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Thanks for the expansion. I thought he was italian because of this article that I'd used as a source. Please add any further comments for me to my talk page instead of my user page. -- Onorem ♠ Dil 00:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for taking the time to expand this article. It looks so much better than it did as a stub. -- Onorem ♠ Dil 14:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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I'm sorry could you be more specific? pohick203:08, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I am not an admin, so I can't restore anything. Nor did I delete anything. The copyrighted material was deleted by an admin. The material on the pages I nominated was copied word for word from the source I provided, it was not a matter of quoting Mr. Pike. Corvus cornix talk 02:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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what don't you understand about fair use? does it exist at all? Pohick2 ( talk) 02:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Copying word for word from another site is not fair use. See WP:FU. Besides which, you did not indicate where the material came from, that's a severe violation of any fair use claims you might be trying to make. Corvus cornix talk 03:07, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
did you miss the big footnote you deleted? 03:12, 6 September 2008 (UTC) i also noted reference in the talk, but you know we have an impass, if you want me to write the article you will accomodate my method of composition, otherwise fine, write it yourself. Pohick2 ( talk) 03:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Pohick - please don't add stub templates to article talk pages - they're meant to go on the articles themselves (see WP:STUB). Cheers, Grutness... wha? 00:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Pohick, thanks much for your comments at Lafayette's peer review. As per your notes, I've fleshed out the sections on the Battle of Green Spring (and a litte more about the general prelude to Yorktown), and the skirmish at Barren Hill. I was wondering if you would be able to take a look at those sections and let me know what you think after the augmentations. Regards, Lazulilasher ( talk) 23:42, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey Pohick, haven't seen you in a bit.
Just wanted to let you know what was going on with that "horrid" Lafayette (as Marie Antoinette referred to him, once. Or close. Apparently Lafayette offered aid to protect her and the Queen said she "would rather die than be saved by that horrid Lafayette"...guess she shoulda chose the horrid). Anyway, wanted to let you know I tossed in a bunch of new stuff about his involvement in the French Rev; and made that section adhere closer to a timeline. Let me know what you think, if you get a chance. Lazulilasher ( talk) 02:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, There were a couple of problems with your substantial article on Belvoir plantation.
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I apologize for the rather belated thank you, as I did not notice that you had updated my user page. I wanted to thank you for your Article Rescue Barnstar for meritorious rescue of ruse of war, an article that was fascinating to read and even more intersting to find ample reliable sources for. Thanks again for noticing. Alansohn ( talk) 18:12, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, we'll see. It's pretty unconventional to focus so much on quotes. BTW, do you preview before saving? I think that once you have the sections laid out, you can open, one at a time, as many secns as you end up working on, and keep the history to one save per section per editing session.
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What will we get from Munger next, the Wim Wam Bam effect? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 ( talk) 14:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Good job on that article. Having a separate venue for her exploits allows us to more closely focus on the General in his article. As it were, Lafayette's article was becoming unwieldy large. This is quite a positive development. Keep it up. Lazulilasher ( talk) 04:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Pohick: In Adrienne's descendants, I found this: Maria Rignon married Count Augusto Gazelli di Rossana e di Sebastiano. They had a daughter, Liusa Gazelli (19 May 1896 - 1989).
As you will notice, there is something wrong in the dates of Liusa Gazelli: 1896-1989 Also, is not the daughter Luisa instead of Liusa?
Cordialement, Frania W. ( talk) 16:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Pohick: My comment at Adrienne's discussion page: *Whenever I run into the French text that discusses George vs Georges spelling for LF's son, I shall bring it here. Cordialement, FW*
Frania W. ( talk) 11:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Pohick: I just went thru the whole LF article, doing some easy editing, and must go thru it again for certain details that I need to check beforehand. Cordialement, Frania W. ( talk) 00:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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thanks, now if we could just get it to FA level pohick ( talk) 22:23, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, I'm back around. What are you working on? Any momentum still over at Lafayette? Lazulilasher ( talk) 20:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Pohick2, Thank you for taking an interest and contributing to wiki article Kresimir Chris Kunej. It is my first article and was tagged for notability and citations. I am concerned that someone will in time place it for deletion so any input is welcome. Thanks again! Turqoise127 ( talk) 15:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your concern, but honestly, that review was really for the wrong Judith Tarr book -- compare it to all the other information about PoF.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 21:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I deleted the version I thought was a copyvio and moved your temp page up to be the article. Thanks for the cleanup!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 21:48, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You corrected the spelling from Stoutenberg in the James Laughlin Award article, and then "uncorrected" it. I think you were right the first time! Do you know something more? Cheers, Easchiff ( talk) 04:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I saw that you've put up a List of winners for the Wallace Stevens Award. In case you missed some of the discussion, Collectonion merged the articles that formerly existed for the prizes of the Academy back into the main article, deleting the lists of winners when she did that. There was some discussion at the WP:Poetry talk page. Editors restored the Laughlin list; I do find these lists to be valuable. For example, you'll find the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winners in the history of the article, which is currently just a redirect; see old version. I just wanted to let you know of a possible complication.
