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Hi there,
I wanted to bring to your attention that this article is infringing on our copyright [1]
Parichay himself is the sole copyright owner of this content and the only email to reach our team to obtain a certificate of copyright clearance is: infoparichayonline.com
We have not granted any permission to anyone for use of this info whatsoever at this moment and have therefore contacted the original creator of the page "ChayProductions" to request a speedy deletion of the article which I see has been done on the article page (currently pending deletion).
Can you please have this page deleted asap as it is violating our copyright?
Thank you CraneCrusier ( talk) 13:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I received verbal confirmation from a representative of the copyright holder, Ebert Digital Media, to include the the full list Ebert's Great Movies on Wikipedia over the phone several months ago. When I asked for an email to get written confirmation, the person I was speaking with said she would do so, but it has been months and despite my incessant emails, I have not received the written confirmation I require. Would just the verbal confirmation be cause to revert the edits to the article you made back in March? Fireflyfanboy ( talk) 06:40, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello; please see the thread "Reykjavík Museum of Photography" within Anthony Appleyard's talk page, and feel free to respond there. Thanks! -- Hoary ( talk) 23:47, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. I'd like your advice about the best way to put these two pages back together. There is no overlapping history except one bot edit which I can delete. However, there are some deleted edits to be considered.
I'd like to do a history merge so that the text will be attributed to the correct editor. My question is, should the deleted edits in the history of the draft be temporarily undeleted for a few minutes, even though they contain copyvio, so that when the history merge is done they will appear in the deleted history of the mainspace article? It seems to me that this would be best because someone looking at the deleted history could see the complete development of the article. The four sections above are discrete; there would be no intermingled edits.
An alternative would be just to delete the draft, which will be eligible for db-g13 in a month or so, although this would leave the text attributed to the wrong person.— Anne Delong ( talk) 17:20, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moodriddengirl.......
You sent me an email about the article I submitted about The Knights of Sparta, my Mardi Gras Organization.
In your message you alluded to material that was taken from our web site - www.knightsofsparta.com.
I write that web site....and everything on it is mine. Therefore, I should be able to quote myself whenever I wish.
I am the Captain (absolute leader) and CEO of The Knights of Sparta and verify that everything I sent you was written by me and usable. You will see on the web site that all inquiries go to my email address.
Best........
Dr. David M. Mulnick - Captain / CEO The Knights of Sparta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.11.91.7 ( talk) 14:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
FBReader was deleted by someone. I tried to undeleted it, then added to it. Is that copying ? Then someone proposed it to be an article for deletion. There is/was a Delete Campaign. How was the old FBReader history restored ? Can you explain the recent escapades of this pages deletion ? ~~ Xb2u7Zjzc32 ( talk) 15:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl
Your deletions of my contributions to Vanessa Lawrence page constitutue vandalism. You claim for deletion refers to vandalism by by User:Mdann which does not adhere..) that sources are not verifiable are grossly incorrect. Please note: 1. APO.org.au is a very reputable site. Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zealand. 2. victorianspatialcouncil.org is the official site of the Victorian Govt spatial coordination arrangements involving govt, industry and academe - the Victorian Spatial Council. 3. psma.com.au - is the official site of the incorporated Public Sector Mapping Agencies of Australia of which the share holders are the federal, state and territory governments. 4. siba.com.au - is the official site of the peak industry body for the spatial information industry - Spatial Information Business Association chaired by the former federal Special Minister of State.
These are all reputable and verifiable with govt accreditaion for 2, 3 and 4.
Vandalism!!
SSSI-SIBA ( talk) 16:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC).
— Preceding unsigned comment added by SSSI-SIBA ( talk • contribs) 16:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Since I've recently wasted some of your time ... let me waste a little more! Please, as an uninvolved person, take a quick look at this merge suggestion. I think it's a very simple matter, but of course I may be biassed, wrong or both. -- Hoary ( talk) 01:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I am confused, since I did not do a PROD on the article you mention, but perhaps on a different one. Please clear up my confusion.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 15:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hey! I'm fine thanks, and I hope you're well too! Good to see that you are still active :) My life has changed a lot during the past few years so unfortunately I don't have time to edit anymore, but I will always remember the good times on Wikipedia and all the nice editors like you! :D Theleftorium (talk) 20:39, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I would grateful if you would run through the half a dozen edits following this one and check the copyvio situation. I'm at 2RR so that's me out of it. Regards. Moriori ( talk) 01:13, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
User:Schneelocke ⋅ registered Wikipedian and a sysop since 2003 (says the user page), but look at this:
I don't have time to deal with this, Moonriddengirl. But, thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 23:43, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Quite right, and you beat me to it (I got called onto a conf call so was delayed). Thanks. Guy ( Help!) 12:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Just now I've had to remove copyright violations on Avast Software that were added by the user Debsalmi. I have left a coypright notice on their talk page.
Here is one of the offending edits: [5].
I was wondering if I could ask for your assistance to see if they have made any other copyright violations? Their contribs date back to 2008. — George8211 / T 18:30, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Okay, eliminating minor edits and reverts, this person has only ever edited 9 articles.
For the top two articles, George8211, I think it makes the most sense to spot-check the current versions, as the edits have been so extensive over the years. Are you able to help with that further? I know you've already cleaned up the second somewhat - does it need more review, do you think? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:13, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Good day I have huge difficulties with user YSSYguy, making me problems. I've created the article in english Flyways Airlines it was agreed to kept the Style with Administrator Happysquirrel , ie it is talked to him to keep as it is. The user YSSYguy keeps fighting to impose his style even with not appropriate information. Please see it. At the talk page of Happysquirrel it has the announce to keep as it is and it was understood from him/her. I hope that sanctions would be given to User User:YSSYguy for not respecting my initiation page and my contributions. There is a fight from him which is totally not contributive, not helps also Wikipedia. In fact the missleading distortions and destructive editions of YSSYguy it is no need in the article. As creator of the page version i have the copyright and responsibility of the article and to keep watching. All his/her modifications continue to be undone. Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs) 11:57, 9 August 2015
The fights did not started by me but from users 200.14.107.2, 200.28.248.144, YSSYguy and even from adminstrator user Myst of French site.
I asked Mjroots all files to be deleted from wikipedia. This was childish. But he said he couldn't.
like you see below:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Mjroots#Difficulties_to_get_my_contribution_to_this_page_accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=LATAM_Airlines_Group&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Flyways_Airlines&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 10 August 2015
So As i asked MJroots please close the pages like was done in french one by myst with my image... So the fight stop. People in chile did several times. So please stop the mobile users. The image is correct like sources already shown. Regards.
I please also gentle ask this page to be closed /info/en/?search=Flyways_Airlines YSSYguy continue reverting the changes with bad english i do not agree. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs)
So block me, but before block me block other users with bad behaviour first. Or as I said, you delete the files from Wikipedia. The french page is blocked anyway without my image.
BUT I AM RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs)
It is because the same person use different IP computers for example mobile phones. I could have did also with my 4 computers but do not. So delete the files in commons.
Then block me but only after removing the files of Flyways Airlines and LATAM from wikipedia entirely and if you do so blocking me you lose my respect which you had gained as good administrator. I know Mjroots did a unfair block on me so do you... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs) 14:34, 10 August 2015
Hi Moonriddengirl; I've begun a thread on this and a related article at the BLP noticeboard, and am now wondering if pretty much all of it has been cut and pasted from the subject's resume: [6]. Now, this may be unavoidable when listing several peer reviewed publications, but given the abundance of the listings here, this may merit attention. Thanks for any light you can shed. Cheers, 2601:188:0:ABE6:18BA:9D03:B907:ADF2 ( talk) 14:21, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
You can't say we didn't try. If you want a block notice to remain visible, you'd better revoke his ability to edit his talk page. Mjroots ( talk) 15:08, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonridden Girl, When you have time, would you kindly advise about how to get to the Talk board to participate and learn from others who are more experienced about applying best practices to Wikipedia. I have some questions and ideas, but can't find a way to contact the talk board through anyone else. Apologies for bugging you. I did try to ge to the talk board, but can't figure out how to get there. Thank you. 69.86.66.202 ( talk) 00:57, 12 August 2015 (UTC)Anne Valentino
Dear Moonriddengirl, Here I am again asking for more guidance! While I read and digest fully the newly received information, I/m wondering whether its perhaps a good idea to seek guidance on whatever might benefit from a proactive focus. My inclination is to leave settings -- email address, etc., stays quo until the workings of the site becomes more understandable, although there is so much to learn, and also some mini-projects for contribution to pages. Any advise on how best to proceed both in terms of settings and stretching out a little as a contributor? Your thought are greatly appreciated. Annevalentino 20:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)Annevalentino — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annevalentino ( talk • contribs)
Moonriddengirl, you were a great help to me and Crisco recently when we were trying to get an OTRS image submission processed. The linked DYK nomination has an image for which an OTRS ticket was submitted about a month ago. I thought to try Steven Zhang directly—he's who you contacted last time—but he seems to be busy, and has changed his username since I made the request, which may be distracting him. Is there anyone else you can check with to see whether this submission can be expedited? As you can see, the nominators are ready to give up on the image for the nomination, but it's such a striking image that I'd love to see it run if at all possible. Many thanks for anything you can do to help. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:00, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonridden Girl, Thank you for taking time to reply, and for archiving my talk page entries. I will absolutely check into Teahouse next. Thanks for the invitation. Your suggestion to familiarize myself with watchlist is also well taken. Now that you've helped me familiarize myself with wikipedia basis on neutrality and conflicts of interest (which for a psychologist is quite understandable) my thinking about future contributions to my husbands page is to welcome the highest sourcing criteria; its appropriate and appreciated. My next objective is mastery of sourcing criteria for academic publications, especially essays, for that page. I'm learned so much about researching digital databases, (computers came after my graduate studies). Also, in terms of my further work on my husband's page, it should be helpful to track the changes of others I recently realized some past changes were inadvertently misattributed to me, and now there is an easier way to resolve any future misunderstandings of that nature. I also appreciate your inquiry into my areas of interest relating to new wikipedia projects. My research and professional practice orientation is essentially interdisciplinary across history, society, and the arts. My early academic background centered on ancient history and the areas of philosophical inquiry go subjectivity and aesthetics, which is where my interest hatched in the critical reflection of art, culture, and environment. Those interest have been refined into a focus on aesthetics and modernity, in relationship to the histories of cities (especially the City of New York) and civic organizations, and their legacies. My academic background in philosophy and aesthetics was also routed into applied psychology through the link of phenomenology, and particularly subjective experience, which connected me to mind/brain/ thinking/ consciousness topics in psychology. My graduate studies were again interdisciplinary, combining educational and clinical psychology, across seven practice ares.There isn't much that doesn't interest me about psychology, but the challenge of considering subjective phenomena throughout my workday compels endless interest in the phenomenology of intelligence and creativity and human behavior. Along the way, over 25-years of clinical practice, and in the context of my family life, the path was wide open leading to the human experience of the built environment, humanistic environments, and architectural analytics of modernism, especially applicable to education and healthcare settings. Also, my professional training as a psychoanalyst is another very different type of consideration of the biographies of living persons, so there is my interest in personal histories. That's probably way too much information! Whenever you have time to pass along any thoughts about future projects, please do. Working on my husband's page, I noted the absence of 'history of architecture' topics, including no pages about Carlo Scarpa, La Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, and certain important subtopics on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Thank you again for all of your help. I don't know how you keep tabs on over 2,500 pages! You do a great job of editing and you've been very patient and helpful. With appreciation, Annevalentino 18:38, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Annevalentino — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annevalentino ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for explaining me the difference between those two, for I thought that they were almost the same, [EDIT] although I can still argue that it would be plagiarism to use copyrighted material over, over, and over as if the work really were one's own despite having credited its real author, which is why I did it.
Gamingforfun365
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23:15, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi There,
I am working to get our page American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc., back up after it was taken down by you for an apparent copyright concern. We truly appreciate your diligence, however - please be advised that I - ~~BlueStormz (Tommie Storms) - am the cofounder of this organization, an officer of the organization, THE signer and FILER of all legal documents related to its copyrights and intellectual property and it is I who am attempting to have the page reposted.
I have enlisted another assistant - a Wiki editor - at one of our member schools to completely write a NEW PAGE if we can't get the old one released back to us. His concern however is that I needed to tell you who I am or you may block or take down our NEW PAGE or you cannot release the old one and we have to proceed in that manner.
