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Usually, a big, unwikied article under an implausible title tends to raise red flags to me. If you think it isn't a copyvio, I can put it back. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 21:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Every single report I've filed and confirmed on this user have all been Miami Heat related content.. So just going by his track record, I wholeheartedly believe that it's a copyright violation. -- ĴoeĴohnson| 2 21:36, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you have restored that article. Could it be possible to restore the Discussion page which has been deleted as well. Thanks and nice vacations. Hektor ( talk) 19:15, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
The Mistagged BLP Cleanup Barnstar | |
This
barnstar does not
cite any
references or sources.[1][2][3] For your work with mistagged BLPs, thank you! The list is now empty with your help. Gigs ( talk) 05:43, 22 December 2010 (UTC) |
Thanks! I'm sorry I lost track of it and didn't help out more. VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:20, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
I hereby affirm that Michael Bach the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Bach.shtml
I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
Michael Bach Dec. 22, 2010 <email redacted for privacy> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierre201012 ( talk • contribs) 15:08, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
OK
It is already sent by Michael Bach.
Pierre — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierre201012 ( talk • contribs) 15:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
I saw you checked this one and cleared it. It has been bugging me. When I decide to start a short biography, I naturally check to see if there is already a short biography of the subject somewhere - an obituary, encyclopedia entry or other article on the subject - and if so use the facts in it for the outline. If there is no such outline, the subject may not be noteworthy. If there is, it will give the standard basic information: date/place of birth, parents, education, positions held, achievements, spouse and children, death: the framework. These are, to me, mere facts and not subject to copyright. Then I dig around for other sources to add detail and color. I try to think about what I have read and state it in my own words, but it can sometimes be difficult to avoid close similarity to the original:
These variants are all bound to be very similar to the original, but to me they just express a fact, which cannot be subject to copyright. If I am doing a short "who's who" type of bio, it is hard to avoid considerable similarity to other short "who's who" bios of the same subject. I can see copyright violations if the article repeats unusual phrases or opinions from the source, but if it just restates the facts, I can't see the problem. I have read the standard WP essays on the subject, but it is still not clear to me how to avoid considerable similarity to the sources on short, factual bios. Thoughts? Aymatth2 ( talk) 02:07, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
and http://football.sport.ua/news/87878 Чемпіонат штату Вікторія: 1956 року в 4-му дивізіоні штату (чемпіонат міста Мельбурн) з'явився УСК (Український спортивний клуб) «Леви» (Мельбурн). 1959-го, після реорганізації, УСК «Леви» брав участь у 2-му дивізіоні, тоді як у 4-му дивізіоні з'явилася інша команда нашої діаспори — УСК «Тризуб». У 1961 — 1965 роках УСК «Тризуб» змагався в 3-му дивізіоні, а УСК «Леви» став переможцем 2-го. У 1962— 1971,1977 роках УСК «Леви» брав участь у 1-му дивізіоні штату Вікторія, але в призерах не був, найвище 5-е місце посів 1968-го. 1978 року УСК «Леви» розпався. Bogic ( talk) 20:12, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I leave message for you here. -- Ppiminov ( talk) 20:06, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Peoplestown: Created temporary subpage with new text, doing my best to avoid copyright infringement. The new article contains and summarizes facts from three named sources. Keizers ( talk) 16:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Pious fiction, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Moreover, please add more verifiable sources, not only 3rd party sources. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
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H66666666 (
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18:50, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Re: Fair Use or Public Domain Question
Hi- I just wanted to enquire about the concept of a Mission Statement for a Corporation being copyrighted. It would seem that the mission statement of a corporation would be a non-creative work and therefore not covered under copyright (or in the public domain). I guess this gets to be a question if a lot of creativity is put into a mission statement by a corporation when they are filling out the IRS paperwork, but it seems that the act of copying that statement from the form to another webpage to a Wiki page to a Non-profit watchdog website, etc., etc., would be fair use, if a use at all. Your San Buenaventura Conservancy edit brings this up. Being the current Conservancy Board president I can't imagine an instance where I would be able to enforce a use of our non-profit corps. mission statment. I don't find it inherently creative, and it exists in many places and is copied at will every time the government updates our paperwork. I looked on the various Wikipedia pages on Fair Use and Public Domain and Copyright, but this seems to begin at the definition of what can and is copyrightable, and frankly the Wikipedia pages don't go into a lot of detail on that aspect of "creative works".
Corensearchbot correctly assessed that the text was verbatim from the Conservancy website, but it must be verbatim to be correct. But I don't think it's existance in the Conservancy website automatically copyrights its existance on the WWW just because the creative parts of the Conservancy website are copyrighted.
I'm a commecial photographer and grant usage for my photos and use public domain historic photos on a regular basis so I'm conceptually familiar with copyright, though I'm no expert. I'm always curious about copyrights and this seemed like an interesting topic. -Schafphoto Schafphoto ( talk) 18:55, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
—Here's an example that informs the public – in my eyes – and that should not be considered copyrighted material:
"Philip Morris Companies Inc." (4/1992 Mission Statement)
"Our (PMC's) Mission is to be the most successful consumer packaged goods company in the world, as demonstrated by our: • Outstanding overall quality of people, products, and business plans and execution • Superior understanding and service of customer and consumer wants and needs • Excellent, growth-driven financial performance • Honesty, integrity, and responsibility in all aspects of operations The pursuit of this Mission is intended to benefit our shareholders, our customers and consumers, our employees, and the communities in which we operate."
"Altria", (Parent Company of Philip Morris USA – 2010 Mission Statement)
"Our (Altria's) Mission is to own and develop financially disciplined businesses that are leaders in responsibly providing adult tobacco and wine consumers with superior branded products. Guided by Altria's Mission and Values, PM USA's role is to responsibly manufacture and market PM USA brands to adult tobacco consumers in a financially disciplined way."
You questioned the article on Suzy Spencer. There are facts which are cited from her www.suzyspencer.com web site as well as other sources. The copy has been re-written as best as possible; however, there are oy so many ways to list basic facts. Please recheck your findings. Most of the information has been published in multiple sources, and is probably all public domain or from publishers who would benefit from the publicity garnered by an artcile about one of their authors. Thank you. Reginaldduckworth ( talk) 00:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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Yobot messed up the page numbers on some of the citations i did, he turned "page" into "pages", so when you check for copyvio, remember to use the original diffs because some of the current versions have messed up page numbers due to the bot. the bot did it over here too, and im pretty sure hes screwed it up on all the articles i did. Дунгане ( talk) 02:53, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Does the permission for the file have to explicitly include a reference to a particular licence by the photographer Cathy Gregory?? In other words, is the phrasing in her forwarded e-mail incomplete?
The picture was never previously published and was originally simply given to Van Harvey from whose personal collection the picture was origianally taken?-- WickerGuy ( talk) 01:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
I left this intact because it seems to have a good amount of discussion and track record of what has been done to solve the problem. I don't always delete orphan talk pages if they contain such information. Just sayin. :) -- Andy Walsh (talk) 04:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
You can check the article now, it has many references and it is not copied from any website/source..Please inform me before deleting my articles so i can change them or add more references..Thankz HunterZone ( talk) 14:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
So how can i make Red Suffusion Lovebird article..if there is only one link that gives information about it,, Thankz in advance.. HunterZone ( talk) 15:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Bob Van Ronkel with Hilary Swank.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 15:01, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Bob Van Ronkel and Sylvester Stallone.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 15:02, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
I was reading the MAPP Gas article, which referred to 'exothermic cutting' at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Exothermic_cutting&action=edit&redlink=1
However, I see you have deleted that article, due to copyright infringement. And though I only just now learned of the topic, I'd like to see SOMETHING about it on Wikipedia. So, is it possible to see the deleted text, so that I may salvage non-infringing text, and build upon that?
