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Congratulations on the successful completion of User:VWBot. Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:10, 16 August 2010 (UTC) |
Thanks for verifying the OTRS. I'm concerned about your reversion to that form however. Even though it's wiki-legal now (I trusted author's claim), I had still later reverted the wholesale replacement on strictly editorial grounds. Reverting a WP:BOLD complete rewrite. Are you saying that the rewrite, "which is now usable" on OTRS grounds but needs work to fit article standard guidelines, is a better content now than what was there (which was already better MOS/etc)? DMacks ( talk) 14:06, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Take a look at this version of the page in question. I've gone over the page, and sections which I identified as copyright violations were rewritten or removed. You can see the changes through the history of that page, or in a different format at User:Jeff3000/Sandbox6. When I looked through the page looking for copyright violations, I noticed that the vast majority of the page is not referenced by the link in question, and given my changes in the version linked I do believe I have addressed most of the issues. Any remaining issues should be removed as line-items rather than a wholesale blanking of the page. Please let me know your thoughts. Regards, -- Jeff3000 ( talk) 01:57, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Look at this diff [1]. It's the last version edited by AdibMasumian, and the version just before the blanking. If you have a diff tool that is better than Wikipedia's, such as the one that comes with the popups tool, you'll notice that most of the diff is either read (meaning text is gone) or green (meaning new text is added). There is very little text that is grey meaning the text is the same. Some of those I've already removed in my edits in my sandbox, and I can remove the rest as well, but regardless my assertion is that his original text that is remaining is more original research, than anything, and has since been refereced. Regads, --- Jeff3000 ( talk) 04:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, just to remind you that if a template parameter contains an equals sign, numbered parameters must be explicitly stated, i.e. 1=something-containing-an-equals-sign=. I've therefore fixed your template here. Given your contribution history I assume you simply forgot or overlooked it, but I thought I'd let you know anyway. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 22:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thank you for the info....im a new user..still learning —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartspy ( talk • contribs) 22:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, all of the images from Conk 9 that have been moved to commons are at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files by Conk 9. I compiled that list by searching for "Conk 9" in all of commons. I don't know if there's a more technical way to getting that list. Thanks! -- GrapedApe ( talk) 03:51, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
An interesting case of Marketing process outsourcing first I declined the delete because of OTRS pending, then it was labelled spam and I deleted it without the reason being filled in. The reason would alsost certainly be because it was highly promotional of the topic. I have no prejudice against recreating the article, but as it stood there was very little worth keeping. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 22:40, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
The two additions you took down on Aug 31, 2010 will be re-submitted after editing. The appearance of copyright violation may be because I copy/pasted portions of articles I or colleagues in the field have written (with permission). —Preceding unsigned comment added by FernandoTorres ( talk • contribs) 17:59, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Restored, although I think any admin will re-delete as spam, as soon as requisite OTRS approval is added. Kimchi.sg ( talk) 04:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney. Hope all is well. If it's not too much trouble and when you have time, could you please look into the OTRS permission for a " File:RayLawrenceAndHisOrchestra.jpg"? The uploader claims to have sent an email containing permission details. Thanks in advance, FASTILY (TALK) 19:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I need the article to get off and stay off the Untagged Uncats list. I'm trying to whittle down a backlog of almost 20,000 articles, so I simply can't leave articles on it that I have to repeatedly detour around every time I try to tag a batch. Regardless of the article's content status, there's no way to keep it off that list unless it's either categorized or tagged. It's possible that there may be another solution, but I really do need to get it off the list (which is autogenerated and not editable except by actually categorizing or tagging the articles.) Bearcat ( talk) 20:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- FASTILY (TALK) 23:06, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I have referred your request to User talk:Chavando who may know more about this. Regards, JohnI ( talk) 03:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings,
Who claimed copyright to the information I posted on WIKIPEDIA regarding Way of the Warrior? The bios and information were translated from the game, and I added cast info directly as well, just like is done from movies and tv shows that are posted on wikipedia. Is this incorrect, or did someone just want to revert to the low level & bogus information on the game that has again been restored?
Drax —Preceding unsigned comment added by GirDraxa ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
But isn't the same thing done with movies and TV shows that appear here? I simply transcribed the information, same as is done with other entries. Odd that it would be so specific. But ok. I figured they'd be more likely to bash on all the cover art scans than the actual information on the game, at least the cast information wasn't 100% removed.
Ironically, it was my own work, taking quite a bit of time to compile and make it more intelligent than what was conveyed by the game. Same information conveyed just like you mention about tv shows & such, plot descriptions, biographical info each character, etc, but better written, and more detailed based on facts that come up in the game. But I understand. Only so many ways you can say the same thing, and people get edgy when it comes close to their work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GirDraxa ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
A classic modern American biker chick, Crimson Glory rides her iron horse across the paved planes of the Middle and Western United States. The only daughter in a family of 12 children, Crimson was a "tom-boy" as a child. Se showed no interest at all in dolls or other typical "girl toys" but instead took up wrestling and boxing to fill her time. It wasn't until her early teens when she started becoming a woman that the men she had hung out with started to treat her as anything but one of the boys.
Deciding that she was not going to change her ways for anyone, Crimson surmised that the best way to gain the guys respect was to beat the living hell out of them. By 22, she had done just that, one, two and often dozens at a time, in just about every sleazy bar west of the Mississippi River.
Crimson sees the competition as just another bar filled with men, and although seeing her in action has often been called "the show of a lifetime", the truly wise have always fled the bars that Crimson Glory enters.
A classic modern American biker chick, Crimson Glory rides her iron horse across the paved planes of the Middle and Western United States. The only daughter in a family of 12 children, Crimson was a "tom-boy" as a child. Se showed no interest at all in dolls or other typical "girl toys" but instead took up wrestling and boxing to fill her time. It wasn't until her early teens when she started becoming a woman that the men she had hung out with started to treat her as anything but one of the boys.
Deciding that she was not going to change her ways for anyone, Crimson surmised that the best way to gain the guys respect was to beat the living hell out of them. By 22, she had done just that, one, two and often dozens at a time, in just about every sleazy bar west of the Mississippi River.
Crimson sees the competition as just another bar filled with men, and although seeing her in action has often been called "the show of a lifetime", the truly wise have always fled the bars that Crimson Glory enters.
Oh wow, how ironic. Gamewinners.com breaks the copyright law. They have word for word copied the info pamphlet on Way of the Warrior that Naughtydog sent out back in 1996. You could get it at the time by calling their phone # for gameplay help. GirDraxa ( talk) 16:16, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this editorial I've written for Milhist to see if I've made any boneheaded errors or omissions? If you don't have time or shrink away from the length, I completely understand. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:36, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
copyvio|url=name your source}}
should be {{
subst:copyvio|url=name your source}}
. In the "When to seek admin assistance" section, just judging from my own experiences I wouldn't even mention AIV, and just direct them to ANI or a copyright admin. Finally, in "A word about CCIs" you could probably say "tens-of-thousands of articles", but that may just be discouraging...
I'm already on a bit of a break writing about something else! Flicking through hundreds of articles for infringements is not the way I'd planned to spend the weekend! Go ahead with the changes when you're ready. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) Join WikiProject Athletics! 12:59, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi boss can I ask u why this image was rejected for OTRS ticket confirmation. The email was sent regarding this image then what is the problem with this image. Please tell me. User:Anand_023 Sep 6, 5:18pm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.79.135.29 ( talk) 11:47, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you had found that the OTRS for File:Yuvan@fitnessone.jpg had insufficient permission - the uploader uploaded a new image at File:Yuvan@fitness1.jpg and I wonder whether the OTRS fits for that image instead or if another one was sent or if it's not permitted. Best Hekerui ( talk) 14:46, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any way a copyvio bot (like Coren's or The Earwig's) can run through all the articles he created and mark likely copyvios so those can be processed first? I didn't want to leave this at the AN/I thread because it was getting too long and I wanted to see if this was reasonable for a bot to process. I know User:CorenSearchBot/manual and http://toolserver.org/~earwig/cgi-bin/copyvio.py work, but it's quite slow to do one-by-one. — fetch · comms 21:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Forgive me, but I'm missing something — how do you know that it's a repost? This article appears to have started as a copy from the GFDL-only http://wikibin.org/articles/mark-weber-3.html before being significantly rewritten. I'll be happy to try to help once I understand better what's going on. Nyttend ( talk) 12:01, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with my own cleanup on Peter Shalvoy, by comparison to [2]. Can you take a look and tell me if you think I've left too much? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. You'll no doubt recall 1976 Lady Wigram Trophy. We're back with 1951 Lady Wigram Trophy. You removed the DNS listing from the prior table. Would you believe that doing so here would eliminate creativity? I have no idea what a DNS is or what would ordinarily be included in such a table. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:28, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thank you immensely. ViniTheHat ( talk) 19:32, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Sure thing, I'll do it right away. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 14:10, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Lol! That must have taken a lot of time.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 19:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've updated the information on the CycleBeads page, but there is still a warning at the top that says that this article has multiple issues. It had been changed, but perhaps we needed to notify after the changes were made so that it could be reviewed? I think the issues are all fixed, but would like feedback. Thanks, 98.233.39.135 ( talk) 17:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)Leslie
Can you take a look at this thread? You are name checked. :) Not sure if your wizardry is up to it. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you ever so much for your vigilant monitoring of the RFC request board. Especially given how much real-life things are engaging me, it is assuring to know that I have assistance. Another page you may be interested in is Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Unsorted, where RFCs either aren't categorized or are in a non-existent/misspelled category. harej 22:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. Can you give me a page number for the pdf from which William B. Langford paraphrases, por favor? As I write at the CP listing, the search function doesn't seem to be working for me. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I've re-added some of the basic information that you deleted, re-written to avoid the original editor's close paraphrasing. Take a look and see if it's OK. There are only so many ways that one can say they commission operas, are the resident ensemble at the Boston Conservatory and perform in the Zack Box Theater. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 14:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Ah, Verno,
it breaks my heart. Never mind the endless hours involved, the damage to the project is so discouraging. :( What are we going to do? </end rhetorical despairing question>
. Some days it makes me want to go curl up somewhere with a pint of ice cream and cry. :/ --
Moonriddengirl
(talk)
13:05, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, about the Tahadi Games page, I might be wrong with the way I created it.. But would it be okay if i rewrite the information? Thanks in advance, Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Violadelesseps ( talk • contribs) 10:56, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
JohnCD ( talk) 09:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
While I appreciate your efforts and contributions to wikipedia, it's certainly becoming harder and more burdensome to edit wikipedia articles. I'm not surprised wikipedians r leaving. The two sections you removed are the plot and the director's statement. I had done some rewording on the plot. I can improve this. Removing it altogether is a step in the wrong direction. The director's statement is a quote. The NFC policy isn't explicit about the length of allowable quotes ('brief' is by no means definitive). If you take a pragmatic approach and consider the essence and meaning of having a policy around quoting NFC, the idea is that people don't quote entire published articles and books that would have a significant market value, and thereby forfeit revenue for the owner of this material. For all pragmatic purposes, 6 sentences (particularly a comment about a movie rather than a piece of poetry), is unlikely to have anything other than an immaterial market value. In addition, the quote comes from " http://www.efp-online.com" which is the European Film Promotion site funded by the EU - their material is aimed to promote films, not to be sold. Having it quoted and viewed would be to their benefit.
The image I added I just copied from the original Finnish article: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:PPJ_juliste.jpg I usually screw up adding images to commons so I was expecting this. i was hoping someone would fix it up for me Utopial ( talk) 10:11, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Every day the mail man brings letters from people asking for help from pastor Jacob. Answering the letters is Jacob´s life mission, while Leila thinks it´s useless. Leila has already decided to leave the parsonage when the letters suddenly stop coming. Jacob´s life is shaken to its foundation.
Hi, Verno. I foolishly followed a link in an OTRS e-mail this morning, and my computer is loaded with viruses. In the event that I fall off the face of the planet, can you let others know? I'm meant to be compiling a list of checked articles for Uncle G's bot (I'm on page 2). I'm also creating an edit notice for pages that I've finished (see Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo 1, for example). Hopefully Webroot will be able to clean this up without downtime! :/ (Don't follow links.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:27, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Seeing as you brought it up... Could you please fix the licensing on this image? J Milburn ( talk) 15:15, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, guys. Sorry to butt in here, but I thought to fix this one myself. I thought I had found File:Hank3.jpg in the book in question, but actually I found File:Henry Grow.jpg. File:Hank3.jpg is a colorized version of the same with an expanded background. Obviously the picture is pre-1913, since the crop of it was published in 1913, but I'm not sure that I've handled the sourcing correctly.:/ What do y'all suppose I should put there? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:59, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Restored, thank you. - 2/0 ( cont.) 22:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Verno, As per your comments on the Jesus Youth wikipedia article I created, I have edited the ones that may be a copyright infringement and added only the details that I personally have acquired about the movement. So could you please check the Talk page, Talk:Jesus_Youth/Temp and confirm if it can be moved to the original page. Thanks, Jyrejoice ( talk) 12:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have written the Chord Overstreet article from scratch. I think the copyvio template can be removed now, and the page moved. Thanks! Yvesnimmo ( talk) 07:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi The material is available at the public domain and I have the permission of the author to use the material on Wikipedia. The material belongs to Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and I am one of its students.
Divyegarg ( talk) 08:41, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi vernowhitney i rewrote text at link below Talk:Richie Fitzgerald/Temp is it possible to replace it with text above thanks for you help and apologies for the hassle regards sean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sean McPhillips ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney, can you block O Fenian from edit-warring on the Giant's Causeway wp as he has been involved in vandalism. Thankyou. As for your warning, I am not sure what that is for? Factocop ( talk) 16:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
I see that you are active at WP:NFR, so perhaps you can help me. If you look at Jeff Buckley, an unfree image (with a rather sketchy source) is being used in the infobox right now. Would I be able to switch that unfree image with another unfree image from jeffbuckley.com, where I would be able to attribute the source and copyright holder properly? Nymf hideliho! 21:04, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Verno... Thanks for the heads up. I'll work on getting the permissions with correct information. Noles1984 ( talk) 13:39, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a question if I may VernoWhitney I am looking through files with old OTRS pending notices and adding no-permission notices as appropriate, some have been waiting for over a year. In some examples I find that the OTRS ticket number has been added by somebody who does not appear to be an OTRS volunteer. An example is File:Economic Simulator.png which has an OTRS ticket number added by User:DieBuche who does not appear on the list of OTRS volunteers but has added the ticket number to a number of files. Should I be concerned or assume good faith when others add the ticket number, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 15:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
… has been restored! Airplaneman ✈ 20:35, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Bot question. Here. Can you help? :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, V. You do appropriate and necessary but surely not easy WP work.
Concerning Joseph J. Spengler ( history · last edit), it looks like all that would be necessary to fix the problem is permission from Duke University to use http://web.archive.org/web/20061006120242/http://econ.duke.edu/History/Spengler/spengler.html material. (1) Is that correct? (2) The previous Edit should certainly have cited the source, whether copyrighted or not. Easy for me to say after the fact. I don't see any copyright notice at the above site. Is it a WP policy assumption that any material not expressly stated as waiving a copyright protection is presumed to be treated as though copyright protected?
I have come across another instance, the article on Ansley J. Coale, in which the article was started by citing the source used with permission at fn. 1. So, that should not be hard to come by if it is sought. I hope that the individual if s/he violated WP policy would be able to remedy the problem & intend to express sympathy on the user's page. Thank you. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 08:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm dubious about clogging your space like this, but I'd appreciate it if you (or a suggested designee) could critique (possibly with a "yes" or"no") or rewrite the following indented paragraphs as an email request.
3. I thought (2) would help, but I'd drop it if so advised.
4. I didn't get into copy vio issues, because I thought that they were unnecessary.
5. Similarly, I was not going to enclose a form b/c I thought Duke would want to do that, possibly in an email attachment. Thank you for your help. P.S. There is no urgency as to a response for an obvious reason (i.e., we're all underpaid). -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 15:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Details matter. So, your 1st sentence above helped. For the record, here's what I emailed after first contacting by phone the person at Duke I thought could help (indicating that I'd be including little identifying personal information, which conceivably might reach become public information):
"[Name, title, and address of contact person + salutation]
"I didn't know to whom best to send this, but I'm confident that you would direct this to wherever it needs to go.
"On behalf of Wikipedia, I am requesting permission from Duke University to publish content on the following site:
http://econ.duke.edu/about/history/individuals/joseph-j-spengler
Content there would be especially useful in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Spengler (currently blanked). If Duke would be willing to grant such permission to Wikipedia, a form to be completed and other details are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CONSENT with an email address of permissions-enwikimedia.org where the form could be sent. I'd also appreciate a courtesy email copy as well.
"The permission would be relative to a Wikipedia-compatible form among those green-check-listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can_I_add_something_to_Wikipedia_that_I_got_from_somewhere_else.3F with the statement there that "Only text that is licensed compatibly with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) or in the public domain can be freely copied onto Wikipedia."
"Sincerely, [My name]"
Thanks again. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 19:30, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Vernon, I still have your talk page on my watch list and hope you don't mind me butting in.;-) I created a basic stub on the temp talk page above, so at least there will be something if the article has to get deleted. But frankly, with all the palaver of getting permissions, it seems to me that the time of the editors concerned would be better spent actually re-writing the article in their own words on the temp page, with a brief quote from the Duke source (or a longer one if permission is eventually granted). The blanked version as it's currently written isn't in encyclopedic style and reads like an appreciation from colleagues (which it is) rather than a biographical article. In fact, there's very little actual biographical detail in it. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 05:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your explanations. I guess, we need a special course of practical training in Wiki, because of numerous tools that are very helpful and necessary. The simple reading of rules without practice may not be enough for good results. And I think there may be some tool that helps to arrange the editing window with tools to be uniform in all language Wikis. I will try to practice with the rule you prompted, and if I will have questions, I will ask you, if you do not mind. Thanks, -- Zara-arush ( talk) 13:05, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining. Sorry for the trouble I caused. I inserted a warning in the talk page of the new and old article immediately after my cut and paste, and I copied there the "Class B" statement. I did not know that there was a more efficient and effective way to do the job.
As far as I can remember, in the recent past I created two pages ( Five-limit tuning and Physiological cross sectional area) in which I moved only a part of other articles ( Just intonation and Pennate muscle). Since the old articles were not totally deleted, this should not be a problem.
-- Paolo.dL ( talk) 14:05, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for informing me about the fact that Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
I moved Montsant to Montsant DO because the former Montsant article was only about the wine and that was too ambitious a title for such a restricted field. The wine gets its name from the Montsant mountain region and the Montsant River in the same area. I regret the trouble that the move has caused and realize now that the talk page of the disambiguation is about the wine. Should I move it or should I leave now things as they are? Xufanc ( talk) 15:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be out of town at a conference (:P :P) this weekend, so I won't be available most of tomorrow (odds are good I'll log in before scooting out of town; if I'm running uncharacteristically late, I won't get on), all of Saturday and probably most of Sunday. I've asked User:CactusWriter and User:Mkativerata to help keep an eye on CP, so hopefully there won't be a backlog. (And maybe the open issue on that musician will close. :D) After you become an admin (and I trust you know that I plan to offer to nom you very soon), I imagine I'll be dropping it in your lap.
You know, I have to add that VWBot is not all that I'm taking for granted; I hope you never burn out this work. I can't remember how I got by without you around. Copyright cleanup on Wikipedia has had some major boosts recently (relative to my memory, which means "within the last two years or so") with new players entering the picture. You're certainly key among them. (Not to diss the old players, whose doors I knock on all the time. I couldn't get by without them either. :D) We're so lucky you decided to help us out. :) Hooray for us! -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:52, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know whether you came across what I wrote at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Dream Focus over a year ago, but it should provide some valuable background to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dream Focus (2nd nomination). The other background, stretching over many months, you've probably already read (since you've edited Wikipedia talk:Article Rescue Squadron from time to time). At this point, after endless provocation, insults and name calling, templates, user boxes, multiple deletion nominations, this is silliness and battleground mentality on both Dream Focus' and Snottywong's parts, both of whom have acted divisively and provocatively. (Remember User:Verbal/userboxes/ARSbackfire ( MfD discussion)?) I wonder whether, at this point, we have to find some way of telling them both to give it a rest, so that us peaceable grownups around here can have some respite from this constant sniping. Uncle G ( talk) 15:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I am slowly translating Spanish and Portugese sources... and have so far turned this into THIS. Has enough been done so far that perhaps your "weak keep" might become a bit stronger? Best, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 07:44, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Restored and copyright tag removed. Note that there are still tags for other issues Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:03, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Verno, you deleted a citation on the page Enterprise Content Management with the remark: 01:48, 30 September 2010 VernoWhitney (talk | contribs) (44,054 bytes) (→Characteristics: removing excessive quote in violation of WP:NFC) (undo) I just want to point out, that there was no violation of WP:NFC. The text was released by the orignal author who has all publication rights. Please review the discussion page respectivly and please restore the truncated text, because additional information got lost. Thanx. Ulrich Kampffmeyer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.182.128.2 ( talk) 16:12, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to this and one of my first pieces - Ann Olivarius - seems to have been tagged for copyright problems. However, I thought I had been very careful to cite everything I said because this is an article about a living person and needs to be referenced heavily. So, I made a point to do so but, given that there're only a few lines in the piece, it somehow came too close to this person's profile on another web site. How to resolve this? Many thanks for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pukkativa ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, yes it does! I've tried to change the section according to your comments. Thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pukkativa ( talk • contribs) 15:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
i saw ur msg i want to thank you very much this site has really helped me alot for various research work i have done or cary out once thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by El faru ( talk • contribs) 19:12, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Jsayre64 (talk) 21:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I would like to rename the article Sant Roc (Cim) as "Sant Roc d'Amer", a better title for the English Wikipedia, but I don't want to do anything wrong. What is the easiest way? Xufanc ( talk) 08:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
For your great work in Wikipedia:Ribbons Skibden ( talk) 12:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC) |
I will work on making the small ribbons, as you can see I am well on my way. As you get things sorted, I will make more ribbons. Skibden ( talk) 12:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
I'll put the deleted text here. Although the copyright has been resolved, it's not out of the woods yet. It has no wikilinks, it has no independent sources (should be difficult to find some for a boxing champ) and is written in a npov promotional style, eg This remarkable autobiography gives a unique insight. Incidentally, what autobiography? None has been mentioned. I do wonder if its worth getting OTRS for text, as opposed to images, because although copyright may be cleared, using hagiographic/promotional reviews as your text creates more problems than writing from scratch. I'll tweak the text a bit to give you some ideas, but it's not ready yet Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Done —
Malik Shabazz
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19:04, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear friend , I rewrote this Article, could you please check and let me know new situation. Thanks -- Wipeouting ( talk) 06:59, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
why don't you solve this problem -- Wipeouting ( talk) 17:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear friend, could you please see new version of this Article and let me know Best -- Wipeouting ( talk) 04:10, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I have reedited this article with out copy rights violations-- Wipeouting ( talk) 19:24, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I just happened to stumble across User:VernoWhitney/Sandbox3, and thought I'd mention that
seems to work just as well without the empty space issues. HTH, HAND. :) — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 19:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I have undeleted what was there. Its a short article and promotional in tone though so I'd have just rewrote it. — Xezbeth ( talk) 20:13, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear Ma'am, I'm trying as hard as I can to write a good article about this amazing person, Mr. Van Ronkel. Of course, my point of view cannot be 100% neutral, otherwise why would I bother writing an artice about someone? (If I wasn't interested or didn't care about the outcome.) It is 99,9% neutral.
It only "looks like an ad", but it by no means is. How does the actual statement of facts in the biography and professional field and basic enumeration of particular events makes "an article look like an advertisement"? I honestly don't understand what unacceptable can be seen in distinct statements. (It's not blatant lies or ads, imho.)
I take your comments seriously, but I don't like to be accused of posting blatant advertisements and being threatened with a speedy deletion of the material, I've put so much effort into.
I promise to improve the article, though. I'll mprove and update it when I can gather new,verified relevant information.
Thank you, Pobedochka. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pobedochka ( talk • contribs) 22:05, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
After looking at that page...
I'll see if I can rewrite it again.
But when there's a single source I find it very difficult to escape the narrative structure of that source. Usually articles begin to diverge once multiple sources are used. I intended that article to be a stub and wanted other people to expand it, but in this case I'll have to do it myself. I'll see if I can get another source and use it so that there cannot be any way that it can be interpreted as "close paraphrasing"
WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:08, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Donaldson has a death row, with a capacity of 24 prisoners, for condemned prisoners who need to be incarcerated in the Birmingham judicial area.
Donaldson has a death row with a capacity for 24 inmates that need to be incarcerated in the Birmingham judicial area.
Alright, please look at User:WhisperToMe/Donaldson WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:23, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I did oopen a talk page discussion here, although it wasn't followed up on. Which is fine with me - the article seems stable. Faustian ( talk) 13:06, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The goal of this article is to simply identify the tea museum; therefore I think the simplest thing to do is to re-write. Wrote a new article without infringing material, follow this link to the temporary subpage. icetea8 ( talk) 14:51, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for this [3], for some weird reason i have been unable to open any pages for about half an hour mark nutley ( talk) 19:39, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Please look here, you might also be able to help: User_talk:SMasters#Ribbon_merge.. Skibden ( talk) 14:20, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Re. [4] - fair enough, but should the BLP-PROD still apply too?
Noting that I tagged it previously as G11 and it was deleted [5], then recreated...I'm just concerned that it might hang around forever.
It's probably A7 too.
Anyway - no worries; I just wanted to mention it because I was checking things I had CSD'd. Cheers, Chzz ► 07:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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I work for the company who's page this is and I have permission to copy and past from their websites history page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawhorn's Seasonings ( talk • contribs) 22:52, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello VernoWhitney in my efforts to challenge a lot of the images pending otrs permission most have been deleted or sorted out but deleted image File:Mick keith money1.jpg has been re-uploaded with a text of an email sent into otrs with an acknowledgement email and number out from the OTRS system Ticket#2009111610003902. Any chance of checking this for me please. Thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 13:51, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. Is there anything you know of to help identify the age of [6]? At this writing, Wayback is being spectacularly uncooperative with me, and I would prefer to resolve the question of copyright provenance clearly at Asset Management Plan if I can rather than dropping a notice on the contributor. I've had to delete one of his articles because I could not verify that we had it first, but I will be surprised if this fellow has used any content on Wikipedia that he did not author himself, even if published elsewhere first. Mind you, it wouldn't be the first time I've been surprised. But still and all, I'd rather not drop a second issue on his lap before he's even read about the first issue if it can be avoided. (This is in regards the lingering issue from Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 October 1.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:41, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
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Congratulations on the successful completion of User:VWBot. Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:10, 16 August 2010 (UTC) |
Thanks for verifying the OTRS. I'm concerned about your reversion to that form however. Even though it's wiki-legal now (I trusted author's claim), I had still later reverted the wholesale replacement on strictly editorial grounds. Reverting a WP:BOLD complete rewrite. Are you saying that the rewrite, "which is now usable" on OTRS grounds but needs work to fit article standard guidelines, is a better content now than what was there (which was already better MOS/etc)? DMacks ( talk) 14:06, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Take a look at this version of the page in question. I've gone over the page, and sections which I identified as copyright violations were rewritten or removed. You can see the changes through the history of that page, or in a different format at User:Jeff3000/Sandbox6. When I looked through the page looking for copyright violations, I noticed that the vast majority of the page is not referenced by the link in question, and given my changes in the version linked I do believe I have addressed most of the issues. Any remaining issues should be removed as line-items rather than a wholesale blanking of the page. Please let me know your thoughts. Regards, -- Jeff3000 ( talk) 01:57, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Look at this diff [1]. It's the last version edited by AdibMasumian, and the version just before the blanking. If you have a diff tool that is better than Wikipedia's, such as the one that comes with the popups tool, you'll notice that most of the diff is either read (meaning text is gone) or green (meaning new text is added). There is very little text that is grey meaning the text is the same. Some of those I've already removed in my edits in my sandbox, and I can remove the rest as well, but regardless my assertion is that his original text that is remaining is more original research, than anything, and has since been refereced. Regads, --- Jeff3000 ( talk) 04:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, just to remind you that if a template parameter contains an equals sign, numbered parameters must be explicitly stated, i.e. 1=something-containing-an-equals-sign=. I've therefore fixed your template here. Given your contribution history I assume you simply forgot or overlooked it, but I thought I'd let you know anyway. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 22:28, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thank you for the info....im a new user..still learning —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartspy ( talk • contribs) 22:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, all of the images from Conk 9 that have been moved to commons are at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files by Conk 9. I compiled that list by searching for "Conk 9" in all of commons. I don't know if there's a more technical way to getting that list. Thanks! -- GrapedApe ( talk) 03:51, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
An interesting case of Marketing process outsourcing first I declined the delete because of OTRS pending, then it was labelled spam and I deleted it without the reason being filled in. The reason would alsost certainly be because it was highly promotional of the topic. I have no prejudice against recreating the article, but as it stood there was very little worth keeping. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 22:40, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
The two additions you took down on Aug 31, 2010 will be re-submitted after editing. The appearance of copyright violation may be because I copy/pasted portions of articles I or colleagues in the field have written (with permission). —Preceding unsigned comment added by FernandoTorres ( talk • contribs) 17:59, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Restored, although I think any admin will re-delete as spam, as soon as requisite OTRS approval is added. Kimchi.sg ( talk) 04:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney. Hope all is well. If it's not too much trouble and when you have time, could you please look into the OTRS permission for a " File:RayLawrenceAndHisOrchestra.jpg"? The uploader claims to have sent an email containing permission details. Thanks in advance, FASTILY (TALK) 19:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I need the article to get off and stay off the Untagged Uncats list. I'm trying to whittle down a backlog of almost 20,000 articles, so I simply can't leave articles on it that I have to repeatedly detour around every time I try to tag a batch. Regardless of the article's content status, there's no way to keep it off that list unless it's either categorized or tagged. It's possible that there may be another solution, but I really do need to get it off the list (which is autogenerated and not editable except by actually categorizing or tagging the articles.) Bearcat ( talk) 20:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- FASTILY (TALK) 23:06, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I have referred your request to User talk:Chavando who may know more about this. Regards, JohnI ( talk) 03:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings,
Who claimed copyright to the information I posted on WIKIPEDIA regarding Way of the Warrior? The bios and information were translated from the game, and I added cast info directly as well, just like is done from movies and tv shows that are posted on wikipedia. Is this incorrect, or did someone just want to revert to the low level & bogus information on the game that has again been restored?
Drax —Preceding unsigned comment added by GirDraxa ( talk • contribs) 17:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
But isn't the same thing done with movies and TV shows that appear here? I simply transcribed the information, same as is done with other entries. Odd that it would be so specific. But ok. I figured they'd be more likely to bash on all the cover art scans than the actual information on the game, at least the cast information wasn't 100% removed.
Ironically, it was my own work, taking quite a bit of time to compile and make it more intelligent than what was conveyed by the game. Same information conveyed just like you mention about tv shows & such, plot descriptions, biographical info each character, etc, but better written, and more detailed based on facts that come up in the game. But I understand. Only so many ways you can say the same thing, and people get edgy when it comes close to their work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GirDraxa ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
A classic modern American biker chick, Crimson Glory rides her iron horse across the paved planes of the Middle and Western United States. The only daughter in a family of 12 children, Crimson was a "tom-boy" as a child. Se showed no interest at all in dolls or other typical "girl toys" but instead took up wrestling and boxing to fill her time. It wasn't until her early teens when she started becoming a woman that the men she had hung out with started to treat her as anything but one of the boys.
Deciding that she was not going to change her ways for anyone, Crimson surmised that the best way to gain the guys respect was to beat the living hell out of them. By 22, she had done just that, one, two and often dozens at a time, in just about every sleazy bar west of the Mississippi River.
Crimson sees the competition as just another bar filled with men, and although seeing her in action has often been called "the show of a lifetime", the truly wise have always fled the bars that Crimson Glory enters.
A classic modern American biker chick, Crimson Glory rides her iron horse across the paved planes of the Middle and Western United States. The only daughter in a family of 12 children, Crimson was a "tom-boy" as a child. Se showed no interest at all in dolls or other typical "girl toys" but instead took up wrestling and boxing to fill her time. It wasn't until her early teens when she started becoming a woman that the men she had hung out with started to treat her as anything but one of the boys.
Deciding that she was not going to change her ways for anyone, Crimson surmised that the best way to gain the guys respect was to beat the living hell out of them. By 22, she had done just that, one, two and often dozens at a time, in just about every sleazy bar west of the Mississippi River.
Crimson sees the competition as just another bar filled with men, and although seeing her in action has often been called "the show of a lifetime", the truly wise have always fled the bars that Crimson Glory enters.
Oh wow, how ironic. Gamewinners.com breaks the copyright law. They have word for word copied the info pamphlet on Way of the Warrior that Naughtydog sent out back in 1996. You could get it at the time by calling their phone # for gameplay help. GirDraxa ( talk) 16:16, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this editorial I've written for Milhist to see if I've made any boneheaded errors or omissions? If you don't have time or shrink away from the length, I completely understand. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:36, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
copyvio|url=name your source}}
should be {{
subst:copyvio|url=name your source}}
. In the "When to seek admin assistance" section, just judging from my own experiences I wouldn't even mention AIV, and just direct them to ANI or a copyright admin. Finally, in "A word about CCIs" you could probably say "tens-of-thousands of articles", but that may just be discouraging...
I'm already on a bit of a break writing about something else! Flicking through hundreds of articles for infringements is not the way I'd planned to spend the weekend! Go ahead with the changes when you're ready. Sillyfolkboy ( talk) ( edits) Join WikiProject Athletics! 12:59, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi boss can I ask u why this image was rejected for OTRS ticket confirmation. The email was sent regarding this image then what is the problem with this image. Please tell me. User:Anand_023 Sep 6, 5:18pm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.79.135.29 ( talk) 11:47, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you had found that the OTRS for File:Yuvan@fitnessone.jpg had insufficient permission - the uploader uploaded a new image at File:Yuvan@fitness1.jpg and I wonder whether the OTRS fits for that image instead or if another one was sent or if it's not permitted. Best Hekerui ( talk) 14:46, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any way a copyvio bot (like Coren's or The Earwig's) can run through all the articles he created and mark likely copyvios so those can be processed first? I didn't want to leave this at the AN/I thread because it was getting too long and I wanted to see if this was reasonable for a bot to process. I know User:CorenSearchBot/manual and http://toolserver.org/~earwig/cgi-bin/copyvio.py work, but it's quite slow to do one-by-one. — fetch · comms 21:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Forgive me, but I'm missing something — how do you know that it's a repost? This article appears to have started as a copy from the GFDL-only http://wikibin.org/articles/mark-weber-3.html before being significantly rewritten. I'll be happy to try to help once I understand better what's going on. Nyttend ( talk) 12:01, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with my own cleanup on Peter Shalvoy, by comparison to [2]. Can you take a look and tell me if you think I've left too much? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. You'll no doubt recall 1976 Lady Wigram Trophy. We're back with 1951 Lady Wigram Trophy. You removed the DNS listing from the prior table. Would you believe that doing so here would eliminate creativity? I have no idea what a DNS is or what would ordinarily be included in such a table. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:28, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thank you immensely. ViniTheHat ( talk) 19:32, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Sure thing, I'll do it right away. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 14:10, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Lol! That must have taken a lot of time.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 19:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've updated the information on the CycleBeads page, but there is still a warning at the top that says that this article has multiple issues. It had been changed, but perhaps we needed to notify after the changes were made so that it could be reviewed? I think the issues are all fixed, but would like feedback. Thanks, 98.233.39.135 ( talk) 17:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)Leslie
Can you take a look at this thread? You are name checked. :) Not sure if your wizardry is up to it. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you ever so much for your vigilant monitoring of the RFC request board. Especially given how much real-life things are engaging me, it is assuring to know that I have assistance. Another page you may be interested in is Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Unsorted, where RFCs either aren't categorized or are in a non-existent/misspelled category. harej 22:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. Can you give me a page number for the pdf from which William B. Langford paraphrases, por favor? As I write at the CP listing, the search function doesn't seem to be working for me. :/ -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I've re-added some of the basic information that you deleted, re-written to avoid the original editor's close paraphrasing. Take a look and see if it's OK. There are only so many ways that one can say they commission operas, are the resident ensemble at the Boston Conservatory and perform in the Zack Box Theater. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 14:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Ah, Verno,
it breaks my heart. Never mind the endless hours involved, the damage to the project is so discouraging. :( What are we going to do? </end rhetorical despairing question>
. Some days it makes me want to go curl up somewhere with a pint of ice cream and cry. :/ --
Moonriddengirl
(talk)
13:05, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, about the Tahadi Games page, I might be wrong with the way I created it.. But would it be okay if i rewrite the information? Thanks in advance, Regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Violadelesseps ( talk • contribs) 10:56, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
JohnCD ( talk) 09:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
While I appreciate your efforts and contributions to wikipedia, it's certainly becoming harder and more burdensome to edit wikipedia articles. I'm not surprised wikipedians r leaving. The two sections you removed are the plot and the director's statement. I had done some rewording on the plot. I can improve this. Removing it altogether is a step in the wrong direction. The director's statement is a quote. The NFC policy isn't explicit about the length of allowable quotes ('brief' is by no means definitive). If you take a pragmatic approach and consider the essence and meaning of having a policy around quoting NFC, the idea is that people don't quote entire published articles and books that would have a significant market value, and thereby forfeit revenue for the owner of this material. For all pragmatic purposes, 6 sentences (particularly a comment about a movie rather than a piece of poetry), is unlikely to have anything other than an immaterial market value. In addition, the quote comes from " http://www.efp-online.com" which is the European Film Promotion site funded by the EU - their material is aimed to promote films, not to be sold. Having it quoted and viewed would be to their benefit.
The image I added I just copied from the original Finnish article: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:PPJ_juliste.jpg I usually screw up adding images to commons so I was expecting this. i was hoping someone would fix it up for me Utopial ( talk) 10:11, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Every day the mail man brings letters from people asking for help from pastor Jacob. Answering the letters is Jacob´s life mission, while Leila thinks it´s useless. Leila has already decided to leave the parsonage when the letters suddenly stop coming. Jacob´s life is shaken to its foundation.
Hi, Verno. I foolishly followed a link in an OTRS e-mail this morning, and my computer is loaded with viruses. In the event that I fall off the face of the planet, can you let others know? I'm meant to be compiling a list of checked articles for Uncle G's bot (I'm on page 2). I'm also creating an edit notice for pages that I've finished (see Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Darius Dhlomo 1, for example). Hopefully Webroot will be able to clean this up without downtime! :/ (Don't follow links.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:27, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Seeing as you brought it up... Could you please fix the licensing on this image? J Milburn ( talk) 15:15, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, guys. Sorry to butt in here, but I thought to fix this one myself. I thought I had found File:Hank3.jpg in the book in question, but actually I found File:Henry Grow.jpg. File:Hank3.jpg is a colorized version of the same with an expanded background. Obviously the picture is pre-1913, since the crop of it was published in 1913, but I'm not sure that I've handled the sourcing correctly.:/ What do y'all suppose I should put there? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:59, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Restored, thank you. - 2/0 ( cont.) 22:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Verno, As per your comments on the Jesus Youth wikipedia article I created, I have edited the ones that may be a copyright infringement and added only the details that I personally have acquired about the movement. So could you please check the Talk page, Talk:Jesus_Youth/Temp and confirm if it can be moved to the original page. Thanks, Jyrejoice ( talk) 12:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have written the Chord Overstreet article from scratch. I think the copyvio template can be removed now, and the page moved. Thanks! Yvesnimmo ( talk) 07:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi The material is available at the public domain and I have the permission of the author to use the material on Wikipedia. The material belongs to Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and I am one of its students.
Divyegarg ( talk) 08:41, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi vernowhitney i rewrote text at link below Talk:Richie Fitzgerald/Temp is it possible to replace it with text above thanks for you help and apologies for the hassle regards sean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sean McPhillips ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney, can you block O Fenian from edit-warring on the Giant's Causeway wp as he has been involved in vandalism. Thankyou. As for your warning, I am not sure what that is for? Factocop ( talk) 16:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
I see that you are active at WP:NFR, so perhaps you can help me. If you look at Jeff Buckley, an unfree image (with a rather sketchy source) is being used in the infobox right now. Would I be able to switch that unfree image with another unfree image from jeffbuckley.com, where I would be able to attribute the source and copyright holder properly? Nymf hideliho! 21:04, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Verno... Thanks for the heads up. I'll work on getting the permissions with correct information. Noles1984 ( talk) 13:39, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a question if I may VernoWhitney I am looking through files with old OTRS pending notices and adding no-permission notices as appropriate, some have been waiting for over a year. In some examples I find that the OTRS ticket number has been added by somebody who does not appear to be an OTRS volunteer. An example is File:Economic Simulator.png which has an OTRS ticket number added by User:DieBuche who does not appear on the list of OTRS volunteers but has added the ticket number to a number of files. Should I be concerned or assume good faith when others add the ticket number, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 15:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
… has been restored! Airplaneman ✈ 20:35, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Bot question. Here. Can you help? :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, V. You do appropriate and necessary but surely not easy WP work.
Concerning Joseph J. Spengler ( history · last edit), it looks like all that would be necessary to fix the problem is permission from Duke University to use http://web.archive.org/web/20061006120242/http://econ.duke.edu/History/Spengler/spengler.html material. (1) Is that correct? (2) The previous Edit should certainly have cited the source, whether copyrighted or not. Easy for me to say after the fact. I don't see any copyright notice at the above site. Is it a WP policy assumption that any material not expressly stated as waiving a copyright protection is presumed to be treated as though copyright protected?
I have come across another instance, the article on Ansley J. Coale, in which the article was started by citing the source used with permission at fn. 1. So, that should not be hard to come by if it is sought. I hope that the individual if s/he violated WP policy would be able to remedy the problem & intend to express sympathy on the user's page. Thank you. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 08:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm dubious about clogging your space like this, but I'd appreciate it if you (or a suggested designee) could critique (possibly with a "yes" or"no") or rewrite the following indented paragraphs as an email request.
3. I thought (2) would help, but I'd drop it if so advised.
4. I didn't get into copy vio issues, because I thought that they were unnecessary.
5. Similarly, I was not going to enclose a form b/c I thought Duke would want to do that, possibly in an email attachment. Thank you for your help. P.S. There is no urgency as to a response for an obvious reason (i.e., we're all underpaid). -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 15:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Details matter. So, your 1st sentence above helped. For the record, here's what I emailed after first contacting by phone the person at Duke I thought could help (indicating that I'd be including little identifying personal information, which conceivably might reach become public information):
"[Name, title, and address of contact person + salutation]
"I didn't know to whom best to send this, but I'm confident that you would direct this to wherever it needs to go.
"On behalf of Wikipedia, I am requesting permission from Duke University to publish content on the following site:
http://econ.duke.edu/about/history/individuals/joseph-j-spengler
Content there would be especially useful in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Spengler (currently blanked). If Duke would be willing to grant such permission to Wikipedia, a form to be completed and other details are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CONSENT with an email address of permissions-enwikimedia.org where the form could be sent. I'd also appreciate a courtesy email copy as well.
"The permission would be relative to a Wikipedia-compatible form among those green-check-listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can_I_add_something_to_Wikipedia_that_I_got_from_somewhere_else.3F with the statement there that "Only text that is licensed compatibly with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) or in the public domain can be freely copied onto Wikipedia."
"Sincerely, [My name]"
Thanks again. -- Thomasmeeks ( talk) 19:30, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Vernon, I still have your talk page on my watch list and hope you don't mind me butting in.;-) I created a basic stub on the temp talk page above, so at least there will be something if the article has to get deleted. But frankly, with all the palaver of getting permissions, it seems to me that the time of the editors concerned would be better spent actually re-writing the article in their own words on the temp page, with a brief quote from the Duke source (or a longer one if permission is eventually granted). The blanked version as it's currently written isn't in encyclopedic style and reads like an appreciation from colleagues (which it is) rather than a biographical article. In fact, there's very little actual biographical detail in it. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 05:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your explanations. I guess, we need a special course of practical training in Wiki, because of numerous tools that are very helpful and necessary. The simple reading of rules without practice may not be enough for good results. And I think there may be some tool that helps to arrange the editing window with tools to be uniform in all language Wikis. I will try to practice with the rule you prompted, and if I will have questions, I will ask you, if you do not mind. Thanks, -- Zara-arush ( talk) 13:05, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining. Sorry for the trouble I caused. I inserted a warning in the talk page of the new and old article immediately after my cut and paste, and I copied there the "Class B" statement. I did not know that there was a more efficient and effective way to do the job.
As far as I can remember, in the recent past I created two pages ( Five-limit tuning and Physiological cross sectional area) in which I moved only a part of other articles ( Just intonation and Pennate muscle). Since the old articles were not totally deleted, this should not be a problem.
-- Paolo.dL ( talk) 14:05, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for informing me about the fact that Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
I moved Montsant to Montsant DO because the former Montsant article was only about the wine and that was too ambitious a title for such a restricted field. The wine gets its name from the Montsant mountain region and the Montsant River in the same area. I regret the trouble that the move has caused and realize now that the talk page of the disambiguation is about the wine. Should I move it or should I leave now things as they are? Xufanc ( talk) 15:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be out of town at a conference (:P :P) this weekend, so I won't be available most of tomorrow (odds are good I'll log in before scooting out of town; if I'm running uncharacteristically late, I won't get on), all of Saturday and probably most of Sunday. I've asked User:CactusWriter and User:Mkativerata to help keep an eye on CP, so hopefully there won't be a backlog. (And maybe the open issue on that musician will close. :D) After you become an admin (and I trust you know that I plan to offer to nom you very soon), I imagine I'll be dropping it in your lap.
You know, I have to add that VWBot is not all that I'm taking for granted; I hope you never burn out this work. I can't remember how I got by without you around. Copyright cleanup on Wikipedia has had some major boosts recently (relative to my memory, which means "within the last two years or so") with new players entering the picture. You're certainly key among them. (Not to diss the old players, whose doors I knock on all the time. I couldn't get by without them either. :D) We're so lucky you decided to help us out. :) Hooray for us! -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:52, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I don't know whether you came across what I wrote at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Dream Focus over a year ago, but it should provide some valuable background to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dream Focus (2nd nomination). The other background, stretching over many months, you've probably already read (since you've edited Wikipedia talk:Article Rescue Squadron from time to time). At this point, after endless provocation, insults and name calling, templates, user boxes, multiple deletion nominations, this is silliness and battleground mentality on both Dream Focus' and Snottywong's parts, both of whom have acted divisively and provocatively. (Remember User:Verbal/userboxes/ARSbackfire ( MfD discussion)?) I wonder whether, at this point, we have to find some way of telling them both to give it a rest, so that us peaceable grownups around here can have some respite from this constant sniping. Uncle G ( talk) 15:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
I am slowly translating Spanish and Portugese sources... and have so far turned this into THIS. Has enough been done so far that perhaps your "weak keep" might become a bit stronger? Best, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 07:44, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Restored and copyright tag removed. Note that there are still tags for other issues Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:03, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Verno, you deleted a citation on the page Enterprise Content Management with the remark: 01:48, 30 September 2010 VernoWhitney (talk | contribs) (44,054 bytes) (→Characteristics: removing excessive quote in violation of WP:NFC) (undo) I just want to point out, that there was no violation of WP:NFC. The text was released by the orignal author who has all publication rights. Please review the discussion page respectivly and please restore the truncated text, because additional information got lost. Thanx. Ulrich Kampffmeyer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.182.128.2 ( talk) 16:12, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to this and one of my first pieces - Ann Olivarius - seems to have been tagged for copyright problems. However, I thought I had been very careful to cite everything I said because this is an article about a living person and needs to be referenced heavily. So, I made a point to do so but, given that there're only a few lines in the piece, it somehow came too close to this person's profile on another web site. How to resolve this? Many thanks for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pukkativa ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, yes it does! I've tried to change the section according to your comments. Thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pukkativa ( talk • contribs) 15:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
i saw ur msg i want to thank you very much this site has really helped me alot for various research work i have done or cary out once thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by El faru ( talk • contribs) 19:12, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Jsayre64 (talk) 21:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I would like to rename the article Sant Roc (Cim) as "Sant Roc d'Amer", a better title for the English Wikipedia, but I don't want to do anything wrong. What is the easiest way? Xufanc ( talk) 08:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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For your great work in Wikipedia:Ribbons Skibden ( talk) 12:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC) |
I will work on making the small ribbons, as you can see I am well on my way. As you get things sorted, I will make more ribbons. Skibden ( talk) 12:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
I'll put the deleted text here. Although the copyright has been resolved, it's not out of the woods yet. It has no wikilinks, it has no independent sources (should be difficult to find some for a boxing champ) and is written in a npov promotional style, eg This remarkable autobiography gives a unique insight. Incidentally, what autobiography? None has been mentioned. I do wonder if its worth getting OTRS for text, as opposed to images, because although copyright may be cleared, using hagiographic/promotional reviews as your text creates more problems than writing from scratch. I'll tweak the text a bit to give you some ideas, but it's not ready yet Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Done —
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Dear friend , I rewrote this Article, could you please check and let me know new situation. Thanks -- Wipeouting ( talk) 06:59, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
why don't you solve this problem -- Wipeouting ( talk) 17:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear friend, could you please see new version of this Article and let me know Best -- Wipeouting ( talk) 04:10, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I have reedited this article with out copy rights violations-- Wipeouting ( talk) 19:24, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I just happened to stumble across User:VernoWhitney/Sandbox3, and thought I'd mention that
seems to work just as well without the empty space issues. HTH, HAND. :) — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 19:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I have undeleted what was there. Its a short article and promotional in tone though so I'd have just rewrote it. — Xezbeth ( talk) 20:13, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Dear Ma'am, I'm trying as hard as I can to write a good article about this amazing person, Mr. Van Ronkel. Of course, my point of view cannot be 100% neutral, otherwise why would I bother writing an artice about someone? (If I wasn't interested or didn't care about the outcome.) It is 99,9% neutral.
It only "looks like an ad", but it by no means is. How does the actual statement of facts in the biography and professional field and basic enumeration of particular events makes "an article look like an advertisement"? I honestly don't understand what unacceptable can be seen in distinct statements. (It's not blatant lies or ads, imho.)
I take your comments seriously, but I don't like to be accused of posting blatant advertisements and being threatened with a speedy deletion of the material, I've put so much effort into.
I promise to improve the article, though. I'll mprove and update it when I can gather new,verified relevant information.
Thank you, Pobedochka. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pobedochka ( talk • contribs) 22:05, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
After looking at that page...
I'll see if I can rewrite it again.
But when there's a single source I find it very difficult to escape the narrative structure of that source. Usually articles begin to diverge once multiple sources are used. I intended that article to be a stub and wanted other people to expand it, but in this case I'll have to do it myself. I'll see if I can get another source and use it so that there cannot be any way that it can be interpreted as "close paraphrasing"
WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:08, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Donaldson has a death row, with a capacity of 24 prisoners, for condemned prisoners who need to be incarcerated in the Birmingham judicial area.
Donaldson has a death row with a capacity for 24 inmates that need to be incarcerated in the Birmingham judicial area.
Alright, please look at User:WhisperToMe/Donaldson WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:23, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I did oopen a talk page discussion here, although it wasn't followed up on. Which is fine with me - the article seems stable. Faustian ( talk) 13:06, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The goal of this article is to simply identify the tea museum; therefore I think the simplest thing to do is to re-write. Wrote a new article without infringing material, follow this link to the temporary subpage. icetea8 ( talk) 14:51, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for this [3], for some weird reason i have been unable to open any pages for about half an hour mark nutley ( talk) 19:39, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Please look here, you might also be able to help: User_talk:SMasters#Ribbon_merge.. Skibden ( talk) 14:20, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Re. [4] - fair enough, but should the BLP-PROD still apply too?
Noting that I tagged it previously as G11 and it was deleted [5], then recreated...I'm just concerned that it might hang around forever.
It's probably A7 too.
Anyway - no worries; I just wanted to mention it because I was checking things I had CSD'd. Cheers, Chzz ► 07:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
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For your great work in AFD I award you this barnstar. Many editors base their AFD votes on what others voted, but you take your votes case by case, being neither a deletionist or a inclusionist. I applaud that. Thank you for your work. Alpha Quadrant talk 18:28, 11 October 2010 (UTC) |
I work for the company who's page this is and I have permission to copy and past from their websites history page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawhorn's Seasonings ( talk • contribs) 22:52, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello VernoWhitney in my efforts to challenge a lot of the images pending otrs permission most have been deleted or sorted out but deleted image File:Mick keith money1.jpg has been re-uploaded with a text of an email sent into otrs with an acknowledgement email and number out from the OTRS system Ticket#2009111610003902. Any chance of checking this for me please. Thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 13:51, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. Is there anything you know of to help identify the age of [6]? At this writing, Wayback is being spectacularly uncooperative with me, and I would prefer to resolve the question of copyright provenance clearly at Asset Management Plan if I can rather than dropping a notice on the contributor. I've had to delete one of his articles because I could not verify that we had it first, but I will be surprised if this fellow has used any content on Wikipedia that he did not author himself, even if published elsewhere first. Mind you, it wouldn't be the first time I've been surprised. But still and all, I'd rather not drop a second issue on his lap before he's even read about the first issue if it can be avoided. (This is in regards the lingering issue from Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 October 1.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:41, 13 October 2010 (UTC)