Can you please acknowledge that we are clear to proceed without issue?
Also, can you release the old page? I wrote once before and got a nice note from you that also referenced your general page on copyright issues. It did not however acknowledge that request to release the page or let us know why you took it down.
Thanks very much.
Tommie Storms, Cofounder, COO/Director of Operations BluStormz ( talk) 13:14, 19 August 2015 (UTC)BluStormz American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc, tstorms@adaptedsports.org
I requested a review of Arab Archery on July 21 and haven't heard back, and now can't find the page. Has it been deleted or anything. Is there still a problem with it? Let me know. Thanks in advance. Hadden ( talk) 14:26, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
I've taken out the quotes by Muhammad that seemed to annoy you so much. There are now no quotes in the article, so it should be clean to go. Are you the only one able to move it to the article page, or is there something more I need to do. Hadden ( talk) 18:32, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
The section track Live At The Final Frontier (album) is indeed a copy and paste here. But it is a list, how do we treat lists? And do we delete history when it was copivio? I think we do... Hafspajen ( talk) 18:33, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
( talk page watcher) Hello, User:Hafspajen. Please don't give up, copyright cleanup and Maggie need all the help they can get, and many of us have messed up at first while trying to help.
The article was flagged by CorenSearchBot, and that bot does a great job most of the time, but it probably won't ever be perfect - it's artificial intelligence. In this case, it found what looked like a long stretch of text from an external website - but it was just a track listing. There was nothing creative about it - as mentioned in Wikipedia:Copyright in lists: "Copyright in a list may exist in the content of the list or in the way that the content was selected and arranged. Copyright does not protect facts, but it does protect opinion. If a source is based on "value judgments", it may be protected by copyright, even if it looks very similar to fact. And even if the source is fact, copyright may still protect its selection and arrangement if these are creative."
Sending pings to User:Diannaa and User:MER-C - hoping they'll want to help us out here, since Ms. M hasn't been on en-WP for a little while. Novickas ( talk) 15:45, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hello M. You have helped me understand copyvio items in the past. Today I found this being used as a source for the Bill Farmer article. There are a batch of similarities. I can't tell which article came first and I wonder if there are any problems regarding this. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 17:52, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl. Kit Dalton has been copied in its entirety from its sources, the main one of which is a NY Times article from 1920. Does the age of the Times piece render copyright concerns irrelevant? If nothing else, it's not a very becoming way to present an article here. Thanks, 73.159.24.89 ( talk) 23:15, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Do you think File:PulpFictionTwist.jpg can go onto Uma Thurman (song)? As explained at Uma_Thurman_(song)#Composition Ms. Thurman's dance performance in Pulp Fiction was the genesis of the song title. NE Ent 01:45, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 August 28#Lists of endangered languages/UNESCO definitions, if you haven't already noticed that. (Specifically, I'm wondering whether you can follow up on getting clarification from UNESCO on the license they will agree to. I don't care if that specific page gets deleted, as long as we don't lose the licensing discussion before final permission [or lack thereof] is received.) - dcljr ( talk) 13:56, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl - Perhaps you can help me out with the best solution to a problem here. This article was created as a cut and paste copyvio/plagiarism of a paragraph from Potential National Hockey League expansion. I PRODed it as WP:CRYSTAL before realizing this, and was intending to allow the article to fall out that way. However the article, originally at Las Vegas NHL team, was moved to the current title and then redirected back to where the text was originally taken from. But I am now interested in how the article history should be handled. Should this be treated like a copyvio and the history prior to the redirect be deleted? Also related is Quebec NHL team, which was created as the same plagiarized copyvio but not (yet) redirected, and still holding a live PROD tag. Thanks, Reso lute 13:50, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Moonriddengirl, it appears that the main reason this article has so many problems is that nearly all of it has been cut and pasted from its sources. If it's been like that since its inception, perhaps it can be speedied, or at least taken down until this is sussed out. Thank you for any insight you can provide. Cheers, 2601:188:0:ABE6:B169:DAFB:E15A:DBC4 ( talk) 00:58, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
TruckerTRex restored copyrighted material to Paradise Education Center. Please delete the affected revisions. Thanks. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 02:16, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl.
I'm new to Wikipedia so I apologize if I missed anything relevant in your editing guidelines.
I was wondering why the Notable Alumni section of the above-referenced page was deleted. All of the individuals mentioned are alumni of the university. I would like to restore the section and am open to learning what information is needed to accomplish this task.
Thank you.
CharlotteFaith7 (
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05:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm not a lawyer - you appear to need to be one to post here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbowman1993 ( talk • contribs) 05:34, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
MRG, I asked a general (but sort of directed at you) question here, but forgot to include a ping. Would you mind taking a look if you have a moment? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton ( talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have a question: it appears to me that this biography began as a copyright violation of the subject's website (lists of work, exhibition venues, etc), and has remained so. I realize that lists aren't the same as prose content, but does this qualify for speedy deletion as a copyvio? Thanks for your expertise, 2601:188:0:ABE6:5DC5:559E:75C4:C241 ( talk) 23:55, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
On
Talk:Reversi/Archive 2#Copyright query you've added a tag with |date=January 2002
(although that date is highly unlikely, and your signature indicates it was added in 2009). Anyways, since it is in a talk page archive and not on the article, I wonder if you belive the content is still on the article. If not, can you please remove/"tl" the template, so we can delete
Category:Suspected copyright infringements without a source from January 2002. Thank you. (
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Josve05a (
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20:25, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
What's CSB? (Far less importantly, what's oi?) NE Ent 00:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
I botched a move request to mainspace of one of Richard Norton's starts, accidentally leaving it in the User space rather than mainspace. The software won't let me do another namechange since I'm not an administrator... Would you be so kind as to move User:Timothy_Healy to Timothy Healy — obviously I'll take responsibility that there's no copyvio in the piece. In the meantime I will work on it a little in User space... Thanks, —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 20:08, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl! Last year you and I were in touch about Wikipedia's entry for Mr. Victor Richel. You were very helpful and I appreciated learning a little more about what is/isn't acceptable on this site. Had a quick question about editing tags under photos. Under Vic's current photo it lists two alma maters - Harvard and Villanova. How can I access that photo box to make a necessary edit and remove Harvard?
Thanks so much for your help here, and for volunteering your time to make Wiki such a great resource!
Erikrslagle ( talk) 15:50, 18 September 2015 (UTC)erikrslagle
Hi Moonriddengirl, could you please take a look at Sur les femmes, and tell me whether the note i have placed in the lead of the article constitutes OR? Thank you. Edited to add: The reason i placed the note was so as to justify why i was using the french title of the book as the page name. Soham321 ( talk) 18:31, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
{{Archives|auto=yes|search=yes}}
from the page. As a final note, you have copied over the quotebox where I have my hours of operation (so shamefully untrue, those hours of operation), but there's nothing in it, so all it will be for you is a little empty box. You need to put some text next to the "quote" parameter if you want content in it. --
Moonriddengirl
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12:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)I am thinking of helping clean up the articles i Richard_Arthur_Norton's user space
[8] most of them have excessive use of copyrighted text extracted in quote=
in the refs. When cleaning these up what is the proper procedure?
I would like to avoid making more problems while I try to work on this. Jbh Talk 23:46, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
You've revoked my user rights, you happy now? -- OluwaCurtis »» ( talk to me) 23:09, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
On this move of a Norton page I did get stymied by the software... User:Anti-Vaccination Society of America needs to go to Anti-Vaccination Society of America. It was formerly a redirect. If you could make this move for me, I'd appreciate it, thanks... —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 17:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Ta! Carrite ( talk) 02:01, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I wonder if you could provide some clarity on a point regarding this edit. I deleted text on the basis of a straight COPYVIO from http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/ketelbey. I have been reverted on the basis that the editor claims to have written that page themselves. I'm not happy about the text appearing being a direct copy by the same editor, or it appearing without quote marks, citation or any reference to any reliable sources on either of the two pages. If it is from the same source, shouldn't there be a note on the talk page to warn editors of the duplicated text? Many thanks – SchroCat ( talk) 17:13, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey Moon. Regarding your revert, I don't understand how that can be proper. I do understand what you are saying: that by clicking save under our licensing scheme, that constitutes a release under the Terms of Use, so any prior claim of non-free ownership is superseded; the save is the release.
But here's where the logic breaks down for me. First, there seems to be an element of knowledge missing— unconscionability. Not because intent is required, but because I could easily see, were this ever tested, a court stating that what we have boils down to a (or is analogous to a) contract of adhesion, and would invalidate that a free license was given. This seems out of keeping with our custom and practice to bend over backwards in our standards to make licensing unquestionably proper, e.g., our fair use requirements are purposely more exacting than may be legally necessary. So, down the road, a person whose website says "© all rights reserved" who then tries to license that content for profit (and it told you already gave it up under a CC license by saving it at Wikipedia), may end up making a claim that no release was given – claiming, as we know is extremely common, that they were not cognizant of the the notice before saving; that they did not see "By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use". Moreover, that that notice is not immediately accessible but requires a person to click on one highlighted term among a number to reach the Terms of Use, and its boilerplate text. Therefore, that the manner it is set up is highly susceptible to unconscionability, and thus, is unenforceable. I'm sorry if I lapsed into legalese. I am a lawyer (though with no intellectual property specialty).
Turning to what I think is a more accessible problem, where it really breaks down for me: This seems to make no sense in light of our permission policies and practices. Bear with me. When a person comes here and posts non-free copyrighted content and we discover it, we refer them to WP:DCM and OTRS, and ask them to make use of the Declaration of consent for all enquiries ("Consent Notice"). The Consent Notice, in turn, tells them, in effect if not expressly, that they must declare the release under CC-By-SA 3.0, the GFDL or another compatible license (and further acknowledgments of release in its text). Here's the problem. If it's to be our policy that once a person click save, all we must do is verify they are the actual owner but don't need their tailored, knowledgeable consent as owner—because clicking save is the content, then why are we telling them to fill out this specific release for OTRS compliance? Just out of an abundance of caution? Think about it: it's exactly the same. The person has come here, posted non-free content and clicked saved – just as is the case for content listed at WP:CP. If saving is a release, and all the proof needed for WP:CP is proof of ownership and not any explicit release, then all we need to clear such material to count as a proper OTRS release should also be [just] ownership. Yet, as far as I know, we don't do this. OTRS rejects proof of ownership without an explicit release. (Am I wrong about that?) Unless I'm wrong, that appears to be directly in conflict with the basis for your revert.
You may read this and tell me just where I went wrong, but I am not laying this in your lap, expecting you will know the answer. This is (hopefully) food for thought, and possibly, something to run by Wikimedia counsel (or not).
As always, with the best of regards-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 00:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Anyway, my feeling is that where we find preexisting non-free content, our practice should be that even if we know the person who clicked save was the owner, an explicit acknowledgement from them should be required. I do not believe we should allow such content to remain, where a person continues to maintain, for example, a website claiming full copyright ownership to the world, and has not made it clear their release here was consciously done.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 12:50, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, could you blcok one participant, it is engaged in vandalism! /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/193.106.183.1 he removes nationality and ethnic group and puts false information in Ruslan Magomedov article. I ask you to block him, it gets on my nerves! :)
Per my being unblocked at Commons, I offered to have any future uploads subject to review or approval first. Can you suggest a good way to have that done? I'm also curious as to whether CCI-tagged images such this one can be moved to commons by me. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Light show ( talk) 05:02, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! On 29 April 2014, you deleted almost the whole Unity (Hungary) article because of my copyright violation. Since then, my unblock request was accepted and I would like to fix my former serious errors. Could you copy and paste the deleted text into my sandbox? I'd like to completely rewrite but I also need those references. Best regards, -- Norden1990 ( talk) 08:15, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, did you just leave me a message? I got an email from Wiki saying that someone named rankersbo had left me a message about my article, but when I got into the page it only showed your message... I'm confused! 80.0.168.233 ( talk) 20:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
User:ADB Manila appears to be responsible for multiple copyright violations - if you have the time and inclination could you please have a look and take whatever action might be appropriate, or pass it on to someone who can? 110.77.221.89 ( talk) 19:25, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I wonder if you could help me:
user
Jssteil: 1637 edits, pages created 185, pages moved 44, files uploaded: 73 + 4 (commons)
Hasn't edited since 17 dec 2013
Two of his articles are nominated for deletion; I noticed that one of them contains large parts copied verbatim from a NASA paper.