I also noted that you've created articles for the "red linked" Laughlin Awardees, which I think is great! Easchiff ( talk) 15:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
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I have blanked this article for now, as we need to clarify the copyright of the material it contains. The press releases that are quoted are not the issue. The text that begins "Alfredo De Palchi is a highly regarded poet living in New York" is the problem. Entire sentences are copied from [10]. Also, while you are quite welcome to quote Dickey and Roberts, you can't just minimally alter their presentation at that source: "The celebrated poet James Dickey found that (quote)" is clearly the source of "James Dickey found that (quote)"; "Len Roberts, another noted poet, compares De Palchi with the masters: quote)" has been blatantly truncated to "Len Roberts, compares de Palchi: (quote)" This website does not own the quotes that it has utilized, but it does own the creative structure and order of presentation. The text describing the author, including that "he has been translated into crisp and vibrant English by his longtime friend" is going to need to be completely rewritten in your own words unless you can show that this text is for some reason free for use. There are steps for doing so on the template currently blockign the article. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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I have previously contacted you with a question and you were always kind in your response, so I am addressing you again with a question. I had created the page Kresimir Chris Kunej, you contributed to it and had advised me on it. There were citation style problems and notability problems. I worked hard on the article thereafter and corrected many things. I am hoping I did enough to remove the notability and citation style tags. I contacted the editor who placed the tags on there to take a look and advise me if tags can be removed, but the person has not responded in over a month. My question is, do you think the article is now sufficient to remove those tags or not, and if tags were removed would someone be compelled to nominate for AfD? Thank you in advance for your time. Turqoise127 ( talk) 17:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for removing the notability tag on Kresimir Chris Kunej. Immediately after you did that, the editor who had originally placed the tag on had it nominated for AfD. I saw that it is tagged for rescue, I assume you did that, thank you. I was hoping I could ask you to maybe vote on the issue since when you removed the notability tag you must have seen elements of notability satisfied. The instigator of AfD nomination is I believe an influential editor with many allies, and I am just an individual with none; this is not fair. I have entered a really lengthy argument for keep to try and defend the article. I would appreciate you voting, but if you wish to not be any more involved I understand, thank you for all your help this far! Turqoise127 ( talk) 16:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
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The problem with Kresimir Chris Kunej is not that it's inadequately referenced; it's that there are no claims that even if true would lead to a presumption of notability. I like to encourage newcomers, too, when they are likely to be contributors to the project. The primary author (I should say owner) of this article shows no interest in topics beyond promoting a single topic in respect of he or she is (admittedly, though not necessarily accurately admittedly) conflicted.
Just my $0.02.
As you had been aware of this article and the AfD prior to the canvassing, I can't see any reason for you not to opine at the AfD—I certainly won't suggest offering your opinion is inappropriate (whatever it might be) should you decide to offer one.
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would you care to use the AfD process, there was an assertion of notability, winner of an award American Book Award. [11] - (perhaps i need to inclue the sentence in the lead: "this person is notable because they won an award.") Pohick2 ( talk) 12:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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i do it because i like it to look tidy :D bit OCD like that lol Monsieur le Duc LouisPhilippeCharles ( talk) 18:58, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
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I have just come across your article on the founder of the Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre, Mary O'Malley, born 1918. In the article, under 'Works', you list a series of plays. These were written by a different Mary O'Malley, born at Harrow near London in the 1940's. I was considering starting a new page for 'Mary O'Malley (playwright)’ to include these works. However, as I am a friend of her brother, Tony O'Malley (musician), I might be considered by Wikipedia as being too close to the subject and therefore not a disinterested party. I am wondering if you would consider starting a new page for this ‘Mary O'Malley (playwright)’. Conversely, as it would be fairly easy for me to contact Mary herself to get bio info, I could build the article myself. I would appreciate your input into this.
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Already exists at Nicolas Chalon du Blé - I haven't merged yet, in case you'd like to. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 17:34, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
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Once we get more respondents, then we will try to match articles tagged for rescue, with your specific interest, so you can reference those articles. Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 09:36, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts to add some sources to the Givi Alkhazishvili article. Unfortunately, the first source claims to have obtained its info from the Givi Alkhazishvili article - I doubt we can use this kind of self reference. The second source only briefly mentions Givi Alkhazishvili's work as one of the subjects of a presentation and therefore does not support the sentence about his lecturing work.
