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3/4 appears to be a machine translation copyright violation from the following: http://www.info.bialystok.pl/symbole/geneza_herbu/obiekt.php You've previously warned this editor over copyright issues. Regards, Goldsztajn ( talk) 11:41, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello there! Before publishing the sketch with the face of Susanna Reid, I read the rules of English Wikipedia, concerning the images, but the explanation in them is purely obscure, incomplete and unintelligible, in my estimation, so publishing this work was quite chancy and risky. I'd say that I'm quite an experienced user of English Wikipedia, so your voluminous critique would have been very apposite, apropos and indispensible. If you're a public service careerist, a public servant of this wikiproject, I beg you to introduce yourself as fully as possible.
What's your personal viewpoint on my work? Do you think this work is a treason? The thing is that Susanna is quite a reactionary, bourgeois journalist, so it appears to be that I made a right wing opportunistic mistake. On the other hand, personally, I find her to have been quite attractive in youth, so, may be, this cause might have diminished the cruel punishment of proletarian intelligenzia and all the organised workers of the world.
On the other hand, I asked a couple of persons about this work. They told me that Susanna was drawn realistically and vividly, so I didn't committed an antiproletarian crime. My mother, the gentlest and saddest of womankind, noticed that there's a decadent tendency in this work, though.
P. S. if you describe and discuss your opinion on this serious matter in a very voluminous reply to me, I'll be very glad. The point is that I'm really afraid of the decay, decadance and really obscurantism shown in this work. P. P. S. Dr. Blofeld, a polite, affable user of this project, recommends me to ask your advice, your tip, so I decided to follow this user's advice because, according to his messages, edits, he's quite reasonable, intelligible, discerning, observant. By the way, I'm very sorry for my extremely verbose and stylistically incorrect English (it would appear that you noticed that there's a holy mess with grammar and stylistics in my present messages), so I've got to apologise. Роман Сергеевич Сидоров ( talk) 18:53, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for your message regarding the contribution to this section of that page. As I stated: I had links and references cited but was disrupted during my process. Full links and the articles have been completed to the standard that was intended before. As my work is within this industry so I am aware of issues, the disruption whilst writing this article was beyond my control. Mingebinge2 ( talk) 22:07, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, i would like to thank you for editing article about composer Airat Ichmouratov. I see that you removed some content, saying that it was copied from http://www.airatichmouratov.com or https://examplum.com/translation/english-finnish/labadi. I just would like to mention that its mistake, i never copied anything from this websites. For example, the only reason the info about Ichmouratov's assistant post with Bernard Labadie on examplum.com, because it is probably google accumulated info, that was accumulated from actual wikipedia page, examplum.com just gives example of translation! i never took this phrase from examplum.com, its in reverse, i didnt even know about existence of this website, until you mentioned it. so its mistake, pls reverse it. Also , i noticed that you just removed information about Ichmouratov's Theatrical dynasty, which was properly cited from russian online website. You just removed this phrase, for the reason that it was copied from www.airatichmouratov.com , but it wasnt copied, because this info is not there, i never copied anything from composer's website, this info is simply not there, i found this info on russian website https://e-vid.ru/index-m-192-p-63-article-38824.htm and it was properly cited. Pls check, I am very careful with copyright material, and trying only put there materials that i can cite form online sources or books. I think you probably made a mistake, would you be so kind to reverse it. Thank you again for your help, its appreciated a lot. all the best Patrick0506 ( talk) 23:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Hmm. I've never been accused of copyright infringement in all my years on Wikipedia. That didn't come the source you quoted, which I've never seen before. I know you're just doing your admin job but ouch! Lozleader ( talk) 20:01, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa. I see you deleted one of the revision pages for the DGSAT I article I'm working on. I want to apologize for that, I probably copy-pasted some material into the page so I could quickly check the info without having to hop tabs while I was writing. I just now realize even as a draft, an article still is in public access. I'll be more careful from now on.
Thank you for your hard work. DGSATI ( talk) 23:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa! I've paid attention to the edits you've made and content that was cut from Gonçalo M. Tavares's wiki page.
I work for this author and have been trying to update his wikipedia page to make it similar to his agency page (as he requested). From your last edit, I understand that I need written authorization from the agency so that we can use their text, and I will try to obtain that.
I have now added some self-written paragraphs on his career, and I would like to add again the list of prizes he has won. If I add this list of prizes, citing the page of his agency ( https://mertinwitt-litag.de/portfolio-items/goncalo-m-tavares/) which is where I will get that information, is that okay? I would restructure the way it is written so that it's not a violation, but the information overall would be the same and that would be the source.
Thank you very much! Mariana-alfabeto ( talk) 16:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Can you please provide me with the results of the comparison tool of the edits that you deleted at Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (latest revision deleted)? I took the information from cited journal, but I didn not copy it. I took the idea only and the anatomical information but rewritten the section. It might have been a false positive in your copyright violation checking tool because some anatomical terms may consist of 3-4 words. I indeed used the information from the article I gave proper attribution to, but I didn't copy it as a whole. Therefore, results of comparison tool might have been useful for me to understand which treshold triggers your tool. The page is now deleted and I cannot see where exactly the violation were. Or send me the text you deleted by email. Thank you in advance! I would also be grateful if you won't template me in the future, but add a few words on substance. The template you used on me does not seem to explain the questions I raised, and majority of its lines are irrelevant. We are humans, not bots. Thank you very much in advance! Maxim Masiutin ( talk) 17:55, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
I am obviously not clear on the issue of copyright in the context of the propofol deleted cits. I did review the deletes and could not see the concerns in all honesty.
Kindly advice and offer a WP guidance so I can educate myself - clearly these were good faith efforts to support often poor statement or statements that had no citations.
Your assistances would be greatly appreciated - as a retired MD and researcher - I am clearly aware of copyright matters in the publishing world - I did not see anything in the links I added - Propofol is a little unique as lot of data is often proprietary - but that might be very different from the claimed WP policy violations.
I am trying to make these medical articles better not violate WP policies that have been in place for decades.
I am asking for you assistance in a professional manner.
Respectfully - Dr.
BeingObjective (
talk) 14:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC) FRS.