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Radiation_carcinogenesis_in_past_space_missions; article:
Radiation_carcinogenesis_in_past_space_missions
the likely source:
NASA publication. I posted 2 examples on the
Talk page
I guess NASA copyright(-free) policy probably applies (although two of the authors don't work for NASA), and the article will be deleted anyway, so the problem is mainly with the other articles he wrote:
Spaceflight radiation carcinogenesis. According to a post on the talk page, the material comes from
https://humanresearchwiki.jsc.nasa.gov/index.php?title=Risk_of_Radiation_Carcinogenesis
... and more ...
I don't know for sure if this warrants/requires action, can you or someone else take a look or tell me what to do? Thank you. Ssscienccce ( talk) 03:51, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:copyvio|url=
URL of source of material or other identifying information}}
.I've sent an email to Mdennis (WMF)'s email account—I'm not sure if the "please let me know when you email me" only applies to emails sent to you wearing your MRG hat or not. If it's not you I should be contacting, please point me to whoever I need to write to (or just forward it). Thanks, and congratulations (or commiserations) on the new job. ‑ iridescent 16:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Talk:Green_Boots
User DN-boards1, who is now blocked, has merged the two articles Green Boots and Tsewang Paljor without providing source. (s)he rewrote a great deal of Tsewang Paljor's article upon an article (s)he said (s)he read, that I can't find anywhere. I don't know whether the new story of Tsewang Paljor is true or not, but there's something I know, and that's even if this new story is true, it doesn't make it any less certain that Green Boots could still be Dorje Morup and not Tsewang Paljor.
Is it so that for undoing what user DN-boards1 did, a new Green Boots article has to be created? Thank you.
Akseli9 (
talk)
12:00, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi moonriddengirl,
Can you tell me why the Notable Alumni section of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania was deleted?
Thank you.
CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC) CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, moonriddengirl. I was experimenting with the tildes and submitted my question before realizing that you had already answered it.
My apologies.
CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:18, 12 October 2015 (UTC) CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:18, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
User_talk:Nakedicarus suggests a history of vehicle image copyvios. File:Us90.jpg is obviously a copyvio. Which leaves just two - File:Bluepinto.jpg & File:Pintoint1.jpg (the latter is not in use) - which I guess need to be reviewed with great scepticism? 223.205.243.225 ( talk) 06:32, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl, I hope you are well !
So, I've been reviewing a lot of GA candidates lately, and noticing a lot of nominators like to use a huge amount of both in-paragraph quotations and extremely large blockquoting.
There is now a handy-dandy tool in use as linked on GA Review subpages -- called Copyvio Detector in the GA Toolbox.
I've been recommending in my GA Reviews that nominators cut/trim/remove, or paraphrase quotations, so that when I revisit, each source with that Copyvio Detector tool gets below a 30 percent confidence value.
I'm getting some initial resistance at Talk:Avengers: Age of Ultron/GA2 regarding my review of Avengers: Age of Ultron -- see Copyvio Detector results at https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Avengers%3A+Age+of+Ultron&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=0&use_links=1
Am I right in my GA Reviews to strongly recommend cutting down on amount of quotations, even if they are indeed properly cited with in-line citations?
Can too much liberal quoting and blockquoting be a form of straying towards copyvio?
Just wanted your expertise before I revisit that particular GA Review again -- and going forwards with how I approach large amounts of quotations on other GA Reviews in the future.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 17:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Hey MRG. In doing some boring maintenance stuff I stumbled upon Barnes Compton, which per the talk page looked like a copyvio of [13]. Sure enough, a lot of it matches. However, the bottom of the page simultaneously says "© Copyright August 06, 2008Maryland State Archives" and "This information resource of the Maryland State Archives is presented here for fair use in the public domain...proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives." It can't be copyrighted, fair use, CC-BY, and public domain. That's just one example but their entire site is like that. You'd think a government website would have more understanding of copyright, and I'm at a loss as to how to proceed on the article. Wizardman 23:12, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
I m trying to separate the Wars section from a general discussion on this issue. The Wars section was specifically laid out to be the preceding. That is why I refactored to move text up. Can it not remain the way I put it? After all I started the discussion… lol. Le Prof Leprof 7272 ( talk) 02:11, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
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Baby (2015 film) was moved to Baby (2015 Hindi film). I couldn't find any other film named Baby released in 2015. -- The Avengers ( talk) 12:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, perhaps you can tell which came first, the Wikipedia article Barony of Blackhall, or the website [14]. I've reservations about several accounts that are editing in this area, and whether they're indulging in persistent copyright violations. Thanks for any light you can shed. Cheers, 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 16:52, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
The editor has been playing other games with images for a while; more needs to be explained than a few recent uploads. In mid-August, LightShow added a sizable stack of nonfree images to Jack Nicholson (hidden within a lengthy set of textual edits), obvious NFCC violations in a BLP, without bothering to even add article-specific use rationales. I caught this and removed them about a month later, but didn't check on who'd done it at the time, and by the time I did check, I thought the violations were isolated and too stale to act on. I clearly got that wrong, so I'm going to keep an eye out for other shenanigans. Good block! The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) ( talk) 16:17, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. I have quoted you in an ANI discussion regarding
User:Light show. You may wish to comment, especially if you are concerned that I may not have properly represented your prior comments.
The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (
talk)
18:51, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: I'm sorry to bring this up here, but I have never been able to figure out how to properly ask a question at WP:Copyright problems. The talk page says it's not for specific cases and the main page never seems to have an option for what I want to ask. Here is a draft, which was created on the same day a page on another website which says "written for Wikipedia", and also an article in the encyclopedia which was copy-pasted from the draft by the same user at a later date. Normally I would just deleted the old draft, since there is no content by other users, but that would leave the appearance that the website was created first. Should I delete it anyway and put a backwards-copy template on the mainspace article? Or should I do a history merge, after deleting the newer edits by reviewers? Or is it, after all, a copyvio?— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:18, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Just so you know, since you are not very active on Commons, I responded to you at some length there, and at ANI here. Your understanding is perfectly correct. Revent talk 14:55, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
We couldn't have done it without you | |
Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC) |
Hello Moonriddengirl! I just wondered, could this be a sock of this user you recently blocked for extensive copy-vio'ing/hoaxing? I watched the latters' edits from the side for some time, and I have to say there is quite alot of quacking/overlap between the two, heh. Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 02:06, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've detect this article has copyright issue. But I have little experience on dealing with such issue on EnWp, as well as not good at reading long English paragraph, would you mind to check it so I can see how does these things work on EnWp, that I can help more in future.-- AddisWang ( talk) 03:22, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
You share my opinion that "crossing the line" might "break" safe harbor provisions. However there was some push-back at User talk Jimbo when I suggested this some months back - and not without cause, as further research revealed. I forget the exact case, but an on-line magazine was found not responsible for the content of an article it commissioned.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:24, 2 November 2015 (UTC).
But use of the phrases "indolent expression" and "undulating throat" would violate copyright. - it most certainly would not. To quote from the Wikilegal "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole"
Moreover the phrases have both been used before: E.G.
I love thy mellow note,
Pealing, so beautifully, from the spray
Whereon thou sitt'st with undulating throat,
Chaunting thy matins to the dawning day.
(1824)
What is still worse is the application of WP:PARAPHRASE to expressions such as
"In 1624 he was appointed deputy-pro-voice consul of the Armenian ambassador to Turkmenistan."
Given that "deputy-pro-voice consul of the Armenian ambassador to Turkmenistan" is the official job title, should we really be suggesting that even a direct replication of this sentence is a problem?
Essentially by asking to someone rephrase the natural expression of a small number of lexical units, we are likely to introduce more problems thane we resolve.
"He was appointed, in 1624, deputy-pro-voice consul of the Armenian ambassador to Turkmenistan."
might have a better ring to it, but it's unnecessarily convoluted and should be avoided. Like other changes that might be made it would still be claimed to fall foul of close paraphrasing:
"He served, from 1624, as ..."
And in this example "serve" has introduced POV. Do we know he served, or did he steal the Embassy artworks, swive the ambassador's wife and spy for Moldova? It's often the case that re-phrasing introduces shades of meaning not present in the original - sometimes it's appropriate to remove those shades of meaning, but rarely wise to add them.
Of course this is applicable in a "bare recitation of facts" scenario - but that is what a lot of our articles are, and quite reasonably so.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
13:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC).
Hi Moonriddengirl, long time! Can I have you opinion on this comparison and this comarison and suggestions as to what to do about them? Thanks ww2censor ( talk) 20:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
(See page 35 of that pdf.)
Hey, Moonriddengirl, what's up? Another Artin Mehraban sock here. I don't have time to post extensive behavioral evidence as I'm posting this from my phone and I'm in a lack of time, but I hope you can block him asap when you read this. Same edits, same targeting pages, same obsession to upload hoax pictures, etc, please see his edit summary (before he's making too many edits) Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 21:57, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG. I've run into this situation before, but I figured I'd ask you, this time, if we have a policy on the matter. Is it acceptable to add an external link to material that is out of copyright in the country hosting the material but is definitely copyrighted in the United States (as someone just did at That Hideous Strength)? I'm tempted to remove the link, but unable to come up with a reason, I decided to ask you. Deor ( talk) 21:44, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Can you help me figure out how to set one of those up? I'm not sure where to get a hash string. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 05:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Here. -- NeilN talk to me 19:23, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG! I was looking at Laudya Chintya Bella, where there are various problems including a foundational unattributed translation from id.wp. That led me to this: you blocked YogaWP in April 2014 for copyright violations; I imagine that Yoga Widya, Yoga Widya 1994 and Yoga Widya Prasetyo are all block-evading socks (1994 wrote this 15 minutes after WP posted an unblock request, before it was even declined). What I wondered: do you remember if were there enough copyright concerns to need looking at in more detail? I don't immediately see that the socks have done anything very terrible. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 17:38, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Per this edit to Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. It appears that this big addition to the page in late April is a copyvio. Largely from here (pdf). (or HTML version)
The results from Earwig's Copyvio Detector is here at "82.2%".
I haven't templated the article page yet, but I have left a personal talkpage message for new editor Jefftheref ( talk · contribs), here. I gave them an example where, except for 2 deleted words, a sentence is the same as the source. They haven't edited since, but have e-mail activated, so may reply.
Fortunately there hasn't been a lot of editing there since and (I have checked) it should be easy to revert, and then RevDel if required. Let me know if I should just revert back to before this edit. Regards, 220 of Borg 03:29, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl --
Regarding your removal of my English version of "Un Canadien Errant":
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The wikipedia rules do not allow signing of contributions. However, is there not a difference between (a) signing a contribution as the author of an "article" or part of an article, and (b) naming the writer of a poem, song, or translation thereof? In other words, why is the author of the 1927 English version named, while the author of the 2011 English version (myself) is not only un-named but his work is banned from wikipedia? And what is the real difference between "signing" my sing-able English version and having my name listed at the bottom of the page as the contributor of the literal English translation? Forgive me, but it seems as if you're stretching the Wikipedia rules about signing an article in order to delete this contribution, or perhaps you're being over-zealous. If that isn't the case but you still feel that I should not be able to add the sing-able English version as the author, then I ask you to do me a favor, which would also be a favor to all English-speaking Canadians (and perhaps other English speakers around the world) who do not speak French and who would like a sing-able English version of this great song, by re-inserting my English version YOURSELF, and therefore avoiding any issues of "signing" the contribution. I think the version I came up with is not bad, and is certainly an improvement over the 1927 version, and would be enjoyed by others. In the end, this is just a song; is there any great harm in adding another English version? If you decide to go this route, I thank you kindly. Below is the removed section. Please feel free to edit everything but the actual verses, or to contact me regarding any issues involved, at brian999@earthlink.net or 951-392-8504. Best regards, Brian Manfromtexas ( talk) 15:37, 11 November 2015 (UTC) Below is the 2011 version by Brian C. Puckett. An effort to ameliorate the deficiencies of the 1927 Gibbon version, this version maintains the original ABAB rhyme scheme throughout (Gibbon does so in only one of the five differing verses). Furthermore, to the extent possible (1) it maintains the order of the lines within each verse; (2) it translates literally (3) it uses English cognates of the French words (e.g., “fugitive current” for “courant fugitive”, and "my longing look" for "mon regard languissant").
