the article dating from later in his life (1980s?) - do you think adding a second non-free photo would be excessive? Thanks. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:23, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey,
I'm interested in volunteering in the IP area of this Wiki. I'm willing to take courses so that I can contribute in a valuable way. I'm looking into this course: https://welc.wipo.int/acc/index.jsf?page=courseCatalog.xhtml&lang=en&cc=DL001E#plus_DL001E. What do you think? -- Syed Kazim ( Talk | Contribs) 20:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. The CorenSearchBot seems to have stopped functioning. I think it has something to do with the Yahoo search engine, as discussed at User talk:The Earwig#403 error. I have posted a message on Coren's talk, but thought it best to notify you as well. Thanks for any assistance you can offer in getting this quickly resolved. -- Diannaa ( talk) 13:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hanswar32 ( talk · contribs) is the subject of an edit-warring report that was archived without response from any admin, and only a single and brief response from any non-involved editors.
You had blocked him, and then removed the block after he promised, "I understand that I have been blocked for edit warring which I shall avoid in the future. Please note that I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and still getting familiar with my surroundings. Instead I will seek to resolve disputes through the avenues outlined and provided for me."
He decided to continue with the edit-warring a month later ( [9] [10] [11] [12]) and has continued through the past month (including [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]), more than a year later. I am planning to take the case to ANI, but thought it might be best to notify you first and get your thoughts. -- Ronz ( talk) 17:01, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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My guess would be that you're assuming there is consensus on one side, and others feel differently - either that there is no consensus or that consensus supports them. I am guessing because I have zero familiarity with the Wikipedia approach to writing about porn stars and the primary issue here seems to be about what awards to include and whether to mention nominations.
If I'm right, I suspect that the lack of a concrete discussion lends to this. If you have consensus to point to, drama diminishes. (Drama never disappears on Wikipedia; most of us are dedicated to volunteering in one area or another, and invested people get excited when inevitably disagreements happen. Occasionally, contentious practices are challenged. Unpleasant sometimes, but a healthy part of Wikipedia's lifecycle if handled correctly.)
I'm not endorsing your perspective of what's going on here or Ronz' perspective because I don't have time to wade into a rancorous, long-winded dispute in an area where I have no experience whatsoever to try to form an opinion. But I will say that your heightened language here about Ronz doesn't help your case. Ronz has been editing for over 9 years. That doesn't mean he's perfect, but he's not a drive-by who has taken a dislike to you. :) I don't believe he's here just to make your life miserable ( WP:AGF swings both ways :)); it's far more likely that he genuinely thinks you're doing something wrong. You asked me above to advise you on how to prevent Ronz from continuing to harass you - based on that AGF assumption, my advice is to civilly prove that you're not doing something wrong. Get that consensus nailed down.
When I entered this discussion tangentially over a year ago, I was told Wikipedia:WikiProject Pornography was moribund. If that's still true, it doesn't have to be. Anybody can get it into shape. Evidently, there are at least a few of you who have strong opinions on how pornography articles should be written. Have an RFC; craft some guidelines. Answer the question here. This approach has the advantage of long-term de-escalating drama (after some initial legwork) while also helping to standardize the encyclopedia's approach to a specific subject area.
Your other alternative, I suppose, is batter it out at ANI or whatever forum this eventually winds up in and see who lands on the wrong side of a block. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the message you left on my talk page explaining the cci issue. I replied to it on Friday, but only realised today that you might not see it! Would it be better for me to paste my note here? Fulleraaron ( talk) 19:30, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
This: [39] is copied verbatim from this source. Note also that the citation given at the end of the third paragraph, after the words "to realize the coup d’état against President Árbenz" is false. It pretends that the source is Cullather, Nicholas (1994) Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 rather than the actual source the text was copied from. This suggests there may be other problems in the article. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 16:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Oops, I just saw that that book is a collection of Wikipedia articles. Nevermind. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 16:25, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Could you tell me if the ticket for File:Statue of King Sejong (4273003660).jpg applies to the image and statue, or just the image? Freedom of panorama in South Korea is limited to non-commercial use, so if the statue isn't included in the ticket I'll need to nominate the image for deletion. — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 01:38, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
[40] Argentine copyright law applies to images of currency but copyright expires 25 years after being published. Am I right in thinking that all images on this page are copyvios? W C M email 20:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi M. You've got mail. :/ -- Diannaa ( talk) 23:19, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Your MRG ( talk · contribs) redirect was moved as part of the SUL finalisation! Apparently a user on fr.wiki who hasn't edited since 2006 trumped your claim. Sad. VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:54, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
I was reviwing the article Fandral, especially the character biography part. Turns out, it is very heavily pasted from another wiki [41]. I understand this isn't a copyvio, but I think that the material is so substantially similar that we should really be giving some credit to the Marvel Wiki. Is there a way to do that or should I just leave it alone? Niteshift36 ( talk) 17:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Long time no contact, so I have a problem. I'm not sure that such a thing exists for admins, but a few days ago I was looking at File:Angouleme 1872.jpg that appeared to be mis-identified and is similar to this image File:Duhauron1877.jpg, so I edited the global uses of File:Duhauron1877.jpg which used the "wrong" town identity. Today a user posted that the image was correctly used but its name and original identity appear to be incorrect. Some uses did not identify the town while others used the town name in town and other article. So now if the user is correct my edits should be reverted and I suppose all references to the original town should be changed and the file renamed. See User talk:Ww2censor#Louis Ducos du Hauron's picture : Agen vs Angoulême ?. I don't even remember all the language wikis where I made the edits and even if you are able to revert them globally I should still make corrections based on the now correct identity including renaming File:Angouleme 1872.jpg. Surprisingly back in 2006 the image was promoted to Featured Picture on the enwiki per Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Old Angouleme under it now wrong identity. Please advise? ww2censor ( talk) 12:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I stumbled upon this copyright investigation by accident when trying to copyedit Laura Cornelius Kellogg and finding lots of word-for-word plagiarism. I have access to most of the sources in the article (I'm a librarian) and am planning to try to paraphrase or delete copied content. So far I have just one question after reading the instructions -- what is the bold "N" before some articles in the lists of Articles that are part of the investigation? For example, Laura Cornelius Kellog has one. Thanks! Sharp-shinned.hawk ( talk) 23:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, EdJohnston and Arch♦ Reader. :) And thanks so much, Sharp-shinned.hawk, for your interest in helping to clean up that CCI! We can use all the help in that area that we can get. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fort Washington Fire Company is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fort Washington Fire Company (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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This is a Peer review request to seek broader input to improve page: meta:Help:Form I & Affidavit (Customised for reliqushment of copyright as per 'free cultural work' definition) an option available under (Indian) Copyright act 1957 rules.
Rgds.
Mahitgar (
talk) 02:51, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
While drafting the document I prefered that it should be useful on multiple front and probably that seems to be the reason that document is looking bit difficult to understand.
You can refer to this rfc on meta where in the point raised is in context of Indian Copyright law, If we just apply Creative Commons licences without additional documentation, some legal gap is likely to remain (for wikimedia purposes). Affidavit part of the document intends to fill that legal gap.
If you have still any doubts please let me know. and thanks for your supportive response.
Mahitgar ( talk) 02:53, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, how my girl doing?
I know this is not your main area of work but, what can i say? your amy go-to girl.
The IP user 198.90.15.66 has been blocked a couple of times, at least, i don`t know if he has operated with another IP, anyway, he keeps vandalazing pages. I think third time is the charm and he should be blocked permanently.
I await your response and thank you in advance. Zidane tribal ( talk) 18:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
???????????? What's all that??? I'm contributing to Wikipedia for years and I never had issues of this kind. Whats your problem anyway?? Look like an adm. power ego trip. If I did some things that are not permitted like copyright, please assume good faith and dont accuse me like you will for a vandal. Thanks. TheGreenGiant23 ( talk) 22:57, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello
I notice you edited/re-wrote this page a while ago after it was subject to some OR/Copyvio problems; I'm wondering if the same thing has happened again. I left
this note for the new editor; would you mind also taking a look at it and see what you think? Thank you in advance,
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Ben Yes? 17:54, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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I am so pleased to award you for cleaning up copyright concerns; particularly the ones on shetland (cattle. I am also please as it was suggested by you! TheMagikCow ( talk) 16:20, 19 June 2015 (UTC) |
Thank you for informing me about all the facts about copyright and etc. Yes, I apologise from all of you that, I had some problems in the past about copyrights of some photos and few articles. I think, all of them due to lacking knowledge about those stuff, because most of them did when I was just became a wikipedian very early times. But, now I have fixed all those wrong things and only my words are writing on created pages and existing pages. It is true that I got facts from many books, online newspapers, journals and other audio visual media, but I didn't cut and paste them. I photographed the photos that I uploaded now, but there were few incidents very early that I get directly from internet. But now, I can assure that recent photos that I uploaded are photographed by me. But, I never paste articles recently anywhere, only with my writing skills, I created the pages. So, apologize about previous copyright violations, but it will not be again.
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There are a couple of obviously useful lines mentioning Israel that would be good to have in the article. I've deleted the text, you can see it at [44]. Doug Weller ( talk) 14:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, you seem to be keen on issues of copyvio and I could use your help. There is a group of us trying to promote the use of Eranbot. It uses Turnitin software (iThenticate) to look at all new en:wikipedia edits. Thus, it has a broader scope than CorenSearchBot and identifies copyvio issues in a different manner. As a relative newbie, what is the best way to recruit help and not distract or detract for existing copyvio efforts? I presume the +700 watching this page would be candidates. Would a message on the talk page suffice (that seems rather generic)? Your advice very welcomed.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 21:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I came across Kareena Kapoor Khan and Angelina Jolie Pitt which were copy-pasted from Kareena Kapoor and Angelina Jolie respectively. One was reverted earlier and I reverted one now. I haven't been around for a while and I don't know if things have changed on this front. Do they need rev-del? It's a boat load of unattributed content that's sitting in the history of both redirects now. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
I don't know whether you are the copyright software detection expert, but even if not I bet you know who is. I know that CSB is maintained by Coren, (which is not an issue here) but I now realize we have more than one tool working and I don't know who is responsible for the other one.