I rephrased my paraphrasing in 1881–1896 cholera pandemic and now await humbly for your approval, before I spend more of my precious time contributing to Wikipedia and not be bluntly and rudely reverted. You were probably right that I too hastily tried to improve a poorly written and badly maintained article and paraphrased too closely, but I was rather surprised to be threatened with a block. After so many years on Wikipedia, I think I deserve better despite my mistakes. I thought there is something like WP:AFG. If you think this is the best way to retain a contributor to Wikipedia, well … you might reconsider that. Instead of templating me, you could have left a message on my talk page and I would have considered that seriously. Anyway, I hope to cooperate in the future in a more gentle and considerate way. - DonCalo ( talk) 20:30, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Please could you revdel this diff as a copyright violation. The first sentence was copied from durr.com, and the second sentence was copied from expresspharma.in.-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:07, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I hope you're well. Since I've been back (post my blocking a few weeks ago), I have lost some of my abilities (I'm not sure what they're called); specifically, when I created an article it was auto-confirmed, now they sit draft (for example). I think there were some others as well (like reviewing draft articles and approving them etc). Any chance I could get these back? Thanks Tobyjamesaus ( talk) 05:13, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
User:NelsonExpression has been adding images to articles asserting that they have the copyright "donated" by the various school pupils that they have been working with. The images are at commons here. Although this user is currently blocked because of a username issue, they state that they will be back with an acceptable user-name. My concern is that I do not believe that a teacher or project leader can upload images claiming that the children who have contributed their photographs have "gifted" the copyright to their teacher/ project leader. A number of the images are unsuitable or unhelpful where they have been inserted, but that can be dealt with through normal editing processes. Yours views on the copyright issue would be most appreciated. Many thanks Velella Velella Talk 13:29, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, In reviewing Tomato chlorosis virus there appears to be a bit of cut and paste happening. Ive reworded it and warned the (new) editor. Could you please strike some of the history if you think it is required. Thanks. Hughesdarren ( talk) 06:18, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Selby Abbey ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) These two edits have 230 words of text directly lifted from https://www.selbyabbey.org.uk/washington-window - starting with "The shield is white with two". This is Selby Abbey's website, so it might be irrelevant. The editor's IP changes often, so communication attempts seem futile. The "It is thought to form the basis of the modern day" appears to be synthesis.
Any suggestions? Thank you! Adakiko ( talk) 18:59, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! I have been working on a draft of an article about a nurse educator named Hector Hugo Gonzalez. I did not remember that much of the work I had done was word-for-word from a source. I feel that I have removed much of the possibly offending material, attempted to avoid excessive close paraphrasing, and it's now passing Earwig's Copyvio Detector. I thought that I might ask you to take a look at the draft and let me know of any remaning copyvio issues and make any revdels as necessary before I publish the article to the main space. Article: Draft:Hector Hugo Gonzalez Most recent Copyviodetector: [2] Thanks so much! Wikipedialuva ( talk) 09:29, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I was wondering if there is the possibility of excluding certain pages from being assessed against WP articles when using Earwig. Right now, I am getting a score of 63.2% when checking the page on Catherine, Princess of Wales, due to the existence of this webpage. This online article was published on 15 December 2012, and most of its content was already available on the WP article by the time of its publication ( revision from 15 Nov. 2012). So should we just ignore this score, especially since the article is undergoing a GA review? What does the policy dictate for such instances? Keivan.f Talk 05:42, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
I think that this post at Talk:Mukesh Ambani was a copyright violation. I have not found a URL for it. The text has a format that looks right in edit mode (or diff mode), which I regard as a giveaway that is has been copied and pasted from somewhere else. I have pasted a warning on the IP editor's talk page.-- Toddy1 (talk) 20:28, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
See this edit. You have a typo in the name of the template so it didn't populate correctly. You need to do it so it will put the correct signature into the notice. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 01:07, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi. You recently did some copyright removal edits at Stanbic Bank 20 Series. I've tried to deal with some of the other issues on the page after those and it turns out that there's what appears to be a very similar copy of the page at Zimbabwe Domestic Twenty20 Competition - for example, the 2006-07 section is a direct copy from the same source that I think you removed content for from the Stanbic page (these are essentially the same competitions and I plan to do some redirecting fairly soon).
Looking at the page history it all seems fairly hopeless - a lot of the 07-08 and 08-09 seasons stuff seems to come from the same source. There might just be some useful bits from other sources in there - I've taken a full copy of it to use sources. I have no idea what the best way to resolve this is - if necessary, stripping almost everything out or, I suppose, the CSD route if you think it's entirely hopeless. If you could have a brief look... Thanks - I'll watch here for a few days Blue Square Thing ( talk) 16:58, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
I knew something didn't sit right - this is a duck of UniverseSagar yes? I knew the name didn't quite sound right but couldn't place it at first. I'll open an SPI in the morning my time, but as a heads up just in case things kick off in the meantime. Not sure about Hain9, but there are some interesting similarities there. Blue Square Thing ( talk) 23:51, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm New users in Wikipedia I like edition in Wikipedia you talk on my talk box I'm not copyright is not Working and Not Possible Please I need Help SAGAR ( talk) 05:31, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm carefully reviewing the text of the intro to the Mace Neufeld biography, given your claim that it in some way violates the copyright to the obituary in Variety. Please do not remove all of the intro but rather, indicate which actual sentences violate copyright, if any. The facts of an individual's life cannot be copyrighted, only the actual text used in the sentences. Ross Fraser ( talk) 18:23, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I've been writing a new article that is ready for review, but it turns out the page already exists. The existing page just has a redirect. I'm actually a little unclear how I kick off the regular review process similarly to a new article that hasn't been created. If I just move all the content at once I am sure it would break the spirit of of a regular edit. Do you have any ideas?
Article: User:Snake playing a saxaphone/deep gluteal syndrome
Where it should eventually be: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Deep_gluteal_syndrome&redirect=no Snake playing a saxaphone ( talk) 08:34, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
How does copyright apply to citations? Can an entire paragraph be quoted in this case I tried to remove [3]? The quote says almost the same thing as the body of the article already does paraphrased. Vacosea ( talk) 00:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, you have made changes to the Wikipedia article for Megan Cassidy-Welch, which is a newly created page. I don't think anything in the article constitutes a copyright violation. You have deleted and hidden content and I can't find the changes you have made on the deletion log or anywhere else - it's probably me, but I've looked and I can't see it. I do not think it's necessary to delete and hide material just because there wasn't an edit summary added when the change was originally made. Please can you show and explain your changes to the page? I am more than happy to add further references or work to improve the page if that is necessary. Many thanks, Srsval ( talk) 12:58, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ajaykumar465. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 10:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, since May I've been addressing a tracked syntax error on Wikipedia called the
Tidy Font bug, which is where user specified colored links are improperly written and do not display correctly. I'm down to the last few hundred of this error and one page you page-protected in 2013,
User talk:ZappaOMatic/Archive 2, has a few of this error. I was wondering since you were the page-protector if you had any objections to lowering the page to Extended Confirmed (either temporarily or indefinitely) so I could address these and the other
WP:LINT errors on the page?