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Dear Moonriddengirl -- I saw your response, and thank you for the clarification. If the problem is that my English version is not published elsewhere, then perhaps it's not a problem. I just did a google search for and and found three websites where the 2011 English version is now published and (correctly) attributed to me. BTW, this is not simply an ego issue; I have worked in various art media since I was young and believe someone's work should be properly recognized. In any case, here are the three online publications; there may be more. Also BTW, I hand nothing to do with posting these items -- I just now searched for them and found them. http://folkqueue.blogspot.com/2013/02/un-canadien-errant.html http://www.liquisearch.com/un_canadien_errant/english_version http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/Un_Canadien_errant -- BCP Manfromtexas ( talk) 16:00, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Wow, THAT was BOLD! In one fell swoop, you deleted four years of edits! I wish more people had guts like that! Well done! Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 11:46, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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Which has A new, 30,000 square-foot concessions preparation and staging area will be added below the plaza., The Cubs 30,000 square foot space includes locker rooms for the players and coaches, a strength and conditioning center, training and hydrotherapy areas, player lounge, media center and team offices. , The Cubs former clubhouse will be developed in order to make the dugout larger and will include two underground batting cages, an auditorium and additional office space., The team is building an area for premium and Season Ticket Holders adjacent to the batting tunnels in order for fans to get a view of the players batting practice. seats ... the third base side concourse will be completed that includes new concessions and bathrooms in the area etc. More could have been bolded alas.
[20] indicates how seriously the contributor actually views "The Plaigerism Police." I can not believe he did not know what he was doing all those times - and still continuing. Collect ( talk) 14:07, 22 November 2015 (UTC) [21] blames me, alas. I did not recall having such powers to make folks into such edits. Collect ( talk) 14:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Kimberly Brandão appears to have a copyright issue. 71.47.9.186 ( talk) 22:02, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Maggie. I recently spotted that OluwaCurtis has requested autopatrolled, despite being the subject of an ongoing CCI. I decided to do some further digging to identify if their copyright and close paraphrasing problems have continued, and discovered a couple potentially problematic edits after the CCI was initiated. My first concern is in the article Deputy Governor of Abia State (created by the user), from this:
Source | Deputy Governor of Abia State |
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"be a member of a Political Party and be sponsored by that party" | "be a member of a political party and sponsored by that party" |
"be educated to at least school certificate level or its equivalent" | "be educated to at least school certificate level or its equivalent" |
"have attained the age of thirty five (35) years" | "have attained the age of thirty-five years" |
"must be a Nigerian by birth" and/or "must be a citizen of Nigeria" |
"be a citizen of Nigeria by birth" |
I also identified another potential problem, albeit less substantial, in the article Nzango (created by the user), from this:
Source | Nzango |
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"two teams of players, lined up and facing each other on a pitch measuring eight metres by 16 metres" | "two opposing teams lined up and facing each other with individual members from each team taking turns in outplaying the other. It is played on a pitch measuring 8 metres by 16 metres" |
"position of their feet in relation to their opponents" | "position their feet in relation to their opponents" |
The above problems are all that I identified in a rough check of their post-CCI contributions. I am wondering, would you be able to evaluate the above examples? This G12 tag from just over a week ago leaves me concerned that their understanding of copyright has not yet developed. I look forward to hearing from you. Many thanks, Thine Antique Pen ( talk) 19:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Thine Antique Pen. :) I'm sorry; it's my fault that I didn't explain myself better. :/ The reason I said, "I suspect that the first run is exempt from copyright as per Wikipedia:Public_domain#U.S._government_works as an edict of government, even if it's not a government source publishing it" is because I suspected they had copied that from an edict of government themselves. I didn't know that - it was just a suspicion because it sounded a lot like legal text tied to election law to me. If it were a more substantial run of text with more creativity, I'd have gone digging immediately, but for a couple of phrases that were closely paraphrased, I put it aside and focused on the larger issue (to me) of whether there were ongoing copyright concerns.
So now, I've now backed up and done some poking and find the Nigerian Constitution, which discusses election eligibility in 65 (1). The FAQ did not copy all of the language directly from the constitution, although it's clearly derivative and some is reproduced. For instance, they wrote "be a member of a Political Party and be sponsored by that party", while the constitution says, "he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that party." I don't think their changes are substantial enough to attract copyright, and since the article doesn't copy directly from the FAQ, anyway, I think it's okay. I believe the base material is PD under U.S. law, and I don't think there's enough creativity in the deviations for us to worry about the copyright element.
The paraphrasing element is a separate question, of course. If the source were fully reserved, it would be more closely paraphrased than it needs to be, by which I mean that one doesn't have to copy it. It would be pretty easy to write "Must be sponsored by the political party of which he is a member" or something like that. So I don't want to imply that rewriting isn't possible and doesn't matter. :) But it is a short run of text with low creativity and moreover it is a rule. If there is a risk that the rule will be misinterpreted, it may be necessary in the case of describing a rule to follow pretty closely on your source. And you often are forced to follow the structure of the original by the rules themselves. You can't omit some and rearrange others, for instance.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wouldn't necessarily assume that closely paraphrasing a small amount of material from rules represents a lack of understanding of the need to paraphrase or how to paraphrase. This is why I was checking other contribs. If there is close paraphrasing of more creative source material, then we'd be looking at a pattern that said to me "This person may not understand this." If their work with more creative sources shows good rewriting, then I think what we're looking at is difficulty with a particularly challenging paraphrase issue. It's more master level work. :)
Does that make more sense? Again, I'm sorry for not explaining myself better to begin with, and if I can explain my thinking better now, please feel free to say, "No, Maggie, not really." :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:42, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: I came across a draft, Draft:Helen Manning, which appeared to be largely a duplicate of this web page. I was trying to find out which of the two was created first, and I noticed that there was a "next page" link, which I followed, finding this, which had pretty clearly been copied to Donna Caruso, so I tagged that one for deletion. Going on to the "next page" took me to this one, some of which appears in the older history of Donald Soctomah, along with text from another document. Each of these has a different editor. Could this be some kind of class project or the results of an editathon? If the first three I came to have been copied into the encyclopedia, chances are there are more. Should I keep going and tag all of these for deletion, or is there something I have missed?— Anne Delong ( talk) 14:30, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl, how are you doing these days?
Could you please do something about this user? He's on bad terms with like everyone due to his editorial behavior, and is continuing with this. Though numerous people have told him not to remove those links, he's still continuing to do so, ignoring the talk page consensus and that the majority does not want them to be deleted like that. Just as of seconds ago, he officially made a threat to continue edit warring (which he's already doing and has done priorly too), [22] reverted it once again, without edit summary, though we explicitly told him not to do so, [23], says the voice of the majority "must be screwed". [24] Could you do anything about this? Honestly, we've shown enough resilience, and there's no simply no place for edit warriors that make statements such as "screw the voice of the majority". Clearly does not grasp multiple WP's as well as what is being a valuable addition to this place.
If it's not too much of an issue for you, of course. Bests and take care.
Hi, Moonriddengirl. We used to interact a lot when I was more active on the copyright discussions. Long time no talk.
I see you've had interaction with User:Joeyc91 regarding copyright violations. Two of the articles he's created are up for AFD:
I have no specific non-Wikipedia sources I can point to to show copyright infringement, but it seems clear from the level of detail that these are copied from somewhere without attribution; although for all I know they're from an old PD dictionary or the like, which would not be infringement.
I'm uncertain on whether my rationale for deleting is appropriate, given the inability to point to an infringed work; basically, I'm using a "sniff test," and I don't know if that's appropriate. Given your copyright enforcement background here and your interaction with the creating user, can you opine?
I think I'm not violating WP:CANVASS by this notification; I just figured you're in a good position to assess this and meet the "Editors known for expertise in the field" criterion. If you believe I am in violation, please ignore this. thanks. TJRC ( talk) 02:04, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Long time ago you suspected Mar4d to be a sock of Siddiqui. New developments show that you might have been right. Mar4d was blocked as sock of Acejet. But there is too much behavioral evidence which matches Mar4d with Siddiqui.
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Acejet could be a sock of old blocked user Siddiqui -- The Avengers 14:14, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, I have favor to ask: when you get a moment, can you swing by Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/A Guide to Reporting Copyright Infringement and make sure all the info is still current? I'm in the process of going through the Milhist Academy to update and trim the material to keep it current and relevant, and want to make sure this is still up to date with everything going on on the copyright front. TomStar81 ( Talk) 10:41, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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09:15, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
In the article Maryland Department of General Services Police, you deleted two subsections because of a copyright violation. I wrote the article years ago and I have never copy-and-pasted, nor written anything close to plagiarizing. Out of an abundance of caution, I went into the article history and copied the section deleted and pasted it in Google. I found no evidence of copying or plagiarism. A second concern I had with the deletion is, even if it were copied directly from a government source (1) government sources (unless classified otherwise) are in the Public Domain. (2) Even if it were not in the public domain, why would you not leave the two divisions? And (3), why would you delete the politics of the agency? Just trying to understand the logic. Thanks! It's me...Sallicio! 03:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Maggie, OK, I think I finally at least figured out how to leave you a message here! LOL The whole Wikipedia thing I have to confess baffles me and seems very complicated to me 😱, i'm just really not good at it. I wrote the original copy that is on IMDB and posted it there, so I figured since I wrote it I owned it. also, the copy that I sent you is slightly different than the original copy I posted in that it has updates and more information added to it. I will be adding this new one on to IMDB to update it as well. I don't want to have any violations or anything, and I will try to verify however I need to, I just want to get my correct information up on the Wikipedia page about me. Just trying to keep it easy simple, honest and straightforward. just an actor guy trying to get my staff correct. I'm sure you can understand. I'm just not computer savvy at all really. Obviously you totally are. can you please help me with doing this? I really appreciate it. And please, just call me Ryan :) Hope all is good with you, R — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CDB4:18D0:B140:7250:361D:4277 ( talk) 22:32, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Rose Lavelle appears to have a copyright problem with material copied from her Wisconsin bio. Joeykai ( talk) 07:14, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Tom Hackett appears to have a copyright problem with copied material directly from his Utah bio. Joeykai ( talk) 21:38, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddngirl. The Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant is a newly created article in the course of a student assignment. Originally, it included large parts of text copied from the company's website ( http://www.raztes.am/eng/). After some intensive editing, there is no direct copyright violation any more, but I think it may still have an issue with a close paraphrasing. Could you take a look and give your opinion? The same issue may concern also the Spandaryan Hydro Power Plant article. Thank you. Beagel ( talk) 18:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours!
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18:55, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
MarnetteD|
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Hello Moonriddengirl: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 20:41, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, can you please let me know what's up with this CCI case here? Regards! — OluwaCurtis »» ( talk to me) 21:23, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Good morning! Posting here to draw your attention to a copyvio in the page history at Dave Hansen, this edit which is a cut-and-paste from this news story. It's already been deleted from the article, but I don't recall if these revisions are normally revdeleted. Ivanvector 🍁 ( talk) 14:39, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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Seasons' Greetings Moonriddengirl. May you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
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The text at Tobias and the Angel (Filippino Lippi) is copied verbatim from https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg7/gg7-370.html. The article markup contains a comment "TEXT FROM US STATE SITE, THEREFORE CONSIDERED PUBLIC DOMAIN." However not all material carried on .GOV domains is in the public domain and this page carries a copyright notice from the National Gallery of Art. It is certainly a plagiarism because the source is not quoted.
The editors involved have (frankly) an absolutely dreadful reputation in the art world and I am not prepared to involve myself personally with them or on behalf of my institution. I should be glad if the Wikimedia Foundation might perhaps intercede. At the very least the issue of plagiarism should be addressed.
Thank you. 207.207.28.47 ( talk) 15:18, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
May you have very Happy Holidays, Maggie,...
and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music!
Best wishes,
Voceditenore (
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Hello Moonriddengirl: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Esquivalience t 00:11, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
I came here to post {{subst:Season's Greetings}}, but it is already posted more than twice, so, just wishing "Merry Christmas" -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 18:18, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a copyright problem with Tyler Murphy Joeykai ( talk) 22:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there,
I wanted to bring to your attention that this article is infringing on our copyright [1]
Parichay himself is the sole copyright owner of this content and the only email to reach our team to obtain a certificate of copyright clearance is: infoparichayonline.com
We have not granted any permission to anyone for use of this info whatsoever at this moment and have therefore contacted the original creator of the page "ChayProductions" to request a speedy deletion of the article which I see has been done on the article page (currently pending deletion).