TBH, while I believe his body of work means he is notable, I have really struggled to find infomation about him online. He has an official website with a brief biography (rather poorly translated into English) and he appears to have some fans on social networking sites, but I suspect most sources will be in Georgian and I lack the language skills to do a proper search. We might be able to get some info from the article in Georgian if only we had a means to translate it. I also hope that by adding interwiki links to the English and Georgian articles, it might encourage an editor from the Georgian Wikipedia to come by with some sensible sources. Astronaut ( talk) 01:38, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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Aerica what a cool article, thanks for sharing by using that flag! Okip 12:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, do you mind if I undo this edit [14]? The reviewer makes a false assertion that is upsetting to Owens. Kevin ( talk) 21:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your intervention with Chris Agee. Although there's a fairly sour review of Scar on the Stone from Publishers Weekly reproduced at Habitus (below 1) belowhttp://astore.amazon.com/habadiajou-20/detail/1852244151, Stephen Schwartz, who certainly knows the subject, judges the importance of the anthology by the way it reflects the issues embedded in the conflict (featuring such eminent literary characters as the Shakespeare scholar Nikola Koljevic and the psychiatrist-poet Radovan Karadzic) in the contrast he draws between Abdulah Sidran and Izet Sarajlic http://webdelsol.com/CPR/Schwartz/falconers2.htm (below 2). The Sidran poem he cites goes some way to undermining the Publishers' Weekly cursory dismissal of the poems as "dubby". Schwartz judges the anthology as follows " Global attention to the Bosnian war has brought a number of other useful volumes into print in English. Perhaps the most important among such titles is The Scar On the Stone, edited by Chris Agee, which includes an excellent and representative selection of recent Bosnian poetry, much of it directly influenced by the 1992-95 war. I would recommend the book, which includes excerpts and commentaries by Mak and by Francis R. Jones, without qualification, and will only indicate two writers I believe deserve special attention, in that they represent two sides of Sarajevo literary life."
I've just had this submission rejected because supposedly it includes a link to a site on a Wikipedia blacklist, so I'll break it up for you to work out for yourself. You appear to have enough of the intelligence and discretion that a lot of Wikipedia seems inimical to to be able to work it out for yourself.
1. http: // astore .amazon .com/ habadiajou-20/ detail/ 1852244151
2. http: // webdelsol .com/ CPR/ Schwartz/ falconers2.htm
(I forgot to delete the original links but even so the loss of a leading space seems to have protected the guilty party, which appears to be the Habitus link) Opbeith ( talk) 09:59, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Another thoughtful appraisal is by Angus Calder in his "Poetry and War" review at Eurozine - "One of Hughes's last tasks before he died in 1998 was to translate six poems by Abdulah Sidran for Chris Agee's anthology Scar on the Stone; Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia. This impressive and very readable book gets several things right where they might have gone badly wrong. ..." http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2000-03-09-calder-en.html Opbeith ( talk) 10:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Pohick2. I've recreated the article. Follow the link above (section title). Thanks for your assistance and support. -- Vejvančický ( talk) 11:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
The substantive issue underlying Kevin's deletion threats is being discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons#Proposal:_Restore_.22contentious.22_to_GRAPEVINE_to_clarify_and_maintain_current_status_quo Opbeith ( talk) 10:57, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the signpost - I went along to Slowking and I was struck by it as something really quite beautiful. Then I scrolled up the article and at the top I found "This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be ...." We are all at peril. I'm glad Chris Agee was saved but it's very frustrating glimpsing all these other intriguing articles that I'm never going to have the chance to bump into by accident again. I suppose I ought to resign myself to it as part pf the constant cycle of creation and destruction, just slightly speeded up. Opbeith ( talk) 11:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Kevin's busy defending his World will be destroyed at midday unless you save it beforehand approach at his talk page. He doesn't think other people know what's best for Wikipedia, so he's saving us from ourselves. Copyright is difficult. If you keep to the information available at source you get hit for breach of copyright. If you don't you get hit for original research. Opbeith ( talk) 11:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Your article William H. Durham came up for review at WP:CP today, and I see that when you created it, here, it included the following text:
His main interests are ecology and evolution, the interactions of genetic and cultural change in human populations, and the challenges to conservation and community development in the Third World. In fieldwork, he has studied the demography, genetics, and resource management of the San Blas Kuna of Panama, the causes of land scarcity and environmental degradation in rural El Salvador and Honduras, and the social forces behind deforestation in Mexico, Central, and South America
The source says:
His main interests are ecology and evolution, the interactions of genetic and cultural change in human populations, and the challenges to conservation and community development in the Third World. In fieldwork, he has studied the demography, genetics, and resource management of the San Blas Kuna of Panama, the causes of land scarcity and environmental degradation in rural El Salvador and Honduras, and the social forces behind deforestation in Mexico, Central, and South America.
I look back to see that on October 27 2009, you created the article Maureen Owen with content very closely taken from from [15]:
She grew up training horses and traveling the Racing Fair Circuit with her family who spent their winters in California. She attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University before moving to Japan in 1965 and then to New York and Connecticut.
The source said:
Maureen Owen grew up training horses and traveling the Racing Fair Circuit with her family who spent their winters in California. She attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University before moving to Japan in 1965 and then to New York and Connecticut.