Thanks,
Zinnober9 (
talk) 23:28, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa.
You deleted part of my contribution to the molecular cloud article over copyright concerns. The article you mentioned I copied from (The Evolution of Molecular Clouds by Richard B. Larson) is properly referenced on the article. That paper is also published in a book called The Structure and Content of Molecular Clouds: 25 Years of Molecular Radioastronomy and is referenced under that name. Unfortunately I didn't save the article anywhere else so I can't compare it side by side to see what was wrong with it. It would be helpful if you could tell me what paragraph you considered to be too close (I thought I had paraphrased enough) or if it was just a matter that you didn't find that article in the references.
Also would it be possible to rework those portions of the text and show it to you first before trying to resubmitting to the article? I don't want to submit something that is going to be considered a copyright violation. I know you're probably too busy for this sort of hand-holding but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Thank you for your hard work. DGSATI ( talk) 20:54, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
I saw you made an attribution edit to Framnes Mountains saying it copied content from Mount Henderson (Holme Bay). That is not exactly accurate. A lot of the Framnes Mountains content on features comes from the public domain Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF), 1995. This in turn is copied with minor editing by the public domain GNIS Antarctica Detail articles, and by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre Gazetteer. Articles about ranges, mountains etc. in the Framnes Mountains often copy content from one or more of these three sources, and the same content may appear in a parent and child article. I think the attribution is (now) usually correct. The copying could be made more obvious, e.g.
This is a very large mountain1
That seems a bit awkward to me. Aymatth2 ( talk) 14:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, As I understand you're an administrator and are very well-versed in page history and copyright issues on Wikipedia, may I ask your help with the following page? Patsy O'Connor (currently Afded) was Proded and deleted in the past. Should the page be kept, is there an easy way to restore the original history so that copyright can be attributed? Thank you very much. Best, (Note: I would have asked User:Joe Decker, the administrator who had performed both Prod and deletion back in 2011, but his page said he left Wikipedia. I apologise if there was an appropriate forum to request or discuss such tasks). - My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 10:08, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Saw you providing attribution edits on 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis and wanted to ask how my attribution edits have been recently. I know that you reached out to me in the past (not sure how I can see any attribution errors on my part), so I wanted to make sure I'm still doing well with this. Also, is it true that you do not need to attribute your own edits between articles? I was told this by a separate user, though have continued to attribute in edit summaries just to be safe. Thanks for your help that you've already provided! WMrapids ( talk) 07:30, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, one of your userboxes states that you're 113th on the list of editors by number of edits. However, the list itself has you at 109. RedundancyAdvocate ( talk) 02:28, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Diannaa, Do you know if the English wiki accepts fair use?, I would greatly appreciate the help. I have a problem with images from copyright free sites that have use restrictions or for other reasons do not come Creative Commons. (cc of message sent to CambialYellowing, they advised me that you may be able to help me). ChefBear01 ( talk) 15:23, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Diannaa Hello, just out of curiosity, how did you know that the pdf that I cited was copyrighted, I'd like to know how to look out for copyrighted content in the future, thanks. Dr Ulster ( talk) 17:51, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Shoe_size&diff=1188433058&oldid=1188117544. It is a straight copy of the source cited. Are there any mitigating factors? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 16:53, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
There is a user by the name Re Packer&Tracker who has removed sourced content from the article Prithviraj Chauhan. The user stated that they have concerns because of the neutrality of article which I addresed per WP:CONACHIEVE and modified the language of my edit but now the user is objecting for no reasons stating 'I still can't agree' which is stopping me from achieving consensus per WP:TALKDONTREVERT. It is a humble request to block the user or warn them, whatever you think is necessary as they have removed sourced content wihtout any legitimate explanation and are also using disruptive measures. Gspgoat( talk) 19:22, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Good morning, I'm not too sure about your edit summary is supposed to mean? "Attribution: The edit dated 2023-12-08 07:57 contained content copied from the Wikipedia page at 2023 New Year Honours; see its history for attribution. (See WP:RIA for more information." The article you reference was also made by me, so am I supposed to attribute myself? Nford24 ( PE121 Personnel Request Form) 00:09, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Dear @ Diannaa, I observed you have deleted the content from the Gramanya page.The content was written by me.Page to page I have refered and added the content.Yes few well source content was copied from deshastha page as it is related to Yajurvedi deshasthas and few are related to CKP(The contents were cross verified before adding).Anyhow go through the content and revert back as I have spent a lot of time in reading books related to gramanya.The time should not go in vain. The whole contents are well documented without any misinformation including court case. 2409:40F2:8:A3F0:5D14:7DA3:50D3:EC15 ( talk) 21:31, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Can you take another look at that page? It came up on
CopyPatrol again. Thanks
Nobody (
talk) 07:22, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
I'm not paying as close attention as I should, but I think it has been 5 hours since the most recent report. S Philbrick (Talk) 18:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
I think this edit of yours at Our Lady of the Hens [5] may have been unnecessary. I was – and I am – the sole author of Feast of Our Lady of the Hens, that I created as Vicipaedianus x and later expanded as Est. 2021 ( as you can check) translating the Italian page that I wrote myself in 2014. Did I copy content from mysef? Est. 2021 ( talk · contribs) 09:17, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
I just started on Wikipedia. I have a draft that has not been submitted for review. Nothing on there was copyrighted. I wrote it all myself. I write for a living, including research proposals, scientific books, and scientific papers. I don't understand why you are touching a draft that has not been submitted for review. It says I have 6 months or more before I have to submit. I have only worked on it for 5 days! Once it is submitted for review then input is appropriate. I did not realize that anyone else would be interfering with my draft. This was not helpful and very detrimental. It is hard as a first time user to learn how to put Wikipedia pages together. And now I have to figure out what is even happening here. It is not ready for review at all. I have not put in the references or completed the text. What is happening here? I cannot even tell how much you deleted. And you removed my version so I cannot get it back or even compare? You erased everything so I cannot even see what you changed? Please do not do this again. Why would you do this? In science, project names are not copyrighted and repeating project and thesis names exactly is important, appropriate, and not plagiarism or copyright infringement. This is how science is properly listed. The names of research projects are meant to be repeated exactly and are well-considered. The words convey specificity. It's taken me an hour and half to try and find out what you did as I am new. Matt Allen's CV on his website does not suggest his project names are copyrighted, nothing here is copyrighted. You saw that I had placeholders for references on every line. Why not ask a question instead of destroying and deleting all records of my work? Why would you even go into to someone else's draft prior to review? And you made everything difficult to track, compare, review, or undo. I am confused why you are doing anything with this draft prior to when I submit for review? I confused as to why you wouldn't have a discussion with me instead of making changes and then making them unavailable for comparison and delete all the records for no reason at all. If you would like to help me learn about Wikipedia practices, please explain what your objection is instead of deleting all record of my text. This is not my job and this page will take time to put together piece by piece. I will submit when it is ready for review. That certainly isn't now. And deleting 4 separate revision records of mine to make it hard for me to figure things out was completely unnecessary and harmful.