Can you please have this page deleted asap as it is violating our copyright?
Thank you CraneCrusier ( talk) 13:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
I received verbal confirmation from a representative of the copyright holder, Ebert Digital Media, to include the the full list Ebert's Great Movies on Wikipedia over the phone several months ago. When I asked for an email to get written confirmation, the person I was speaking with said she would do so, but it has been months and despite my incessant emails, I have not received the written confirmation I require. Would just the verbal confirmation be cause to revert the edits to the article you made back in March? Fireflyfanboy ( talk) 06:40, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello; please see the thread "Reykjavík Museum of Photography" within Anthony Appleyard's talk page, and feel free to respond there. Thanks! -- Hoary ( talk) 23:47, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl. I'd like your advice about the best way to put these two pages back together. There is no overlapping history except one bot edit which I can delete. However, there are some deleted edits to be considered.
I'd like to do a history merge so that the text will be attributed to the correct editor. My question is, should the deleted edits in the history of the draft be temporarily undeleted for a few minutes, even though they contain copyvio, so that when the history merge is done they will appear in the deleted history of the mainspace article? It seems to me that this would be best because someone looking at the deleted history could see the complete development of the article. The four sections above are discrete; there would be no intermingled edits.
An alternative would be just to delete the draft, which will be eligible for db-g13 in a month or so, although this would leave the text attributed to the wrong person.— Anne Delong ( talk) 17:20, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moodriddengirl.......
You sent me an email about the article I submitted about The Knights of Sparta, my Mardi Gras Organization.
In your message you alluded to material that was taken from our web site - www.knightsofsparta.com.
I write that web site....and everything on it is mine. Therefore, I should be able to quote myself whenever I wish.
I am the Captain (absolute leader) and CEO of The Knights of Sparta and verify that everything I sent you was written by me and usable. You will see on the web site that all inquiries go to my email address.
Best........
Dr. David M. Mulnick - Captain / CEO The Knights of Sparta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.11.91.7 ( talk) 14:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
FBReader was deleted by someone. I tried to undeleted it, then added to it. Is that copying ? Then someone proposed it to be an article for deletion. There is/was a Delete Campaign. How was the old FBReader history restored ? Can you explain the recent escapades of this pages deletion ? ~~ Xb2u7Zjzc32 ( talk) 15:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl
Your deletions of my contributions to Vanessa Lawrence page constitutue vandalism. You claim for deletion refers to vandalism by by User:Mdann which does not adhere..) that sources are not verifiable are grossly incorrect. Please note: 1. APO.org.au is a very reputable site. Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zealand. 2. victorianspatialcouncil.org is the official site of the Victorian Govt spatial coordination arrangements involving govt, industry and academe - the Victorian Spatial Council. 3. psma.com.au - is the official site of the incorporated Public Sector Mapping Agencies of Australia of which the share holders are the federal, state and territory governments. 4. siba.com.au - is the official site of the peak industry body for the spatial information industry - Spatial Information Business Association chaired by the former federal Special Minister of State.
These are all reputable and verifiable with govt accreditaion for 2, 3 and 4.
Vandalism!!
SSSI-SIBA ( talk) 16:07, 7 August 2015 (UTC).
— Preceding unsigned comment added by SSSI-SIBA ( talk • contribs) 16:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Since I've recently wasted some of your time ... let me waste a little more! Please, as an uninvolved person, take a quick look at this merge suggestion. I think it's a very simple matter, but of course I may be biassed, wrong or both. -- Hoary ( talk) 01:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I am confused, since I did not do a PROD on the article you mention, but perhaps on a different one. Please clear up my confusion.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 15:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hey! I'm fine thanks, and I hope you're well too! Good to see that you are still active :) My life has changed a lot during the past few years so unfortunately I don't have time to edit anymore, but I will always remember the good times on Wikipedia and all the nice editors like you! :D Theleftorium (talk) 20:39, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I would grateful if you would run through the half a dozen edits following this one and check the copyvio situation. I'm at 2RR so that's me out of it. Regards. Moriori ( talk) 01:13, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
User:Schneelocke ⋅ registered Wikipedian and a sysop since 2003 (says the user page), but look at this:
I don't have time to deal with this, Moonriddengirl. But, thanks in advance, Poeticbent talk 23:43, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Quite right, and you beat me to it (I got called onto a conf call so was delayed). Thanks. Guy ( Help!) 12:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Just now I've had to remove copyright violations on Avast Software that were added by the user Debsalmi. I have left a coypright notice on their talk page.
Here is one of the offending edits: [5].
I was wondering if I could ask for your assistance to see if they have made any other copyright violations? Their contribs date back to 2008. — George8211 / T 18:30, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Okay, eliminating minor edits and reverts, this person has only ever edited 9 articles.
For the top two articles, George8211, I think it makes the most sense to spot-check the current versions, as the edits have been so extensive over the years. Are you able to help with that further? I know you've already cleaned up the second somewhat - does it need more review, do you think? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:13, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Good day I have huge difficulties with user YSSYguy, making me problems. I've created the article in english Flyways Airlines it was agreed to kept the Style with Administrator Happysquirrel , ie it is talked to him to keep as it is. The user YSSYguy keeps fighting to impose his style even with not appropriate information. Please see it. At the talk page of Happysquirrel it has the announce to keep as it is and it was understood from him/her. I hope that sanctions would be given to User User:YSSYguy for not respecting my initiation page and my contributions. There is a fight from him which is totally not contributive, not helps also Wikipedia. In fact the missleading distortions and destructive editions of YSSYguy it is no need in the article. As creator of the page version i have the copyright and responsibility of the article and to keep watching. All his/her modifications continue to be undone. Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs) 11:57, 9 August 2015
The fights did not started by me but from users 200.14.107.2, 200.28.248.144, YSSYguy and even from adminstrator user Myst of French site.
I asked Mjroots all files to be deleted from wikipedia. This was childish. But he said he couldn't.
like you see below:
/info/en/?search=User_talk:Mjroots#Difficulties_to_get_my_contribution_to_this_page_accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=LATAM_Airlines_Group&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Flyways_Airlines&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 10 August 2015
So As i asked MJroots please close the pages like was done in french one by myst with my image... So the fight stop. People in chile did several times. So please stop the mobile users. The image is correct like sources already shown. Regards.
I please also gentle ask this page to be closed /info/en/?search=Flyways_Airlines YSSYguy continue reverting the changes with bad english i do not agree. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs)
So block me, but before block me block other users with bad behaviour first. Or as I said, you delete the files from Wikipedia. The french page is blocked anyway without my image.
BUT I AM RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs)
It is because the same person use different IP computers for example mobile phones. I could have did also with my 4 computers but do not. So delete the files in commons.
Then block me but only after removing the files of Flyways Airlines and LATAM from wikipedia entirely and if you do so blocking me you lose my respect which you had gained as good administrator. I know Mjroots did a unfair block on me so do you... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkmillenium ( talk • contribs) 14:34, 10 August 2015
Hi Moonriddengirl; I've begun a thread on this and a related article at the BLP noticeboard, and am now wondering if pretty much all of it has been cut and pasted from the subject's resume: [6]. Now, this may be unavoidable when listing several peer reviewed publications, but given the abundance of the listings here, this may merit attention. Thanks for any light you can shed. Cheers, 2601:188:0:ABE6:18BA:9D03:B907:ADF2 ( talk) 14:21, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
You can't say we didn't try. If you want a block notice to remain visible, you'd better revoke his ability to edit his talk page. Mjroots ( talk) 15:08, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonridden Girl, When you have time, would you kindly advise about how to get to the Talk board to participate and learn from others who are more experienced about applying best practices to Wikipedia. I have some questions and ideas, but can't find a way to contact the talk board through anyone else. Apologies for bugging you. I did try to ge to the talk board, but can't figure out how to get there. Thank you. 69.86.66.202 ( talk) 00:57, 12 August 2015 (UTC)Anne Valentino
Dear Moonriddengirl, Here I am again asking for more guidance! While I read and digest fully the newly received information, I/m wondering whether its perhaps a good idea to seek guidance on whatever might benefit from a proactive focus. My inclination is to leave settings -- email address, etc., stays quo until the workings of the site becomes more understandable, although there is so much to learn, and also some mini-projects for contribution to pages. Any advise on how best to proceed both in terms of settings and stretching out a little as a contributor? Your thought are greatly appreciated. Annevalentino 20:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)Annevalentino — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annevalentino ( talk • contribs)
Moonriddengirl, you were a great help to me and Crisco recently when we were trying to get an OTRS image submission processed. The linked DYK nomination has an image for which an OTRS ticket was submitted about a month ago. I thought to try Steven Zhang directly—he's who you contacted last time—but he seems to be busy, and has changed his username since I made the request, which may be distracting him. Is there anyone else you can check with to see whether this submission can be expedited? As you can see, the nominators are ready to give up on the image for the nomination, but it's such a striking image that I'd love to see it run if at all possible. Many thanks for anything you can do to help. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:00, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonridden Girl, Thank you for taking time to reply, and for archiving my talk page entries. I will absolutely check into Teahouse next. Thanks for the invitation. Your suggestion to familiarize myself with watchlist is also well taken. Now that you've helped me familiarize myself with wikipedia basis on neutrality and conflicts of interest (which for a psychologist is quite understandable) my thinking about future contributions to my husbands page is to welcome the highest sourcing criteria; its appropriate and appreciated. My next objective is mastery of sourcing criteria for academic publications, especially essays, for that page. I'm learned so much about researching digital databases, (computers came after my graduate studies). Also, in terms of my further work on my husband's page, it should be helpful to track the changes of others I recently realized some past changes were inadvertently misattributed to me, and now there is an easier way to resolve any future misunderstandings of that nature. I also appreciate your inquiry into my areas of interest relating to new wikipedia projects. My research and professional practice orientation is essentially interdisciplinary across history, society, and the arts. My early academic background centered on ancient history and the areas of philosophical inquiry go subjectivity and aesthetics, which is where my interest hatched in the critical reflection of art, culture, and environment. Those interest have been refined into a focus on aesthetics and modernity, in relationship to the histories of cities (especially the City of New York) and civic organizations, and their legacies. My academic background in philosophy and aesthetics was also routed into applied psychology through the link of phenomenology, and particularly subjective experience, which connected me to mind/brain/ thinking/ consciousness topics in psychology. My graduate studies were again interdisciplinary, combining educational and clinical psychology, across seven practice ares.There isn't much that doesn't interest me about psychology, but the challenge of considering subjective phenomena throughout my workday compels endless interest in the phenomenology of intelligence and creativity and human behavior. Along the way, over 25-years of clinical practice, and in the context of my family life, the path was wide open leading to the human experience of the built environment, humanistic environments, and architectural analytics of modernism, especially applicable to education and healthcare settings. Also, my professional training as a psychoanalyst is another very different type of consideration of the biographies of living persons, so there is my interest in personal histories. That's probably way too much information! Whenever you have time to pass along any thoughts about future projects, please do. Working on my husband's page, I noted the absence of 'history of architecture' topics, including no pages about Carlo Scarpa, La Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, and certain important subtopics on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Thank you again for all of your help. I don't know how you keep tabs on over 2,500 pages! You do a great job of editing and you've been very patient and helpful. With appreciation, Annevalentino 18:38, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Annevalentino — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annevalentino ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for explaining me the difference between those two, for I thought that they were almost the same, [EDIT] although I can still argue that it would be plagiarism to use copyrighted material over, over, and over as if the work really were one's own despite having credited its real author, which is why I did it.
Gamingforfun365
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23:15, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi There,
I am working to get our page American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc., back up after it was taken down by you for an apparent copyright concern. We truly appreciate your diligence, however - please be advised that I - ~~BlueStormz (Tommie Storms) - am the cofounder of this organization, an officer of the organization, THE signer and FILER of all legal documents related to its copyrights and intellectual property and it is I who am attempting to have the page reposted.
I have enlisted another assistant - a Wiki editor - at one of our member schools to completely write a NEW PAGE if we can't get the old one released back to us. His concern however is that I needed to tell you who I am or you may block or take down our NEW PAGE or you cannot release the old one and we have to proceed in that manner.