Going further back, I see 15 July 2009, close paraphrasing and direct taking from [16]. For example, the article said:
She was educated in York and Cambridge and worked as an actress in London. She spent the 1960s in Geneva but came back to England in 1970 to Peterborough, where she brought up four children, gardened and kept goats.
The source says:
Dorothy Nimmo was born in Manchester, educated in York and Cambridge and worked as an actress in London. She spent the 1960s in Geneva but came back to England in 1970 to Peterborough where she brought up four children, gardened and kept goats.
15 September 2009, close paraphrasing and direct taking from [17]. The article said:
He worked as a news reporter for the United States Army from 1954-1955 and covered atomic bomb tests in Nevada. In 1967, Zimmer began his publishing career with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and his first book, The Ribs of Death, was published. For this accomplishment he received Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Kent State University in 1968.
The source says:
he worked as a news reporter for the United States Army from 1954-1955 and covered atomic bomb tests in Nevada. In 1967, Zimmer began his publishing career with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and his first book, The Ribs of Death, was published. For this accomplishment he received Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Kent State University in 1968.
On 21 October 2009, from [18]. The article said:
Born to a recently-off-the-farm and middle-class family, Nielsen soon exhibited a proclivity for the coastal extremes. Following a family move to the nation' s capital, Nielsen spent the better part of three decades in the District of Columbia…
The source says:
Born…to a recently-off-the-farm and now middle-class family, Nielsen soon exhibited a proclivity for the coastal extremes. Following a family move to the nation ' s capital, Nielsen spent the better part of three decades in the District of …
I know that the last time we spoke about Corensearchbot’s tags, you were translating from the French and the suspected source was a Wikipedia mirror, but this does not seem to be the case in these articles. I see other Corensearchbot notices as well, some of which seem to reflect valid concerns (such as the extensive quotation removed by User:CactusWriter) and some of which do not (such as lists of publications which are not copyrightable unless they reflect human selection criteria).
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While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. The essay Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues in the future. The article Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".
You need to be careful with this in the future, as this is beginning to look like a pattern of copyright problems. The Wikimedia Foundation takes its copyright policy very seriously. Persistent copyright violators must be blocked to prevent continued issues, and the last thing we need is to lose a prolific and dedicated contributor over a misunderstanding or misapplication of copyright policy.
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None of these factors alone is sufficient to make a use fair or not fair - all of them must be considered and weighed. It's routine for courts to express degrees of acceptability or unacceptability for each factor and try to come to a summary and conclusion based on the balance.
Quotations are very well known and widely used form of fair use and fair dealing and are explicitly allowed under the Berne convention.
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Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Wikipedia_and_fair_use:
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And, while we're at it, Wikipedia:Plagiarism
If the external work is under standard copyright, then duplicating its text with little, or no, alteration into a Wikipedia article is usually a copyright violation, unless duplication is limited and clearly indicated in the article by quotation marks, or some other acceptable method (such as block quotations).
My note, previous section:
Wikipedia’s copyright policy does not permit importing previously published text unless the content can be verified to be public domain or compatibly licensed. The only exception is that you may use brief excerpts of text provided that you do so in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline, which require that quotations be plainly marked and used for defensible reasons.
When you properly quote brief excerpts, you comply with policy, and there's no problem...as I've said all along. Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:16, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
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Or we might sink in the Bermuda Triangle. :) Maurreen ( talk) 04:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Did you find those by happenstance, or do you have a system? Maurreen ( talk) 05:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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I had thought about proposing to him that any deletion drive might start with stubs -- as one idea -- I wish people with this kind of concern would or could actually focus on contentious material. But one big point is that *any* deletion should be done with deliberation, which can't be done in a hurry. Maurreen ( talk) 02:55, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution. I would like to create a 'Map showing countries that issue their passports in French'. I'm new to Wiki and don't know how to do this. Can you help me? Thanks Seanoconaill ( talk) 15:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Pohick2/Archive/ ! The template workshop is losing interest fast now that there is very little left to argue for or against.Someone said on the Arbcom that leaders would emerge, but the whole issue seems to already have too many chiefs and not enough Indians. I have now split off most of the long threads purely on policy to a new discussion page so that any policy on its implementation can be established while technical development of the template can continue in its own space. When the template functions are finalised, the policy bits can be merged into them. If you intend to continue to contribute your ideas to the development of the template or its policy of use, and I hope you will, please consider either adding your name to the list of workshop members, or joining in with the policy discussions on the new page. -- Kudpung ( talk) 07:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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I have nominated Frederick Douglass Prize, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick Douglass Prize. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
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Hi All the categories I removed were redundant. I removed (e.g.) Category:American pacifists and Category:Christian pacifists because he is already in Category:American Christian pacifists. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 14:42, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hello,