Sierra16235 ( talk) 15:14, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, can you weigh in on if this is actually a copyright or plagiarism issue? nableezy - 02:43, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 80.216.151.223 ( talk) 14:29, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
The section has been removed from ANI. There were also duplicates posted at Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#Is Diannaa special admin on Wikipedia, Wikipedia talk:NPOV dispute#Diannaa over limit, and a re-post at ANI. It's possible that all three IPs are the same person, although they geolocate to three different countries.
Diannaa,
The Edith Alma Ross biography I submitted was deleted for copyright infringement. The website from which much of the text was taken [ http://www.plantsofiowa.com/BDI_collector_bios_3.html#Ross,%20Edith%20Alma] is mine. In other words, I copied my own work, reworded it a bit, and submitted it to Wikipedia.
I read thru Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, but it's not clear to me which action to take.
The text implies that, if I donate my own material, other people will be able to edit the Edith Alma Ross Wikipedia page. I thought that was true for all Wikipedia pages! If it's posted someone else can revise it.
I don't know what avenue to take. I've not plagiarized someone else's work. Please advise. Wapsie Crossing ( talk) 15:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. I wonder have you already looked over that large third paragraph at Paternoster Row. It looks a bit like copy and paste to me. I see some concerns have been raised, over various matters, at User talk:79.161.199.20. Regards. Martinevans123 ( talk) 10:49, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, User:Pinapplepizzafromdominos has created another Copyvio draft. Shouldn't this be stopped now? Thanks for the advice Nobody ( talk) 12:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, if only copyright violation was the only problem here, since your edit last month. More copyright issues, in addition to COI and socking. When you have a chance. Thanks, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 05:52, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, They're still doing it after your second warning. Might be time for a page-block to get their attention. Nobody ( talk) 09:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
The site that I used text from - in their disclaimer, they wrote that the use of their text is OK if their site is linked to, which I did.
MalaMrvica ( talk) 19:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Is the second source on Doina phaeobregma copyrighted? I can't find anything about the copyright status of these publications. Scorpions1325 ( talk) 04:05, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm being reverted here by a single-purpose copyvio merchant - I suspect COI too, not to mention some incompetence. Johnbod ( talk) 19:41, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind me asking this here, but would you mind taking a look at the Loxanthocereus faustianus article? It seems to be a very close paraphrase from a machine translation of one of the sources- the unusual phrase "diameter thickness" has been used in the article, which is both a) a really weird thing to say and b)something that only seems to happen when Google translates the original document's "espesor" into English. (It won't translate "esperor" by itself into "diameter thickness" because the word itself just means "thickness".) There's no word-for-word match to the machine/human translation, but I'm having a hard time imagining that somebody would willingly type the phrase "diameter thickness." Could really do with your opinion. GreenLipstickLesbian ( talk) 05:51, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa|from this source=yes}}
as part of the citation. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. There's detailed instructions at
Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Copying material from free sources. —
Diannaa (
talk) 11:55, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Hi Diannaa,
This has section that you deleted due to copywrite issue. Very similar content is actually used in multiple sites like this or this. Also the site does not include any copywrite notice. It's possible to include the content in the article? Tamle2nd ( talk) 23:00, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
OK, I have closed all Wikipedia windows on the phone, whether edit or not. I guess when I need to translate I will have to email the links to myself to avoid having an open edit window on the phone. I haven't figured out what triggers the bug, except that having many windows open seems to be one of the factors, so I am positing a memory management issue. Not that it matters if they aren't planning to fix it. That new reply button also seems really convenient but requires cleanup of a second post of random text in about 30% of uses.
Anyway, I'm cured of trying to Wikipedia on my phone. Hopefully this answers what you wanted to know; if not ping me back, I guess. I will be going through those articles again today regardless of this, since I am there in the first place trying to untangle the units that did carry out pogroms from those that did not, and going through them round-robin seems to help in identifying the discrepancies.
I noticed when I came to this page that you are working on Holocaust articles. I remember reading that now, but had forgotten, or I would have asked you about this already. A couple of extended questions follow. If you are busy and it's TL;DR, of course I understand, but having been reminded that you, an editor I respect and a librarian to boot (!) are working in this topic area, I am hoping to interest you in some of my current problems.
Have you been in the Lithuania Holocaust articles? The slaughter in Lithuania was massive -- the figure 95% of the Jewish population keeps coming up, and that's in less than six months. So there are even more strong feelings than in other Holocaust topics I have seen, and some sources say that in wider society (vs. Wikipedia) this was historically compounded by Soviet propaganda for Soviet reasons. There does seem to have been a lot of PoV pushing on Wikipedia over the years, ironically not so much by the people currently blaming each other for this. I've been adding in some facts but most of the search results I am getting are from the Lithuanian archives, and some of them contradict sources published by the Polish archive IPN. Other editors might reasonably ask the due weight question of why Lithuanian archives would be any more reliable than the Polish. (The short answer is legislation, but that is also an incomplete answer.)
For context, sources discuss Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, German and Jewish versions of events, with occasional mentions of Lativa, Estonia, Byelorussia and Finland on specific points.
Even more long-term, the Russian disinformation and minimization of Jewish identity deserve a separate article.
But the short-term goal is just to at least disambiguate and un-conflate the various incarnations of the Resistance, the militias and the German administration.