Can you please acknowledge that we are clear to proceed without issue?
Also, can you release the old page? I wrote once before and got a nice note from you that also referenced your general page on copyright issues. It did not however acknowledge that request to release the page or let us know why you took it down.
Thanks very much.
Tommie Storms, Cofounder, COO/Director of Operations BluStormz ( talk) 13:14, 19 August 2015 (UTC)BluStormz American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc, tstorms@adaptedsports.org
I requested a review of Arab Archery on July 21 and haven't heard back, and now can't find the page. Has it been deleted or anything. Is there still a problem with it? Let me know. Thanks in advance. Hadden ( talk) 14:26, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
I've taken out the quotes by Muhammad that seemed to annoy you so much. There are now no quotes in the article, so it should be clean to go. Are you the only one able to move it to the article page, or is there something more I need to do. Hadden ( talk) 18:32, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
The section track Live At The Final Frontier (album) is indeed a copy and paste here. But it is a list, how do we treat lists? And do we delete history when it was copivio? I think we do... Hafspajen ( talk) 18:33, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
( talk page watcher) Hello, User:Hafspajen. Please don't give up, copyright cleanup and Maggie need all the help they can get, and many of us have messed up at first while trying to help.
The article was flagged by CorenSearchBot, and that bot does a great job most of the time, but it probably won't ever be perfect - it's artificial intelligence. In this case, it found what looked like a long stretch of text from an external website - but it was just a track listing. There was nothing creative about it - as mentioned in Wikipedia:Copyright in lists: "Copyright in a list may exist in the content of the list or in the way that the content was selected and arranged. Copyright does not protect facts, but it does protect opinion. If a source is based on "value judgments", it may be protected by copyright, even if it looks very similar to fact. And even if the source is fact, copyright may still protect its selection and arrangement if these are creative."
Sending pings to User:Diannaa and User:MER-C - hoping they'll want to help us out here, since Ms. M hasn't been on en-WP for a little while. Novickas ( talk) 15:45, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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...is required to make sense of this mess.— Spaceman Spiff 11:40, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello M. You have helped me understand copyvio items in the past. Today I found this being used as a source for the Bill Farmer article. There are a batch of similarities. I can't tell which article came first and I wonder if there are any problems regarding this. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD| Talk 17:52, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl. Kit Dalton has been copied in its entirety from its sources, the main one of which is a NY Times article from 1920. Does the age of the Times piece render copyright concerns irrelevant? If nothing else, it's not a very becoming way to present an article here. Thanks, 73.159.24.89 ( talk) 23:15, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Do you think File:PulpFictionTwist.jpg can go onto Uma Thurman (song)? As explained at Uma_Thurman_(song)#Composition Ms. Thurman's dance performance in Pulp Fiction was the genesis of the song title. NE Ent 01:45, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 August 28#Lists of endangered languages/UNESCO definitions, if you haven't already noticed that. (Specifically, I'm wondering whether you can follow up on getting clarification from UNESCO on the license they will agree to. I don't care if that specific page gets deleted, as long as we don't lose the licensing discussion before final permission [or lack thereof] is received.) - dcljr ( talk) 13:56, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl - Perhaps you can help me out with the best solution to a problem here. This article was created as a cut and paste copyvio/plagiarism of a paragraph from Potential National Hockey League expansion. I PRODed it as WP:CRYSTAL before realizing this, and was intending to allow the article to fall out that way. However the article, originally at Las Vegas NHL team, was moved to the current title and then redirected back to where the text was originally taken from. But I am now interested in how the article history should be handled. Should this be treated like a copyvio and the history prior to the redirect be deleted? Also related is Quebec NHL team, which was created as the same plagiarized copyvio but not (yet) redirected, and still holding a live PROD tag. Thanks, Reso lute 13:50, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Moonriddengirl, it appears that the main reason this article has so many problems is that nearly all of it has been cut and pasted from its sources. If it's been like that since its inception, perhaps it can be speedied, or at least taken down until this is sussed out. Thank you for any insight you can provide. Cheers, 2601:188:0:ABE6:B169:DAFB:E15A:DBC4 ( talk) 00:58, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
TruckerTRex restored copyrighted material to Paradise Education Center. Please delete the affected revisions. Thanks. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 02:16, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl.
I'm new to Wikipedia so I apologize if I missed anything relevant in your editing guidelines.
I was wondering why the Notable Alumni section of the above-referenced page was deleted. All of the individuals mentioned are alumni of the university. I would like to restore the section and am open to learning what information is needed to accomplish this task.
Thank you.
CharlotteFaith7 (
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05:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm not a lawyer - you appear to need to be one to post here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbowman1993 ( talk • contribs) 05:34, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
MRG, I asked a general (but sort of directed at you) question here, but forgot to include a ping. Would you mind taking a look if you have a moment? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton ( talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I have a question: it appears to me that this biography began as a copyright violation of the subject's website (lists of work, exhibition venues, etc), and has remained so. I realize that lists aren't the same as prose content, but does this qualify for speedy deletion as a copyvio? Thanks for your expertise, 2601:188:0:ABE6:5DC5:559E:75C4:C241 ( talk) 23:55, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
On
Talk:Reversi/Archive 2#Copyright query you've added a tag with |date=January 2002
(although that date is highly unlikely, and your signature indicates it was added in 2009). Anyways, since it is in a talk page archive and not on the article, I wonder if you belive the content is still on the article. If not, can you please remove/"tl" the template, so we can delete
Category:Suspected copyright infringements without a source from January 2002. Thank you. (
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Josve05a (
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20:25, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
What's CSB? (Far less importantly, what's oi?) NE Ent 00:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
I botched a move request to mainspace of one of Richard Norton's starts, accidentally leaving it in the User space rather than mainspace. The software won't let me do another namechange since I'm not an administrator... Would you be so kind as to move User:Timothy_Healy to Timothy Healy — obviously I'll take responsibility that there's no copyvio in the piece. In the meantime I will work on it a little in User space... Thanks, —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 20:08, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl! Last year you and I were in touch about Wikipedia's entry for Mr. Victor Richel. You were very helpful and I appreciated learning a little more about what is/isn't acceptable on this site. Had a quick question about editing tags under photos. Under Vic's current photo it lists two alma maters - Harvard and Villanova. How can I access that photo box to make a necessary edit and remove Harvard?
Thanks so much for your help here, and for volunteering your time to make Wiki such a great resource!
Erikrslagle ( talk) 15:50, 18 September 2015 (UTC)erikrslagle
Hi Moonriddengirl, could you please take a look at Sur les femmes, and tell me whether the note i have placed in the lead of the article constitutes OR? Thank you. Edited to add: The reason i placed the note was so as to justify why i was using the french title of the book as the page name. Soham321 ( talk) 18:31, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
{{Archives|auto=yes|search=yes}}
from the page. As a final note, you have copied over the quotebox where I have my hours of operation (so shamefully untrue, those hours of operation), but there's nothing in it, so all it will be for you is a little empty box. You need to put some text next to the "quote" parameter if you want content in it. --
Moonriddengirl
(talk)
12:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)I am thinking of helping clean up the articles i Richard_Arthur_Norton's user space
[8] most of them have excessive use of copyrighted text extracted in quote=
in the refs. When cleaning these up what is the proper procedure?
I would like to avoid making more problems while I try to work on this. Jbh Talk 23:46, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
You've revoked my user rights, you happy now? -- OluwaCurtis »» ( talk to me) 23:09, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
On this move of a Norton page I did get stymied by the software... User:Anti-Vaccination Society of America needs to go to Anti-Vaccination Society of America. It was formerly a redirect. If you could make this move for me, I'd appreciate it, thanks... —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 17:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Ta! Carrite ( talk) 02:01, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I wonder if you could provide some clarity on a point regarding this edit. I deleted text on the basis of a straight COPYVIO from http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/ketelbey. I have been reverted on the basis that the editor claims to have written that page themselves. I'm not happy about the text appearing being a direct copy by the same editor, or it appearing without quote marks, citation or any reference to any reliable sources on either of the two pages. If it is from the same source, shouldn't there be a note on the talk page to warn editors of the duplicated text? Many thanks – SchroCat ( talk) 17:13, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey Moon. Regarding your revert, I don't understand how that can be proper. I do understand what you are saying: that by clicking save under our licensing scheme, that constitutes a release under the Terms of Use, so any prior claim of non-free ownership is superseded; the save is the release.
But here's where the logic breaks down for me. First, there seems to be an element of knowledge missing— unconscionability. Not because intent is required, but because I could easily see, were this ever tested, a court stating that what we have boils down to a (or is analogous to a) contract of adhesion, and would invalidate that a free license was given. This seems out of keeping with our custom and practice to bend over backwards in our standards to make licensing unquestionably proper, e.g., our fair use requirements are purposely more exacting than may be legally necessary. So, down the road, a person whose website says "© all rights reserved" who then tries to license that content for profit (and it told you already gave it up under a CC license by saving it at Wikipedia), may end up making a claim that no release was given – claiming, as we know is extremely common, that they were not cognizant of the the notice before saving; that they did not see "By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use". Moreover, that that notice is not immediately accessible but requires a person to click on one highlighted term among a number to reach the Terms of Use, and its boilerplate text. Therefore, that the manner it is set up is highly susceptible to unconscionability, and thus, is unenforceable. I'm sorry if I lapsed into legalese. I am a lawyer (though with no intellectual property specialty).
Turning to what I think is a more accessible problem, where it really breaks down for me: This seems to make no sense in light of our permission policies and practices. Bear with me. When a person comes here and posts non-free copyrighted content and we discover it, we refer them to WP:DCM and OTRS, and ask them to make use of the Declaration of consent for all enquiries ("Consent Notice"). The Consent Notice, in turn, tells them, in effect if not expressly, that they must declare the release under CC-By-SA 3.0, the GFDL or another compatible license (and further acknowledgments of release in its text). Here's the problem. If it's to be our policy that once a person click save, all we must do is verify they are the actual owner but don't need their tailored, knowledgeable consent as owner—because clicking save is the content, then why are we telling them to fill out this specific release for OTRS compliance? Just out of an abundance of caution? Think about it: it's exactly the same. The person has come here, posted non-free content and clicked saved – just as is the case for content listed at WP:CP. If saving is a release, and all the proof needed for WP:CP is proof of ownership and not any explicit release, then all we need to clear such material to count as a proper OTRS release should also be [just] ownership. Yet, as far as I know, we don't do this. OTRS rejects proof of ownership without an explicit release. (Am I wrong about that?) Unless I'm wrong, that appears to be directly in conflict with the basis for your revert.
You may read this and tell me just where I went wrong, but I am not laying this in your lap, expecting you will know the answer. This is (hopefully) food for thought, and possibly, something to run by Wikimedia counsel (or not).
As always, with the best of regards-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 00:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Anyway, my feeling is that where we find preexisting non-free content, our practice should be that even if we know the person who clicked save was the owner, an explicit acknowledgement from them should be required. I do not believe we should allow such content to remain, where a person continues to maintain, for example, a website claiming full copyright ownership to the world, and has not made it clear their release here was consciously done.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 12:50, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, could you blcok one participant, it is engaged in vandalism! /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/193.106.183.1 he removes nationality and ethnic group and puts false information in Ruslan Magomedov article. I ask you to block him, it gets on my nerves! :)
Per my being unblocked at Commons, I offered to have any future uploads subject to review or approval first. Can you suggest a good way to have that done? I'm also curious as to whether CCI-tagged images such this one can be moved to commons by me. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Light show ( talk) 05:02, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! On 29 April 2014, you deleted almost the whole Unity (Hungary) article because of my copyright violation. Since then, my unblock request was accepted and I would like to fix my former serious errors. Could you copy and paste the deleted text into my sandbox? I'd like to completely rewrite but I also need those references. Best regards, -- Norden1990 ( talk) 08:15, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, did you just leave me a message? I got an email from Wiki saying that someone named rankersbo had left me a message about my article, but when I got into the page it only showed your message... I'm confused! 80.0.168.233 ( talk) 20:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
User:ADB Manila appears to be responsible for multiple copyright violations - if you have the time and inclination could you please have a look and take whatever action might be appropriate, or pass it on to someone who can? 110.77.221.89 ( talk) 19:25, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I wonder if you could help me:
user
Jssteil: 1637 edits, pages created 185, pages moved 44, files uploaded: 73 + 4 (commons)
Hasn't edited since 17 dec 2013
Two of his articles are nominated for deletion; I noticed that one of them contains large parts copied verbatim from a NASA paper.