The source you site stating that Roark Bradford was presented with a Pulitzer Prize jointly with Marc Connelly must be in error. The official Pulitzer Prize website makes no mention of Bradford having won the award. And I did an extensive web search, and could find no other source that lists Bradford as a Pulitzer winner. -- Michael David ( talk) 15:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for the expansion. I thought he was italian because of this article that I'd used as a source. Please add any further comments for me to my talk page instead of my user page. -- Onorem ♠ Dil 00:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for taking the time to expand this article. It looks so much better than it did as a stub. -- Onorem ♠ Dil 14:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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I'm sorry could you be more specific? pohick203:08, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I am not an admin, so I can't restore anything. Nor did I delete anything. The copyrighted material was deleted by an admin. The material on the pages I nominated was copied word for word from the source I provided, it was not a matter of quoting Mr. Pike. Corvus cornix talk 02:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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what don't you understand about fair use? does it exist at all? Pohick2 ( talk) 02:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Copying word for word from another site is not fair use. See WP:FU. Besides which, you did not indicate where the material came from, that's a severe violation of any fair use claims you might be trying to make. Corvus cornix talk 03:07, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
did you miss the big footnote you deleted? 03:12, 6 September 2008 (UTC) i also noted reference in the talk, but you know we have an impass, if you want me to write the article you will accomodate my method of composition, otherwise fine, write it yourself. Pohick2 ( talk) 03:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Pohick - please don't add stub templates to article talk pages - they're meant to go on the articles themselves (see WP:STUB). Cheers, Grutness... wha? 00:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Pohick, thanks much for your comments at Lafayette's peer review. As per your notes, I've fleshed out the sections on the Battle of Green Spring (and a litte more about the general prelude to Yorktown), and the skirmish at Barren Hill. I was wondering if you would be able to take a look at those sections and let me know what you think after the augmentations. Regards, Lazulilasher ( talk) 23:42, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey Pohick, haven't seen you in a bit.
Just wanted to let you know what was going on with that "horrid" Lafayette (as Marie Antoinette referred to him, once. Or close. Apparently Lafayette offered aid to protect her and the Queen said she "would rather die than be saved by that horrid Lafayette"...guess she shoulda chose the horrid). Anyway, wanted to let you know I tossed in a bunch of new stuff about his involvement in the French Rev; and made that section adhere closer to a timeline. Let me know what you think, if you get a chance. Lazulilasher ( talk) 02:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, There were a couple of problems with your substantial article on Belvoir plantation.
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Well, we'll see. It's pretty unconventional to focus so much on quotes. BTW, do you preview before saving? I think that once you have the sections laid out, you can open, one at a time, as many secns as you end up working on, and keep the history to one save per section per editing session.
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What will we get from Munger next, the Wim Wam Bam effect? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 ( talk) 14:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Good job on that article. Having a separate venue for her exploits allows us to more closely focus on the General in his article. As it were, Lafayette's article was becoming unwieldy large. This is quite a positive development. Keep it up. Lazulilasher ( talk) 04:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Pohick: In Adrienne's descendants, I found this: Maria Rignon married Count Augusto Gazelli di Rossana e di Sebastiano. They had a daughter, Liusa Gazelli (19 May 1896 - 1989).
As you will notice, there is something wrong in the dates of Liusa Gazelli: 1896-1989 Also, is not the daughter Luisa instead of Liusa?
Cordialement, Frania W. ( talk) 16:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Pohick: My comment at Adrienne's discussion page: *Whenever I run into the French text that discusses George vs Georges spelling for LF's son, I shall bring it here. Cordialement, FW*
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Pohick: I just went thru the whole LF article, doing some easy editing, and must go thru it again for certain details that I need to check beforehand. Cordialement, Frania W. ( talk) 00:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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thanks, now if we could just get it to FA level pohick ( talk) 22:23, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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Dear Pohick2, Thank you for taking an interest and contributing to wiki article Kresimir Chris Kunej. It is my first article and was tagged for notability and citations. I am concerned that someone will in time place it for deletion so any input is welcome. Thanks again! Turqoise127 ( talk) 15:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your concern, but honestly, that review was really for the wrong Judith Tarr book -- compare it to all the other information about PoF.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 21:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I deleted the version I thought was a copyvio and moved your temp page up to be the article. Thanks for the cleanup!-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 21:48, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You corrected the spelling from Stoutenberg in the James Laughlin Award article, and then "uncorrected" it. I think you were right the first time! Do you know something more? Cheers, Easchiff ( talk) 04:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I saw that you've put up a List of winners for the Wallace Stevens Award. In case you missed some of the discussion, Collectonion merged the articles that formerly existed for the prizes of the Academy back into the main article, deleting the lists of winners when she did that. There was some discussion at the WP:Poetry talk page. Editors restored the Laughlin list; I do find these lists to be valuable. For example, you'll find the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winners in the history of the article, which is currently just a redirect; see old version. I just wanted to let you know of a possible complication.