Thanks for reading, any suggestions that you may have would be very welcome Elinruby ( talk) 22:31, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I wondered if you could have a look at Bill Buchanan (computer scientist). It has several long quotations from the subject of the article, and although they are referenced, I am wondering if this is excessive use of non-free content. Hope you can advise - many thanks. Tacyarg ( talk) 22:19, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
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3/4 appears to be a machine translation copyright violation from the following: http://www.info.bialystok.pl/symbole/geneza_herbu/obiekt.php You've previously warned this editor over copyright issues. Regards, Goldsztajn ( talk) 11:41, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello there! Before publishing the sketch with the face of Susanna Reid, I read the rules of English Wikipedia, concerning the images, but the explanation in them is purely obscure, incomplete and unintelligible, in my estimation, so publishing this work was quite chancy and risky. I'd say that I'm quite an experienced user of English Wikipedia, so your voluminous critique would have been very apposite, apropos and indispensible. If you're a public service careerist, a public servant of this wikiproject, I beg you to introduce yourself as fully as possible.
What's your personal viewpoint on my work? Do you think this work is a treason? The thing is that Susanna is quite a reactionary, bourgeois journalist, so it appears to be that I made a right wing opportunistic mistake. On the other hand, personally, I find her to have been quite attractive in youth, so, may be, this cause might have diminished the cruel punishment of proletarian intelligenzia and all the organised workers of the world.
On the other hand, I asked a couple of persons about this work. They told me that Susanna was drawn realistically and vividly, so I didn't committed an antiproletarian crime. My mother, the gentlest and saddest of womankind, noticed that there's a decadent tendency in this work, though.
P. S. if you describe and discuss your opinion on this serious matter in a very voluminous reply to me, I'll be very glad. The point is that I'm really afraid of the decay, decadance and really obscurantism shown in this work. P. P. S. Dr. Blofeld, a polite, affable user of this project, recommends me to ask your advice, your tip, so I decided to follow this user's advice because, according to his messages, edits, he's quite reasonable, intelligible, discerning, observant. By the way, I'm very sorry for my extremely verbose and stylistically incorrect English (it would appear that you noticed that there's a holy mess with grammar and stylistics in my present messages), so I've got to apologise. Роман Сергеевич Сидоров ( talk) 18:53, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for your message regarding the contribution to this section of that page. As I stated: I had links and references cited but was disrupted during my process. Full links and the articles have been completed to the standard that was intended before. As my work is within this industry so I am aware of issues, the disruption whilst writing this article was beyond my control. Mingebinge2 ( talk) 22:07, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, i would like to thank you for editing article about composer Airat Ichmouratov. I see that you removed some content, saying that it was copied from http://www.airatichmouratov.com or https://examplum.com/translation/english-finnish/labadi. I just would like to mention that its mistake, i never copied anything from this websites. For example, the only reason the info about Ichmouratov's assistant post with Bernard Labadie on examplum.com, because it is probably google accumulated info, that was accumulated from actual wikipedia page, examplum.com just gives example of translation! i never took this phrase from examplum.com, its in reverse, i didnt even know about existence of this website, until you mentioned it. so its mistake, pls reverse it. Also , i noticed that you just removed information about Ichmouratov's Theatrical dynasty, which was properly cited from russian online website. You just removed this phrase, for the reason that it was copied from www.airatichmouratov.com , but it wasnt copied, because this info is not there, i never copied anything from composer's website, this info is simply not there, i found this info on russian website https://e-vid.ru/index-m-192-p-63-article-38824.htm and it was properly cited. Pls check, I am very careful with copyright material, and trying only put there materials that i can cite form online sources or books. I think you probably made a mistake, would you be so kind to reverse it. Thank you again for your help, its appreciated a lot. all the best Patrick0506 ( talk) 23:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Hmm. I've never been accused of copyright infringement in all my years on Wikipedia. That didn't come the source you quoted, which I've never seen before. I know you're just doing your admin job but ouch! Lozleader ( talk) 20:01, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa. I see you deleted one of the revision pages for the DGSAT I article I'm working on. I want to apologize for that, I probably copy-pasted some material into the page so I could quickly check the info without having to hop tabs while I was writing. I just now realize even as a draft, an article still is in public access. I'll be more careful from now on.
Thank you for your hard work. DGSATI ( talk) 23:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa! I've paid attention to the edits you've made and content that was cut from Gonçalo M. Tavares's wiki page.
I work for this author and have been trying to update his wikipedia page to make it similar to his agency page (as he requested). From your last edit, I understand that I need written authorization from the agency so that we can use their text, and I will try to obtain that.
I have now added some self-written paragraphs on his career, and I would like to add again the list of prizes he has won. If I add this list of prizes, citing the page of his agency ( https://mertinwitt-litag.de/portfolio-items/goncalo-m-tavares/) which is where I will get that information, is that okay? I would restructure the way it is written so that it's not a violation, but the information overall would be the same and that would be the source.
Thank you very much! Mariana-alfabeto ( talk) 16:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Can you please provide me with the results of the comparison tool of the edits that you deleted at Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (latest revision deleted)? I took the information from cited journal, but I didn not copy it. I took the idea only and the anatomical information but rewritten the section. It might have been a false positive in your copyright violation checking tool because some anatomical terms may consist of 3-4 words. I indeed used the information from the article I gave proper attribution to, but I didn't copy it as a whole. Therefore, results of comparison tool might have been useful for me to understand which treshold triggers your tool. The page is now deleted and I cannot see where exactly the violation were. Or send me the text you deleted by email. Thank you in advance! I would also be grateful if you won't template me in the future, but add a few words on substance. The template you used on me does not seem to explain the questions I raised, and majority of its lines are irrelevant. We are humans, not bots. Thank you very much in advance! Maxim Masiutin ( talk) 17:55, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
I am obviously not clear on the issue of copyright in the context of the propofol deleted cits. I did review the deletes and could not see the concerns in all honesty.
Kindly advice and offer a WP guidance so I can educate myself - clearly these were good faith efforts to support often poor statement or statements that had no citations.
Your assistances would be greatly appreciated - as a retired MD and researcher - I am clearly aware of copyright matters in the publishing world - I did not see anything in the links I added - Propofol is a little unique as lot of data is often proprietary - but that might be very different from the claimed WP policy violations.
I am trying to make these medical articles better not violate WP policies that have been in place for decades.
I am asking for you assistance in a professional manner.
Respectfully - Dr.
BeingObjective (
talk) 14:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC) FRS.