Several articles were tagged today as possible copyvios, but the duplication detector report comes up empty. One useful article to look at is Human rabies treatment is that was tagged by both.
The CSB template contains a link to a duplication detector report which is not empty, as well as a Copyvios report which is not empty. However the tag at the top of the page has a link to a duplication detector report which is empty as well as a Copyvios report which is not empty.
This is not a one-off situation. Most of the articles listed in User_talk:Ali_qahremani have empty duplication detector reports. It is clear that the software is finding overlap or it wouldn't be doing the tagging but it seems to be failing to provide the correct report. Any thoughts?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:31, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Moonriddengirl: Isaiah Anderson may have copyright problems 71.47.9.186 ( talk) 15:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at Nashik, I just removed over 40K of copyvios added by multiple editors over the past two days and have semi protected the page for another two days, left a talk page note and I am newbie-warning the multiple editors involved. Once the clean up started, I realized I could use some help for the following reasons: (1) Over 250 revisions of copyvio additions over the past two days, while rev del seems ideal, I'm not sure of the ramifications of deleting so many revisions. (2) Looking through the individual talk pages, it appears to be a class project or something like that and I'm not sure where to go for that as I don't see any instructor or other info. (3) Just some watchers would be nice. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 18:30, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
How do I tell between :
You've advised him on copyright in February and again just now, but the plain fact is, he doesn't care because he's not here for the wiki, he just wants to big-up the board of trustees of the University of Denver. He's just taken the OTRS as licence to not give a $..t.
His donations would, under other circumstances, be copy-edited within an inch of their lives to wikify them from their current resumé-like state. Most have received speedy tags for spamming, notability, or copyvio. He's certainly not donating for the benefit of Wikipedia, but for the benefit of the UoD. He's not interacting with the wiki beyond the ctrl-v end of his cut-and-paste from the UoD's material. He pays no attention to any of the abundance of advice you, or any other admin or editor, has given on his talk page.
I realise we may disagree about some of his material but his current material will need your constant attention with the mop. I appreciate your work with the mop but feel it's being wasted on this guy. Bazj ( talk) 14:40, 2 July 2015 (UTC) (glad to have got that lot off my chest)
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Hi, we seem to have an editor who is a serial uploader of copyright images to Wikipedia. Mkmillenium ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Currently blocked for removal of cited text after final warning. Talk page access is in danger of being revoked too. He was editing the Celestyal Cristal article, adding a large section of that vessel's accident. The section was overly promotional, and also contained at best very close paraphrasing if not copyvio text from a different source (World Maritime News) but attributed to Seanews.tr - It's a bit complicated. I will admit to one error in that I added as short, neutral bit about the accident into the vessel's history without realising that Mkmillenium had already added the accident section, which may be the reason this editor deleted it twice, but no edit summary was left so I can't be totally sure. In any case, after being given a final warning it was deleted again, which is why I blocked. The block is for a week, but in the meantime, there's the image problem. Would it be worth raising at ANI for a CBAN on uploading any images to en-wiki? Mjroots ( talk) 20:01, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
We are the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc. (AAASP). I am - BluStormz - and I am authorized to represent the organization in the following request:
As you are the individual who deleted our page, we ask, is it possible to repost it, or must it be recreated from scratch? What can I provide by way of our permission to do so - clearing you or whoever may help us get it back up, of any copyrights issue?
I am not familiar with your process, I apologize.
Thanks VERY much.
BluStormz — Preceding unsigned comment added by BluStormz ( talk • contribs) 21:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Editor adding material in both Italian and English and then translating. [49]. Thanks Doug — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller ( talk • contribs) 13:08, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at this article - it is newly created so perhaps I am jumping the gun - but it is full of what I think is copyvio and I am not sure how to deal with it. The subject, although not my cup of tea, has claim to notability so I don't want to appear draconian (still I feel bothered by it more than usually). Is there a tool which can help to make the situation clearer. I left some comments on the Talk page. Peter Rehse ( talk) 16:03, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
This is Paul and I had planned some serious work on Johnny Mercer; gave the article a read-through today, and it seemed to me that at least parts of it were "borrowed" from elsewhere. Grabbed the phrase "Mercer liked music as a small child and attributed his musical talent to his mother, who would sing sentimental ballads." and put it into search, winding up in these 3 major spots:
The World Heritage and Project Gutenberg articles have ref numbers exactly where our article does, but no idea as to who copied from who. Where do we go from here? Thanks! We hope ( talk) 18:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002.
We see the germs of the line I've chosen to trace enter our article here in 2006. Fortunately for us, it was very different. So how does "Mercer liked music as a small child. His aunt told him he was humming music when he was six-months old." get to "Mercer liked music as a small child and attributed his musical talent to his mother, who would sing sentimental ballads. Mercer's father also sang, mostly old Scottish songs. His aunt told him he was humming music when he was six months old and later she took him to see minstrel and vaudeville shows where he heard ?coon songs? and ragtime"? Incrementally.
This is enough for me. It's highly unlikely that we copied bits and pieces wrong and then eventually made them right. Lacking other evidence, I call this the Walk of Fame copying from us, We hope. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:23, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
The articles 2017 UEFA Champions League Final and 2017 UEFA Europa League Final are similar in nature and information (at this stage), there is no copyright violation going on.
I can provide the following sources for the articles:
That's all. Chanheigeorge ( talk) 11:07, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I recently removed these attacks and threats from Skookum's talk page because there were explicit attacks (again) and this time, Skookum1 escalated to threatening to out the real names of other editors. I would like to suggest removing talk page access. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 01:45, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
You might want to look at the "controversy" section of the article on Brian Leiter, which is now almost entirely the creation of Epeefleche. It used to look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Brian_Leiter&oldid=662603591
Epeefleche began a massive and controversial rewrite in late May. Some editors accused him of retaliatory editing. He has tended to belittle other editors and just revert when it suits him. Another admin, mdann, on the TALK page has pointed out that some of what he wrote does not even match the sources, but in the "controversy" section of the article, it looks like he is paraphrasing again. Thanks for your time. Philosophy Junkie ( talk) 23:16, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I recently found the article Roosevelt Skerrit riddled with copied text from a government source since February 2014. I tried to revert the article in a previous version but the contributor keeps re-adding the text. I left the contributor some notes regarding copied text. On my talk page he responded saying permission for the text has been given while saying he/she was the subjects reputation manager, which trigged my COI alert. This goes a bit out of my normal Wikipedia activities and am therefore not really sure what to do. I was hoping you would be willing to have your experienced eye look at this. :) Crispulop ( talk) 13:26, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
What is the rule around this image [50] Thanks. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 04:49, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Good day Ma'am - I'm writing to you today because someone at wikipedia is practicing favoritism regarding the extension DyingScene.com. I am unable to use this extension as a valid citation source due to the fact it was blacklisted over 7 years ago. How can DS not be considered a valid news source when sites like punknews.org and absolutepunk.net are? They do more interviews, album reviews, exclusive premieres and publish more original content then either of those sites. This week, an admin deleted a page I created because wiki will not accept DS as a valid source. Please instruct on what avenues we must pursue to get justice in this matter, thank you. Robzwop ( talk) 15:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
It's me again. I have a question concerning the article on Marlene Clark. Will my account be temporarily blocked after the issues on that article have been resolved? I'm asking you this because, after all, you're an administrator. Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 22:57, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
hi Moonriddengirl,
i am so sorry about inadvertently changing your name. i am very confused about the talk pages so i will go very slowly and hope i don't mess anything up from here on forward. again my apologies. thanks so much for letting me know.
thanks for your clear reply. i am going to start from scratch after i review all off the articles you have sent me along with some other suggestions. i started the wiki adventure and i got a message from those people with more suggestions about what to study.
a Paulie Zink page has been restored. it only has one sentence currently but some other people have gone in and added links and improved the sentence. i am happy with that. what would you advise? deleting the page in the draft mode attached to my name? and starting a new one?
having asked you that, would it be possible for you to delete the page and help me create a new working draft page? and i am sorry to ask you for so many instructions, but then to give me instruction on how to get to the draft page? i will look around meanwhile but i'm not sure how quickly this will reach you.
i plan to study wiki's guidelines first, before i begin working on the page so it may very well be automatically deleted as this will take me some time. really appreciate all of your guidance and support. taoyin2004 Taoyin2004 ( talk) 11:59, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
thank you Moonriddengirl, i would welcome your help. and yes, you are correct with what i did. i didn't know the proper format to link or credit the wiki pages properly. i did add the references in, in ( ) at the end of places where i used the material from the Yin Yoga and Monkey Kung Fu pages. if you can help me make it right that would be great, otherwise i was planning on going back to some of the books i have and looking for specific material and references to use from there. i can also work on changing the wording from the other article pages, referencing those pages while leaving the jist of the idea in tact.
i posted a reply to you on that other page. most of this is the same as i wrote there. as you can easily tell i don't know how to even use the message functions here so i hope this gets to you in a timely fashion. i'm trying to model your note above re: user name. let me know if is works on that other page.
i will read though the formatting and using material references you listed above (from the other page conversation). any suggestions about what to read first will be most appreciated.