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Radiation_carcinogenesis_in_past_space_missions; article:
Radiation_carcinogenesis_in_past_space_missions
the likely source:
NASA publication. I posted 2 examples on the
Talk page
I guess NASA copyright(-free) policy probably applies (although two of the authors don't work for NASA), and the article will be deleted anyway, so the problem is mainly with the other articles he wrote:
Spaceflight radiation carcinogenesis. According to a post on the talk page, the material comes from
https://humanresearchwiki.jsc.nasa.gov/index.php?title=Risk_of_Radiation_Carcinogenesis
... and more ...
I don't know for sure if this warrants/requires action, can you or someone else take a look or tell me what to do? Thank you. Ssscienccce ( talk) 03:51, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:copyvio|url=
URL of source of material or other identifying information}}
.I've sent an email to Mdennis (WMF)'s email account—I'm not sure if the "please let me know when you email me" only applies to emails sent to you wearing your MRG hat or not. If it's not you I should be contacting, please point me to whoever I need to write to (or just forward it). Thanks, and congratulations (or commiserations) on the new job. ‑ iridescent 16:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Talk:Green_Boots
User DN-boards1, who is now blocked, has merged the two articles Green Boots and Tsewang Paljor without providing source. (s)he rewrote a great deal of Tsewang Paljor's article upon an article (s)he said (s)he read, that I can't find anywhere. I don't know whether the new story of Tsewang Paljor is true or not, but there's something I know, and that's even if this new story is true, it doesn't make it any less certain that Green Boots could still be Dorje Morup and not Tsewang Paljor.
Is it so that for undoing what user DN-boards1 did, a new Green Boots article has to be created? Thank you.
Akseli9 (
talk)
12:00, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi moonriddengirl,
Can you tell me why the Notable Alumni section of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania was deleted?
Thank you.
CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC) CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, moonriddengirl. I was experimenting with the tildes and submitted my question before realizing that you had already answered it.
My apologies.
CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:18, 12 October 2015 (UTC) CharlotteFaith7 ( talk) 03:18, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
User_talk:Nakedicarus suggests a history of vehicle image copyvios. File:Us90.jpg is obviously a copyvio. Which leaves just two - File:Bluepinto.jpg & File:Pintoint1.jpg (the latter is not in use) - which I guess need to be reviewed with great scepticism? 223.205.243.225 ( talk) 06:32, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Moonriddengirl, I hope you are well !
So, I've been reviewing a lot of GA candidates lately, and noticing a lot of nominators like to use a huge amount of both in-paragraph quotations and extremely large blockquoting.
There is now a handy-dandy tool in use as linked on GA Review subpages -- called Copyvio Detector in the GA Toolbox.
I've been recommending in my GA Reviews that nominators cut/trim/remove, or paraphrase quotations, so that when I revisit, each source with that Copyvio Detector tool gets below a 30 percent confidence value.
I'm getting some initial resistance at Talk:Avengers: Age of Ultron/GA2 regarding my review of Avengers: Age of Ultron -- see Copyvio Detector results at https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Avengers%3A+Age+of+Ultron&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=0&use_links=1
Am I right in my GA Reviews to strongly recommend cutting down on amount of quotations, even if they are indeed properly cited with in-line citations?
Can too much liberal quoting and blockquoting be a form of straying towards copyvio?
Just wanted your expertise before I revisit that particular GA Review again -- and going forwards with how I approach large amounts of quotations on other GA Reviews in the future.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt ( talk) 17:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Hey MRG. In doing some boring maintenance stuff I stumbled upon Barnes Compton, which per the talk page looked like a copyvio of [13]. Sure enough, a lot of it matches. However, the bottom of the page simultaneously says "© Copyright August 06, 2008Maryland State Archives" and "This information resource of the Maryland State Archives is presented here for fair use in the public domain...proper citation and credit must be attributed to the Maryland State Archives." It can't be copyrighted, fair use, CC-BY, and public domain. That's just one example but their entire site is like that. You'd think a government website would have more understanding of copyright, and I'm at a loss as to how to proceed on the article. Wizardman 23:12, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
I m trying to separate the Wars section from a general discussion on this issue. The Wars section was specifically laid out to be the preceding. That is why I refactored to move text up. Can it not remain the way I put it? After all I started the discussion… lol. Le Prof Leprof 7272 ( talk) 02:11, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
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Baby (2015 film) was moved to Baby (2015 Hindi film). I couldn't find any other film named Baby released in 2015. -- The Avengers ( talk) 12:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, perhaps you can tell which came first, the Wikipedia article Barony of Blackhall, or the website [14]. I've reservations about several accounts that are editing in this area, and whether they're indulging in persistent copyright violations. Thanks for any light you can shed. Cheers, 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 16:52, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
The editor has been playing other games with images for a while; more needs to be explained than a few recent uploads. In mid-August, LightShow added a sizable stack of nonfree images to Jack Nicholson (hidden within a lengthy set of textual edits), obvious NFCC violations in a BLP, without bothering to even add article-specific use rationales. I caught this and removed them about a month later, but didn't check on who'd done it at the time, and by the time I did check, I thought the violations were isolated and too stale to act on. I clearly got that wrong, so I'm going to keep an eye out for other shenanigans. Good block! The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) ( talk) 16:17, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. I have quoted you in an ANI discussion regarding
User:Light show. You may wish to comment, especially if you are concerned that I may not have properly represented your prior comments.
The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (
talk)
18:51, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: I'm sorry to bring this up here, but I have never been able to figure out how to properly ask a question at WP:Copyright problems. The talk page says it's not for specific cases and the main page never seems to have an option for what I want to ask. Here is a draft, which was created on the same day a page on another website which says "written for Wikipedia", and also an article in the encyclopedia which was copy-pasted from the draft by the same user at a later date. Normally I would just deleted the old draft, since there is no content by other users, but that would leave the appearance that the website was created first. Should I delete it anyway and put a backwards-copy template on the mainspace article? Or should I do a history merge, after deleting the newer edits by reviewers? Or is it, after all, a copyvio?— Anne Delong ( talk) 04:18, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Just so you know, since you are not very active on Commons, I responded to you at some length there, and at ANI here. Your understanding is perfectly correct. Revent talk 14:55, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
We couldn't have done it without you | |
Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC) |
Hello Moonriddengirl! I just wondered, could this be a sock of this user you recently blocked for extensive copy-vio'ing/hoaxing? I watched the latters' edits from the side for some time, and I have to say there is quite alot of quacking/overlap between the two, heh. Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 02:06, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, I've detect this article has copyright issue. But I have little experience on dealing with such issue on EnWp, as well as not good at reading long English paragraph, would you mind to check it so I can see how does these things work on EnWp, that I can help more in future.-- AddisWang ( talk) 03:22, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
You share my opinion that "crossing the line" might "break" safe harbor provisions. However there was some push-back at User talk Jimbo when I suggested this some months back - and not without cause, as further research revealed. I forget the exact case, but an on-line magazine was found not responsible for the content of an article it commissioned.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:24, 2 November 2015 (UTC).
But use of the phrases "indolent expression" and "undulating throat" would violate copyright. - it most certainly would not. To quote from the Wikilegal "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole"
Moreover the phrases have both been used before: E.G.
I love thy mellow note,
Pealing, so beautifully, from the spray
Whereon thou sitt'st with undulating throat,
Chaunting thy matins to the dawning day.
(1824)
What is still worse is the application of WP:PARAPHRASE to expressions such as
"In 1624 he was appointed deputy-pro-voice consul of the Armenian ambassador to Turkmenistan."
Given that "deputy-pro-voice consul of the Armenian ambassador to Turkmenistan" is the official job title, should we really be suggesting that even a direct replication of this sentence is a problem?
Essentially by asking to someone rephrase the natural expression of a small number of lexical units, we are likely to introduce more problems thane we resolve.
"He was appointed, in 1624, deputy-pro-voice consul of the Armenian ambassador to Turkmenistan."
might have a better ring to it, but it's unnecessarily convoluted and should be avoided. Like other changes that might be made it would still be claimed to fall foul of close paraphrasing:
"He served, from 1624, as ..."
And in this example "serve" has introduced POV. Do we know he served, or did he steal the Embassy artworks, swive the ambassador's wife and spy for Moldova? It's often the case that re-phrasing introduces shades of meaning not present in the original - sometimes it's appropriate to remove those shades of meaning, but rarely wise to add them.
Of course this is applicable in a "bare recitation of facts" scenario - but that is what a lot of our articles are, and quite reasonably so.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
13:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC).
Hi Moonriddengirl, long time! Can I have you opinion on this comparison and this comarison and suggestions as to what to do about them? Thanks ww2censor ( talk) 20:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
(See page 35 of that pdf.)
Hey, Moonriddengirl, what's up? Another Artin Mehraban sock here. I don't have time to post extensive behavioral evidence as I'm posting this from my phone and I'm in a lack of time, but I hope you can block him asap when you read this. Same edits, same targeting pages, same obsession to upload hoax pictures, etc, please see his edit summary (before he's making too many edits) Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 21:57, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG. I've run into this situation before, but I figured I'd ask you, this time, if we have a policy on the matter. Is it acceptable to add an external link to material that is out of copyright in the country hosting the material but is definitely copyrighted in the United States (as someone just did at That Hideous Strength)? I'm tempted to remove the link, but unable to come up with a reason, I decided to ask you. Deor ( talk) 21:44, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Can you help me figure out how to set one of those up? I'm not sure where to get a hash string. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 05:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Here. -- NeilN talk to me 19:23, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, MRG! I was looking at Laudya Chintya Bella, where there are various problems including a foundational unattributed translation from id.wp. That led me to this: you blocked YogaWP in April 2014 for copyright violations; I imagine that Yoga Widya, Yoga Widya 1994 and Yoga Widya Prasetyo are all block-evading socks (1994 wrote this 15 minutes after WP posted an unblock request, before it was even declined). What I wondered: do you remember if were there enough copyright concerns to need looking at in more detail? I don't immediately see that the socks have done anything very terrible. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 17:38, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Per this edit to Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. It appears that this big addition to the page in late April is a copyvio. Largely from here (pdf). (or HTML version)
The results from Earwig's Copyvio Detector is here at "82.2%".
I haven't templated the article page yet, but I have left a personal talkpage message for new editor Jefftheref ( talk · contribs), here. I gave them an example where, except for 2 deleted words, a sentence is the same as the source. They haven't edited since, but have e-mail activated, so may reply.
Fortunately there hasn't been a lot of editing there since and (I have checked) it should be easy to revert, and then RevDel if required. Let me know if I should just revert back to before this edit. Regards, 220 of Borg 03:29, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl --
Regarding your removal of my English version of "Un Canadien Errant":
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The wikipedia rules do not allow signing of contributions. However, is there not a difference between (a) signing a contribution as the author of an "article" or part of an article, and (b) naming the writer of a poem, song, or translation thereof? In other words, why is the author of the 1927 English version named, while the author of the 2011 English version (myself) is not only un-named but his work is banned from wikipedia? And what is the real difference between "signing" my sing-able English version and having my name listed at the bottom of the page as the contributor of the literal English translation? Forgive me, but it seems as if you're stretching the Wikipedia rules about signing an article in order to delete this contribution, or perhaps you're being over-zealous. If that isn't the case but you still feel that I should not be able to add the sing-able English version as the author, then I ask you to do me a favor, which would also be a favor to all English-speaking Canadians (and perhaps other English speakers around the world) who do not speak French and who would like a sing-able English version of this great song, by re-inserting my English version YOURSELF, and therefore avoiding any issues of "signing" the contribution. I think the version I came up with is not bad, and is certainly an improvement over the 1927 version, and would be enjoyed by others. In the end, this is just a song; is there any great harm in adding another English version? If you decide to go this route, I thank you kindly. Below is the removed section. Please feel free to edit everything but the actual verses, or to contact me regarding any issues involved, at brian999@earthlink.net or 951-392-8504. Best regards, Brian Manfromtexas ( talk) 15:37, 11 November 2015 (UTC) Below is the 2011 version by Brian C. Puckett. An effort to ameliorate the deficiencies of the 1927 Gibbon version, this version maintains the original ABAB rhyme scheme throughout (Gibbon does so in only one of the five differing verses). Furthermore, to the extent possible (1) it maintains the order of the lines within each verse; (2) it translates literally (3) it uses English cognates of the French words (e.g., “fugitive current” for “courant fugitive”, and "my longing look" for "mon regard languissant").