I rephrased my paraphrasing in 1881–1896 cholera pandemic and now await humbly for your approval, before I spend more of my precious time contributing to Wikipedia and not be bluntly and rudely reverted. You were probably right that I too hastily tried to improve a poorly written and badly maintained article and paraphrased too closely, but I was rather surprised to be threatened with a block. After so many years on Wikipedia, I think I deserve better despite my mistakes. I thought there is something like WP:AFG. If you think this is the best way to retain a contributor to Wikipedia, well … you might reconsider that. Instead of templating me, you could have left a message on my talk page and I would have considered that seriously. Anyway, I hope to cooperate in the future in a more gentle and considerate way. - DonCalo ( talk) 20:30, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Please could you revdel this diff as a copyright violation. The first sentence was copied from durr.com, and the second sentence was copied from expresspharma.in.-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:07, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I hope you're well. Since I've been back (post my blocking a few weeks ago), I have lost some of my abilities (I'm not sure what they're called); specifically, when I created an article it was auto-confirmed, now they sit draft (for example). I think there were some others as well (like reviewing draft articles and approving them etc). Any chance I could get these back? Thanks Tobyjamesaus ( talk) 05:13, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
User:NelsonExpression has been adding images to articles asserting that they have the copyright "donated" by the various school pupils that they have been working with. The images are at commons here. Although this user is currently blocked because of a username issue, they state that they will be back with an acceptable user-name. My concern is that I do not believe that a teacher or project leader can upload images claiming that the children who have contributed their photographs have "gifted" the copyright to their teacher/ project leader. A number of the images are unsuitable or unhelpful where they have been inserted, but that can be dealt with through normal editing processes. Yours views on the copyright issue would be most appreciated. Many thanks Velella Velella Talk 13:29, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, In reviewing Tomato chlorosis virus there appears to be a bit of cut and paste happening. Ive reworded it and warned the (new) editor. Could you please strike some of the history if you think it is required. Thanks. Hughesdarren ( talk) 06:18, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Selby Abbey ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) These two edits have 230 words of text directly lifted from https://www.selbyabbey.org.uk/washington-window - starting with "The shield is white with two". This is Selby Abbey's website, so it might be irrelevant. The editor's IP changes often, so communication attempts seem futile. The "It is thought to form the basis of the modern day" appears to be synthesis.
Any suggestions? Thank you! Adakiko ( talk) 18:59, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! I have been working on a draft of an article about a nurse educator named Hector Hugo Gonzalez. I did not remember that much of the work I had done was word-for-word from a source. I feel that I have removed much of the possibly offending material, attempted to avoid excessive close paraphrasing, and it's now passing Earwig's Copyvio Detector. I thought that I might ask you to take a look at the draft and let me know of any remaning copyvio issues and make any revdels as necessary before I publish the article to the main space. Article: Draft:Hector Hugo Gonzalez Most recent Copyviodetector: [2] Thanks so much! Wikipedialuva ( talk) 09:29, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I was wondering if there is the possibility of excluding certain pages from being assessed against WP articles when using Earwig. Right now, I am getting a score of 63.2% when checking the page on Catherine, Princess of Wales, due to the existence of this webpage. This online article was published on 15 December 2012, and most of its content was already available on the WP article by the time of its publication ( revision from 15 Nov. 2012). So should we just ignore this score, especially since the article is undergoing a GA review? What does the policy dictate for such instances? Keivan.f Talk 05:42, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
I think that this post at Talk:Mukesh Ambani was a copyright violation. I have not found a URL for it. The text has a format that looks right in edit mode (or diff mode), which I regard as a giveaway that is has been copied and pasted from somewhere else. I have pasted a warning on the IP editor's talk page.-- Toddy1 (talk) 20:28, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
See this edit. You have a typo in the name of the template so it didn't populate correctly. You need to do it so it will put the correct signature into the notice. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 01:07, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi. You recently did some copyright removal edits at Stanbic Bank 20 Series. I've tried to deal with some of the other issues on the page after those and it turns out that there's what appears to be a very similar copy of the page at Zimbabwe Domestic Twenty20 Competition - for example, the 2006-07 section is a direct copy from the same source that I think you removed content for from the Stanbic page (these are essentially the same competitions and I plan to do some redirecting fairly soon).
Looking at the page history it all seems fairly hopeless - a lot of the 07-08 and 08-09 seasons stuff seems to come from the same source. There might just be some useful bits from other sources in there - I've taken a full copy of it to use sources. I have no idea what the best way to resolve this is - if necessary, stripping almost everything out or, I suppose, the CSD route if you think it's entirely hopeless. If you could have a brief look... Thanks - I'll watch here for a few days Blue Square Thing ( talk) 16:58, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
I knew something didn't sit right - this is a duck of UniverseSagar yes? I knew the name didn't quite sound right but couldn't place it at first. I'll open an SPI in the morning my time, but as a heads up just in case things kick off in the meantime. Not sure about Hain9, but there are some interesting similarities there. Blue Square Thing ( talk) 23:51, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm New users in Wikipedia I like edition in Wikipedia you talk on my talk box I'm not copyright is not Working and Not Possible Please I need Help SAGAR ( talk) 05:31, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm carefully reviewing the text of the intro to the Mace Neufeld biography, given your claim that it in some way violates the copyright to the obituary in Variety. Please do not remove all of the intro but rather, indicate which actual sentences violate copyright, if any. The facts of an individual's life cannot be copyrighted, only the actual text used in the sentences. Ross Fraser ( talk) 18:23, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I've been writing a new article that is ready for review, but it turns out the page already exists. The existing page just has a redirect. I'm actually a little unclear how I kick off the regular review process similarly to a new article that hasn't been created. If I just move all the content at once I am sure it would break the spirit of of a regular edit. Do you have any ideas?
Article: User:Snake playing a saxaphone/deep gluteal syndrome
Where it should eventually be: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Deep_gluteal_syndrome&redirect=no Snake playing a saxaphone ( talk) 08:34, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
How does copyright apply to citations? Can an entire paragraph be quoted in this case I tried to remove [3]? The quote says almost the same thing as the body of the article already does paraphrased. Vacosea ( talk) 00:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, you have made changes to the Wikipedia article for Megan Cassidy-Welch, which is a newly created page. I don't think anything in the article constitutes a copyright violation. You have deleted and hidden content and I can't find the changes you have made on the deletion log or anywhere else - it's probably me, but I've looked and I can't see it. I do not think it's necessary to delete and hide material just because there wasn't an edit summary added when the change was originally made. Please can you show and explain your changes to the page? I am more than happy to add further references or work to improve the page if that is necessary. Many thanks, Srsval ( talk) 12:58, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ajaykumar465. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 10:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, since May I've been addressing a tracked syntax error on Wikipedia called the
Tidy Font bug, which is where user specified colored links are improperly written and do not display correctly. I'm down to the last few hundred of this error and one page you page-protected in 2013,
User talk:ZappaOMatic/Archive 2, has a few of this error. I was wondering since you were the page-protector if you had any objections to lowering the page to Extended Confirmed (either temporarily or indefinitely) so I could address these and the other
WP:LINT errors on the page?