I also noted that you've created articles for the "red linked" Laughlin Awardees, which I think is great! Easchiff ( talk) 15:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
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I have blanked this article for now, as we need to clarify the copyright of the material it contains. The press releases that are quoted are not the issue. The text that begins "Alfredo De Palchi is a highly regarded poet living in New York" is the problem. Entire sentences are copied from [10]. Also, while you are quite welcome to quote Dickey and Roberts, you can't just minimally alter their presentation at that source: "The celebrated poet James Dickey found that (quote)" is clearly the source of "James Dickey found that (quote)"; "Len Roberts, another noted poet, compares De Palchi with the masters: quote)" has been blatantly truncated to "Len Roberts, compares de Palchi: (quote)" This website does not own the quotes that it has utilized, but it does own the creative structure and order of presentation. The text describing the author, including that "he has been translated into crisp and vibrant English by his longtime friend" is going to need to be completely rewritten in your own words unless you can show that this text is for some reason free for use. There are steps for doing so on the template currently blockign the article. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for removing the notability tag on Kresimir Chris Kunej. Immediately after you did that, the editor who had originally placed the tag on had it nominated for AfD. I saw that it is tagged for rescue, I assume you did that, thank you. I was hoping I could ask you to maybe vote on the issue since when you removed the notability tag you must have seen elements of notability satisfied. The instigator of AfD nomination is I believe an influential editor with many allies, and I am just an individual with none; this is not fair. I have entered a really lengthy argument for keep to try and defend the article. I would appreciate you voting, but if you wish to not be any more involved I understand, thank you for all your help this far! Turqoise127 ( talk) 16:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Pohick2
The problem with Kresimir Chris Kunej is not that it's inadequately referenced; it's that there are no claims that even if true would lead to a presumption of notability. I like to encourage newcomers, too, when they are likely to be contributors to the project. The primary author (I should say owner) of this article shows no interest in topics beyond promoting a single topic in respect of he or she is (admittedly, though not necessarily accurately admittedly) conflicted.
Just my $0.02.
As you had been aware of this article and the AfD prior to the canvassing, I can't see any reason for you not to opine at the AfD—I certainly won't suggest offering your opinion is inappropriate (whatever it might be) should you decide to offer one.
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would you care to use the AfD process, there was an assertion of notability, winner of an award American Book Award. [11] - (perhaps i need to inclue the sentence in the lead: "this person is notable because they won an award.") Pohick2 ( talk) 12:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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i do it because i like it to look tidy :D bit OCD like that lol Monsieur le Duc LouisPhilippeCharles ( talk) 18:58, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
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I have just come across your article on the founder of the Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre, Mary O'Malley, born 1918. In the article, under 'Works', you list a series of plays. These were written by a different Mary O'Malley, born at Harrow near London in the 1940's. I was considering starting a new page for 'Mary O'Malley (playwright)’ to include these works. However, as I am a friend of her brother, Tony O'Malley (musician), I might be considered by Wikipedia as being too close to the subject and therefore not a disinterested party. I am wondering if you would consider starting a new page for this ‘Mary O'Malley (playwright)’. Conversely, as it would be fairly easy for me to contact Mary herself to get bio info, I could build the article myself. I would appreciate your input into this.
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Once we get more respondents, then we will try to match articles tagged for rescue, with your specific interest, so you can reference those articles. Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 09:36, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts to add some sources to the Givi Alkhazishvili article. Unfortunately, the first source claims to have obtained its info from the Givi Alkhazishvili article - I doubt we can use this kind of self reference. The second source only briefly mentions Givi Alkhazishvili's work as one of the subjects of a presentation and therefore does not support the sentence about his lecturing work.
TBH, while I believe his body of work means he is notable, I have really struggled to find infomation about him online. He has an official website with a brief biography (rather poorly translated into English) and he appears to have some fans on social networking sites, but I suspect most sources will be in Georgian and I lack the language skills to do a proper search. We might be able to get some info from the article in Georgian if only we had a means to translate it. I also hope that by adding interwiki links to the English and Georgian articles, it might encourage an editor from the Georgian Wikipedia to come by with some sensible sources. Astronaut ( talk) 01:38, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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Aerica what a cool article, thanks for sharing by using that flag! Okip 12:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, do you mind if I undo this edit [14]? The reviewer makes a false assertion that is upsetting to Owens. Kevin ( talk) 21:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your intervention with Chris Agee. Although there's a fairly sour review of Scar on the Stone from Publishers Weekly reproduced at Habitus (below 1) belowhttp://astore.amazon.com/habadiajou-20/detail/1852244151, Stephen Schwartz, who certainly knows the subject, judges the importance of the anthology by the way it reflects the issues embedded in the conflict (featuring such eminent literary characters as the Shakespeare scholar Nikola Koljevic and the psychiatrist-poet Radovan Karadzic) in the contrast he draws between Abdulah Sidran and Izet Sarajlic http://webdelsol.com/CPR/Schwartz/falconers2.htm (below 2). The Sidran poem he cites goes some way to undermining the Publishers' Weekly cursory dismissal of the poems as "dubby". Schwartz judges the anthology as follows " Global attention to the Bosnian war has brought a number of other useful volumes into print in English. Perhaps the most important among such titles is The Scar On the Stone, edited by Chris Agee, which includes an excellent and representative selection of recent Bosnian poetry, much of it directly influenced by the 1992-95 war. I would recommend the book, which includes excerpts and commentaries by Mak and by Francis R. Jones, without qualification, and will only indicate two writers I believe deserve special attention, in that they represent two sides of Sarajevo literary life."
