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Hello. I saw you’ve added some recent victims of lynching in the lynchings-infobox. However, you did not add those infoboxes to the appropriate articles. Therefore, I did it it for the cases from 1988 and later. If I have the time, I will do the rest. Best regards,Jeff5102 (talk) 08:36, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you for your excellent edits to Anarcha Westcott and J. Marion Sims. Your contributions – especially to the J. Marion Sims article – have made these articles much more balanced and informative. Have a great day! :) Iamextremelygayokay (talk) 22:46, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:15, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Make It Right Project was not a copy and paste of https://independentmediainstitute.org/make-it-right-project-announcement/ or any other page.
Here are the first THREE paragraphs of the page you accuse me of copying:
Here is the ONE paragraph plus one sentence of my introduction:
Where is the “copy and paste” in that? Let me point out that when there was a direct quote, I put it in quotation marks and cited the source. I also included another reference which updates what was said on that page.
In the description of the first monument they are targetting, I copied two of the four sentences, but in quotation marks and referenced.
Here is the page’s description of the second monument they are targetting:
Here is my description of the same monument:
Here is the page’s description of the third monument they are targetting:
Here is my description of the third monument:
I am quite familiar with U.S. copyright law. Everything I have done is in keeping with fair use and with Wikipedia:Non-free content. I am offended by your unfounded accusation and that I have to defend myself for something I didn’t do. deisenbe (talk) 13:13, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
At Texas Confederate Museum, it's the same story. It's clear you highlighted "From 1990 to 1992 the collection was held by the Helen Marie Taylor Museum in Waco, but returned to temporary storage for two years while the Texas Association of Museums, Summerlee Foundation, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy sought a permanent repository. In 1994, an agreement with Hill College in Hillsboro placed the collection on display at the Texas Heritage Museum (formerly the Confederate Research Center) until 2000, when the agreement terminated." and hit CTRL-C, CTRL-V. Copy-paste. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 07:01, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Your tool is mistaken, because it treats documented quotations as illegal copying.
Having taken the time to go over about the first 30-40% of the article, would you please tell me where the unauthorized copying is in those paragraphs? If 80% of the article is unauthorized copying, as you allege, there must have been some in those paragraphs. Thank you.
I would also like you to explain, before escalating this, how you arrived at the 80% figure. The tool’s identification of characters is nowhere near 80%. deisenbe (talk) 12:34, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
"The Make It Right Project was formed in 2018 to encourage and advance the removal of Confederate monuments. It is a project of the Independent Media Institute; director is Kali Holloway. According to the group's statement, they are [...] In a later statement, [...] has become [...] The group has compiled a list of 10 monuments it is targetting:"
It appears you think the list of monuments is allowed under WP:COPYQUOTE, but the guidelines say "Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited" and "the copied material should not comprise a substantial portion of the work being quoted", and here we have at least 80%, more like 91%. You wrote 57 words and copy-pasted 515, and only put 63 of the quoted words in quotation marks. The other 452 words are presented to the reader as if they are origional content when in fact it is entirely copied. I think you should review the copyright rules, and also carefully read Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, because inexact copies of others' text are also violations. If you have other articles where you have substantially copy-pasted content such as you did on Make it Right Project, you should identify where. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:26, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Deisenbe,
Is this category you created really a "defining" characteristic of the people in it? (Wikipedia:Defining). It seems reasonable to have a list article of everybody in the Statuary Hall, but that's more about the Hall and less about the person. I'm not sure if people say "Alexander Stephens, that guy with a statue" rather than "Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy and Governor of Georgia and racist jerk." I'm pretty sure that "categories by award" tend to get deleted unless the award is incredibly, incredibly famous and defining - e.g. the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, etc. I don't think this honor rises to the occasion - I'm familiar with it due to having toured the Capitol, but I'm pretty sure that 99.8% of people have no idea about it or really care. SnowFire (talk) 17:35, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
@Deisenbe: Sorry about that! I was really busy, followed by forgetting this conversation was still ongoing.
Anyway, your comment is interesting, but I guess a side issue to my point. Hypothetical, silly example: if I was to collect paintings of people I think are awesome but not fuss too much about the artists, that's nice, but nobody cares about my personal collection, so it isn't very notable. The question is: how much do people / the general public really care about this kind of honor as it applies to the person themself (who is almost always long-dead by the time this posthumous honor is bestowed)? This Google Books search seems to only show Congessional resolutions and very little Books interest, although it's possible my search terms are wrong. Basically I see plenty of news stories in relation to the statues & the collection as a political statement (e.g. endorsing the various Confederate leaders who are there), but not so much the other way around: if you search for info about Robert E. Lee, something like [[1]] is pretty low in priority, and most of these memorials aren't worthy of categories to begin with. To put it in WP:CFD terms, it's WP:OCAWARD, "Categorization by winning an award".
Anyway, just to be clear, I could be wrong about this! If you're not convinced and think the category is worth saving, let's ask others at CFD - that way you don't waste your time working on a project if it gets deleted, and if it turns out others agree with you, I'll definitely lay off, because I agree that there is a case to be made that this award really is notable enough. SnowFire (talk) 22:18, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello again, Deisenbe! I went ahead and created the CFD here: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 October 23. Check it out and feel free to add your input as category creator. SnowFire (talk) 23:13, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Susan B. Anthony, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 02:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Crystal radios receive the AM band (540–1600 kilocycles) only. Amplitude Modulation means that the shape/strength of a signal changes in conformity with the sound being transmitted. The crystal (actually, an electrode touching a crystal, usually quartz) is a rectifier: it permits current to pass in only one direction. Cutting the amplitude-modified signal in half, by passing it through a crystal rectifier, means that you have a reproduction of the original sounds. With strong signals, the current received from the antenna is sufficient to power headphones. That is a crystal radio's only power source.
Crystal radios (tuned circuit and a detector) can be used at any frequency. "Electrode touching a crystal" is redundant. Quartz is a nonconductor and not used for detectors. The signal is not "cut in half" but is rectified - only only polarity is passed through the rectifier, converting the amplitude modulated signal into something that can be reproduced by headphones. The paragraph is redundant in the place it was placed in this article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:54, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
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... for your work on so many articles about monuments and memorials. I am curious, do you have experience promoting articles to Good status? If not, you might consider trying this, assuming you have any interest. Either way, keep up the great work! ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)