Thanks,
Zinnober9 (
talk) 23:28, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa.
You deleted part of my contribution to the molecular cloud article over copyright concerns. The article you mentioned I copied from (The Evolution of Molecular Clouds by Richard B. Larson) is properly referenced on the article. That paper is also published in a book called The Structure and Content of Molecular Clouds: 25 Years of Molecular Radioastronomy and is referenced under that name. Unfortunately I didn't save the article anywhere else so I can't compare it side by side to see what was wrong with it. It would be helpful if you could tell me what paragraph you considered to be too close (I thought I had paraphrased enough) or if it was just a matter that you didn't find that article in the references.
Also would it be possible to rework those portions of the text and show it to you first before trying to resubmitting to the article? I don't want to submit something that is going to be considered a copyright violation. I know you're probably too busy for this sort of hand-holding but it doesn't hurt to ask.
Thank you for your hard work. DGSATI ( talk) 20:54, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
I saw you made an attribution edit to Framnes Mountains saying it copied content from Mount Henderson (Holme Bay). That is not exactly accurate. A lot of the Framnes Mountains content on features comes from the public domain Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF), 1995. This in turn is copied with minor editing by the public domain GNIS Antarctica Detail articles, and by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre Gazetteer. Articles about ranges, mountains etc. in the Framnes Mountains often copy content from one or more of these three sources, and the same content may appear in a parent and child article. I think the attribution is (now) usually correct. The copying could be made more obvious, e.g.
This is a very large mountain1
That seems a bit awkward to me. Aymatth2 ( talk) 14:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, As I understand you're an administrator and are very well-versed in page history and copyright issues on Wikipedia, may I ask your help with the following page? Patsy O'Connor (currently Afded) was Proded and deleted in the past. Should the page be kept, is there an easy way to restore the original history so that copyright can be attributed? Thank you very much. Best, (Note: I would have asked User:Joe Decker, the administrator who had performed both Prod and deletion back in 2011, but his page said he left Wikipedia. I apologise if there was an appropriate forum to request or discuss such tasks). - My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 10:08, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Saw you providing attribution edits on 2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis and wanted to ask how my attribution edits have been recently. I know that you reached out to me in the past (not sure how I can see any attribution errors on my part), so I wanted to make sure I'm still doing well with this. Also, is it true that you do not need to attribute your own edits between articles? I was told this by a separate user, though have continued to attribute in edit summaries just to be safe. Thanks for your help that you've already provided! WMrapids ( talk) 07:30, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, one of your userboxes states that you're 113th on the list of editors by number of edits. However, the list itself has you at 109. RedundancyAdvocate ( talk) 02:28, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Diannaa, Do you know if the English wiki accepts fair use?, I would greatly appreciate the help. I have a problem with images from copyright free sites that have use restrictions or for other reasons do not come Creative Commons. (cc of message sent to CambialYellowing, they advised me that you may be able to help me). ChefBear01 ( talk) 15:23, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Diannaa Hello, just out of curiosity, how did you know that the pdf that I cited was copyrighted, I'd like to know how to look out for copyrighted content in the future, thanks. Dr Ulster ( talk) 17:51, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Shoe_size&diff=1188433058&oldid=1188117544. It is a straight copy of the source cited. Are there any mitigating factors? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 16:53, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
There is a user by the name Re Packer&Tracker who has removed sourced content from the article Prithviraj Chauhan. The user stated that they have concerns because of the neutrality of article which I addresed per WP:CONACHIEVE and modified the language of my edit but now the user is objecting for no reasons stating 'I still can't agree' which is stopping me from achieving consensus per WP:TALKDONTREVERT. It is a humble request to block the user or warn them, whatever you think is necessary as they have removed sourced content wihtout any legitimate explanation and are also using disruptive measures. Gspgoat( talk) 19:22, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Good morning, I'm not too sure about your edit summary is supposed to mean? "Attribution: The edit dated 2023-12-08 07:57 contained content copied from the Wikipedia page at 2023 New Year Honours; see its history for attribution. (See WP:RIA for more information." The article you reference was also made by me, so am I supposed to attribute myself? Nford24 ( PE121 Personnel Request Form) 00:09, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Dear @ Diannaa, I observed you have deleted the content from the Gramanya page.The content was written by me.Page to page I have refered and added the content.Yes few well source content was copied from deshastha page as it is related to Yajurvedi deshasthas and few are related to CKP(The contents were cross verified before adding).Anyhow go through the content and revert back as I have spent a lot of time in reading books related to gramanya.The time should not go in vain. The whole contents are well documented without any misinformation including court case. 2409:40F2:8:A3F0:5D14:7DA3:50D3:EC15 ( talk) 21:31, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Can you take another look at that page? It came up on
CopyPatrol again. Thanks
Nobody (
talk) 07:22, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
I'm not paying as close attention as I should, but I think it has been 5 hours since the most recent report. S Philbrick (Talk) 18:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
I think this edit of yours at Our Lady of the Hens [5] may have been unnecessary. I was – and I am – the sole author of Feast of Our Lady of the Hens, that I created as Vicipaedianus x and later expanded as Est. 2021 ( as you can check) translating the Italian page that I wrote myself in 2014. Did I copy content from mysef? Est. 2021 ( talk · contribs) 09:17, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
I just started on Wikipedia. I have a draft that has not been submitted for review. Nothing on there was copyrighted. I wrote it all myself. I write for a living, including research proposals, scientific books, and scientific papers. I don't understand why you are touching a draft that has not been submitted for review. It says I have 6 months or more before I have to submit. I have only worked on it for 5 days! Once it is submitted for review then input is appropriate. I did not realize that anyone else would be interfering with my draft. This was not helpful and very detrimental. It is hard as a first time user to learn how to put Wikipedia pages together. And now I have to figure out what is even happening here. It is not ready for review at all. I have not put in the references or completed the text. What is happening here? I cannot even tell how much you deleted. And you removed my version so I cannot get it back or even compare? You erased everything so I cannot even see what you changed? Please do not do this again. Why would you do this? In science, project names are not copyrighted and repeating project and thesis names exactly is important, appropriate, and not plagiarism or copyright infringement. This is how science is properly listed. The names of research projects are meant to be repeated exactly and are well-considered. The words convey specificity. It's taken me an hour and half to try and find out what you did as I am new. Matt Allen's CV on his website does not suggest his project names are copyrighted, nothing here is copyrighted. You saw that I had placeholders for references on every line. Why not ask a question instead of destroying and deleting all records of my work? Why would you even go into to someone else's draft prior to review? And you made everything difficult to track, compare, review, or undo. I am confused why you are doing anything with this draft prior to when I submit for review? I confused as to why you wouldn't have a discussion with me instead of making changes and then making them unavailable for comparison and delete all the records for no reason at all. If you would like to help me learn about Wikipedia practices, please explain what your objection is instead of deleting all record of my text. This is not my job and this page will take time to put together piece by piece. I will submit when it is ready for review. That certainly isn't now. And deleting 4 separate revision records of mine to make it hard for me to figure things out was completely unnecessary and harmful.