And is everything i wrote previously about Paulie Zink available to you? if so, perhaps you can guide me on what to use. otherwise my plan it to start from scratch and to proceed slowy. i am in the process of looking at some of the other bio pages on wiki to help familiarize myself with what wiki likes to see.
is there a template i could use and follow? also regarding your question about copying material from any other sources. i did use some wording and explanation from a book written by Paulie Zink. There is minor word changes and i as planning to go back and work on fixing that even more. Is it permissible to use quotes and refernece those? i'm guessing wiki doesn't want too many used however. again many thanks! :) Taoyin2004 Taoyin2004 ( talk) 13:42, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, no rush. i did add in one line about Zink's relationship with Cho Chat Ling. i referenced one of the books i have that zink co-authored. when ever you get a chance would you take a look at it and let me know if i am doing things correctly. i was just testing it out i also wrote Prehse (?) and asked him to review it also. thank you. i am working my way through all of the advice you all have given me and reading the pages on wiki that all of you suggested. Taoyin2004 ( talk) 20:38, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
hi Moonridengirl,
thank you for your explanation in removing the material. i took it from the Yin Yoga page where an experienced wiki editor is working to improve the page. i am new to this. Please help me move within the requirements of wiki without having to re-invent the wheel. i have been assigned a mentor through the co-op and would ask you to please help shorten my learning curve. May i ask you to review the two pages and let me know what i need to learn to avoid future issues? respectfully Taoyin2004 ( talk) 21:00, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
hi mrg,
i left you some notes... i think on my talk page. anyway. please delete the Paulie Zink page you moved and stored. i followed your advice and have notes from it for ideas to work on. thanks for your help. Taoyin2004 ( talk) 20:59, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
I noticed the articles for the members of Train for Hector Maldonado and Jerry Becker were created again in spite of notability issues, and that Jimmy Stafford's article was removed. I have redirected Hector and Jerry's to Train (band) and requested on the Talk: Train (band) page that people discuss before restoring the articles. AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 19:25, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello again!!
It's Hitcher vs. Candyman. Just thought I'd ask if you'd please assist with some understanding concerning Wikipedia policy? I understand that most of the questions you've had to answer probably relate to copyright info. However, what I need your help with does not concern copyright. I only want to ask for your help personally because you are a administrator. I completely understand if you're the wrong person to ask. Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 19:42, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Okay. It concerns the article, Michael Richards. You see, I keep writing on his "Personal life" section that he dated an actress by the name of Ann Talman. However, this editor keeps erasing the information about Richards and Talman's relationship, claiming it to be gossip. I don't believe it is gossip because I have used reliable sources such as People Magazine and the Los Angeles Times to verify their relationship. Still, the editor erased it. Which is why I came to you because I truly don't want to start an edit war against this editor.
There's more. This editor wrote in an edit summary that "Wikipedia is not a collection of celebrity dating histories." If that's true, then why are relationships mentioned on the "Personal life" sections of other celebrity articles such as Al Pacino#Personal life, Miley Cyrus#Health and relationships and Reese Witherspoon#Relationships? Please note that I am aware of the policies, WP:Wikipedia is not a democracy and WP:Wikipedia is not about winning, so I am willing to cooperate what you (or any administrator) have to say on the matter. Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 22:14, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I'll report it to the talk page, but that's as far as I'll go. And you're right, there is no reason why this has to be settled right this very moment. Again, I just didn't want to start an edit war. I'm glad I came to you instead. :) Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 22:51, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
I am sorry to bother you, but not sure who else to address; Sock Puppets of Joeyc91 are making unreasoned reversions in the Article: Italic peoples, and trying to provoke an Edit war; Agilulf2007 ( talk) 18:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Please review the item at: Talk:Arab archery/Temp and see if it meets your guidelines now. Thanks! Hadden ( talk) 00:44, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. More bad news I'm afraid: Yeokaiwei has been editing as an IP. In fact there's far more IP edits that there is logged-in edits. The IP is 118.200.99.178 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). We will have to expand the CCI to include diffs from that IP. Can you help with this step? I don't know how to do it. Thanks (and sorry), -- Diannaa ( talk) 13:36, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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For not only addressing copyright violations, but taking the time to rewrite and improve compromised text. 2601:188:0:ABE6:B53D:47CE:83E6:3C5F ( talk) 12:18, 22 July 2015 (UTC) |
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I have been editing the Wikipedia page for my husband George Ranalli. I have never done this before, and I did not realize there would be copyright issues regarding the reuse of information from his professional website. I would so appreciate some guidance on the quickest and easiest (for a Wikipedia novice) guidance about how to resolve these issues.
Thank you so much for your input. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Anne Valentino 69.86.66.202 ( talk) 13:31, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, there appear to be multiple copyright violations recently added to this article, which account for the promotional tone. This is complicated by the likelihood that the biography is being rewritten by Mr. Ranalli's wife. I've left messages with the editor, and at the article's talk page. Any assistance you may provide would be most welcome. Thank you, 2601:188:0:ABE6:3CF7:E4A2:6CC5:354F ( talk) 02:26, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I really would prefer not to assume that, but it's difficult to know what to do when no engagement happens. :) I've brought it up at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#George_Ranalli. I hope somebody there can help figure things out. And it's off the internet for me! Thanks for bringing up your concerns with the article; it's kind of hard to know how to proceed when somebody just won't talk. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:48, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your prompt action on the Italians article. Denisarona ( talk) 14:20, 23 July 2015 (UTC) |
Hi,
I am a little confused at to why most of my edits made within the last two days were marked as spam. I understand the "copy and paste" deletions and can definitely revise those, but nothing I posted was with the intention to spam or promote. I simply listed everything I know about this company and used sources for all the facts. I am new to wikipedia and wanted to start editing articles and subjects that I am familiar with and had little or outdated content. Please help me figure out what I did wrong so I can revise and provide information on said subject without breaking guidelines.
Jdelpeon ( talk) 18:44, 22 July 2015 (UTC)Jdelpeon
Hi again,
Thanks for the feedback. Although I completely agree that further revision is definitely needed in the Apple Leisure Group article, I must clarify that the Algdev account was NOT mine, and although I do admit using their deleted page edit as a template, I edited as much as I could and took out unnecessary parts and links. I am a college student and the subject matter does not "pertain to me", regardless of how knowledgeable I am with this company from my hometown. I would agree that most of the time it's best not to edit something that I am familiar with. But, it is one thing to revise an entire previously-completed article given "familiarity", and it is another to use said familiarity to provide as much information on a subject where there was previously none at all. I'd like to think that that is the whole point of Wikipedia, I can use my foundation of knowledge on a certain subject and other people can edit and build off of that. To reiterate, the article did need some fixing, but to delete ALL of the information I posted seems unfair, as the majority of the content was accurate, cited, and relevant. I'd be happy to work with you to find a way to present this information in an appropriate way.
Thanks again,
Jdelpeon ( talk) 14:16, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Jdelpeon
Hi once again,
Thanks for the clarification on the deletion. I can assure you that the past account did not belong to me. And I will do my best from here on out to provide information in accordance to policy.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it, Jdelpeon ( talk) 14:41, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Jdelpeon
Thanks Again for the feedback,
I'll keep doing my best with the citations and sources.
Jdelpeon ( talk) 17:27, 23 July 2015 (UTC)jdelpeon
Dear Moonriddengirl, I apologize for delayed responding. I wasfiguring out how to reply!! I appreciate the input from you, and your colleagues, and continue to research sourcing for "awards" and "exhibits" sections of "George Ranalli" page. As I said previously, this is unfamiliar territory. Parenthetically, the awards section of George Ranalli page was drafted by someone else, and I am happy to contribute sourcing. I've read the reference materials on feedback "neutral tone," which is understandable, and don't think there is any confusion between "neutral tone" and "promotional" tone at this point. At this point, I think it is reasonable to contribute relevant sourcing and some factual information to the page from a neutral perspective. I'm still unclear whether copyright issues remain. (I don't understanding every comments, and its difficult to track feedback from several people at once, plus how to relay to whom and where. I'm working on it!) Please advise about any clean up in that area. In terms of the twice deleted, and twice replaced post, my thought is the information is of a temporary nature, and therefore, not relevant. I'm also looking at other similar types of pages in this context for guidance, and its not the kind of information included in professional academic or employment chronology. Thank you again for your input 69.86.66.202 ( talk) 19:33, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Sincerely, Annevalentino
Hi Moonriddengirl, I must have missed something, whose sockmaster's were those edit-warring sock IPs you have been blocking on Gaulish language, Sicels and other pages? They are apparently back again as 87.13.247.219 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). I would have reverted/blocked them myself, but I apparently don't know the backstory here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:06, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
OK; tell me how to help you with copivio. What can I do? Hafspajen ( talk) 18:50, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
-- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:25, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, that
Works for me. :) (And, yes, I meant invoke like an angel. The idea that you can speak somebody's name and they know you're talking about them is mystical to me. :D) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 19:32, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Amayra Concepts, Ola Aina and Jake Clarke-Salter are word for word copivio. On top of everything, Ola Aina was proposed for deletion, twice. Somebody removed the tag. User:MrTranCFCVN created the last two. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:05, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm concerned by the SPAs on these two articles. Would you say PP or an SPI is necessary? — George8211 / T 15:16, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I have been editing this WP:BLP for awhile: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
An anon IP is adding unsourced information to this article stating that the subject is married. It may very well be true, but I cannot find WP:RS that confirms the topic. I did one mass revert with a note in the edit history about using sources, but the IP user restored all of the edits again without references. I do not want to get into an edit war over this issue. At the same time, this is a well-known person and thus I have been trying to keep her biography accurate. Either we need to find sources that confirm this information, or somehow convey to the IP user that the WP can't add information without a source. I am not calling for a block per se but for the intervention of an admin (I've seen your work before and am a fan). Thanks, - Classicfilms ( talk) 20:33, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
As a new user I logged in as Arlstone and found I was in over my head in editing "Chimney".I worked in heat transfer and chimney research from 1946 to 1985. For my kids who might wonder what I did, I wrote a narrative with many links, some to old copyrighted publications. Some of these could be more appropriate than those currently on this and other topics such as fireplaces and creosote. All are on a CD and most would be better "References" than those presently in"Chimney" I am 98 years old and have no desire to become involved in a monster project as an editor, but I would like to have some references to my work added to Wikipedia. Could I send you a copy to review, and get your help with copyright issues to add some useful technology on chimneys. Thank you in advance Richard L. Stone stonequin@gmail.com Arlstone ( talk) 22:15, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, when you have a chance, would you look at this article? It appears to be riddled with longtime copyright violations, and I'm not sure if they date from the article's inception. Thank you in advance, 2601:188:0:ABE6:2CE7:9FE7:32F1:AC2A ( talk) 13:50, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your reply and suggestions. After checking TeaHouse there seem to be many good choices for help. My primary interest is the engineering aspects of prefabricated small metal chimneys rather their architectural features. Thanks Much Richard L. Stone Arlstone ( talk) 17:20, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your reply and suggestions. After checking TeaHouse there seems to be many good choices for help. My primary interest is the engineering aspects of prefabricated small metal chimneys rather their architectural features. Thanks Much Richard L. Stone Arlstone ( talk) 17:20, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I've been in contact with Network Rail re the acquisition of photographs of Wadhurst Tunnel for use in the Hastings Line article. They have sent me a photograph of each portal, with the note that it is hoped that the photographs are useful in the Wikipedia article. I made it clear to Network Rail during my correspondence with them that any photographs so released would need to be on a compatible licence for use on Wikipedia or elsewhere, including commercial use. By the release of such photographs to me, can we take it that such permission has been granted. I'm minded to upload the images to en-Wiki rather than Commons as it seems that I might not have sufficient permissions to upload there. Network Rail nave now closed the correspondence as the deem my request answered. What advice would you give in this situation? Mjroots ( talk) 16:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello my dear Moonriddengirl, it's always a pleasure to visit your talk page. Here is the thing I want to ask you about. A user copied and pasted a gastropod species description from a new paper into a species article. The user believes that he can do this, because 1. he is one of the authors of the paper, and 2. he is the editor of the journal. Is that or is that not a copyright problem?