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Dear Moonriddengirl -- I saw your response, and thank you for the clarification. If the problem is that my English version is not published elsewhere, then perhaps it's not a problem. I just did a google search for and and found three websites where the 2011 English version is now published and (correctly) attributed to me. BTW, this is not simply an ego issue; I have worked in various art media since I was young and believe someone's work should be properly recognized. In any case, here are the three online publications; there may be more. Also BTW, I hand nothing to do with posting these items -- I just now searched for them and found them. http://folkqueue.blogspot.com/2013/02/un-canadien-errant.html http://www.liquisearch.com/un_canadien_errant/english_version http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/Un_Canadien_errant -- BCP Manfromtexas ( talk) 16:00, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Wow, THAT was BOLD! In one fell swoop, you deleted four years of edits! I wish more people had guts like that! Well done! Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 11:46, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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Which has A new, 30,000 square-foot concessions preparation and staging area will be added below the plaza., The Cubs 30,000 square foot space includes locker rooms for the players and coaches, a strength and conditioning center, training and hydrotherapy areas, player lounge, media center and team offices. , The Cubs former clubhouse will be developed in order to make the dugout larger and will include two underground batting cages, an auditorium and additional office space., The team is building an area for premium and Season Ticket Holders adjacent to the batting tunnels in order for fans to get a view of the players batting practice. seats ... the third base side concourse will be completed that includes new concessions and bathrooms in the area etc. More could have been bolded alas.
[20] indicates how seriously the contributor actually views "The Plaigerism Police." I can not believe he did not know what he was doing all those times - and still continuing. Collect ( talk) 14:07, 22 November 2015 (UTC) [21] blames me, alas. I did not recall having such powers to make folks into such edits. Collect ( talk) 14:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Kimberly Brandão appears to have a copyright issue. 71.47.9.186 ( talk) 22:02, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Maggie. I recently spotted that OluwaCurtis has requested autopatrolled, despite being the subject of an ongoing CCI. I decided to do some further digging to identify if their copyright and close paraphrasing problems have continued, and discovered a couple potentially problematic edits after the CCI was initiated. My first concern is in the article Deputy Governor of Abia State (created by the user), from this:
Source | Deputy Governor of Abia State |
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"be a member of a Political Party and be sponsored by that party" | "be a member of a political party and sponsored by that party" |
"be educated to at least school certificate level or its equivalent" | "be educated to at least school certificate level or its equivalent" |
"have attained the age of thirty five (35) years" | "have attained the age of thirty-five years" |
"must be a Nigerian by birth" and/or "must be a citizen of Nigeria" |
"be a citizen of Nigeria by birth" |
I also identified another potential problem, albeit less substantial, in the article Nzango (created by the user), from this:
Source | Nzango |
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"two teams of players, lined up and facing each other on a pitch measuring eight metres by 16 metres" | "two opposing teams lined up and facing each other with individual members from each team taking turns in outplaying the other. It is played on a pitch measuring 8 metres by 16 metres" |
"position of their feet in relation to their opponents" | "position their feet in relation to their opponents" |
The above problems are all that I identified in a rough check of their post-CCI contributions. I am wondering, would you be able to evaluate the above examples? This G12 tag from just over a week ago leaves me concerned that their understanding of copyright has not yet developed. I look forward to hearing from you. Many thanks, Thine Antique Pen ( talk) 19:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Thine Antique Pen. :) I'm sorry; it's my fault that I didn't explain myself better. :/ The reason I said, "I suspect that the first run is exempt from copyright as per Wikipedia:Public_domain#U.S._government_works as an edict of government, even if it's not a government source publishing it" is because I suspected they had copied that from an edict of government themselves. I didn't know that - it was just a suspicion because it sounded a lot like legal text tied to election law to me. If it were a more substantial run of text with more creativity, I'd have gone digging immediately, but for a couple of phrases that were closely paraphrased, I put it aside and focused on the larger issue (to me) of whether there were ongoing copyright concerns.
So now, I've now backed up and done some poking and find the Nigerian Constitution, which discusses election eligibility in 65 (1). The FAQ did not copy all of the language directly from the constitution, although it's clearly derivative and some is reproduced. For instance, they wrote "be a member of a Political Party and be sponsored by that party", while the constitution says, "he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that party." I don't think their changes are substantial enough to attract copyright, and since the article doesn't copy directly from the FAQ, anyway, I think it's okay. I believe the base material is PD under U.S. law, and I don't think there's enough creativity in the deviations for us to worry about the copyright element.
The paraphrasing element is a separate question, of course. If the source were fully reserved, it would be more closely paraphrased than it needs to be, by which I mean that one doesn't have to copy it. It would be pretty easy to write "Must be sponsored by the political party of which he is a member" or something like that. So I don't want to imply that rewriting isn't possible and doesn't matter. :) But it is a short run of text with low creativity and moreover it is a rule. If there is a risk that the rule will be misinterpreted, it may be necessary in the case of describing a rule to follow pretty closely on your source. And you often are forced to follow the structure of the original by the rules themselves. You can't omit some and rearrange others, for instance.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wouldn't necessarily assume that closely paraphrasing a small amount of material from rules represents a lack of understanding of the need to paraphrase or how to paraphrase. This is why I was checking other contribs. If there is close paraphrasing of more creative source material, then we'd be looking at a pattern that said to me "This person may not understand this." If their work with more creative sources shows good rewriting, then I think what we're looking at is difficulty with a particularly challenging paraphrase issue. It's more master level work. :)
Does that make more sense? Again, I'm sorry for not explaining myself better to begin with, and if I can explain my thinking better now, please feel free to say, "No, Maggie, not really." :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:42, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Moonriddengirl: I came across a draft, Draft:Helen Manning, which appeared to be largely a duplicate of this web page. I was trying to find out which of the two was created first, and I noticed that there was a "next page" link, which I followed, finding this, which had pretty clearly been copied to Donna Caruso, so I tagged that one for deletion. Going on to the "next page" took me to this one, some of which appears in the older history of Donald Soctomah, along with text from another document. Each of these has a different editor. Could this be some kind of class project or the results of an editathon? If the first three I came to have been copied into the encyclopedia, chances are there are more. Should I keep going and tag all of these for deletion, or is there something I have missed?— Anne Delong ( talk) 14:30, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl, how are you doing these days?
Could you please do something about this user? He's on bad terms with like everyone due to his editorial behavior, and is continuing with this. Though numerous people have told him not to remove those links, he's still continuing to do so, ignoring the talk page consensus and that the majority does not want them to be deleted like that. Just as of seconds ago, he officially made a threat to continue edit warring (which he's already doing and has done priorly too), [22] reverted it once again, without edit summary, though we explicitly told him not to do so, [23], says the voice of the majority "must be screwed". [24] Could you do anything about this? Honestly, we've shown enough resilience, and there's no simply no place for edit warriors that make statements such as "screw the voice of the majority". Clearly does not grasp multiple WP's as well as what is being a valuable addition to this place.
If it's not too much of an issue for you, of course. Bests and take care.
Hi, Moonriddengirl. We used to interact a lot when I was more active on the copyright discussions. Long time no talk.
I see you've had interaction with User:Joeyc91 regarding copyright violations. Two of the articles he's created are up for AFD:
I have no specific non-Wikipedia sources I can point to to show copyright infringement, but it seems clear from the level of detail that these are copied from somewhere without attribution; although for all I know they're from an old PD dictionary or the like, which would not be infringement.
I'm uncertain on whether my rationale for deleting is appropriate, given the inability to point to an infringed work; basically, I'm using a "sniff test," and I don't know if that's appropriate. Given your copyright enforcement background here and your interaction with the creating user, can you opine?
I think I'm not violating WP:CANVASS by this notification; I just figured you're in a good position to assess this and meet the "Editors known for expertise in the field" criterion. If you believe I am in violation, please ignore this. thanks. TJRC ( talk) 02:04, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Long time ago you suspected Mar4d to be a sock of Siddiqui. New developments show that you might have been right. Mar4d was blocked as sock of Acejet. But there is too much behavioral evidence which matches Mar4d with Siddiqui.
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Acejet could be a sock of old blocked user Siddiqui -- The Avengers 14:14, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl, I have favor to ask: when you get a moment, can you swing by Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/A Guide to Reporting Copyright Infringement and make sure all the info is still current? I'm in the process of going through the Milhist Academy to update and trim the material to keep it current and relevant, and want to make sure this is still up to date with everything going on on the copyright front. TomStar81 ( Talk) 10:41, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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In the article Maryland Department of General Services Police, you deleted two subsections because of a copyright violation. I wrote the article years ago and I have never copy-and-pasted, nor written anything close to plagiarizing. Out of an abundance of caution, I went into the article history and copied the section deleted and pasted it in Google. I found no evidence of copying or plagiarism. A second concern I had with the deletion is, even if it were copied directly from a government source (1) government sources (unless classified otherwise) are in the Public Domain. (2) Even if it were not in the public domain, why would you not leave the two divisions? And (3), why would you delete the politics of the agency? Just trying to understand the logic. Thanks! It's me...Sallicio! 03:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Maggie, OK, I think I finally at least figured out how to leave you a message here! LOL The whole Wikipedia thing I have to confess baffles me and seems very complicated to me 😱, i'm just really not good at it. I wrote the original copy that is on IMDB and posted it there, so I figured since I wrote it I owned it. also, the copy that I sent you is slightly different than the original copy I posted in that it has updates and more information added to it. I will be adding this new one on to IMDB to update it as well. I don't want to have any violations or anything, and I will try to verify however I need to, I just want to get my correct information up on the Wikipedia page about me. Just trying to keep it easy simple, honest and straightforward. just an actor guy trying to get my staff correct. I'm sure you can understand. I'm just not computer savvy at all really. Obviously you totally are. can you please help me with doing this? I really appreciate it. And please, just call me Ryan :) Hope all is good with you, R — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CDB4:18D0:B140:7250:361D:4277 ( talk) 22:32, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Rose Lavelle appears to have a copyright problem with material copied from her Wisconsin bio. Joeykai ( talk) 07:14, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Tom Hackett appears to have a copyright problem with copied material directly from his Utah bio. Joeykai ( talk) 21:38, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddngirl. The Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant is a newly created article in the course of a student assignment. Originally, it included large parts of text copied from the company's website ( http://www.raztes.am/eng/). After some intensive editing, there is no direct copyright violation any more, but I think it may still have an issue with a close paraphrasing. Could you take a look and give your opinion? The same issue may concern also the Spandaryan Hydro Power Plant article. Thank you. Beagel ( talk) 18:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Moonriddengirl: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 20:41, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, can you please let me know what's up with this CCI case here? Regards! — OluwaCurtis »» ( talk to me) 21:23, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Good morning! Posting here to draw your attention to a copyvio in the page history at Dave Hansen, this edit which is a cut-and-paste from this news story. It's already been deleted from the article, but I don't recall if these revisions are normally revdeleted. Ivanvector 🍁 ( talk) 14:39, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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Seasons' Greetings Moonriddengirl. May you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
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The text at Tobias and the Angel (Filippino Lippi) is copied verbatim from https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg7/gg7-370.html. The article markup contains a comment "TEXT FROM US STATE SITE, THEREFORE CONSIDERED PUBLIC DOMAIN." However not all material carried on .GOV domains is in the public domain and this page carries a copyright notice from the National Gallery of Art. It is certainly a plagiarism because the source is not quoted.
The editors involved have (frankly) an absolutely dreadful reputation in the art world and I am not prepared to involve myself personally with them or on behalf of my institution. I should be glad if the Wikimedia Foundation might perhaps intercede. At the very least the issue of plagiarism should be addressed.
Thank you. 207.207.28.47 ( talk) 15:18, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
May you have very Happy Holidays, Maggie,...
and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music!
Best wishes,
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Hello Moonriddengirl: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Esquivalience t 00:11, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
I came here to post {{subst:Season's Greetings}}, but it is already posted more than twice, so, just wishing "Merry Christmas" -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 18:18, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a copyright problem with Tyler Murphy Joeykai ( talk) 22:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Hafspajen ( talk) 08:58, 29 December 2015 (UTC) |