Sierra16235 ( talk) 15:14, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, can you weigh in on if this is actually a copyright or plagiarism issue? nableezy - 02:43, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 80.216.151.223 ( talk) 14:29, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
The section has been removed from ANI. There were also duplicates posted at Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#Is Diannaa special admin on Wikipedia, Wikipedia talk:NPOV dispute#Diannaa over limit, and a re-post at ANI. It's possible that all three IPs are the same person, although they geolocate to three different countries.
Diannaa,
The Edith Alma Ross biography I submitted was deleted for copyright infringement. The website from which much of the text was taken [ http://www.plantsofiowa.com/BDI_collector_bios_3.html#Ross,%20Edith%20Alma] is mine. In other words, I copied my own work, reworded it a bit, and submitted it to Wikipedia.
I read thru Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, but it's not clear to me which action to take.
The text implies that, if I donate my own material, other people will be able to edit the Edith Alma Ross Wikipedia page. I thought that was true for all Wikipedia pages! If it's posted someone else can revise it.
I don't know what avenue to take. I've not plagiarized someone else's work. Please advise. Wapsie Crossing ( talk) 15:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. I wonder have you already looked over that large third paragraph at Paternoster Row. It looks a bit like copy and paste to me. I see some concerns have been raised, over various matters, at User talk:79.161.199.20. Regards. Martinevans123 ( talk) 10:49, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, User:Pinapplepizzafromdominos has created another Copyvio draft. Shouldn't this be stopped now? Thanks for the advice Nobody ( talk) 12:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, if only copyright violation was the only problem here, since your edit last month. More copyright issues, in addition to COI and socking. When you have a chance. Thanks, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 05:52, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, They're still doing it after your second warning. Might be time for a page-block to get their attention. Nobody ( talk) 09:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
The site that I used text from - in their disclaimer, they wrote that the use of their text is OK if their site is linked to, which I did.
MalaMrvica ( talk) 19:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Is the second source on Doina phaeobregma copyrighted? I can't find anything about the copyright status of these publications. Scorpions1325 ( talk) 04:05, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm being reverted here by a single-purpose copyvio merchant - I suspect COI too, not to mention some incompetence. Johnbod ( talk) 19:41, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind me asking this here, but would you mind taking a look at the Loxanthocereus faustianus article? It seems to be a very close paraphrase from a machine translation of one of the sources- the unusual phrase "diameter thickness" has been used in the article, which is both a) a really weird thing to say and b)something that only seems to happen when Google translates the original document's "espesor" into English. (It won't translate "esperor" by itself into "diameter thickness" because the word itself just means "thickness".) There's no word-for-word match to the machine/human translation, but I'm having a hard time imagining that somebody would willingly type the phrase "diameter thickness." Could really do with your opinion. GreenLipstickLesbian ( talk) 05:51, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa|from this source=yes}}
as part of the citation. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. There's detailed instructions at
Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Copying material from free sources. —
Diannaa (
talk) 11:55, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Hi Diannaa,
This has section that you deleted due to copywrite issue. Very similar content is actually used in multiple sites like this or this. Also the site does not include any copywrite notice. It's possible to include the content in the article? Tamle2nd ( talk) 23:00, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
OK, I have closed all Wikipedia windows on the phone, whether edit or not. I guess when I need to translate I will have to email the links to myself to avoid having an open edit window on the phone. I haven't figured out what triggers the bug, except that having many windows open seems to be one of the factors, so I am positing a memory management issue. Not that it matters if they aren't planning to fix it. That new reply button also seems really convenient but requires cleanup of a second post of random text in about 30% of uses.
Anyway, I'm cured of trying to Wikipedia on my phone. Hopefully this answers what you wanted to know; if not ping me back, I guess. I will be going through those articles again today regardless of this, since I am there in the first place trying to untangle the units that did carry out pogroms from those that did not, and going through them round-robin seems to help in identifying the discrepancies.
I noticed when I came to this page that you are working on Holocaust articles. I remember reading that now, but had forgotten, or I would have asked you about this already. A couple of extended questions follow. If you are busy and it's TL;DR, of course I understand, but having been reminded that you, an editor I respect and a librarian to boot (!) are working in this topic area, I am hoping to interest you in some of my current problems.
Have you been in the Lithuania Holocaust articles? The slaughter in Lithuania was massive -- the figure 95% of the Jewish population keeps coming up, and that's in less than six months. So there are even more strong feelings than in other Holocaust topics I have seen, and some sources say that in wider society (vs. Wikipedia) this was historically compounded by Soviet propaganda for Soviet reasons. There does seem to have been a lot of PoV pushing on Wikipedia over the years, ironically not so much by the people currently blaming each other for this. I've been adding in some facts but most of the search results I am getting are from the Lithuanian archives, and some of them contradict sources published by the Polish archive IPN. Other editors might reasonably ask the due weight question of why Lithuanian archives would be any more reliable than the Polish. (The short answer is legislation, but that is also an incomplete answer.)
For context, sources discuss Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, German and Jewish versions of events, with occasional mentions of Lativa, Estonia, Byelorussia and Finland on specific points.
Even more long-term, the Russian disinformation and minimization of Jewish identity deserve a separate article.
But the short-term goal is just to at least disambiguate and un-conflate the various incarnations of the Resistance, the militias and the German administration.
Thanks for reading, any suggestions that you may have would be very welcome Elinruby ( talk) 22:31, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I wondered if you could have a look at Bill Buchanan (computer scientist). It has several long quotations from the subject of the article, and although they are referenced, I am wondering if this is excessive use of non-free content. Hope you can advise - many thanks. Tacyarg ( talk) 22:19, 30 December 2023 (UTC)