The species description he copied is currently in the article Conasprella edpetuchi, and also in a fork of that article which is at Dalliconus edpetuchi. Needless to say the fork is a problem in its own right and needs to be deleted. The user left a note about this on the talk page of the first article.
Thanks for everything, Invertzoo ( talk) 18:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Crow for your reply. This afternoon I turned the fork into a redirect. One thing to understand is that User:Shellnut is both one of the three co-authors of the paper that described the species (and thus he is one of the co-authors of the species), and also he is the editor of the journal/magazine that published the paper. That creates a COI of course, and thus I suppose he should not be editing this article at all. But either way, we need to determine if the journal The Festivus is published under a "compatible free license". How do we determine that? I have a copy of the journal but there is no indication on the masthead what kind of license it is published under. Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 20:21, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you so much to both Crow and Moonriddengirl. First rate advice as usual! Much appreciated, Invertzoo ( talk) 17:27, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I have come across the article Delaware, Ontario about a small village outside of my hometown, which a user has expanded a great deal without providing any sources at all. At least one large portion of text is directly quoted from a book (noted in the article, but still inappropriate), and I am concerned that the user has lifted portions from other works, although my quick searches have not revealed anything. Would you mind taking a look? Ivanvector ( talk) 20:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Heya,
in order to get more users and get some good editing going on the Wikispecies admins have created a Facebook page for the group. I just wanted to check would this be a reasonable use of the Logo? for the Wikispecies project. On this Facebook page. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers Faendalimas talk 02:57, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
For reasons that I assume will be obvious to you, I suspect that Sutton Forest Public School (except for the first and last sentences) is a copyvio of the source cited in the article. That book is unfortunately not viewable online and is sufficiently obscure that it's unlikely that a request at WP:RX would help. What does one do in such a situation? Deor ( talk) 20:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi :) I came here thanks a very nice user who told me you are the person I need to speak. I would like your opinion on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_locations_in_Once_Upon_a_Time Clearly, it is copied from the Wiki without mention or anything else. But apprently, you are able to determine what to do :) 77.193.106.198 ( talk) 08:46, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Since I am new, I was searching for pages that already exist that I may be able to contribute to. I searched for the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) since I am a member of this organization. I noticed that a page previously existed and was deleted. I did review your policies about copyright but I wanted to ask if you could tell me why the old page was deleted so I don't make the same mistake in attempting to create a new page. SMPS has not asked me to do this. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Bitsybubbles ( talk) 21:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
This image File:ISO-IEC-9899-1999-cover.png is currently up for review at NFCR. I believe the image would fall within PD-text (on the assumption that the two logos are also within PD-text - both exist at Commons). A user asked if the amount of text might be a problem, and I wasn't sure. As most of the text appears non-creative, I would think this would not be copyrightable in that nature, but I wanted to check first. -- MASEM ( t) 05:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Moonriddengirl, as I read your reply at AN, I'm wondering if I was not assuming enough good faith on your part. I certainly didn't mean to single you out. I now see that it would have been better if I had made that clear then.
If your reply means that one can only AGF up to a certain point, then I agree. I am afraid that AGF is so rigid that it breaks too easily, or encourages hypocrisy. For that reason, many years ago, when I was more active as a mediator, I therefore inserted the little word "for" - see User:SebastianHelm/principles#AGF. — Sebastian 00:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, As you can see, I managed to write the show info on Matt's Monsters on the temp page and update character info to avoid copyright using my own words and close paraphrasing. Now that the info is next to the title, the Synopsis is no longer needed. Let's see if this works. Agentmike41 ( talk) 18:37, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Soft robotics was deleted as a copyright violation, and restoration was requested at WP:REFUND by SirJamesHunt. I went through the draft finding and removing passages copied from several sources, while leaving the framework and references in place to facilitate a possible reconstruction, and Fuhghettaboutit removed some more. The requester has now explained at User talk:JohnCD#Soft robotics that a group of researchers in the field set out to make an article, quoting passages from their various papers. It looks a promising article, and I would like to help them.
The paper which was the source of the largest number of quotes, here, is actually released under CC-BY. It was my impression that a {{ CC-notice}} template at the end of the article would make it legal, but Fuhghetttabout it says on my talk page that more specific attribution is needed; and anyway it is desirable in order to avoid plagiarism. Assuming that the authors of the other papers quoted make a suitable copyright release, the same issue will arise.
So my question is, where an article incorporates whole paragraphs copied, with a suitable license permission, from a previously published work, how should that be acknowledged in the article? It looks as though we need a variant of {{ CC-notice}} that says "This paragraph incorporates text from this source... " Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:09, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you Moonriddengirl (talk) for your support. We are still discussing a number of possibilities at JohnCD's talk page ( talk) → [ [1]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirJamesHunt ( talk • contribs) 20:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello M. Last year you were helpful in explaining a copyvio situation at this thread Talk:Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century#Copyright violation. If you have the time would you please take a look at the conversation I started here Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Question regarding a list article waiting for approval. The situations seem similar to me but - a) they might not be or b) things may have changed in the last 10 months. Whether it is a thing to be concerned about or I am way off base any input that you can give will be appreciated. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 23:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
Since you are the OTRS-agent who originally death with the ticket related to the images created by Tom Frost I would like to inform you about Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Photographs by Tom Frost. Given the complaint this seemed like the best course of action.
Regards,
Natuur12 ( talk) 15:11, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl. There has been an ongoing dispute about the paraphrasing at Rose–Baley Party that I think will take someone like you to sort out. Are you willing to take a look? Rationalobserver ( talk) 18:19, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, long time, no pester :) I've just found a massive chunk of copyvio at Sahajanand Saraswati. I've removed it but I think something might have to be done with the history. Can you help? - Sitush ( talk) 04:51, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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I just wish these could be real ones. Thank you so much for your advice on the Rose-Baley article. I know how busy you are and really appreciate you taking the time to give us such a detailed and helpful analysis. As always, you're a guiding light. Voceditenore ( talk) 13:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC) |
Please would you help. This draft is, as far as I can tell, a word for word translation of http://www.dartn.de/EDC and thus I suspect a copyvio. But I am not clear on the law of translated material. Fiddle Faddle 18:50, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
This edit introduced a pastiche of copy-paste from a number of different sources, and I have now reversed it. I put a speedy tag on it but it was ignored for the best part of 24 hours, so restored an early stub version. However, it seems that the current practice is to oversight the offending text, so I would request that you do that. In fact, I think it would be better if it was deleted outright. FYI, I have a "clean" version waiting in the wings, so if you would see fit to delete it so I can move the clean version into place. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 00:43, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
May one be right to-reight a wrong?
Or does that just make a eleft? My sincere regards, Drazardous. DraZarDouSc8leS ( talk) 05:56, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I saw you deleted my additions to the Ann Packer article. You mention copyright concerns. Any quotes were footnoted. Like a lot of stuff on Wikipedia the existing article was fairly crappy and it not do her justice. Firstly, it was badly written and most of it seemed to be anecdotal. I just reorganized it. I am not sure what your copyright concerns were. Is there an appeals process? If there is not I won't bother in future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Hutchens ( talk • contribs) 19:37, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, Would you be willing to weigh in here [2] as to whether this is a copyright problem? Thank you. 32.216.140.250 ( talk) 00:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Deema Shehabi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deema Shehabi until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Thanks for your nice message. My current students created the page. I have a hard time getting them excited about wikipedia. If you finalize the page and make it live I think my students would get excited. This would help to show them the usefulness of their contribution. That is, that people care and their sharing of knowledge is real and tangible. If you make it live let me know if there is anything else they need to do to help polish up the page. Great hearing from you.I would love to tell them on monday that their page is official :) 174.237.129.216 ( talk) 00:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I Shetketu Mitra is employed to the famous Artist Aloke Dasgupta. I have his permission to create and upload contents. All the contents provided on the page are free source. All linked to my employer's webpage. Please let me know how to unblock the restrictions that I have regarding the creation of this page called "Aloke Dasgupta".
With Regards, Shetketu
I just noticed your comments.
These are very simple sentences. Would it not have made more sense to just delete them rather than everything I changed?
Ann packer claimed that she was the favourite for the Olympic 400 metres in a Youtube interview. I just changed that quote to one of the favourites. Please delete.
In terms of the other sentence I am stating facts. Please delete if it is problematic.
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Hi Moonriddengirl. Regarding the history scrub of Menace Demarco, I encountered VRTS ticket # 2015010510001101 today, which may be of interest. -- B ( talk) 02:59, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
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Regarding Roxane Butterfly, I processed ticket 2015012410013376, which seems to be valid. I'm a little confused, though, when I look at the copyvio report. The report claims that the infringing text was from [3], which is a third party site and I would normally inquire further ... but I can't find any relevant text on that site and the duplication report seems completely useless - it only matches a few words. Does the copyvio duplication report cache the text or does it retrieve it live? I'm guessing/assuming that the text disappeared from the other site sometime in the last few months. (Though I have restored the article because copyright was the only reason given for deletion and that appears to be resolved via the OTRS ticket, if you would like to re-delete it for G11, I have no objection.) -- B ( talk) 04:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I see you've previously been engaged in discussions around the APA's copyright assertion on DSM-5. I haven't seen a clear explanation of where the line falls on lists, but would you please have a look at DSM-5_codes. It may be fine, but I can't tell. Thank you, LeadSongDog come howl! 21:26, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Number 04267 reads "guided tissue regeneration--nonresorbable barrier, per site, per tooth" but could have read "regeneration of tissue, guided by nonresorbable barrier, one site and tooth per entry". Or "use of barrier to guide regeneration of tissue, without regard to the number of sites per tooth and whether or not the barrier is resorbable". The first variation is linguistic, the second substantive; in each case the decision to use the actual description is original to the ADA, not knuckling under to an order imposed on language by some "fact" about dental procedures.
Hello. Thanks for your edits on the article. There seems to be some confusion, though, when it comes to how many km/mi Holtorf travelled. The "official site" says 900,000 km (i.e. 559,353 mi), other sites say "almost 900,000 km" or "556,000 mi" (i.e. 894,300 km) and others yet say "884,000 km" (i.e. 549,400 mi), so maybe we should say "approximately 550,000 miles" (with a convert template) in the article. The mention of Guiness Book of Records also seems to be a mistranslation. The only source for it seems to be an interview with Holtorf himself in Spiegel Online where he says "ein Eintrag ins "Guinness Buch der Rekorde" ist in Vorbereitung", i.e. that "an entry in GBoWR is being prepared", which is not the same as a confirmation that the submission has been accepted by GBoWR as a world record, or even that GBoWR have received such a submission yet. Thomas.W talk 17:35, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Hmm. Written about in Iceland, too. But I really can't use that: [6]. Just noting for my own interest. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:53, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, thanks for fixing Organ transplantation in China. I looked up the article after viewing a TV program on the subject, broadcast on an Australian national TV network on 7 April (which accounts for the spike in page views on and after that date). It's a pity that the article was in such a bad state for such a long time - the refs weren't visible - not a good look for WP! Anyway, I've now added an EL to the TV program. Cheers, Bahudhara ( talk) 08:04, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl --
Two things:
1. I noticed in a wiki discussion that I was given credit -- by you, I believe -- for most or all of the content of the article on this song. But that is not true. I only provided the literal English translation from French, and the new English song version -- see below. Someone else provided all the historical information.
2. You may have had nothing to do with removing my credit as the writer of the new (2011) English version of the song Un Canadien Errant, but FYI I restored it. I wrote the new version because I love the song and was very disappointed with the Gibbon version. It took me parts of three days to do a "singable" version that adhered closely to the original, and as you can seen from the editing history I continued to improve it for a while. I didn't copyright my lyrics because I wanted people to be able to perform it anywhere, any time, without concerns for copyright violation. As you can also see from the editing history, I made sure that the copyright issue was taken care of prior to publication. In the interest of history, accuracy, and because I spent some significant effort on the work I would like to retain my writer credit in the wikipedia article. Brian Puckett <redacted>
Best regards, Manfromtexas ( talk) 20:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. I came across a copyright issue that spans two pages, so I'm not sure how to deal with it through the templates.
The draft Draft:Hedda Gabler (2014 film) was created September 25, 2014, and the same material was added to Hedda Gabler (2014 film) on October 2. There is an edit summary stating that permission for the plot summary would be mailed. Sure enough, there is an OTRS ticket on the draft talk page. However, more than just the plot summary is copied from this source, which predates the Wikipedia draft. I am thinking of history merging the draft with the mainspace article, moving the OTRS ticket template to the mainspace article talk page, and rewriting whatever is not part of the plot summary to be less promotional. Does this seem right to you?— Anne Delong ( talk) 05:08, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I know that you work more with article-related permissions on OTRS than with image-related permissions, but I wanted to alert you to this proposal. I haven't really given much consideration to how to incorporate article permissions into what I am proposing (or whether we should even incorporate them at all). I would like to propose that we move to monthly {{ OTRS pending}} and {{ OTRS received}} categories and that we have a bot help out with automatically tagging images for deletion where the tag has been in place longer than the current {{ OTRS backlog}}. The purpose of this exercise is twofold: (1) it reduces potential duplication of effort in checking on images and (2) it prevents images for which we do not receive appropriate permission from sitting around longer than need be. My idea is at Wikipedia:OTRS_noticeboard#Proposal to move to dated pending and received categories and I would welcome your input. Thanks, -- B ( talk) 14:26, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
This is kind of a left-field question...and it's not necessarily Wikipedia-related,it might be more of a larger, ethical-edge issue. But it comes after years of trying to talk my kids out of listening to music that was clearly pirated. Supposing a Youtube song video is preceded by ads sponsored by what seem like major corporations? Home Depot or similar? Can we assume these were approved by the artist or the music publishing company that holds the rights? No hurry - it's just that I can't figure it out from G-searches. Hope you're enjoying spring, Novickas ( talk) 17:38, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I mentioned you and your advice at User talk:Gamaliel and User talk:Adam Cuerden - about the user we were talking about, user:WPPilot's edits. Gamaliel is one of the main editors on Signpost and Adam is main editor responsible for Featured content at Signpost. I pointed out the issue in both places. I don't know if I succeded to explain how the correct attribution has to be done. I don't know that either. If it has to be done in the edit summary, then it is too late now. WPPilot is ideffed now, so I guess somebody else has to do this now. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:09, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, with a site like Wikipedia, we are all volunteers, and people who choose to take responsibility are the responsible parties. I can share your frustration and weariness, but I have no magic solution. :) The best I can do is tell you how to request review at the appropriate forum if you don't want to fix the problem yourself (that's WP:CCI). I wish I had the capacity to shoulder this and all the other copyright problems that come Wikipedia's way, but I don't. Due to issues in my personal life, my time volunteering is sadly truncated, and I spend almost every minute I have on here working on copyright problems. (I miss the days when I wrote an article every other day. Those were good times. :)) I know that there other volunteers who are similarly sinking in copyright work. Just look at the number of names we have listed at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations. People care and care quite deeply, but there's just so few of us and so much to do. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:32, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
At the top of every issue of the featured content report, it says This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted to featured status from [date] to [date]. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; refer to their page histories for attribution.
I'm getting a bit annoyed. Under my watch, FC turned from something where everything was copy-pasted blindly to where most things are rewritten. I changed the header because consistency with using quotes to attribute wasn't happening, but, otherwise, I think we've been managing fairly high-quality reports for a while.
I'm seriously considering giving it up, because Hafspajen has been deoing everything in their power to fling drama everywhere. Misquoting me, quoting me out of context, trying to pull me into disputes.
I'm largely on wikibreak, and I'm still having to deal with major wikidrama, and it's been going on for months. I cannot handle this.
Hafspajen: Drop the stick and step away. Please. This would have blown over three months ago if you hadn't made it your sole crusade to keep bringing it up over and over. And not to Gamaliel or anyone who could do anything, but to as many formerly unconnected people as you could drag in.
I don't ask for a lot of time off of Wikipedia. But when I am taking time off, it would be nice if I wasn't getting constantly pulled into squabbles anyway through being tagged, pulled in, criticized for not doing things when I'm not freaking here and, worst, regularly misquoted and made out to have opinions I don't have.
I wanted two months where I could just spend the little time I had for Wikipedia making sure Featured content worked, so I could spend time with my mother. What happens? Constant drama as Hafspajen actively picks a fight with another FC contributor, then brings people into it until he reacts, and they can use that as reason to ban him, throwing in a few other issues which never get discussed with him as everyone's rushing to help Hafs who started it.
I didn't want to say anything, but that it's still going on, and Hafs is actively opening new threads everywhere still is getting ridiculous. I have an anxiety disorder, and I don't want freaking Wikipedia to be causing me anxiety on top of everything else. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 13:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Moonriddengirl: As a minor point of possible interest, you don't mean a null edit, you mean a dummy edit. — Mudwater ( Talk) 02:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed some text from this article which was copied from the website of the organisation. I think I can send a permission about this text, as I am working for this organisation. Would it be OK? I am a long term editor here. Regards, Yann ( talk) 17:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG. I was just looking at the Morton Gould article, and came across the Library of Congress page for his collection there. As part of it, there's a striking publicity photo dating from 1963, which has more information about it here. It doesn't seem to fall under the staff photo exceptions listed here, so I assume it's still under copyright. There's currently a photo in the article dating from later in his life (1980s?) - do you think adding a second non-free photo would be excessive? Thanks. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:23, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey,
I'm interested in volunteering in the IP area of this Wiki. I'm willing to take courses so that I can contribute in a valuable way. I'm looking into this course: https://welc.wipo.int/acc/index.jsf?page=courseCatalog.xhtml&lang=en&cc=DL001E#plus_DL001E. What do you think? -- Syed Kazim ( Talk | Contribs) 20:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. The CorenSearchBot seems to have stopped functioning. I think it has something to do with the Yahoo search engine, as discussed at User talk:The Earwig#403 error. I have posted a message on Coren's talk, but thought it best to notify you as well. Thanks for any assistance you can offer in getting this quickly resolved. -- Diannaa ( talk) 13:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hanswar32 ( talk · contribs) is the subject of an edit-warring report that was archived without response from any admin, and only a single and brief response from any non-involved editors.
You had blocked him, and then removed the block after he promised, "I understand that I have been blocked for edit warring which I shall avoid in the future. Please note that I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and still getting familiar with my surroundings. Instead I will seek to resolve disputes through the avenues outlined and provided for me."