I've just had this submission rejected because supposedly it includes a link to a site on a Wikipedia blacklist, so I'll break it up for you to work out for yourself. You appear to have enough of the intelligence and discretion that a lot of Wikipedia seems inimical to to be able to work it out for yourself.
1. http: // astore .amazon .com/ habadiajou-20/ detail/ 1852244151
2. http: // webdelsol .com/ CPR/ Schwartz/ falconers2.htm
(I forgot to delete the original links but even so the loss of a leading space seems to have protected the guilty party, which appears to be the Habitus link) Opbeith ( talk) 09:59, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Another thoughtful appraisal is by Angus Calder in his "Poetry and War" review at Eurozine - "One of Hughes's last tasks before he died in 1998 was to translate six poems by Abdulah Sidran for Chris Agee's anthology Scar on the Stone; Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia. This impressive and very readable book gets several things right where they might have gone badly wrong. ..." http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2000-03-09-calder-en.html Opbeith ( talk) 10:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Pohick2. I've recreated the article. Follow the link above (section title). Thanks for your assistance and support. -- Vejvančický ( talk) 11:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
The substantive issue underlying Kevin's deletion threats is being discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons#Proposal:_Restore_.22contentious.22_to_GRAPEVINE_to_clarify_and_maintain_current_status_quo Opbeith ( talk) 10:57, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the signpost - I went along to Slowking and I was struck by it as something really quite beautiful. Then I scrolled up the article and at the top I found "This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be ...." We are all at peril. I'm glad Chris Agee was saved but it's very frustrating glimpsing all these other intriguing articles that I'm never going to have the chance to bump into by accident again. I suppose I ought to resign myself to it as part pf the constant cycle of creation and destruction, just slightly speeded up. Opbeith ( talk) 11:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Kevin's busy defending his World will be destroyed at midday unless you save it beforehand approach at his talk page. He doesn't think other people know what's best for Wikipedia, so he's saving us from ourselves. Copyright is difficult. If you keep to the information available at source you get hit for breach of copyright. If you don't you get hit for original research. Opbeith ( talk) 11:20, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Your article William H. Durham came up for review at WP:CP today, and I see that when you created it, here, it included the following text:
His main interests are ecology and evolution, the interactions of genetic and cultural change in human populations, and the challenges to conservation and community development in the Third World. In fieldwork, he has studied the demography, genetics, and resource management of the San Blas Kuna of Panama, the causes of land scarcity and environmental degradation in rural El Salvador and Honduras, and the social forces behind deforestation in Mexico, Central, and South America
The source says:
His main interests are ecology and evolution, the interactions of genetic and cultural change in human populations, and the challenges to conservation and community development in the Third World. In fieldwork, he has studied the demography, genetics, and resource management of the San Blas Kuna of Panama, the causes of land scarcity and environmental degradation in rural El Salvador and Honduras, and the social forces behind deforestation in Mexico, Central, and South America.
I look back to see that on October 27 2009, you created the article Maureen Owen with content very closely taken from from [15]:
She grew up training horses and traveling the Racing Fair Circuit with her family who spent their winters in California. She attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University before moving to Japan in 1965 and then to New York and Connecticut.
The source said:
Maureen Owen grew up training horses and traveling the Racing Fair Circuit with her family who spent their winters in California. She attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University before moving to Japan in 1965 and then to New York and Connecticut.
Going further back, I see 15 July 2009, close paraphrasing and direct taking from [16]. For example, the article said:
She was educated in York and Cambridge and worked as an actress in London. She spent the 1960s in Geneva but came back to England in 1970 to Peterborough, where she brought up four children, gardened and kept goats.
The source says:
Dorothy Nimmo was born in Manchester, educated in York and Cambridge and worked as an actress in London. She spent the 1960s in Geneva but came back to England in 1970 to Peterborough where she brought up four children, gardened and kept goats.
15 September 2009, close paraphrasing and direct taking from [17]. The article said:
He worked as a news reporter for the United States Army from 1954-1955 and covered atomic bomb tests in Nevada. In 1967, Zimmer began his publishing career with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and his first book, The Ribs of Death, was published. For this accomplishment he received Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Kent State University in 1968.
The source says:
he worked as a news reporter for the United States Army from 1954-1955 and covered atomic bomb tests in Nevada. In 1967, Zimmer began his publishing career with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and his first book, The Ribs of Death, was published. For this accomplishment he received Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Kent State University in 1968.