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markj99 ( talk • contribs) 10:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
U can check it..Thankz HunterZone ( talk) 11:49, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Please see the discussion at User talk:Mkativerata#Question. Essentially, I would like to contribute to the cleanup process with regards the Epeefleche CCI, however I am wary that should I start editing articles on mass it will be taken the wrong way by the subject, and I have no desire for further drama. As such I have created a subpage in my userspace ( here) where I have listed articles that I have found problems with. Articles with no issues, I shall check of the CCI list myself. If this does not help you with the cleanup process please let me know. Thanks, wjemather bigissue 10:53, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've opened Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Cretanforever but am delaying listing it until we can get a list of images. Are you able to help with that? I don't know what magic you might have, but it would be wonderful to divide the list out so that non-free images are not included. I don't see any reason for concern with those. Of course, I don't actually know how many images are involved; I'm taking it there must be a ton, if Mer-C can't do whatever it is he usually does. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. Meanwhile, I'm poking at SCV's backlog. Now that I've got assistance at CP, I've been working on CCI, but SCV is more urgent. Is this a lingering holiday backlog, or are we suffering in the volunteer department? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:28, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Of course that page had to be redirected to Camp Half-Blood characters page. Where else were we supposed to put the bios of any creature, mythological character, and supporting characters in The Heroes of Olympus series. Rtkat3 ( User talk:Rtkat3) 10:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Watch those public domain works — VWBot tagged a copyright "violation" of an 1877 poem! You might want to whitelist http://www.bartleby.com. Feezo (Talk) 10:32, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
This page reads like an advert with references from his own web site and he claims world records without evidence and references. Is this right? 109.154.227.146 ( talk) 09:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I'm passingly familiar with the issue from watching Moonriddengirl's page. I really have no interest in getting involved in the dispute, but I will if you insist: I must tell you though that I am strongly inclined to start by blocking any and all new accounts or IPs which are being used by blocked accounts. I have not so far only in deference to MRG's willingness to talk. I understand that there are some sensitive issues involved here, but evading blocks and circumventing the regular processes for discussion and requesting an unblock are not the way to get me to listen to you. VernoWhitney ( talk) 19:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi again! The page Mantecadas de Astorga should be moved to Mantecadas, for I have edited the page and made it less specific. Thank you for your help. Xufanc ( talk) 17:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney,
I didn't see your original message telling me that if I would like to begin working on a new version of the article I may do so at the temporary page, until a wile ago. I realize now that I made a mistake and you were in fact looking for a solution, not trying to sabotage the page, as I had incorrectly inferred after someone (not you) had jumped on it and applied all kinds of unfavorable tags. My most sincere apologies for having doubted of your good intentions.
A new draft of the article can now be viewed at the temporary page: Talk:Monroe_Commission/Temp Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by RafaelMinuesa ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Perseus, Son
of Zeus has bought you a whisky! Sharing a whisky is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the
WikiLove by buying someone else a whisky, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Enjoy!
-- Perseus, Son of Zeus 19:02, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I want to thank you for restoring my article about the History of the Jews in Brody. Its based on my paper that I have written in 2004. May New Year will be a blessing to you and your family! -- Roman Zacharij ( talk) 00:21, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Please see my comment at Talk:KFIL about potentially aberrant behavior in vwbot. - Dravecky ( talk) 16:19, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you amended a couple of my entries at Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations/2011-01-16. Is there something I could do to avoid you having to do that in future? I realise that some of the symbols I used didn't quite fit, sometimes there doesn't seem to be an appropriate one at Template:SCV. Would it be more helpful if I just write a sentence or two to explain in future like you did? For example, I know that the final entry, Royal Warrant (United Kingdom) wasn't a "false positive" as such. Is there a better symbol I could have used? Or should I write better explanations?-- Beloved Freak 16:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
{{
subst:SCV|n|Comment.}}
. Whenever an entry doesn't quite fit one of the tags or the problem/resolution isn't immediately obvious I try to leave a comment; I especially try to do this when material is copied but acceptably so (usually just a blurb like "Tracklist." or "PD-USGov." or "Single author."). I hope I didn't give you the impression that you were doing something wrong, since you did mark it correctly as having no copyright problems, I'm just being extra nitpicky this morning (I blame my day job). I hope that explains things somewhat.
VernoWhitney (
talk)
16:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Can you pop in at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Use of message boxes? I'm worried that this may be beyond me, although I can probably muddle through if needed. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Whitney,
Thanks for the tip. I'll try to remember to do so in the future.
Happy editing,
Neelix ( talk) 15:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
File:Dirk Fischer Caricature.jpg has an OTRS ticket number quoted by the uploader but the image has been OTRS pending since November 2009 and it has no licence quoted. Any chance of checking the ticket please, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 17:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
-- HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to let you know a page you have deleted recently should not have been deleted as the site listed as a copyright infringement is also a wiki and gives permission to be used as a source and at some times copied outright. If you need further information please let me know. The licence info as linked on the page can be found here http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ I would say the copied work falls under the guidelines of: "to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work" thanks for relooking for me. Aldldl ( talk) 05:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. back in September you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider taking it to AfD. I have pointed the (new) requester to your copyright warning on the talk page, and told her that it needs independent references to establish notability. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:30, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Verno, did you get my mail about this pic? - Off2riorob ( talk) 23:25, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Good catch! I was staring at that one trying to figure out where it came from (since the formatting made it obvious it was pasted from another page) when you deleted it. Didn't occur to me that it might be a hoax with a substituted name. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you've been processing the OTRS contact with Omarlegend ( talk · contribs) re. otrs:2011012810010904. FYI, please note that this user appears to be using his flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/56619396@N07/ for "flickr washing". Among the photographs hosted there, at least this is from [1], this is from [2], and this ( WP upload) is from [3], i.e. Getty Images. Seems quite untrustworthy to me. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you for recently correcting me about my mistaken copy/paste vio. I appreciate the advice.
Anyway, I've just been fixing reflists and came across a bit of a muddle
here and
here. I'm not sure what exactly is going on but it appears to be a mixture of a partial page move, with a touch of attempted reversion via copy-paste. Consequently, I don't know how to proceed with it. Hence, I thought I'd pass it on to you as I know (to my experience) that you know a bit about these sorts of things.
Thank you
LordVetinari (
talk)
11:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you please provide more information about the reasons of Deleting the Woosh Wireless page? So I can improve it to avoid future deletions? > Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lbarrague ( talk • contribs) 20:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
I've contacted the copyright holder, and since the permission I received from him doesn't seem sufficient, I've asked the copyright holder to remove any copyright conditions via flikr.com. I'm sure that he will do so in a short amount of time. Thanks. Joel amos ( talk) 23:39, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Good Day.
While I understand the concern for copyright infringement, I belive that the total deletion of the Touki Bouki article was a bit harsh. Removal of the "offensive" sections maybe, but not total deletion as most of the info; actors, release date, external links are not copyrighted. I used info from the article about the director to build the subsequent articles does that mean that main article has to be deleted as well?
You assistance is greatly appreciated. Invisec ( talk) 22:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be extensive copy-pasting at Inland Feeder. See talk for info. It enters first here, with content taken from [4]. The question is...well, I've laid it out above. :) California's public records are generally public domain ( [5]). I am leaning towards believing what's needed here is to acknowledge the copying per Wikipedia:Plagiarism, but wanted a second opinion. You think? Or should I ask somebody else? :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for watching this. This is my first article so I am kinda clumsy. Although I do own the page and text which the duplicate text was indiv=cated, I went ahead and edited the wiki page so as not to trigger the vio message again. I am also having some trouble with the links and such as far as the code, i beg your patience, any help is appreciated. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damnsell ( talk • contribs) 08:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for watching this. This is my first article so I am kinda clumsy. Although I do own the page and text which the duplicate text was indiv=cated, I went ahead and edited the wiki page so as not to trigger the vio message again. I am also having some trouble with the links and such as far as the code, i beg your patience, any help is appreciated. Damnsell ( talk) 08:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC) thanks Damnsell ( talk) 08:50, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
I went ahead and edited the wiki page elimimating any resemblance to the similar text so as not to trigger the copy vio message again. Thanks.
Damnsell ( talk) 09:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
The Sodom Schoolhouse article is not even close to being a copyvio of the website claimed - for one thing the article here is about 5 times bigger than the article it was supposedly copied from, Please be nice and fix your bot. Smallbones ( talk) 07:23, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was having a look to see if any CCIs could be finished off and I saw your various troubles with IPs that keep on restoring copyvios found as part of
this users CCI. A quick look at
Marcelline Jayakody shows that an IP in the same range as the others has (re)added quite a bit of content. Now I can't see the revdel edits to see if they are the same as before and there does seem to be some attempt to not copy directly from the sources so I haven't reverted straight away but I suppose the point is that he is evading his block. Most of these edits seems to be from 112.135.* so I don't know if there is some scope for a rangeblock at all?
My trawl also highlighted a registered user
Butterflylk (
talk ·
contribs) who seems to share exactly the same interests and has already had at least one article (
Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri) sent to
WP:CP and had another edit (
here) revdeleted. SPI?
Boissière (
talk)
11:34, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, This is a request to "undelete" the Geomajas wikipedia entry. Last year, Geomajas was removed (wikibin) b/c it was a relatively unknown and new open source project (with few external references). Since then we believe that Geomajas has proven to be a serious open source project: (a) it graduated as an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project in November 2011, (b) Geomajas has independent references and (c) Geomajas is being referenced from at least two other wikipedia pages. When posting Geomajas in wikipedia, we first tried to work through the wikipedia admin that previously deleted the project (JForget), but the page indicated he/she is no longer active as admin. We then adapted/updated last year's original and posted it again. As a result, Corenbot indicated a similarity with a previously deleted wikipage of the Geomajas Opens Source Project. So we would like to propose it again as a wikipedia entry. Where do we start best? Thanks for your help! ( Frankenmaes ( talk) 10:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC))
Thanks for the info on how to properly handle situations when permissions have been claimed to have been sent. I had a couple this week. I'll try to remember next time.-- SPhilbrick T 15:38, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I am now proud owner of a TUSC account! —Preceding undated comment added 21:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC).
Hi there, Can you please restore this file, I guarantee that this is not copyright violation, I recently bought new camara ie Nikon Coolpix L110, I have uploaded few pics lie File:Nikon 110 box.JPG, File:Nikon Coolpix L110 Charger.JPG, File:Chifferi Rigati Pasta.JPG , File:DLF Center New Delhi.jpg, File:Penne Rigate Pasta.JPG , File:BSNL_Headquarters.jpg n many more from same camera, u can check pictures metadata, so please restore it, thanks KuwarOnline Talk 08:40, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Since you do a lot of work with copyright issues, I was wondering if you could RevDel these revisions under RD1 (see the next edit summary for the source). Thanks. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 06:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. :) Although I really don't have time, I'm drawing together an essay about copyright in lists: User:Moonriddengirl/Copyright in lists. It needs more work before I drop it on the wiki world. If you have time and inclination, would you mind reading through? I'm hoping to provide some clear and useful guidance on a subject that is often discussed, but not widely understood. You are welcome to edit it directly or to leave comments at the talk page. I think it particularly could use some work at the last section ("What copyrighted selection/arrangement mean for Wikipedia"), but I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to say or how to approach it.
And I'm not dumping this only on you, so if you don't have time or inclination, you should not feel bad. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:08, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I must have missed the move button. Thank you for noticing the problem I inadvertently created, and for fixing it.-- Subman758 ( talk) 19:48, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for alerting me to this issue. I do need educating on these matters though. I have copied images from one Wikipedia article to another on several occasions, including in the article mentioned - is there a formal procedure for attributing where they came from that I need to follow when doing this as I thought it was all automatically recorded internally? I cannot see where you have made the change you mentioned for this article - where is it and what is it? Also I have copied the same piece of text (which I put together myself) for each of the gardener-botanists mentioned inthis article to each gardener-botanist article - obviously changing one entry each time: this section seemed to be worthwhile for readers and worth replicating in each article. Do I need to note this somewhere? I read the link you mentioned but it is not very clear as to precisely what I need to do in these cases. Do know of any simple instructions I can follow anywhere. Thanks for your patience. Granitethighs 22:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I was hoping that was what it was, and that we hadn't had a copyvio sitting there for 5 years. :O Syrthiss ( talk) 19:44, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I would like to make a request to undelete Copal Partners page. I understand that this page seems like advertising and I will follow Wikipedia's guidelines when I create this page again.
Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by An2013 ( talk • contribs) 05:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I have created the page at the location mentioned, kindly review. Please let me know if this is fine or if I need to make any changes to match Wikipedia guidelines.
Thanks for your help.
An2013 ( talk) 05:38, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I have recreated the article and have placed a request for its review.
Thanks, An2013 ( talk) 05:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I have not received any feedback from other editors on this. Can you please check.
Thanks for all your help.
An2013 ( talk) 09:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I will try to improve.
59.144.118.2 ( talk) 06:08, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the firendly tap on the shoulder and guidance. I obviously didn't realize that what I did had further implications. I posted that "please merge" tag on the new page (943rd Rescue Group) that I pasted after cutting from the old page (943d Rescue Group) per the "Help" page that you linked for me. To answer your other question, this is the first, and only, time that I've performed this maneuver. Ckruschke ( talk) 15:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)Ckruschke
Hello Verno, good evening...
I'm sending this message regarding the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishlord page. It was once again removed, this time justifiyed by relevance. Since you were the one who helped us to retrieve the page, maybe you can help us again. What should we do to maintain the description of Wishlord on wikipedia? It's important to explain for those who don't know what's the site purpose, to have a reliable source like wikipedia. Can you help us?
Thanks again, best regards,
Fabio Tabah
I have sent you a message for your consideration: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VernoWhitney#Vels_University_Images
Regards. RajendranVels ( talk) 01:50, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
I Did Nothing Your Bot Is Wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr ArticleEditor ( talk • contribs) 17:19, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Enciso needs to be renamed Enciso, Colombia, because the plain Enciso is needed for a disambiguation. Please just make the renaming, I shall make the disambiguation page myself. Thank you for your assistance. Xufanc ( talk) 12:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) Can you help out with United States Army Basic Training? With the source 404ing, I'm at a bit of a loss. :/ I don't know if you have some magic way around that. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Basic Training is designed to be extremely intense, and individuals who have experienced it generally consider it to have been the most challenging experience of their lives.
Basic Training is designed to be highly intense and challenging.
This is where individuals learn about the fundamentals of being a soldier, from the proper way to respect a superior officer to the correct way to fire weapons
This is where individuals learn about the fundamentals of being a soldier, from combat techniques to the proper way to address a superior.
On Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections it was resulting in too high numbers for "undated" and "total", essentially this is because these numbers are worked out by subtracting the number of items in the dated categories from total number of items in Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections and so when it was reporting two undated these were Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections and Category:All copied and pasted articles and sections. I then found out that you could also edit the factor parameter in Template:Copied and pasted articles and sections progress so I'm happy to restore things to the way there were and increased factor to two if you'd prefer this. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for renaming Enciso, similarly La Calle needs to be renamed La Calle (song), because the plain La Calle is needed for a disambiguation. Please just make the renaming, I shall make the disambiguation page myself. Thank you again for your assistance. Xufanc ( talk) 18:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
When you have a minute, I have an image to upload to Commons but need to verify the permission via OTRS. Any chance you could grab the email when I send it? There's no rush. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I had a feeling that might not be good enough. I've asked for a more precise declaration. Thanks anyway. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
File:Be-Nice-or-Leave-Poster.jpg - Good editnotice!
Hi. Nobody has ever tagged a page I've written as a copyvio, so please make allowances for my inexperience and confusion.
I was under the impression that facts could not be copyright; e.g. Just because somebody had published "Fred was born in 1943" does not make it copyright. So I was rather confused as to why you had tagged this page. Then in the very verbose template I noticed: "the new article cannot incorporate phrases and sentences that were placed in the original article". So I re-read what I had written, and noticed that the simplest and best sounding way to express some things was identical to the way the original author had expressed them. (Hardly surprising, but never-the-less, a problem.)
I have reviewed the article and removed all such phrasing that is not basic english (e.g. I don't think there is any other sensible way to say "Fred was born in 1943")
Could I bother you to cast your eye over the following and provide feedback? Thanks in advance. Pdfpdf ( talk) 10:28, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
<snipped article at Talk:Andrew Tennant (politician)/Temp>
Okay, so it took me longer to get to it than I expected (sorry), but I have looked at it now. The reason I blanked it was because the language still closely followed the source, and I still see some examples of that in your rewrite. Obviously it's not a word-for-word copy, but presenting the same facts in the same order can be a problem. What you get by taking copyrighted material (i.e., here, which I would've G12'd if I had seen it in that state) and rewriting it is a derivative work, which is still subject to the original author(s)'s copyright protection,
For an example of the issue, in your rewrite you say:
In 1853, Andrew took cattle west from Port Lincoln and settled at Salt Creek. Despite the hostility of the Aboriginals, he successfully managed his sheep and cattle station for seven years. After this period, he owned stations successively at Mount Wedge, Coffin Bay, and Streaky Bay.
where the source says:
Aged 18, he took cattle west to the shores of Lake Newland near Elliston, and settled at Salt Creek. The holding had been abandoned because of the Aboriginals' hostility, but Tennant was unafraid and for seven years he controlled the natives while successfully managing his sheep and cattle station. Later Tennant owned stations at Mount Wedge, Coffin's Bay and Streaky Bay.
There are other passages that similarly follow too closely in my opinion.
While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. While short phrases which are similar to the source are generally acceptable, in this case the entire article can be largely matched up section for section with the sources. The essay Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. 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". VernoWhitney ( talk) 12:13, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Woosh Wireless ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi,
I was wondering if I can request the protection to be removed from the Woosh Wireless page (or the options available for creating a protected page). Alternatively, is there a way I can submit a page for consideration in the mean time, having not written the one that was removed and protected?
Thanks! Fixedfrequencies ( talk) 22:57, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! Fixedfrequencies ( talk) 02:29, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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VernoWhitney, this is not the usual renaming and I need your opinion: In English Wikipedia Morella's primary meaning is a short story by 19th century American author Edgar Allan Poe. I think though that Morella, Spain deserves the primary meaning, for that city existed centuries before that, so that present "Morella" should be renamed Morella (story) and Morella, Spain should be under "Morella" in order to avoid ethnocentrism. What do you think? Xufanc ( talk) 13:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I wanted to ask whether it wouldn't be better to take this up on Wikipedia regardless of its Commons status, since it is potentially confusing here and is already here for so long. Waiting for the already finished Commons discussion to finally deal with the images may make this less muddled but consensus here does not rely on what happens there anyway. Best Hekerui ( talk) 21:15, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
13:08, 24 February 2011 VernoWhitney (talk | contribs) blocked 59.161.123.197 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 12 hours (Block evasion: User:Maheshkumaryadav )
Thank you. SchmuckyTheCat ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC).
Hello VernoWhitney,
I'm the creator of the page 'Social Enterprise Association'. I understand that the page was recently flagged as unambiguous advertising or promotion, and duly deleted after your review. I would really like to better understand how I can maintain the page as an educative form to better elucidate on types of social enterprises and the various resources present in Singapore. Comparatively, how does corporate pages such as Charles & Keith still maintain their Wiki page when it seems even more geared towards marketing and promotion?
Looking forward to your reply, so that we can help make Wikipedia a more comprehensive knowledge treasury. Thanks!
Tilly101 (
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This is my official site www.himrights.org so i also want to create HimRights in wikipedia page so i copy article from www.himrights.org do i need to write copyright in wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Himrights ( talk • contribs) 05:57, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. :) Can you by any chance review the rewrite at International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions? It was rescued from copyvio status, but the revision remained a close paraphrase. Since I already assessed it and tagged it accordingly, I'd like to get another pair of eyes on the latest version. There's more info at the talk page. If you're not up for it, please let me know and I'll tag somebody else. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the effort of looking for the symbol. Having slept on it, I rather like the idea of using the grey version in the initial emboldened reference (as in the header of this section here), since that makes sense of the acronym, and then just leaving the capital O in the rest of the article. It's an indirect warning sign that anyone looking for further info about RAINBO/RAINB♀ needs to be aware of the typographical complications (not to mention that nearly all the activity now seems to be concentrated into AMANITARE initiatives, but I'll have to tackle that issue when I have a bit less on my plate). What do you think? Opbeith ( talk) 10:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification. -- Trödel 16:27, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) With regards to our serial licensing violator, there's a question about bots and userspace drafts at ANI. I thought perhaps you might have some valuable insight there, because I certainly don't. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:15, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Could you speedy delete Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections from January 2010 for me as an empty clean-up category. Numbers are being reported wrongly in the template again and I suspect this empty category is the problem. If deleting it solves the problem I'll try and look into the templates and find out why. Dpmuk ( talk) 12:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. For The 39 Clues Project You Told Me To Chim In On Something. What Exact Was That You Wanted Me To Do. Answer Soon As Possible. JabocJacobOhYeah ( talk) 03:03, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 March 4. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Dream Focus 15:24, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if there was any progress happening in terms of the copyright issues at Daniel Squadron. I realize that these things can't be rushed, but I do hope that it can be fixed soon, considering it looks weird not having a page at all for a prominent politician.-- Yaksar (let's chat) 01:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, It is important to add the fact on the creation of the term "Arquitectura Kinetica" ( Kinetic Architecture ) I created in 1989 in my former region Colombia, South America. Why?, well,it is a true fact that I have been defending for long time because pararell inventions could occur and in my case is a real fact. In 1989 there was not such worldwide Kinetic Architecture term, not even in my faculty of architecture nor even in books at libraries. I was living in Colombia in 1989 and sice 1987 I started to experimenting on moving objects applied to architecture and that is how I came with the term "Arquitectura Kinetica" "Kinetic Architecture" which I created in spanish language, being an important fact plus the cultural and geographic location I was located. I do need to state this on the wikipedia website, so people understand that "Kinetic Architecture" was created in different times, different places as a parallel invention. It is not an apparent conflict of interest as you said, instead of stopping my notes, you could give me a hand to add the information on when and where the term was created also. My blog is a true statement http://kinetic-architecture-jose-l-mejia.blogspot.com/2010/02/kinetic-architecture-of-jose-leonidas.html so, please keep it on external links also.
Someone mentioned that Kinetic Architecture was very wide known in the world, which is a wrong and not a sourced statement. In 1989 that term was not even known in South America nor even in whole Europe or Asia. Wikipedia is a free escenario to commmitt all of us for a decent dialogue and mutual cooperation. See how last week, still some of the users were looking for deletion of the article and if you see, I have been defending to keep it as well as others, and I improved the definition as a good part of the current one is part of one of my latest content of the definition. That is why is great to work as a team and not to just undo statements of others, we need to improve others thoughts and make it happen. Jose Leonidas Mejia A. Architect 15:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Best,
Jose L. Mejia Architect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kitaro ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Explain your actions pleased. [6] The license had been fixed. He clearly gave consent for it to be used, no doubts about that, and it was linked to in an article where it was appropriate to do so. I thought the issue had been resolved. What guideline specifically did it not meet? All points I see listed were filled out properly. Dream Focus 00:21, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I would also disagree that it was an appropriate FUR. If we could use FUR to include snapshots of entire print pieces, in large enough resolution to read, we could include song lyrics, librettos, pages out of novels, all kinds of fascinating bits of text that copyright policy forbids our otherwise taking. I haven't followed CBG in a long time, but I loved "But I Digress" when I did; I would think David would be open to discussing the need for a usable license. As I mentioned above, permission to use it on the internet is not sufficient, and it doesn't mention the required element of modification. Organizations have red tape; Wikipedia (I think) does a pretty good job keeping the red tape to a minimum, given its size and market dominance, but when it comes to legal issues, we sometimes have to kowtow to the needs of the organization behind us to make sure that everything is on the up and up. When handling e-mails with these kinds of permission, OTRS guidelines require that our correspondent be "crystal clear" that the content is being released under a compatible license, without which we're not supposed to confirm. (irrelevant commentary: one of my favorite columns of all time was David's roundtable discussion among the Disney princesses. I clipped that and kept it in a scrapbook for a long time. Every time I read it, it made me laugh all over again. :)) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
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Usually, a big, unwikied article under an implausible title tends to raise red flags to me. If you think it isn't a copyvio, I can put it back. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 21:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Every single report I've filed and confirmed on this user have all been Miami Heat related content.. So just going by his track record, I wholeheartedly believe that it's a copyright violation. -- ĴoeĴohnson| 2 21:36, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you have restored that article. Could it be possible to restore the Discussion page which has been deleted as well. Thanks and nice vacations. Hektor ( talk) 19:15, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks! I'm sorry I lost track of it and didn't help out more. VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:20, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
I hereby affirm that Michael Bach the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Bach.shtml
I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
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Michael Bach Dec. 22, 2010 <email redacted for privacy> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierre201012 ( talk • contribs) 15:08, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
OK
It is already sent by Michael Bach.
Pierre — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierre201012 ( talk • contribs) 15:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
I saw you checked this one and cleared it. It has been bugging me. When I decide to start a short biography, I naturally check to see if there is already a short biography of the subject somewhere - an obituary, encyclopedia entry or other article on the subject - and if so use the facts in it for the outline. If there is no such outline, the subject may not be noteworthy. If there is, it will give the standard basic information: date/place of birth, parents, education, positions held, achievements, spouse and children, death: the framework. These are, to me, mere facts and not subject to copyright. Then I dig around for other sources to add detail and color. I try to think about what I have read and state it in my own words, but it can sometimes be difficult to avoid close similarity to the original:
These variants are all bound to be very similar to the original, but to me they just express a fact, which cannot be subject to copyright. If I am doing a short "who's who" type of bio, it is hard to avoid considerable similarity to other short "who's who" bios of the same subject. I can see copyright violations if the article repeats unusual phrases or opinions from the source, but if it just restates the facts, I can't see the problem. I have read the standard WP essays on the subject, but it is still not clear to me how to avoid considerable similarity to the sources on short, factual bios. Thoughts? Aymatth2 ( talk) 02:07, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
and http://football.sport.ua/news/87878 Чемпіонат штату Вікторія: 1956 року в 4-му дивізіоні штату (чемпіонат міста Мельбурн) з'явився УСК (Український спортивний клуб) «Леви» (Мельбурн). 1959-го, після реорганізації, УСК «Леви» брав участь у 2-му дивізіоні, тоді як у 4-му дивізіоні з'явилася інша команда нашої діаспори — УСК «Тризуб». У 1961 — 1965 роках УСК «Тризуб» змагався в 3-му дивізіоні, а УСК «Леви» став переможцем 2-го. У 1962— 1971,1977 роках УСК «Леви» брав участь у 1-му дивізіоні штату Вікторія, але в призерах не був, найвище 5-е місце посів 1968-го. 1978 року УСК «Леви» розпався. Bogic ( talk) 20:12, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I leave message for you here. -- Ppiminov ( talk) 20:06, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Peoplestown: Created temporary subpage with new text, doing my best to avoid copyright infringement. The new article contains and summarizes facts from three named sources. Keizers ( talk) 16:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
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Re: Fair Use or Public Domain Question
Hi- I just wanted to enquire about the concept of a Mission Statement for a Corporation being copyrighted. It would seem that the mission statement of a corporation would be a non-creative work and therefore not covered under copyright (or in the public domain). I guess this gets to be a question if a lot of creativity is put into a mission statement by a corporation when they are filling out the IRS paperwork, but it seems that the act of copying that statement from the form to another webpage to a Wiki page to a Non-profit watchdog website, etc., etc., would be fair use, if a use at all. Your San Buenaventura Conservancy edit brings this up. Being the current Conservancy Board president I can't imagine an instance where I would be able to enforce a use of our non-profit corps. mission statment. I don't find it inherently creative, and it exists in many places and is copied at will every time the government updates our paperwork. I looked on the various Wikipedia pages on Fair Use and Public Domain and Copyright, but this seems to begin at the definition of what can and is copyrightable, and frankly the Wikipedia pages don't go into a lot of detail on that aspect of "creative works".
Corensearchbot correctly assessed that the text was verbatim from the Conservancy website, but it must be verbatim to be correct. But I don't think it's existance in the Conservancy website automatically copyrights its existance on the WWW just because the creative parts of the Conservancy website are copyrighted.
I'm a commecial photographer and grant usage for my photos and use public domain historic photos on a regular basis so I'm conceptually familiar with copyright, though I'm no expert. I'm always curious about copyrights and this seemed like an interesting topic. -Schafphoto Schafphoto ( talk) 18:55, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
—Here's an example that informs the public – in my eyes – and that should not be considered copyrighted material:
"Philip Morris Companies Inc." (4/1992 Mission Statement)
"Our (PMC's) Mission is to be the most successful consumer packaged goods company in the world, as demonstrated by our: • Outstanding overall quality of people, products, and business plans and execution • Superior understanding and service of customer and consumer wants and needs • Excellent, growth-driven financial performance • Honesty, integrity, and responsibility in all aspects of operations The pursuit of this Mission is intended to benefit our shareholders, our customers and consumers, our employees, and the communities in which we operate."
"Altria", (Parent Company of Philip Morris USA – 2010 Mission Statement)
"Our (Altria's) Mission is to own and develop financially disciplined businesses that are leaders in responsibly providing adult tobacco and wine consumers with superior branded products. Guided by Altria's Mission and Values, PM USA's role is to responsibly manufacture and market PM USA brands to adult tobacco consumers in a financially disciplined way."
You questioned the article on Suzy Spencer. There are facts which are cited from her www.suzyspencer.com web site as well as other sources. The copy has been re-written as best as possible; however, there are oy so many ways to list basic facts. Please recheck your findings. Most of the information has been published in multiple sources, and is probably all public domain or from publishers who would benefit from the publicity garnered by an artcile about one of their authors. Thank you. Reginaldduckworth ( talk) 00:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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Yobot messed up the page numbers on some of the citations i did, he turned "page" into "pages", so when you check for copyvio, remember to use the original diffs because some of the current versions have messed up page numbers due to the bot. the bot did it over here too, and im pretty sure hes screwed it up on all the articles i did. Дунгане ( talk) 02:53, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Does the permission for the file have to explicitly include a reference to a particular licence by the photographer Cathy Gregory?? In other words, is the phrasing in her forwarded e-mail incomplete?
The picture was never previously published and was originally simply given to Van Harvey from whose personal collection the picture was origianally taken?-- WickerGuy ( talk) 01:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
I left this intact because it seems to have a good amount of discussion and track record of what has been done to solve the problem. I don't always delete orphan talk pages if they contain such information. Just sayin. :) -- Andy Walsh (talk) 04:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
You can check the article now, it has many references and it is not copied from any website/source..Please inform me before deleting my articles so i can change them or add more references..Thankz HunterZone ( talk) 14:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
So how can i make Red Suffusion Lovebird article..if there is only one link that gives information about it,, Thankz in advance.. HunterZone ( talk) 15:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
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I was reading the MAPP Gas article, which referred to 'exothermic cutting' at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Exothermic_cutting&action=edit&redlink=1
However, I see you have deleted that article, due to copyright infringement. And though I only just now learned of the topic, I'd like to see SOMETHING about it on Wikipedia. So, is it possible to see the deleted text, so that I may salvage non-infringing text, and build upon that?
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markj99 ( talk • contribs) 10:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
U can check it..Thankz HunterZone ( talk) 11:49, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Please see the discussion at User talk:Mkativerata#Question. Essentially, I would like to contribute to the cleanup process with regards the Epeefleche CCI, however I am wary that should I start editing articles on mass it will be taken the wrong way by the subject, and I have no desire for further drama. As such I have created a subpage in my userspace ( here) where I have listed articles that I have found problems with. Articles with no issues, I shall check of the CCI list myself. If this does not help you with the cleanup process please let me know. Thanks, wjemather bigissue 10:53, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've opened Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Cretanforever but am delaying listing it until we can get a list of images. Are you able to help with that? I don't know what magic you might have, but it would be wonderful to divide the list out so that non-free images are not included. I don't see any reason for concern with those. Of course, I don't actually know how many images are involved; I'm taking it there must be a ton, if Mer-C can't do whatever it is he usually does. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. Meanwhile, I'm poking at SCV's backlog. Now that I've got assistance at CP, I've been working on CCI, but SCV is more urgent. Is this a lingering holiday backlog, or are we suffering in the volunteer department? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:28, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Of course that page had to be redirected to Camp Half-Blood characters page. Where else were we supposed to put the bios of any creature, mythological character, and supporting characters in The Heroes of Olympus series. Rtkat3 ( User talk:Rtkat3) 10:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Watch those public domain works — VWBot tagged a copyright "violation" of an 1877 poem! You might want to whitelist http://www.bartleby.com. Feezo (Talk) 10:32, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
This page reads like an advert with references from his own web site and he claims world records without evidence and references. Is this right? 109.154.227.146 ( talk) 09:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I'm passingly familiar with the issue from watching Moonriddengirl's page. I really have no interest in getting involved in the dispute, but I will if you insist: I must tell you though that I am strongly inclined to start by blocking any and all new accounts or IPs which are being used by blocked accounts. I have not so far only in deference to MRG's willingness to talk. I understand that there are some sensitive issues involved here, but evading blocks and circumventing the regular processes for discussion and requesting an unblock are not the way to get me to listen to you. VernoWhitney ( talk) 19:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi again! The page Mantecadas de Astorga should be moved to Mantecadas, for I have edited the page and made it less specific. Thank you for your help. Xufanc ( talk) 17:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi VernoWhitney,
I didn't see your original message telling me that if I would like to begin working on a new version of the article I may do so at the temporary page, until a wile ago. I realize now that I made a mistake and you were in fact looking for a solution, not trying to sabotage the page, as I had incorrectly inferred after someone (not you) had jumped on it and applied all kinds of unfavorable tags. My most sincere apologies for having doubted of your good intentions.
A new draft of the article can now be viewed at the temporary page: Talk:Monroe_Commission/Temp Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by RafaelMinuesa ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
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I want to thank you for restoring my article about the History of the Jews in Brody. Its based on my paper that I have written in 2004. May New Year will be a blessing to you and your family! -- Roman Zacharij ( talk) 00:21, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Please see my comment at Talk:KFIL about potentially aberrant behavior in vwbot. - Dravecky ( talk) 16:19, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you amended a couple of my entries at Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations/2011-01-16. Is there something I could do to avoid you having to do that in future? I realise that some of the symbols I used didn't quite fit, sometimes there doesn't seem to be an appropriate one at Template:SCV. Would it be more helpful if I just write a sentence or two to explain in future like you did? For example, I know that the final entry, Royal Warrant (United Kingdom) wasn't a "false positive" as such. Is there a better symbol I could have used? Or should I write better explanations?-- Beloved Freak 16:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
{{
subst:SCV|n|Comment.}}
. Whenever an entry doesn't quite fit one of the tags or the problem/resolution isn't immediately obvious I try to leave a comment; I especially try to do this when material is copied but acceptably so (usually just a blurb like "Tracklist." or "PD-USGov." or "Single author."). I hope I didn't give you the impression that you were doing something wrong, since you did mark it correctly as having no copyright problems, I'm just being extra nitpicky this morning (I blame my day job). I hope that explains things somewhat.
VernoWhitney (
talk)
16:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Can you pop in at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Use of message boxes? I'm worried that this may be beyond me, although I can probably muddle through if needed. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Whitney,
Thanks for the tip. I'll try to remember to do so in the future.
Happy editing,
Neelix ( talk) 15:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
File:Dirk Fischer Caricature.jpg has an OTRS ticket number quoted by the uploader but the image has been OTRS pending since November 2009 and it has no licence quoted. Any chance of checking the ticket please, thanks. MilborneOne ( talk) 17:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
-- HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to let you know a page you have deleted recently should not have been deleted as the site listed as a copyright infringement is also a wiki and gives permission to be used as a source and at some times copied outright. If you need further information please let me know. The licence info as linked on the page can be found here http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ I would say the copied work falls under the guidelines of: "to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work" thanks for relooking for me. Aldldl ( talk) 05:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. back in September you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider taking it to AfD. I have pointed the (new) requester to your copyright warning on the talk page, and told her that it needs independent references to establish notability. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:30, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Verno, did you get my mail about this pic? - Off2riorob ( talk) 23:25, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Good catch! I was staring at that one trying to figure out where it came from (since the formatting made it obvious it was pasted from another page) when you deleted it. Didn't occur to me that it might be a hoax with a substituted name. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you've been processing the OTRS contact with Omarlegend ( talk · contribs) re. otrs:2011012810010904. FYI, please note that this user appears to be using his flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/56619396@N07/ for "flickr washing". Among the photographs hosted there, at least this is from [1], this is from [2], and this ( WP upload) is from [3], i.e. Getty Images. Seems quite untrustworthy to me. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:33, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you for recently correcting me about my mistaken copy/paste vio. I appreciate the advice.
Anyway, I've just been fixing reflists and came across a bit of a muddle
here and
here. I'm not sure what exactly is going on but it appears to be a mixture of a partial page move, with a touch of attempted reversion via copy-paste. Consequently, I don't know how to proceed with it. Hence, I thought I'd pass it on to you as I know (to my experience) that you know a bit about these sorts of things.
Thank you
LordVetinari (
talk)
11:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you please provide more information about the reasons of Deleting the Woosh Wireless page? So I can improve it to avoid future deletions? > Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lbarrague ( talk • contribs) 20:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
I've contacted the copyright holder, and since the permission I received from him doesn't seem sufficient, I've asked the copyright holder to remove any copyright conditions via flikr.com. I'm sure that he will do so in a short amount of time. Thanks. Joel amos ( talk) 23:39, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Good Day.
While I understand the concern for copyright infringement, I belive that the total deletion of the Touki Bouki article was a bit harsh. Removal of the "offensive" sections maybe, but not total deletion as most of the info; actors, release date, external links are not copyrighted. I used info from the article about the director to build the subsequent articles does that mean that main article has to be deleted as well?
You assistance is greatly appreciated. Invisec ( talk) 22:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be extensive copy-pasting at Inland Feeder. See talk for info. It enters first here, with content taken from [4]. The question is...well, I've laid it out above. :) California's public records are generally public domain ( [5]). I am leaning towards believing what's needed here is to acknowledge the copying per Wikipedia:Plagiarism, but wanted a second opinion. You think? Or should I ask somebody else? :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for watching this. This is my first article so I am kinda clumsy. Although I do own the page and text which the duplicate text was indiv=cated, I went ahead and edited the wiki page so as not to trigger the vio message again. I am also having some trouble with the links and such as far as the code, i beg your patience, any help is appreciated. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Damnsell ( talk • contribs) 08:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for watching this. This is my first article so I am kinda clumsy. Although I do own the page and text which the duplicate text was indiv=cated, I went ahead and edited the wiki page so as not to trigger the vio message again. I am also having some trouble with the links and such as far as the code, i beg your patience, any help is appreciated. Damnsell ( talk) 08:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC) thanks Damnsell ( talk) 08:50, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
I went ahead and edited the wiki page elimimating any resemblance to the similar text so as not to trigger the copy vio message again. Thanks.
Damnsell ( talk) 09:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
The Sodom Schoolhouse article is not even close to being a copyvio of the website claimed - for one thing the article here is about 5 times bigger than the article it was supposedly copied from, Please be nice and fix your bot. Smallbones ( talk) 07:23, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was having a look to see if any CCIs could be finished off and I saw your various troubles with IPs that keep on restoring copyvios found as part of
this users CCI. A quick look at
Marcelline Jayakody shows that an IP in the same range as the others has (re)added quite a bit of content. Now I can't see the revdel edits to see if they are the same as before and there does seem to be some attempt to not copy directly from the sources so I haven't reverted straight away but I suppose the point is that he is evading his block. Most of these edits seems to be from 112.135.* so I don't know if there is some scope for a rangeblock at all?
My trawl also highlighted a registered user
Butterflylk (
talk ·
contribs) who seems to share exactly the same interests and has already had at least one article (
Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri) sent to
WP:CP and had another edit (
here) revdeleted. SPI?
Boissière (
talk)
11:34, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, This is a request to "undelete" the Geomajas wikipedia entry. Last year, Geomajas was removed (wikibin) b/c it was a relatively unknown and new open source project (with few external references). Since then we believe that Geomajas has proven to be a serious open source project: (a) it graduated as an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project in November 2011, (b) Geomajas has independent references and (c) Geomajas is being referenced from at least two other wikipedia pages. When posting Geomajas in wikipedia, we first tried to work through the wikipedia admin that previously deleted the project (JForget), but the page indicated he/she is no longer active as admin. We then adapted/updated last year's original and posted it again. As a result, Corenbot indicated a similarity with a previously deleted wikipage of the Geomajas Opens Source Project. So we would like to propose it again as a wikipedia entry. Where do we start best? Thanks for your help! ( Frankenmaes ( talk) 10:41, 9 February 2011 (UTC))
Thanks for the info on how to properly handle situations when permissions have been claimed to have been sent. I had a couple this week. I'll try to remember next time.-- SPhilbrick T 15:38, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
I am now proud owner of a TUSC account! —Preceding undated comment added 21:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC).
Hi there, Can you please restore this file, I guarantee that this is not copyright violation, I recently bought new camara ie Nikon Coolpix L110, I have uploaded few pics lie File:Nikon 110 box.JPG, File:Nikon Coolpix L110 Charger.JPG, File:Chifferi Rigati Pasta.JPG , File:DLF Center New Delhi.jpg, File:Penne Rigate Pasta.JPG , File:BSNL_Headquarters.jpg n many more from same camera, u can check pictures metadata, so please restore it, thanks KuwarOnline Talk 08:40, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Since you do a lot of work with copyright issues, I was wondering if you could RevDel these revisions under RD1 (see the next edit summary for the source). Thanks. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 06:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. :) Although I really don't have time, I'm drawing together an essay about copyright in lists: User:Moonriddengirl/Copyright in lists. It needs more work before I drop it on the wiki world. If you have time and inclination, would you mind reading through? I'm hoping to provide some clear and useful guidance on a subject that is often discussed, but not widely understood. You are welcome to edit it directly or to leave comments at the talk page. I think it particularly could use some work at the last section ("What copyrighted selection/arrangement mean for Wikipedia"), but I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to say or how to approach it.
And I'm not dumping this only on you, so if you don't have time or inclination, you should not feel bad. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:08, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I must have missed the move button. Thank you for noticing the problem I inadvertently created, and for fixing it.-- Subman758 ( talk) 19:48, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for alerting me to this issue. I do need educating on these matters though. I have copied images from one Wikipedia article to another on several occasions, including in the article mentioned - is there a formal procedure for attributing where they came from that I need to follow when doing this as I thought it was all automatically recorded internally? I cannot see where you have made the change you mentioned for this article - where is it and what is it? Also I have copied the same piece of text (which I put together myself) for each of the gardener-botanists mentioned inthis article to each gardener-botanist article - obviously changing one entry each time: this section seemed to be worthwhile for readers and worth replicating in each article. Do I need to note this somewhere? I read the link you mentioned but it is not very clear as to precisely what I need to do in these cases. Do know of any simple instructions I can follow anywhere. Thanks for your patience. Granitethighs 22:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I was hoping that was what it was, and that we hadn't had a copyvio sitting there for 5 years. :O Syrthiss ( talk) 19:44, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I would like to make a request to undelete Copal Partners page. I understand that this page seems like advertising and I will follow Wikipedia's guidelines when I create this page again.
Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by An2013 ( talk • contribs) 05:37, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I have created the page at the location mentioned, kindly review. Please let me know if this is fine or if I need to make any changes to match Wikipedia guidelines.
Thanks for your help.
An2013 ( talk) 05:38, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I have recreated the article and have placed a request for its review.
Thanks, An2013 ( talk) 05:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Admin,
I have not received any feedback from other editors on this. Can you please check.
Thanks for all your help.
An2013 ( talk) 09:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I will try to improve.
59.144.118.2 ( talk) 06:08, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the firendly tap on the shoulder and guidance. I obviously didn't realize that what I did had further implications. I posted that "please merge" tag on the new page (943rd Rescue Group) that I pasted after cutting from the old page (943d Rescue Group) per the "Help" page that you linked for me. To answer your other question, this is the first, and only, time that I've performed this maneuver. Ckruschke ( talk) 15:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)Ckruschke
Hello Verno, good evening...
I'm sending this message regarding the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishlord page. It was once again removed, this time justifiyed by relevance. Since you were the one who helped us to retrieve the page, maybe you can help us again. What should we do to maintain the description of Wishlord on wikipedia? It's important to explain for those who don't know what's the site purpose, to have a reliable source like wikipedia. Can you help us?
Thanks again, best regards,
Fabio Tabah
I have sent you a message for your consideration: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:VernoWhitney#Vels_University_Images
Regards. RajendranVels ( talk) 01:50, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
I Did Nothing Your Bot Is Wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr ArticleEditor ( talk • contribs) 17:19, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Enciso needs to be renamed Enciso, Colombia, because the plain Enciso is needed for a disambiguation. Please just make the renaming, I shall make the disambiguation page myself. Thank you for your assistance. Xufanc ( talk) 12:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) Can you help out with United States Army Basic Training? With the source 404ing, I'm at a bit of a loss. :/ I don't know if you have some magic way around that. :) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Basic Training is designed to be extremely intense, and individuals who have experienced it generally consider it to have been the most challenging experience of their lives.
Basic Training is designed to be highly intense and challenging.
This is where individuals learn about the fundamentals of being a soldier, from the proper way to respect a superior officer to the correct way to fire weapons
This is where individuals learn about the fundamentals of being a soldier, from combat techniques to the proper way to address a superior.
On Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections it was resulting in too high numbers for "undated" and "total", essentially this is because these numbers are worked out by subtracting the number of items in the dated categories from total number of items in Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections and so when it was reporting two undated these were Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections and Category:All copied and pasted articles and sections. I then found out that you could also edit the factor parameter in Template:Copied and pasted articles and sections progress so I'm happy to restore things to the way there were and increased factor to two if you'd prefer this. Dpmuk ( talk) 13:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for renaming Enciso, similarly La Calle needs to be renamed La Calle (song), because the plain La Calle is needed for a disambiguation. Please just make the renaming, I shall make the disambiguation page myself. Thank you again for your assistance. Xufanc ( talk) 18:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
When you have a minute, I have an image to upload to Commons but need to verify the permission via OTRS. Any chance you could grab the email when I send it? There's no rush. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I had a feeling that might not be good enough. I've asked for a more precise declaration. Thanks anyway. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
File:Be-Nice-or-Leave-Poster.jpg - Good editnotice!
Hi. Nobody has ever tagged a page I've written as a copyvio, so please make allowances for my inexperience and confusion.
I was under the impression that facts could not be copyright; e.g. Just because somebody had published "Fred was born in 1943" does not make it copyright. So I was rather confused as to why you had tagged this page. Then in the very verbose template I noticed: "the new article cannot incorporate phrases and sentences that were placed in the original article". So I re-read what I had written, and noticed that the simplest and best sounding way to express some things was identical to the way the original author had expressed them. (Hardly surprising, but never-the-less, a problem.)
I have reviewed the article and removed all such phrasing that is not basic english (e.g. I don't think there is any other sensible way to say "Fred was born in 1943")
Could I bother you to cast your eye over the following and provide feedback? Thanks in advance. Pdfpdf ( talk) 10:28, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
<snipped article at Talk:Andrew Tennant (politician)/Temp>
Okay, so it took me longer to get to it than I expected (sorry), but I have looked at it now. The reason I blanked it was because the language still closely followed the source, and I still see some examples of that in your rewrite. Obviously it's not a word-for-word copy, but presenting the same facts in the same order can be a problem. What you get by taking copyrighted material (i.e., here, which I would've G12'd if I had seen it in that state) and rewriting it is a derivative work, which is still subject to the original author(s)'s copyright protection,
For an example of the issue, in your rewrite you say:
In 1853, Andrew took cattle west from Port Lincoln and settled at Salt Creek. Despite the hostility of the Aboriginals, he successfully managed his sheep and cattle station for seven years. After this period, he owned stations successively at Mount Wedge, Coffin Bay, and Streaky Bay.
where the source says:
Aged 18, he took cattle west to the shores of Lake Newland near Elliston, and settled at Salt Creek. The holding had been abandoned because of the Aboriginals' hostility, but Tennant was unafraid and for seven years he controlled the natives while successfully managing his sheep and cattle station. Later Tennant owned stations at Mount Wedge, Coffin's Bay and Streaky Bay.
There are other passages that similarly follow too closely in my opinion.
While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. While short phrases which are similar to the source are generally acceptable, in this case the entire article can be largely matched up section for section with the sources. The essay Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. 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". VernoWhitney ( talk) 12:13, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Woosh Wireless ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi,
I was wondering if I can request the protection to be removed from the Woosh Wireless page (or the options available for creating a protected page). Alternatively, is there a way I can submit a page for consideration in the mean time, having not written the one that was removed and protected?
Thanks! Fixedfrequencies ( talk) 22:57, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! Fixedfrequencies ( talk) 02:29, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VWBot 9 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.
VernoWhitney, this is not the usual renaming and I need your opinion: In English Wikipedia Morella's primary meaning is a short story by 19th century American author Edgar Allan Poe. I think though that Morella, Spain deserves the primary meaning, for that city existed centuries before that, so that present "Morella" should be renamed Morella (story) and Morella, Spain should be under "Morella" in order to avoid ethnocentrism. What do you think? Xufanc ( talk) 13:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I wanted to ask whether it wouldn't be better to take this up on Wikipedia regardless of its Commons status, since it is potentially confusing here and is already here for so long. Waiting for the already finished Commons discussion to finally deal with the images may make this less muddled but consensus here does not rely on what happens there anyway. Best Hekerui ( talk) 21:15, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
13:08, 24 February 2011 VernoWhitney (talk | contribs) blocked 59.161.123.197 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 12 hours (Block evasion: User:Maheshkumaryadav )
Thank you. SchmuckyTheCat ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC).
Hello VernoWhitney,
I'm the creator of the page 'Social Enterprise Association'. I understand that the page was recently flagged as unambiguous advertising or promotion, and duly deleted after your review. I would really like to better understand how I can maintain the page as an educative form to better elucidate on types of social enterprises and the various resources present in Singapore. Comparatively, how does corporate pages such as Charles & Keith still maintain their Wiki page when it seems even more geared towards marketing and promotion?
Looking forward to your reply, so that we can help make Wikipedia a more comprehensive knowledge treasury. Thanks!
Tilly101 (
talk)
04:33, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
This is my official site www.himrights.org so i also want to create HimRights in wikipedia page so i copy article from www.himrights.org do i need to write copyright in wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Himrights ( talk • contribs) 05:57, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Verno. :) Can you by any chance review the rewrite at International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions? It was rescued from copyvio status, but the revision remained a close paraphrase. Since I already assessed it and tagged it accordingly, I'd like to get another pair of eyes on the latest version. There's more info at the talk page. If you're not up for it, please let me know and I'll tag somebody else. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the effort of looking for the symbol. Having slept on it, I rather like the idea of using the grey version in the initial emboldened reference (as in the header of this section here), since that makes sense of the acronym, and then just leaving the capital O in the rest of the article. It's an indirect warning sign that anyone looking for further info about RAINBO/RAINB♀ needs to be aware of the typographical complications (not to mention that nearly all the activity now seems to be concentrated into AMANITARE initiatives, but I'll have to tackle that issue when I have a bit less on my plate). What do you think? Opbeith ( talk) 10:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification. -- Trödel 16:27, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) With regards to our serial licensing violator, there's a question about bots and userspace drafts at ANI. I thought perhaps you might have some valuable insight there, because I certainly don't. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:15, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Could you speedy delete Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections from January 2010 for me as an empty clean-up category. Numbers are being reported wrongly in the template again and I suspect this empty category is the problem. If deleting it solves the problem I'll try and look into the templates and find out why. Dpmuk ( talk) 12:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. For The 39 Clues Project You Told Me To Chim In On Something. What Exact Was That You Wanted Me To Do. Answer Soon As Possible. JabocJacobOhYeah ( talk) 03:03, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 March 4. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Dream Focus 15:24, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if there was any progress happening in terms of the copyright issues at Daniel Squadron. I realize that these things can't be rushed, but I do hope that it can be fixed soon, considering it looks weird not having a page at all for a prominent politician.-- Yaksar (let's chat) 01:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, It is important to add the fact on the creation of the term "Arquitectura Kinetica" ( Kinetic Architecture ) I created in 1989 in my former region Colombia, South America. Why?, well,it is a true fact that I have been defending for long time because pararell inventions could occur and in my case is a real fact. In 1989 there was not such worldwide Kinetic Architecture term, not even in my faculty of architecture nor even in books at libraries. I was living in Colombia in 1989 and sice 1987 I started to experimenting on moving objects applied to architecture and that is how I came with the term "Arquitectura Kinetica" "Kinetic Architecture" which I created in spanish language, being an important fact plus the cultural and geographic location I was located. I do need to state this on the wikipedia website, so people understand that "Kinetic Architecture" was created in different times, different places as a parallel invention. It is not an apparent conflict of interest as you said, instead of stopping my notes, you could give me a hand to add the information on when and where the term was created also. My blog is a true statement http://kinetic-architecture-jose-l-mejia.blogspot.com/2010/02/kinetic-architecture-of-jose-leonidas.html so, please keep it on external links also.
Someone mentioned that Kinetic Architecture was very wide known in the world, which is a wrong and not a sourced statement. In 1989 that term was not even known in South America nor even in whole Europe or Asia. Wikipedia is a free escenario to commmitt all of us for a decent dialogue and mutual cooperation. See how last week, still some of the users were looking for deletion of the article and if you see, I have been defending to keep it as well as others, and I improved the definition as a good part of the current one is part of one of my latest content of the definition. That is why is great to work as a team and not to just undo statements of others, we need to improve others thoughts and make it happen. Jose Leonidas Mejia A. Architect 15:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Best,
Jose L. Mejia Architect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kitaro ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Explain your actions pleased. [6] The license had been fixed. He clearly gave consent for it to be used, no doubts about that, and it was linked to in an article where it was appropriate to do so. I thought the issue had been resolved. What guideline specifically did it not meet? All points I see listed were filled out properly. Dream Focus 00:21, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
I would also disagree that it was an appropriate FUR. If we could use FUR to include snapshots of entire print pieces, in large enough resolution to read, we could include song lyrics, librettos, pages out of novels, all kinds of fascinating bits of text that copyright policy forbids our otherwise taking. I haven't followed CBG in a long time, but I loved "But I Digress" when I did; I would think David would be open to discussing the need for a usable license. As I mentioned above, permission to use it on the internet is not sufficient, and it doesn't mention the required element of modification. Organizations have red tape; Wikipedia (I think) does a pretty good job keeping the red tape to a minimum, given its size and market dominance, but when it comes to legal issues, we sometimes have to kowtow to the needs of the organization behind us to make sure that everything is on the up and up. When handling e-mails with these kinds of permission, OTRS guidelines require that our correspondent be "crystal clear" that the content is being released under a compatible license, without which we're not supposed to confirm. (irrelevant commentary: one of my favorite columns of all time was David's roundtable discussion among the Disney princesses. I clipped that and kept it in a scrapbook for a long time. Every time I read it, it made me laugh all over again. :)) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)