He decided to continue with the edit-warring a month later ( [9] [10] [11] [12]) and has continued through the past month (including [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]), more than a year later. I am planning to take the case to ANI, but thought it might be best to notify you first and get your thoughts. -- Ronz ( talk) 17:01, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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My guess would be that you're assuming there is consensus on one side, and others feel differently - either that there is no consensus or that consensus supports them. I am guessing because I have zero familiarity with the Wikipedia approach to writing about porn stars and the primary issue here seems to be about what awards to include and whether to mention nominations.
If I'm right, I suspect that the lack of a concrete discussion lends to this. If you have consensus to point to, drama diminishes. (Drama never disappears on Wikipedia; most of us are dedicated to volunteering in one area or another, and invested people get excited when inevitably disagreements happen. Occasionally, contentious practices are challenged. Unpleasant sometimes, but a healthy part of Wikipedia's lifecycle if handled correctly.)
I'm not endorsing your perspective of what's going on here or Ronz' perspective because I don't have time to wade into a rancorous, long-winded dispute in an area where I have no experience whatsoever to try to form an opinion. But I will say that your heightened language here about Ronz doesn't help your case. Ronz has been editing for over 9 years. That doesn't mean he's perfect, but he's not a drive-by who has taken a dislike to you. :) I don't believe he's here just to make your life miserable ( WP:AGF swings both ways :)); it's far more likely that he genuinely thinks you're doing something wrong. You asked me above to advise you on how to prevent Ronz from continuing to harass you - based on that AGF assumption, my advice is to civilly prove that you're not doing something wrong. Get that consensus nailed down.
When I entered this discussion tangentially over a year ago, I was told Wikipedia:WikiProject Pornography was moribund. If that's still true, it doesn't have to be. Anybody can get it into shape. Evidently, there are at least a few of you who have strong opinions on how pornography articles should be written. Have an RFC; craft some guidelines. Answer the question here. This approach has the advantage of long-term de-escalating drama (after some initial legwork) while also helping to standardize the encyclopedia's approach to a specific subject area.
Your other alternative, I suppose, is batter it out at ANI or whatever forum this eventually winds up in and see who lands on the wrong side of a block. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the message you left on my talk page explaining the cci issue. I replied to it on Friday, but only realised today that you might not see it! Would it be better for me to paste my note here? Fulleraaron ( talk) 19:30, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
This: [39] is copied verbatim from this source. Note also that the citation given at the end of the third paragraph, after the words "to realize the coup d’état against President Árbenz" is false. It pretends that the source is Cullather, Nicholas (1994) Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 rather than the actual source the text was copied from. This suggests there may be other problems in the article. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 16:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Oops, I just saw that that book is a collection of Wikipedia articles. Nevermind. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 16:25, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Could you tell me if the ticket for File:Statue of King Sejong (4273003660).jpg applies to the image and statue, or just the image? Freedom of panorama in South Korea is limited to non-commercial use, so if the statue isn't included in the ticket I'll need to nominate the image for deletion. — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 01:38, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
[40] Argentine copyright law applies to images of currency but copyright expires 25 years after being published. Am I right in thinking that all images on this page are copyvios? W C M email 20:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi M. You've got mail. :/ -- Diannaa ( talk) 23:19, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Your MRG ( talk · contribs) redirect was moved as part of the SUL finalisation! Apparently a user on fr.wiki who hasn't edited since 2006 trumped your claim. Sad. VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:54, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
I was reviwing the article Fandral, especially the character biography part. Turns out, it is very heavily pasted from another wiki [41]. I understand this isn't a copyvio, but I think that the material is so substantially similar that we should really be giving some credit to the Marvel Wiki. Is there a way to do that or should I just leave it alone? Niteshift36 ( talk) 17:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Long time no contact, so I have a problem. I'm not sure that such a thing exists for admins, but a few days ago I was looking at File:Angouleme 1872.jpg that appeared to be mis-identified and is similar to this image File:Duhauron1877.jpg, so I edited the global uses of File:Duhauron1877.jpg which used the "wrong" town identity. Today a user posted that the image was correctly used but its name and original identity appear to be incorrect. Some uses did not identify the town while others used the town name in town and other article. So now if the user is correct my edits should be reverted and I suppose all references to the original town should be changed and the file renamed. See User talk:Ww2censor#Louis Ducos du Hauron's picture : Agen vs Angoulême ?. I don't even remember all the language wikis where I made the edits and even if you are able to revert them globally I should still make corrections based on the now correct identity including renaming File:Angouleme 1872.jpg. Surprisingly back in 2006 the image was promoted to Featured Picture on the enwiki per Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Old Angouleme under it now wrong identity. Please advise? ww2censor ( talk) 12:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I stumbled upon this copyright investigation by accident when trying to copyedit Laura Cornelius Kellogg and finding lots of word-for-word plagiarism. I have access to most of the sources in the article (I'm a librarian) and am planning to try to paraphrase or delete copied content. So far I have just one question after reading the instructions -- what is the bold "N" before some articles in the lists of Articles that are part of the investigation? For example, Laura Cornelius Kellog has one. Thanks! Sharp-shinned.hawk ( talk) 23:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, EdJohnston and Arch♦ Reader. :) And thanks so much, Sharp-shinned.hawk, for your interest in helping to clean up that CCI! We can use all the help in that area that we can get. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fort Washington Fire Company is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fort Washington Fire Company (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Zackmann08 ( talk) 21:29, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
This is a Peer review request to seek broader input to improve page: meta:Help:Form I & Affidavit (Customised for reliqushment of copyright as per 'free cultural work' definition) an option available under (Indian) Copyright act 1957 rules.
Rgds.
Mahitgar (
talk) 02:51, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
While drafting the document I prefered that it should be useful on multiple front and probably that seems to be the reason that document is looking bit difficult to understand.
You can refer to this rfc on meta where in the point raised is in context of Indian Copyright law, If we just apply Creative Commons licences without additional documentation, some legal gap is likely to remain (for wikimedia purposes). Affidavit part of the document intends to fill that legal gap.
If you have still any doubts please let me know. and thanks for your supportive response.
Mahitgar ( talk) 02:53, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, how my girl doing?
I know this is not your main area of work but, what can i say? your amy go-to girl.
The IP user 198.90.15.66 has been blocked a couple of times, at least, i don`t know if he has operated with another IP, anyway, he keeps vandalazing pages. I think third time is the charm and he should be blocked permanently.
I await your response and thank you in advance. Zidane tribal ( talk) 18:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
???????????? What's all that??? I'm contributing to Wikipedia for years and I never had issues of this kind. Whats your problem anyway?? Look like an adm. power ego trip. If I did some things that are not permitted like copyright, please assume good faith and dont accuse me like you will for a vandal. Thanks. TheGreenGiant23 ( talk) 22:57, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello
I notice you edited/re-wrote this page a while ago after it was subject to some OR/Copyvio problems; I'm wondering if the same thing has happened again. I left
this note for the new editor; would you mind also taking a look at it and see what you think? Thank you in advance,
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Ben Yes? 17:54, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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I am so pleased to award you for cleaning up copyright concerns; particularly the ones on shetland (cattle. I am also please as it was suggested by you! TheMagikCow ( talk) 16:20, 19 June 2015 (UTC) |
Thank you for informing me about all the facts about copyright and etc. Yes, I apologise from all of you that, I had some problems in the past about copyrights of some photos and few articles. I think, all of them due to lacking knowledge about those stuff, because most of them did when I was just became a wikipedian very early times. But, now I have fixed all those wrong things and only my words are writing on created pages and existing pages. It is true that I got facts from many books, online newspapers, journals and other audio visual media, but I didn't cut and paste them. I photographed the photos that I uploaded now, but there were few incidents very early that I get directly from internet. But now, I can assure that recent photos that I uploaded are photographed by me. But, I never paste articles recently anywhere, only with my writing skills, I created the pages. So, apologize about previous copyright violations, but it will not be again.
Thank You...( Gihan Jayaweera)
There are a couple of obviously useful lines mentioning Israel that would be good to have in the article. I've deleted the text, you can see it at [44]. Doug Weller ( talk) 14:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl, you seem to be keen on issues of copyvio and I could use your help. There is a group of us trying to promote the use of Eranbot. It uses Turnitin software (iThenticate) to look at all new en:wikipedia edits. Thus, it has a broader scope than CorenSearchBot and identifies copyvio issues in a different manner. As a relative newbie, what is the best way to recruit help and not distract or detract for existing copyvio efforts? I presume the +700 watching this page would be candidates. Would a message on the talk page suffice (that seems rather generic)? Your advice very welcomed.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 21:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I came across Kareena Kapoor Khan and Angelina Jolie Pitt which were copy-pasted from Kareena Kapoor and Angelina Jolie respectively. One was reverted earlier and I reverted one now. I haven't been around for a while and I don't know if things have changed on this front. Do they need rev-del? It's a boat load of unattributed content that's sitting in the history of both redirects now. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 11:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
I don't know whether you are the copyright software detection expert, but even if not I bet you know who is. I know that CSB is maintained by Coren, (which is not an issue here) but I now realize we have more than one tool working and I don't know who is responsible for the other one.
Several articles were tagged today as possible copyvios, but the duplication detector report comes up empty. One useful article to look at is Human rabies treatment is that was tagged by both.
The CSB template contains a link to a duplication detector report which is not empty, as well as a Copyvios report which is not empty. However the tag at the top of the page has a link to a duplication detector report which is empty as well as a Copyvios report which is not empty.
This is not a one-off situation. Most of the articles listed in User_talk:Ali_qahremani have empty duplication detector reports. It is clear that the software is finding overlap or it wouldn't be doing the tagging but it seems to be failing to provide the correct report. Any thoughts?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:31, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Moonriddengirl: Isaiah Anderson may have copyright problems 71.47.9.186 ( talk) 15:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at Nashik, I just removed over 40K of copyvios added by multiple editors over the past two days and have semi protected the page for another two days, left a talk page note and I am newbie-warning the multiple editors involved. Once the clean up started, I realized I could use some help for the following reasons: (1) Over 250 revisions of copyvio additions over the past two days, while rev del seems ideal, I'm not sure of the ramifications of deleting so many revisions. (2) Looking through the individual talk pages, it appears to be a class project or something like that and I'm not sure where to go for that as I don't see any instructor or other info. (3) Just some watchers would be nice. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 18:30, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
How do I tell between :
You've advised him on copyright in February and again just now, but the plain fact is, he doesn't care because he's not here for the wiki, he just wants to big-up the board of trustees of the University of Denver. He's just taken the OTRS as licence to not give a $..t.
His donations would, under other circumstances, be copy-edited within an inch of their lives to wikify them from their current resumé-like state. Most have received speedy tags for spamming, notability, or copyvio. He's certainly not donating for the benefit of Wikipedia, but for the benefit of the UoD. He's not interacting with the wiki beyond the ctrl-v end of his cut-and-paste from the UoD's material. He pays no attention to any of the abundance of advice you, or any other admin or editor, has given on his talk page.
I realise we may disagree about some of his material but his current material will need your constant attention with the mop. I appreciate your work with the mop but feel it's being wasted on this guy. Bazj ( talk) 14:40, 2 July 2015 (UTC) (glad to have got that lot off my chest)
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Hi, we seem to have an editor who is a serial uploader of copyright images to Wikipedia. Mkmillenium ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Currently blocked for removal of cited text after final warning. Talk page access is in danger of being revoked too. He was editing the Celestyal Cristal article, adding a large section of that vessel's accident. The section was overly promotional, and also contained at best very close paraphrasing if not copyvio text from a different source (World Maritime News) but attributed to Seanews.tr - It's a bit complicated. I will admit to one error in that I added as short, neutral bit about the accident into the vessel's history without realising that Mkmillenium had already added the accident section, which may be the reason this editor deleted it twice, but no edit summary was left so I can't be totally sure. In any case, after being given a final warning it was deleted again, which is why I blocked. The block is for a week, but in the meantime, there's the image problem. Would it be worth raising at ANI for a CBAN on uploading any images to en-wiki? Mjroots ( talk) 20:01, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
We are the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc. (AAASP). I am - BluStormz - and I am authorized to represent the organization in the following request:
As you are the individual who deleted our page, we ask, is it possible to repost it, or must it be recreated from scratch? What can I provide by way of our permission to do so - clearing you or whoever may help us get it back up, of any copyrights issue?
I am not familiar with your process, I apologize.
Thanks VERY much.
BluStormz — Preceding unsigned comment added by BluStormz ( talk • contribs) 21:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Editor adding material in both Italian and English and then translating. [49]. Thanks Doug — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller ( talk • contribs) 13:08, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at this article - it is newly created so perhaps I am jumping the gun - but it is full of what I think is copyvio and I am not sure how to deal with it. The subject, although not my cup of tea, has claim to notability so I don't want to appear draconian (still I feel bothered by it more than usually). Is there a tool which can help to make the situation clearer. I left some comments on the Talk page. Peter Rehse ( talk) 16:03, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
This is Paul and I had planned some serious work on Johnny Mercer; gave the article a read-through today, and it seemed to me that at least parts of it were "borrowed" from elsewhere. Grabbed the phrase "Mercer liked music as a small child and attributed his musical talent to his mother, who would sing sentimental ballads." and put it into search, winding up in these 3 major spots:
The World Heritage and Project Gutenberg articles have ref numbers exactly where our article does, but no idea as to who copied from who. Where do we go from here? Thanks! We hope ( talk) 18:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002.
We see the germs of the line I've chosen to trace enter our article here in 2006. Fortunately for us, it was very different. So how does "Mercer liked music as a small child. His aunt told him he was humming music when he was six-months old." get to "Mercer liked music as a small child and attributed his musical talent to his mother, who would sing sentimental ballads. Mercer's father also sang, mostly old Scottish songs. His aunt told him he was humming music when he was six months old and later she took him to see minstrel and vaudeville shows where he heard ?coon songs? and ragtime"? Incrementally.
This is enough for me. It's highly unlikely that we copied bits and pieces wrong and then eventually made them right. Lacking other evidence, I call this the Walk of Fame copying from us, We hope. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:23, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
The articles 2017 UEFA Champions League Final and 2017 UEFA Europa League Final are similar in nature and information (at this stage), there is no copyright violation going on.
I can provide the following sources for the articles:
That's all. Chanheigeorge ( talk) 11:07, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I recently removed these attacks and threats from Skookum's talk page because there were explicit attacks (again) and this time, Skookum1 escalated to threatening to out the real names of other editors. I would like to suggest removing talk page access. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 01:45, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
You might want to look at the "controversy" section of the article on Brian Leiter, which is now almost entirely the creation of Epeefleche. It used to look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Brian_Leiter&oldid=662603591
Epeefleche began a massive and controversial rewrite in late May. Some editors accused him of retaliatory editing. He has tended to belittle other editors and just revert when it suits him. Another admin, mdann, on the TALK page has pointed out that some of what he wrote does not even match the sources, but in the "controversy" section of the article, it looks like he is paraphrasing again. Thanks for your time. Philosophy Junkie ( talk) 23:16, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I recently found the article Roosevelt Skerrit riddled with copied text from a government source since February 2014. I tried to revert the article in a previous version but the contributor keeps re-adding the text. I left the contributor some notes regarding copied text. On my talk page he responded saying permission for the text has been given while saying he/she was the subjects reputation manager, which trigged my COI alert. This goes a bit out of my normal Wikipedia activities and am therefore not really sure what to do. I was hoping you would be willing to have your experienced eye look at this. :) Crispulop ( talk) 13:26, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
What is the rule around this image [50] Thanks. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 04:49, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Good day Ma'am - I'm writing to you today because someone at wikipedia is practicing favoritism regarding the extension DyingScene.com. I am unable to use this extension as a valid citation source due to the fact it was blacklisted over 7 years ago. How can DS not be considered a valid news source when sites like punknews.org and absolutepunk.net are? They do more interviews, album reviews, exclusive premieres and publish more original content then either of those sites. This week, an admin deleted a page I created because wiki will not accept DS as a valid source. Please instruct on what avenues we must pursue to get justice in this matter, thank you. Robzwop ( talk) 15:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
It's me again. I have a question concerning the article on Marlene Clark. Will my account be temporarily blocked after the issues on that article have been resolved? I'm asking you this because, after all, you're an administrator. Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 22:57, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
hi Moonriddengirl,
i am so sorry about inadvertently changing your name. i am very confused about the talk pages so i will go very slowly and hope i don't mess anything up from here on forward. again my apologies. thanks so much for letting me know.
thanks for your clear reply. i am going to start from scratch after i review all off the articles you have sent me along with some other suggestions. i started the wiki adventure and i got a message from those people with more suggestions about what to study.
a Paulie Zink page has been restored. it only has one sentence currently but some other people have gone in and added links and improved the sentence. i am happy with that. what would you advise? deleting the page in the draft mode attached to my name? and starting a new one?
having asked you that, would it be possible for you to delete the page and help me create a new working draft page? and i am sorry to ask you for so many instructions, but then to give me instruction on how to get to the draft page? i will look around meanwhile but i'm not sure how quickly this will reach you.
i plan to study wiki's guidelines first, before i begin working on the page so it may very well be automatically deleted as this will take me some time. really appreciate all of your guidance and support. taoyin2004 Taoyin2004 ( talk) 11:59, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
thank you Moonriddengirl, i would welcome your help. and yes, you are correct with what i did. i didn't know the proper format to link or credit the wiki pages properly. i did add the references in, in ( ) at the end of places where i used the material from the Yin Yoga and Monkey Kung Fu pages. if you can help me make it right that would be great, otherwise i was planning on going back to some of the books i have and looking for specific material and references to use from there. i can also work on changing the wording from the other article pages, referencing those pages while leaving the jist of the idea in tact.
i posted a reply to you on that other page. most of this is the same as i wrote there. as you can easily tell i don't know how to even use the message functions here so i hope this gets to you in a timely fashion. i'm trying to model your note above re: user name. let me know if is works on that other page.
i will read though the formatting and using material references you listed above (from the other page conversation). any suggestions about what to read first will be most appreciated.
And is everything i wrote previously about Paulie Zink available to you? if so, perhaps you can guide me on what to use. otherwise my plan it to start from scratch and to proceed slowy. i am in the process of looking at some of the other bio pages on wiki to help familiarize myself with what wiki likes to see.
is there a template i could use and follow? also regarding your question about copying material from any other sources. i did use some wording and explanation from a book written by Paulie Zink. There is minor word changes and i as planning to go back and work on fixing that even more. Is it permissible to use quotes and refernece those? i'm guessing wiki doesn't want too many used however. again many thanks! :) Taoyin2004 Taoyin2004 ( talk) 13:42, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, no rush. i did add in one line about Zink's relationship with Cho Chat Ling. i referenced one of the books i have that zink co-authored. when ever you get a chance would you take a look at it and let me know if i am doing things correctly. i was just testing it out i also wrote Prehse (?) and asked him to review it also. thank you. i am working my way through all of the advice you all have given me and reading the pages on wiki that all of you suggested. Taoyin2004 ( talk) 20:38, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
hi Moonridengirl,
thank you for your explanation in removing the material. i took it from the Yin Yoga page where an experienced wiki editor is working to improve the page. i am new to this. Please help me move within the requirements of wiki without having to re-invent the wheel. i have been assigned a mentor through the co-op and would ask you to please help shorten my learning curve. May i ask you to review the two pages and let me know what i need to learn to avoid future issues? respectfully Taoyin2004 ( talk) 21:00, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
hi mrg,
i left you some notes... i think on my talk page. anyway. please delete the Paulie Zink page you moved and stored. i followed your advice and have notes from it for ideas to work on. thanks for your help. Taoyin2004 ( talk) 20:59, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
I noticed the articles for the members of Train for Hector Maldonado and Jerry Becker were created again in spite of notability issues, and that Jimmy Stafford's article was removed. I have redirected Hector and Jerry's to Train (band) and requested on the Talk: Train (band) page that people discuss before restoring the articles. AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 19:25, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello again!!
It's Hitcher vs. Candyman. Just thought I'd ask if you'd please assist with some understanding concerning Wikipedia policy? I understand that most of the questions you've had to answer probably relate to copyright info. However, what I need your help with does not concern copyright. I only want to ask for your help personally because you are a administrator. I completely understand if you're the wrong person to ask. Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 19:42, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Okay. It concerns the article, Michael Richards. You see, I keep writing on his "Personal life" section that he dated an actress by the name of Ann Talman. However, this editor keeps erasing the information about Richards and Talman's relationship, claiming it to be gossip. I don't believe it is gossip because I have used reliable sources such as People Magazine and the Los Angeles Times to verify their relationship. Still, the editor erased it. Which is why I came to you because I truly don't want to start an edit war against this editor.
There's more. This editor wrote in an edit summary that "Wikipedia is not a collection of celebrity dating histories." If that's true, then why are relationships mentioned on the "Personal life" sections of other celebrity articles such as Al Pacino#Personal life, Miley Cyrus#Health and relationships and Reese Witherspoon#Relationships? Please note that I am aware of the policies, WP:Wikipedia is not a democracy and WP:Wikipedia is not about winning, so I am willing to cooperate what you (or any administrator) have to say on the matter. Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 22:14, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I'll report it to the talk page, but that's as far as I'll go. And you're right, there is no reason why this has to be settled right this very moment. Again, I just didn't want to start an edit war. I'm glad I came to you instead. :) Hitcher vs. Candyman ( talk) 22:51, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
I am sorry to bother you, but not sure who else to address; Sock Puppets of Joeyc91 are making unreasoned reversions in the Article: Italic peoples, and trying to provoke an Edit war; Agilulf2007 ( talk) 18:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Please review the item at: Talk:Arab archery/Temp and see if it meets your guidelines now. Thanks! Hadden ( talk) 00:44, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. More bad news I'm afraid: Yeokaiwei has been editing as an IP. In fact there's far more IP edits that there is logged-in edits. The IP is 118.200.99.178 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). We will have to expand the CCI to include diffs from that IP. Can you help with this step? I don't know how to do it. Thanks (and sorry), -- Diannaa ( talk) 13:36, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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For not only addressing copyright violations, but taking the time to rewrite and improve compromised text. 2601:188:0:ABE6:B53D:47CE:83E6:3C5F ( talk) 12:18, 22 July 2015 (UTC) |
Dear Moonriddengirl,
I have been editing the Wikipedia page for my husband George Ranalli. I have never done this before, and I did not realize there would be copyright issues regarding the reuse of information from his professional website. I would so appreciate some guidance on the quickest and easiest (for a Wikipedia novice) guidance about how to resolve these issues.
Thank you so much for your input. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Anne Valentino 69.86.66.202 ( talk) 13:31, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, there appear to be multiple copyright violations recently added to this article, which account for the promotional tone. This is complicated by the likelihood that the biography is being rewritten by Mr. Ranalli's wife. I've left messages with the editor, and at the article's talk page. Any assistance you may provide would be most welcome. Thank you, 2601:188:0:ABE6:3CF7:E4A2:6CC5:354F ( talk) 02:26, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I really would prefer not to assume that, but it's difficult to know what to do when no engagement happens. :) I've brought it up at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#George_Ranalli. I hope somebody there can help figure things out. And it's off the internet for me! Thanks for bringing up your concerns with the article; it's kind of hard to know how to proceed when somebody just won't talk. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:48, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your prompt action on the Italians article. Denisarona ( talk) 14:20, 23 July 2015 (UTC) |
Hi,
I am a little confused at to why most of my edits made within the last two days were marked as spam. I understand the "copy and paste" deletions and can definitely revise those, but nothing I posted was with the intention to spam or promote. I simply listed everything I know about this company and used sources for all the facts. I am new to wikipedia and wanted to start editing articles and subjects that I am familiar with and had little or outdated content. Please help me figure out what I did wrong so I can revise and provide information on said subject without breaking guidelines.
Jdelpeon ( talk) 18:44, 22 July 2015 (UTC)Jdelpeon
Hi again,
Thanks for the feedback. Although I completely agree that further revision is definitely needed in the Apple Leisure Group article, I must clarify that the Algdev account was NOT mine, and although I do admit using their deleted page edit as a template, I edited as much as I could and took out unnecessary parts and links. I am a college student and the subject matter does not "pertain to me", regardless of how knowledgeable I am with this company from my hometown. I would agree that most of the time it's best not to edit something that I am familiar with. But, it is one thing to revise an entire previously-completed article given "familiarity", and it is another to use said familiarity to provide as much information on a subject where there was previously none at all. I'd like to think that that is the whole point of Wikipedia, I can use my foundation of knowledge on a certain subject and other people can edit and build off of that. To reiterate, the article did need some fixing, but to delete ALL of the information I posted seems unfair, as the majority of the content was accurate, cited, and relevant. I'd be happy to work with you to find a way to present this information in an appropriate way.
Thanks again,
Jdelpeon ( talk) 14:16, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Jdelpeon
Hi once again,
Thanks for the clarification on the deletion. I can assure you that the past account did not belong to me. And I will do my best from here on out to provide information in accordance to policy.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it, Jdelpeon ( talk) 14:41, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Jdelpeon
Thanks Again for the feedback,
I'll keep doing my best with the citations and sources.
Jdelpeon ( talk) 17:27, 23 July 2015 (UTC)jdelpeon
Dear Moonriddengirl, I apologize for delayed responding. I wasfiguring out how to reply!! I appreciate the input from you, and your colleagues, and continue to research sourcing for "awards" and "exhibits" sections of "George Ranalli" page. As I said previously, this is unfamiliar territory. Parenthetically, the awards section of George Ranalli page was drafted by someone else, and I am happy to contribute sourcing. I've read the reference materials on feedback "neutral tone," which is understandable, and don't think there is any confusion between "neutral tone" and "promotional" tone at this point. At this point, I think it is reasonable to contribute relevant sourcing and some factual information to the page from a neutral perspective. I'm still unclear whether copyright issues remain. (I don't understanding every comments, and its difficult to track feedback from several people at once, plus how to relay to whom and where. I'm working on it!) Please advise about any clean up in that area. In terms of the twice deleted, and twice replaced post, my thought is the information is of a temporary nature, and therefore, not relevant. I'm also looking at other similar types of pages in this context for guidance, and its not the kind of information included in professional academic or employment chronology. Thank you again for your input 69.86.66.202 ( talk) 19:33, 23 July 2015 (UTC)Sincerely, Annevalentino
Hi Moonriddengirl, I must have missed something, whose sockmaster's were those edit-warring sock IPs you have been blocking on Gaulish language, Sicels and other pages? They are apparently back again as 87.13.247.219 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). I would have reverted/blocked them myself, but I apparently don't know the backstory here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:06, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
OK; tell me how to help you with copivio. What can I do? Hafspajen ( talk) 18:50, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
-- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:25, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, that
Works for me. :) (And, yes, I meant invoke like an angel. The idea that you can speak somebody's name and they know you're talking about them is mystical to me. :D) --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 19:32, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Amayra Concepts, Ola Aina and Jake Clarke-Salter are word for word copivio. On top of everything, Ola Aina was proposed for deletion, twice. Somebody removed the tag. User:MrTranCFCVN created the last two. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:05, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm concerned by the SPAs on these two articles. Would you say PP or an SPI is necessary? — George8211 / T 15:16, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl, I have been editing this WP:BLP for awhile: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
An anon IP is adding unsourced information to this article stating that the subject is married. It may very well be true, but I cannot find WP:RS that confirms the topic. I did one mass revert with a note in the edit history about using sources, but the IP user restored all of the edits again without references. I do not want to get into an edit war over this issue. At the same time, this is a well-known person and thus I have been trying to keep her biography accurate. Either we need to find sources that confirm this information, or somehow convey to the IP user that the WP can't add information without a source. I am not calling for a block per se but for the intervention of an admin (I've seen your work before and am a fan). Thanks, - Classicfilms ( talk) 20:33, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
As a new user I logged in as Arlstone and found I was in over my head in editing "Chimney".I worked in heat transfer and chimney research from 1946 to 1985. For my kids who might wonder what I did, I wrote a narrative with many links, some to old copyrighted publications. Some of these could be more appropriate than those currently on this and other topics such as fireplaces and creosote. All are on a CD and most would be better "References" than those presently in"Chimney" I am 98 years old and have no desire to become involved in a monster project as an editor, but I would like to have some references to my work added to Wikipedia. Could I send you a copy to review, and get your help with copyright issues to add some useful technology on chimneys. Thank you in advance Richard L. Stone stonequin@gmail.com Arlstone ( talk) 22:15, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, when you have a chance, would you look at this article? It appears to be riddled with longtime copyright violations, and I'm not sure if they date from the article's inception. Thank you in advance, 2601:188:0:ABE6:2CE7:9FE7:32F1:AC2A ( talk) 13:50, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your reply and suggestions. After checking TeaHouse there seem to be many good choices for help. My primary interest is the engineering aspects of prefabricated small metal chimneys rather their architectural features. Thanks Much Richard L. Stone Arlstone ( talk) 17:20, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your reply and suggestions. After checking TeaHouse there seems to be many good choices for help. My primary interest is the engineering aspects of prefabricated small metal chimneys rather their architectural features. Thanks Much Richard L. Stone Arlstone ( talk) 17:20, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I've been in contact with Network Rail re the acquisition of photographs of Wadhurst Tunnel for use in the Hastings Line article. They have sent me a photograph of each portal, with the note that it is hoped that the photographs are useful in the Wikipedia article. I made it clear to Network Rail during my correspondence with them that any photographs so released would need to be on a compatible licence for use on Wikipedia or elsewhere, including commercial use. By the release of such photographs to me, can we take it that such permission has been granted. I'm minded to upload the images to en-Wiki rather than Commons as it seems that I might not have sufficient permissions to upload there. Network Rail nave now closed the correspondence as the deem my request answered. What advice would you give in this situation? Mjroots ( talk) 16:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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