On 21 October 2009, from [18]. The article said:
Born to a recently-off-the-farm and middle-class family, Nielsen soon exhibited a proclivity for the coastal extremes. Following a family move to the nation' s capital, Nielsen spent the better part of three decades in the District of Columbia…
The source says:
Born…to a recently-off-the-farm and now middle-class family, Nielsen soon exhibited a proclivity for the coastal extremes. Following a family move to the nation ' s capital, Nielsen spent the better part of three decades in the District of …
I know that the last time we spoke about Corensearchbot’s tags, you were translating from the French and the suspected source was a Wikipedia mirror, but this does not seem to be the case in these articles. I see other Corensearchbot notices as well, some of which seem to reflect valid concerns (such as the extensive quotation removed by User:CactusWriter) and some of which do not (such as lists of publications which are not copyrightable unless they reflect human selection criteria).
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While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. The essay Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues in the future. The article Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".
You need to be careful with this in the future, as this is beginning to look like a pattern of copyright problems. The Wikimedia Foundation takes its copyright policy very seriously. Persistent copyright violators must be blocked to prevent continued issues, and the last thing we need is to lose a prolific and dedicated contributor over a misunderstanding or misapplication of copyright policy.
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None of these factors alone is sufficient to make a use fair or not fair - all of them must be considered and weighed. It's routine for courts to express degrees of acceptability or unacceptability for each factor and try to come to a summary and conclusion based on the balance.
Quotations are very well known and widely used form of fair use and fair dealing and are explicitly allowed under the Berne convention.
If you produce a derivative work based on fair use, your work is a fair use work. Even if you release your changes into the public domain, the original work and fair use of it remains and the net effect is fair use. To eliminate this you must make the use of the original so insubstantial that the portion used is insufficient to be covered by copyright.
Pohick2 ( talk) 20:01, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Wikipedia_and_fair_use:
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Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea. Copyrighted text that is used verbatim must be attributed with quotation marks or other standard notation, such as block quotes. Any alterations must be clearly marked, i.e. [brackets] for added text, an ellipsis (...) for removed text, and emphasis noted after the quotation as "(emphasis added)" or "(emphasis in the original)". Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited.
And, while we're at it, Wikipedia:Plagiarism
If the external work is under standard copyright, then duplicating its text with little, or no, alteration into a Wikipedia article is usually a copyright violation, unless duplication is limited and clearly indicated in the article by quotation marks, or some other acceptable method (such as block quotations).
My note, previous section:
Wikipedia’s copyright policy does not permit importing previously published text unless the content can be verified to be public domain or compatibly licensed. The only exception is that you may use brief excerpts of text provided that you do so in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline, which require that quotations be plainly marked and used for defensible reasons.
When you properly quote brief excerpts, you comply with policy, and there's no problem...as I've said all along. Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:16, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Pohick2/Archive/!. Every attempt to rescue a Wikipedia article is a noble gesture. However, there may be occasions when, with the best will in the world, it is just not possible to accord even a minimum of notability to an article or stub, or find a proper source for it. Most regrettably, even the most dedicated inclusionists will have to concede that the article may have to go if the creator or major contributors cannot justify their work.
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Or we might sink in the Bermuda Triangle. :) Maurreen ( talk) 04:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Did you find those by happenstance, or do you have a system? Maurreen ( talk) 05:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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Doc could be a candidate on the deleter side.
I had thought about proposing to him that any deletion drive might start with stubs -- as one idea -- I wish people with this kind of concern would or could actually focus on contentious material. But one big point is that *any* deletion should be done with deliberation, which can't be done in a hurry. Maurreen ( talk) 02:55, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution. I would like to create a 'Map showing countries that issue their passports in French'. I'm new to Wiki and don't know how to do this. Can you help me? Thanks Seanoconaill ( talk) 15:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Pohick2/Archive/ ! The template workshop is losing interest fast now that there is very little left to argue for or against.Someone said on the Arbcom that leaders would emerge, but the whole issue seems to already have too many chiefs and not enough Indians. I have now split off most of the long threads purely on policy to a new discussion page so that any policy on its implementation can be established while technical development of the template can continue in its own space. When the template functions are finalised, the policy bits can be merged into them. If you intend to continue to contribute your ideas to the development of the template or its policy of use, and I hope you will, please consider either adding your name to the list of workshop members, or joining in with the policy discussions on the new page. -- Kudpung ( talk) 07:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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I have nominated Frederick Douglass Prize, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick Douglass Prize. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
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Hi All the categories I removed were redundant. I removed (e.g.) Category:American pacifists and Category:Christian pacifists because he is already in Category:American Christian pacifists. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 14:42, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hello,
The source you site stating that Roark Bradford was presented with a Pulitzer Prize jointly with Marc Connelly must be in error. The official Pulitzer Prize website makes no mention of Bradford having won the award. And I did an extensive web search, and could find no other source that lists Bradford as a Pulitzer winner. -- Michael David ( talk) 15:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC)