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Hi Diannaa. I’m an editor who has been contributing to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. I saw that at 22:32, 31 December 2016 you changed visibility of 22 revisions on the page with content hidden (RD1: Copyright violations) included in your summary. As one of my edits was included in the list, I looked into the situation and noticed that you sent Annestorm a message on their talk page concerning this.
It is the first time that this editor has contributed to the article which requires WP:EXTENDEDCONFIRMED. I checked the user’s contributions and discovered that the edit you deleted was, interestingly enough, their 501st – the first edit allowed to them for this article.
Digging a little deeper I found that prior to this, on December 30th, over a period of less than 90 minutes the same user made at least 326 individual edits containing not more than 1 or 2 characters to their sandbox. There were many more slightly longer edits that seemed to be only deletions.
The following is a sample of one such edit , ‘fd f fdfddf15 fdsdsds5a25621256 dfasd4556256 sa5562451 25’. The rest of the edits are more or less the same, namely random keystrokes.
It seems evident that this user is abusing the extended confirmed right by having added nonsense edits to reach the 500 edit total required.
I, myself, am not looking to escalate this further as I have already spent too much time on the findings I have just laid out to you. However, I wanted to bring it to your attention. I will leave it with you to do as you see fit. Happy New Year! Veritycheck (talk) 00:52, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
See here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:34, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
I received a message from "Diannaa", whoever that is, saying my additions to the Leonora Piper wikipedia page were copied from another website. That is NOT true. They are quotes from the book I cited, by Michael Tymn. I also have no interest in re-typing it, if I could, as I type slow, and it took a while to put it into the article. So, buy the book, don't buy the book, it is of no consequence to me : ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaeatetus (talk • contribs) 21:42, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
I see. Learn from our mistakes, learn by doing : ) I do note that it is likely no coincidence that the article on Leonora Piper is skewed to the skeptical perspective. It is due to the subjective and spontaneous nature of consciousness, and clairvoyance. That is, they can't be measured. Not good for the scientific/academic agenda wikipedia and their editors are pursuing. "The rational approach works quite well in certain kinds of situations, such as the mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements -but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements and calculations." ( 'The Magical Approach', Jane Roberts/Seth) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaeatetus (talk • contribs) 14:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Your task is, no doubt, as important as I guess not enough appreciated by good faith editors like me. Having said that, I believe that blank reverts of all my edits in that article, nevermind if they infringed or not any copyright policy whatsoever, is not what the project needs or wants from you.
Since you didnt bother to read any further after detecting copyright problems, you couldnt have noticed that you were reverting most of my contribution, which was totally unrelated to the source which apparently I can not use the way I did. Actually, from all of your reverts, probably less than half has anything to do with copyright, but was about summarizing, trimming and the like.
I may understand that you have precious little time doing your assignment all over the wikipedia. But blank, aggressive, reverts such as the ones you just made without even bothering to read what you were reverting can be only understood as either punitive ("user X needs to learn his lesson") or unprofessional ("user X infringed copyright with this one edit, so he's guilty by association and all his remainder edits must be reverted"). And, by the way, it's not only you who has precious little time, but also "regular" contributors like myself, who may get disappointed or even cynical with the project after getting such "retribution" for their unpaid time.
Neither makes a positive impression of your actions or the project you claim to defend. You may -or not- want to think about this. MOUNTOLIVE fedeli alla linea 12:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, and Happy New Year. You recently made 4 revision deletions at Dark energy, and left a comment on my talk page, accusing me of an RD1 copyright violation. The Dark energy deletion log states:
15:26, 26 December 2016 Diannaa (talk | contribs) changed visibility of 4 revisions on page Dark energy: content hidden (RD1: Copyright violations: http://casofran.blogs.uv.es/2016/11/22/y-si-la-expansion-del-universo-no-es-acelerada-ing-suspenso-d)
Firstly, your URL is wrong. The sources I used were:
[1] J. T. Nielsen; A. Guffanti; S. Sarkar (21 October 2016). "Marginal evidence for cosmic acceleration from Type Ia supernovae". Nature Scientific Reports. 6.
[2] Stuart Gillespie (21 October 2016). "The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate – or is it?". University of Oxford - News & Events - Science Blog (WP:NEWSBLOG).
Secondly, my edit was not an RD1 copyright violation, since it merely consisted of a quote by Subir Sarkar fully in accordance with WP:QUOTE, preceded by two heavily paraphrased sentences from what I explicitly stated in my edit to be a WP:NEWSBLOG. Fortunately, the original material you deleted survives at Accelerating expansion of the universe: (Redacted)
Quite apart from the WP:AGF and WP:TALK issues in your actions, it's clear that my edit was not even close to being an RD1 copyright violation. My edit was fully in accord with WP:QUOTE and WP:NEWSBLOG. Please revert the comment you left on my talk page. The Cube Root Of Infinity (talk) 14:11, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
(Redacted) Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:25, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @The Cube Root Of Infinity: I don't see any AGF issue (well, actually I do, you aren't offering Diannaa, who has done a lot of work with copyright violations and is clearly much more experienced with these than you are) or an issue with an article talk page. I do see a couple of very minor tweaks which don't avoid a copyright violation. I've revised your edit at Accelerating expansion of the universe to read "A 2016 report from Oxford University's Department of Physics and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen working with a much larger data set has cast doubt upon the arguments for accelerated expansion." You're a new account so this isn't a major issue so long as you learn from it, but it would have been much better if you'd come here and asked why your material was considered a copyright violation. If you wish to copy my version to Dark Energy, note that you must place a note in the edit summary stating that it's been copied with a link to the article it was copied from. Otherwise that would be a copyright violation. Doug Weller talk 15:35, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
The translation seems to be clearly a copyright violation. I presume the same goes for a transliteration and of course the modern tagalog translation. I'm not sure how to deal with this, ie what to cut or? Doug Weller talk 15:15, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
HI Diannaa, Thank you for sending me a note about my edits to Julio Larraz. This is my first post and clearly made all the rookie mistakes :/ I will start in smaller batches and submit updates slowly. Thank you - Annabel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annabelsimpson (talk • contribs) 01:26, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa,
I am very glad to know that my work at wikipedia has attracted such a great person's like your attention. Thank you very much to criticize my work. Actually, I have been involved with Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology (BAUST) and everybody wants to know about it . Even I want everybody to know many more details about it. Wkikipedia is the best way to know. So I collect genuine information and photo about BAUST legally. I just want to make a view about BAUST at wikipedia like Islamic University of Technology , Military Institute of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, St. Francis Xavier University etc. But I'm quite new at this. So I want to know more details like how I can be legal at this purpose and for with whom can I meet or discuss which makes sure my work legal at wikipedia.
Thats all for now. I am looking forward to your reply. You are warmly welcomed to my beautiful contry, Bangladesh. Thank you again--M Tanvir Rahman —Preceding undated comment added 08:14, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, The article "Apex Fund Services" was recently deleted after edits I made. Can I restore the page as it was prior to those edits? Regards, Jerry J Kelleher (talk) 11:01, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey Happy New Year to you :) Can you expand on my use of "copyright material' with respect to Grenada and what was removed? I am at a loss as to what is being referred to in the message... Plus stating that I have used copyright material without giving me a chance to explain is damaging to my character and this appears to be a consistent statement from you to me which I have not followed up on previously. Would you be so kind as to be a bit more careful in what is being stated especially in a public forum? Perhaps there should be tracking of information which is being removed by persons who join Wikipedia so that they understand the rights of persons to provide information which is fair and free from bias and which may be seen as being reliable.
Have a good day....
Jennifer N. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jennifer N Bailey (talk • contribs) 17:01, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Hey Diannaa
Thanks for the information. My information on the Summit of the Americas relates to "factual stuff" which is made known to the public via newspapers, gov't releases and such... The dates and locations of the Summits are public knowledge since funding is provided from various countries. The number of countries which are members of the OAS, details of their joining the OAS, is free knowledge. If I were to paste extracts exceeding a certain number of words etc from reports, then I believe that would be copyright. Jennifer N Bailey (talk) 11:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi... You have removed all my data on a particular page.. I plan to start slowly introducing Maltese politicians to wikipedia in order to expand further on the subject. I've added information on Keith Schembri just because it was totally biased on just one event happening in May. I also edited other pages relating to different politicians and parties. The information and photos I've put was all in the public domain and cited by the relevant references... kindly explain why such changes had been removed - I honestly think that this should be reverted.. Thanks for your help and I appreciate your help :) - fenechtonio (talk) 11:49, 3 January 2017 (CET)
Hey Diannaa Marking something copyright means that it may relate to the official site or there may be rights attached to the information.. If you were to look at Trinidad and Tobago, you will see that I have included details on a number of Treaties which have been signed by the Govt of Trinidad and Tobago over a period of time. In my blog, O Come O Come Emmanuel ~ Reminiscing I have included information on my source or access to the treaties. However unsigned copies of the Treaties are available on the BIR's site as it supports the practices of T'dad & T'bgo wrt withholding tax. At this time, I have not linked everyone of the treaties to the BIR's site, however it is my intention to do so. I have included the The Tax Information (Declared Agreement) Order (with the United States of America) 1990 on the page, however that may not have been included in the BIRs site. So perhaps I will suggest that it is included in that site or a link is provided.
Have a good day Jennifer N Bailey (talk) 11:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. Another revdel may be required at Narciso Rodriguez (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) due to the latest sock edit. I will also take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year! Take care. Dr. K. 00:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Happy New Year Diannaa! Hope 2017 is a great one for you and yours.
Would you mind taking a look at Pete McLeod for copyvios when you get the chance? Article is pretty promotional sounding in tone and looking at it in the edit window I noticed some curly quotes and em-type apostrophes, etc. which often happens when text is copied and pasted directly from an external sources. The use of the first name throughout much of the article also sometimes indicates a bit of copy-and-pasting has been done as well because personal websites/official pages tend to refer to individual use their more familiar first name. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:54, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I have nominated this article for deletion. I'm certain your experience and feedback would be valuable should you decide to participate in the discussion. Thanks Veritycheck (talk) 02:07, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you here at your talk page, I don't do that, but as WP:NACD says that the only thing I can do is to contact an admin, and you said that I could ask you if I had any doubt, let's go. Recently a template at discussion got a non-admin close for a merge after a very long discussion. The problem is that in my opinion the discussion was far from reach any merge consensus, I counted 11 support votes for merge and 19 against it. I know that this isn't about counting votes, or democracy or whatever the name they gave it, but it seems a bit to risky to do that with a template used at 3084 pages and with some serious technical issues raised by some users. Maybe an admin should take a look. Best regards, Bertdrunk (talk) 04:50, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for this; if another editor thinks the paraphrasing and word changing I did was not sufficient, I'll rewrite it again. Note that you shouldn't have deleted the last paragraph, as it was entirely new. Anyway I'll go back and fix it. Cheers and Happy New Year!! Buckshot06 (talk) 08:58, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, thanks for the warning and I have now sent an email to the Wiki permissions address forwarding the appropriate email which I believe shows that I have permission to use material from this website. Can you advise what happens now please? Regards StuPat (talk) 15:31, 4 January 2017 (UTC) And the permissions email address keeps bouncing back!!! Can you help pleaseStuPat (talk) 15:46, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! Hope you're well.
Just wondered if you could have a look at this diff[1] of Gabriella Di Laccio and give me a second opinion. The 'Career' section is an almost direct copy of [2] (the oldest copy the Wayback Machine has of the current, virtually identical, page[3]). With the site being undated, I was just wondering what your thoughts might be on the section being a possible copyright violation? Thanks! Mike1901 (talk) 17:39, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Thanks again for your help with Pete McLeod. I've found another one which may be a copyvio. Part of Rachna College of Engineering and Technology looks like it's been copied-and-pasted from rcet
FYI - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/DatBot_6. Approved to take over Theo's Little Bot. Ronhjones (Talk)
Hi Diannaa. I just wanted to know whether I can upload these images of the Queen Mother (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and the Princess of Wales (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) on Wikimedia commons or not. I checked the categories and I think that they haven't been uploaded yet, and based on Wikimedia's guidelines it seems that it's OK to upload these images but I just wanted to check it with an administrator first. Keivan.fTalk 05:17, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, My name is Len Ellis, I am a board member of Peacemakers Incorporated in Dallas, TX, and have known Vivian Castleberry for many years. We wanted to set up a Wikipedia page for both her and for Peacemakers Incorporated, but it has not happened yet. Then today I see that you have been involved with Vivian's Wikipedia page, starting just last month. I don't know enough about Wikipedia to comfortably find my way around, but I did find this and I would be grateful if you could contact me directly to discuss this. Thank you so very much for setting up Vivian's page, we certainly want to add to it, and, we want to start on the Peacemakers Incorporated page. You can contact me at (Redacted). Thank you!
PeacemakersInc (talk) 05:53, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Can please let me know what was the exact issue with the page? and is there anyway you can revert to the previous state for a day, so that I can atleast copy source and make necessary edits, which will be much easier than Redoing it all over again.
Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reubenthomasv (talk • contribs) 12:31, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa, you put on my talk page the information that further verification was needed for the file I uploaded ( File:Karen Mok (莫文蔚) at the TV show "The Singing Battle (天籁之战)" on 31 Oct 2016.jpg). I got the owner of the file, Christo Jan, to write the email you requested to the mail address you requested but the file was deleted anyway. Could you let me know why this happened and how we can get the file back up again.? Thanks Jaeljojo (talk) 15:09, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
((OTRS pending))
tag to the image. I have restored the image and tagged it for you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:18, 5 January 2017 (UTC)Hi Diannaa! Not 100% on this, but [4] & [5] possibly need revision deletion? I say 'may' as I'm unsure if revdel is required where the same image is used under fair use on another article (but where fair use clearly doesn't apply here)? Thanks! Mike1901 (talk) 17:05, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa. Whole content of this edit is copy-pasted from the cited source – details. Thanks. - NitinMlk (talk) 19:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thanks for looking at my updates. My talk page says you did something but I can't figure out what. Can you let me know please. Robertwhyteus (talk) 00:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. It appears a new editor unfamiliar with how Wikipedia works may have been copying-and-pasting stuff from an external website into Al-Ahbash. Would you mind taking a look when you have a spare moment or two? i think the website is this which was also posted at File:///I:/Qawl document RN is working on.doc. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:52, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
... about that, it was unintentional. Paul August ☎ 03:59, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
I've deleted the a draft as for three reasons:
I personally think the draft article was something of a mosaic of obvious copyvios, close paraphrasing, and some good "write it in your words" prose.
I guess I could have started a whole new WP:CCI about this. Which in my opinion would have been a WP:WASTEOFTIME#please, just write and edit encyclopedia content.
All that said, I see no reason to question whether the article draft was made in anything else but good faith.
Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 10:28, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi again. Today when I was reviewing two articles that I had expanded before January 2016 (which means before the time you blocked me), I realized that I might have added some copyrighted content to them. There are actually two articles that I wish to be reviewed from a copyright point of view. This article about a Japanese princess and this article about a British noble. I decided to report these as soon as I realized that they might contain copyrighted material. I wanted to check them myself but as you have had enough experience in dealing with such cases, I thought you would be the best choice. Keivan.fTalk 10:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa,
Although I appreciate your remarks regarding copyright violation, I am representing and I am authorized by the international NGO to publish the materials in Board of European Students of Technology page. We have had the materials feedbacked and the texts and picture presented are the final form.
Dragos-Andrei Gaftoneanu PR Department Secretary of BEST
Another problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I am adding some information about conflict of interest to your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:31, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I might have found another partially copy-pasted article in Davide Tucci. Mainly the promotional sounding nature and the use of Tucci's first name are things that standout, but thought I just ask first this time and avoid any new diffs, before jumping in and doing some clean up. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:37, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:BEST logo.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Steel1943 (talk) 21:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Diannaa! Revdel needed on aisle 7, please... today, Spades, specifically revision 758667196 by IP 208 ... 162, which is a direct copyvio of [6]. Merci beaucoup! Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:18, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the fix and the info. I wasn't aware there was a problem with doing this. I have done it on a couple of others. I hope I can remember which ones. I started using cut and paste to create new pages for CDPs that didn't have a page. Mostly just the info box, first paragraph and Geography section, plus the box at the bottom of the page. I just change the relevant information. I don't think this is a problem because there is no edit history. If it is let me know.
I am still unclear on how you changed the title of the page. I think I've done other name changes in the article, but the title remained the old name before I found I could change the redirect, which evidently isn't the right way to do it.Jdtrue63 (talk) 00:21, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, I found the move function and am pretty sure I will be able to do this properly in the future. I do, however, have a problem with Morgan Farm, Texas. I did the cut and paste thing for the rename from Morgan Farm Area. I was able to "undo" Morgan Farm Area, Texas, but can not move the page because Morgan Farm, Texas already exists. If you can fix this for me, that would be great. The other cut and paste jobs I've done are for new CDPs, not moving info from an old page to a new page, so I think that's okay since I'm just using it as a template to construct the new page, without changing the old page. (example - creating Boling, Texas and Iago, Texas pages from the Boling-Iago, Texas page)Jdtrue63 (talk) 04:37, 7 January 2017 (UTC) Nevermind fixing Morgan Farm for me, I figured out how to do the history merge request. Hopefully everything should be good from now on.Jdtrue63 (talk) 06:14, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
This is a kind request to please consider unblocking the page https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Comedy_Shorts_Gamer&redirect=no so that an individual page can be created for "Comedy Shorts Gamer". Comedy Shorts Gamer has improved significantly since 2015 and a ban on his name/page simply because his fans (who were unaware of Wikipedia guidelines) mass-created pages feels unfair. Please kindly consider this request to unblock this page so that I can create it again, citing the correct, appropriate individual sources which I already have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vithu123 (talk • contribs) 03:34, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:75.52.186.148&curid=24419677 who is clearly the same person from Arnold, Missouri behind this IP range: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=250&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=2602%3A304%3AB34B%3AA940%3A*&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2017&month=-1 and 'analysed' the IP's edits. The edits from the range are disruptive, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Haplogroup_Q-M242#The_Moral-Scientific_Necessity-Imperative_of_Transcending_All-too-Human_.22Identity-Politics.22 and he's back again as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2602:304:B34B:A940:5D1A:B29C:EFF3:EE1B Doug Weller talk 08:15, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa,
Can you add true content that is your own knowledge? If so, how would you cite it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saul Kamionsky (talk • contribs) 16:08, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I just saw that all the work I did to illuminate the opera 'Fausta' has been deleted. By a 'bot', as they call it, I assume? What a pity, and now no one can benefit from what I pulled together, as I've not seen anyone pull together this info about the historical/literary underpinnings of the opera any where else at all. Most of the entries on wiki seem like regurgitations of widely-available info, including the data on 'Fausta', and are hardly original primary-resource research. I thought wiki was to get jnfo out and was far more casual, and that the 'copyrighted' material you speak of was there for the picking. I don't think I could find all that info again if I tried. All lost. (sigh) Oh well.....— Preceding unsigned comment added by Brucvaldo (talk • contribs)
Diannaa, you sound like a quavering old bore. Te ipsum.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brucvaldo (talk • contribs) 22:15, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, thank you so much for your guidelines on my talk page! I wanted to apologize, since I'm new here, as I created the article in a hurry and found that the write up at the sources were neutral in point of view. Now, I am aware my actions could have brought on legal implications, I will be more careful next time, and not create an article in haste.
I would very much appreciate it if you could go over the article once I have rewritten it, following the guidelines you have left me. You help and guidance is very much appreciated! Thank you! Seadonkey1999 (talk) 03:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, two articles with spotty, if not pervasive copyright issues I've recently encountered are Media literacy and Renee Hobbs. The former appears to have a lot of content lifted verbatim from its sources, like much of what's attributed to Henry Jenkins; perhaps the issues go further. The Hobbs article has POV and COI issues--I've found one or two small copied passages, and don't know if there are more, but its overall tone tempts me to post a notice at BLP. Though I've done some copy editing, going through these line-by-line is a bit daunting, and I'm hoping you have the tools to check these with more facility. Thanks for any help you can provide, and best wishes for the new year. 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 21:10, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. You suppressed all the history on this particular page as if I had never created or contributed on the page. --SirEdimon (talk) 03:10, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. I don't know if you will even read this message, but since you are expert in copyright I would like to ask you a question related to this matter. I would like which is the criteria on the copyright matter related to film poster. I mean, film poster is important to compose the article, but it belongs to the film producer. And therefore there's a copyright attached to it. What I need to do (which criteria I need to fullfill) to be able to upload and use in an article a film poster without violate any copyright. Thanks for your help.--SirEdimon (talk) 22:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. User:Cameron11598 directed me to your talk page. I found what looks like a potential copyvio at Lisbon Metro#Information on fares and tagged it with the source URL. However, because this is the fare schedule for a Portuguese metro system, I'm not sure if it's free content or not. Can you help? Many thanks in advance! AlexEng(TALK) 01:15, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
I could use some copyright advice (I made sure to clear a dozen items at CopyPatrol before coming to ask :)
OTRS received an email from someone asserting that their copyright has been infringed at Timeline of magic.
The good news is that the copyright holder would be happy with credit and isn't requesting that the article be taken down. So far, sounds straightforward.
There are at least two complications.
First, I haven't definitively concluded that a copyright infringement exists although it is highly likely. The complication is that the source material is a book available online, and I do not have a copy. One possibility, which I have not yet raised with the author, is that they provide us a courtesy copy so that we can confirm the infringement.
I do see that a lot of the material in the Wikipedia article matches material at this site: History of Magicians.
The person contacting us alleges that the material at that site is also an infringement of his book.
Of course, it is not quite as simple as adding a reference to the book, assuming we can identify that the book is the source, as we do not generally permit long passages even with proper quotation or block quotes, which may means we have to ask the author to provide a free license. They are asking for credit, but may or may not be comfortable with the license requirements.
I had originally thought that I would tracked down the principal author of the article and placed the burden on them to arrange for proper permission, either getting a free license for the entire contents or selected contents or converting some of the entries into proper short quotes. Unfortunately, the principal contributor to the article hasn't edited in years, so that's a nonstarter.
The simplest approach would be to nominate the article for deletion, but that doesn't serve our readers well and doesn't seem to be the best option, especially given the willingness of the author to leave the material given proper credit.
I plan to point the author to this discussion.
Do you have thoughts on how we might proceed?--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:12, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
The earliest archived version of the webpage http://www.all-about-magicians.com/history-of-magicians.html was May 2011, and shows a copyright date of 2008, which agrees with the creation date of July 2008 offered by this tool. At that point we already had the overlapping content on our page, so it seems to me that they copied from us rather than the other way around.
Thank you for helping out with copy vio; if everybody who's been helping out there could do 5 or 10 per day that would be great. Handy link for talk page watchers: https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:26, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Happy Tuesday, Diannaa! Could you please wave your wand over this article, where a new user copypasted from [7] earlier today between 8:50 and 9 a.m. Pacific ([8])? I have rolled back and warned the user. Thanks as ever—I wish there was some way to send you tangible yummy foodstuffs or the like for all your help in this regard! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:42, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I was reviewing the above a couple of days ago, and I found it had a 52.8% report, and flagged it for deletion by prod which was declined by new admin Rickinbaltimore. What is level you normally set for copyvio on an article. I thought 52.8% would be borderline, it was a chunk of stuff copied. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 03:36, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm trying to paraphrase more, let me know if it doesn't work. Most of my quotations are from third-source documents. FourLights (talk) 04:28, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diana Thank you for the guidance on the wikipedia copyright policies. the violation in case of the article that I was putting together was unintended. Will restart work on it only once I have the copyright bit in order. Will reach out for help. Thanks a tonne. Shweta Vangoghstarrynight (talk) 06:15, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen that you have tagged someone of the images that I have uploaded as being to large. I thought the size I reduced them to wash fine from the original but apparently they were still to large. What size are comic book covers supposed to be to be acceptable?★Trekker (talk) 07:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa, I just blocked Ashim nep for a long history of copyvios and unattributed copy pastes. I've cleaned up a few of the latest infractions but I think there may be more (first came to my notice in 2015 when I had to get autoreviewer flag removed and warned about a possible block). Could you take a look please? Majority of these are likely unattributed copy pastes of unrelated content (e.g. he copies content from the US mint article or Indian Administrative Services article and replaces with "Nepal" etc). I'm not sure if a CCI will be needed. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 11:08, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa I see the problem and will follow your suggestion.It should be possible to clarify the text at the same time.Some of the wording in the keys is awkward especially for those who read English as a second language.Also the text is out of date.This will all take some time but I welcome the task. Very best regards and good wishes for 2017 Notafly (talk) 12:41, 11 January 2017 (UTC) I made a start with Melangyna_umbellatarum Since the key is based on differences this should have been emphasised in the other species I expanded.
Hi Diannaa. Recently I realized through an online source that in a book titled "Diana vs. Charles: Royal Blood Feud" by author and journalist James Whitaker it's stated that the Princess of Wales had suffered a miscarriage while on holiday with the royal family at Balmoral Castle in September 1983. Can it be considered a reliable source? Does it have to be mentioned on several sources or is a single source enough? And can it be mentioned on the article with only one source? Keivan.fTalk 13:19, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I was trying to sort out Wind_wave#Wave_formation and noticed some anomalous formatting which led me to suspect some copy/paste editing. If you have the time, could you check? Things like bullets in the wikicode. This diff refers: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wind_wave&diff=next&oldid=580633457 String of edits by apparent non English-speaker, who follows up with some grammar of a much lower standard than the original suspect edit. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 14:04, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa. Bipin Rawat's infobox pic – File:Bipin Rawat COAS.jpg – seems in violation of the WP:NFCC #1. - NitinMlk (talk) 19:34, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I came across WP:THQ#Television in Romania so I decided to take a look at Television in Romania. I removed a few non-free images, but per the Teahouse discussion it appears that most of the content recently added by various IPs appears to be copied and pasted from www
Hello, Diannaa. I am new to wikipedia, but I see that you have deleted the work that I have done today. I am from the publisher of Acta Crystallographica and was asked to update the pages for this, which I started to do yesterday. We are happy to release any content that I place on the pages under the licencing required by wikipedia. I have not at this stage restored anything that you deleted. I can see that there is a mechamism for licencing of images, but also want to put some content about the journals that will be similar to what we have on our web pages (but don't know how to do this so that wikipedia editors do not claim it is copyright material). Any advice that you can give would be appreciated. Ps iucr (talk) 08:46, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Another problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I have posted some information about conflict of interest on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:05, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello again. Perhaps you could put the pages back to the state they were in before I started i.e. 3 days ago. They are very out of date and incorrect factually, but given what you have said above, I have decided to make no further attempts to work on this. My role at the IUCr is a scientific editor and I take pride in providing a neutral viewpoint. I am disappointed that this has no value for wikipedia.Ps iucr (talk) 14:58, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa I'm sorry the changes I made were too slight and do apologise.I will check that all text from Coe is removed and at the same time put in links to the RES pdf since it is a useful though out of date free resource.I have a notion that Coe copied his keys from a much earlier work by Verrall and might use this as a source but probably not. Your actions were entirely correct.I will show you how I intend fix the problem asap. Very best regards Notafly (talk) 22:40, 13 January 2017 (UTC) Any doubts I have in future I will check with you if that is OK
Hello Dianna,
can you hide the truth about Eichmann and Bormann when you delete them? I believe crimes have their greatest power when they are concealed. Light and shadow stand opposite the orphans. I know it's very hard to bear that. If we allow the truth, we can defeat the dark. All the best to you!
Kind regards Jens--Jens Burkhardt-Plückhahn (talk) 08:49, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello "Eagle Eye". I have left a message on my talk page. --Po Kadzieli (talk) 01:36, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Ma'am, I want to state that the copyright concerns raised on my edits are totally baseless. I forgot to provide the citation , that is my mistake I accept but the data which I added , I got it from http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Khanderi-second-indigenous-Scorpene-submarine-launched/article17027309.ece . The website provided by you , I never went their. Thus I request it should be first investigated then some conclusion should be reached. I my self wrote these words taking the data form the website I specified above. And please tell how can a news be a copyright of someone. If there is a violation then all other websites using this data should be sued not me. Thank you and please redo my edit as , there is nothing on that page except this. AnadiDoD (talk) 06:09, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Also, the news was released in public domain by mazgaon docks and Indian new through PTI . So I don't think it is a violation of any copyright AnadiDoD (talk) 12:07, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
The material is originally released by PTI and can be used for fair purposes as in the PTI copyright agreements. I will make sure to pay more attention from now onwards but the editor should provide reason for the deletion because-i added the features and elaborated the page so as to make it more informative I gave citations too. Such acts demoralise the editor at least we should be informed before hand . You Being an admin should help at least editors who provide citations and correct information. AnadiDoD (talk) 13:51, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for all your help AnadiDoD (talk) 14:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for appreciating Diannaa Abhiran (talk) 07:39, 15 January 2017 (UTC) |
Happy New Year, Diannaa! On the Gretchen Gerzina article I see that while some of my corrections have been kept, you removed other content I added in the course of trying to expand the stub, as possibly violating copyright. Sorry if that seems to be the case and it was certainly completely unintentional - I thought I given adequate attributions but cannot now check and it's hard to retrace my steps since my edit has gone completely! Can you please let me know which specific parts were the problem? Thanks. Proscribe (talk) 11:45, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. Could you please have a look at User_talk:Bryan4562013#January_2017. The user has again added copyrighted content (and in some cases copying without attribution) and I doubt they understand the issue. I have warned them once but I see no response on the talk page. I believe a block is in order here, at least to force them to discuss on the talk page. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:50, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa,
I was very disappointed and puzzled to see that the page I re-listed yesterday for the British feature film ‘Playing the Moldovans at Tennis’ was almost immediately removed by yourself.
Under a couple of IDs I’ve been a regular contributor to Wikipedia for several years and also always make contributions when the funding appeals from Jimmy are sent out.
I am very aware that the site has to keep a certain threshold but as someone who uses the site for my journalist work every single day I also know that there are, inevitably, many self promoting and arguably unworthy sites and I completely support the attempts to keep the selfie generation from enhancing their egos still further unless they have done something of note !
In this case, however, I am concerned there may be a misunderstanding because this is a genuine feature film with a well known British cast, an Oscar winning cinematographer, a good budget, based on a 200,000 selling book and a number of genuinely strong points that I have listed below.
I would like to request that the film’s Wikipedia entry is reviewed and that I am allowed to put it up again as it has genuine merit. I am not doing this as a paid PR or member of the crew.
I also know that the proceeds of the book and film have made an incredible difference to the lives of children with cerebral palsey in a country that unfortunately has a reputation for bullying them and denying care.
If this is not a decision you are able to make could you please advise me what the appeal process is within Wikipedia or what may have been wrong with the initial listing that I can seek to correct as it can be very confusing at times.
Thank you for your assistance
Kind regards
Essex46essex (talk) 09:45, 16 January 2017 (UTC)MartinEssex46essex (talk) 09:45, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Tony Hawks is a million selling author, one of the best known and most regular voices on BBC Radio comedy shows, is a renowned stand up comedian and presenter.
‘Playing the Moldovans at Tennis’ is very closely based on a true story. The book that Tony wrote after his experience has sold more than 200,000 copies and was a UK best seller as well as being turned into a BBC Radio series.
His previous film, Round Ireland with a Fridge, has been purchased and shown by the BBC and has it’s own Wikipedia page. That book has sold 650,000+ copies to date.
PTMAT is the first British feature film to be shot in Moldova, the poorest nation in Western Europe. It was made with the full co-operation of the Moldovan government.
The eventual budget was £300,000 but the film also benefited from very low Moldovan costs and subsidies. Had it been filmed entirely in the UK it would have cost more than £750,000.
The film’s co-director, Mikolaj Jaroszewiecz was cinematographer on the Oscar winning 2006 film, Peter and the Wolf.
Angus Deayton, Stephen Frost, Morwenna Banks and Laura Solon are all very well known British TV, Radio and Theatre actors.
Pat Cash, who commentates in the film, is the 1987 Wimbledon Tennis champion and now a BBC TV commentator.
Most of the best-known TV actors in Moldova also appeared in the film.
The film had it’s UK premiere at the prestigious Odeon West End Theatre in London’s Leicester Square in front of an A list audience of British TV and Radio actors, presenters and comedians.
It had it’s Moldovan premiere in Chisinau with an audience including the local cast and crew and members of the government.
PTMAT was shown at independent cinemas throughout the UK and released on DVD.
The film has it’s own website, IMDB listing and numerous mentions and pages on other film and comedy sites.
ALL profits and proceeds from the film are donated to a care home for children with cerebral palsey that Tony founded in Chisinau with the royalties from his original book.
Thanks for uploading File:BEST logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:39, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
IIRC, what I copied from GUID to UUID was a citation, because I was using the same source. Does that also require attribution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.253.110.94 (talk) 13:12, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
I wrote that text. IIRC, I intended it to be in the UUID article but I had the GUID article open and by mistake I added it there, thinking that I was editing UUID. Then I moved the text to the UUID article and removed it from the GUID article. 73.253.110.94 (talk) 02:07, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
In mind, it may be a no good taste Trueman show, your finding is important. I apologize to you for the delay in my replying. In my image, your finding of a copyright makes you Smart on that report. so that I think so, perhaps.
As I also do not like pointing a finger at some mistakes with a lot of fuss, your very discreet comments are not negative for me. But I am in a much weaker position than upper persons because I can not write without a go-ahead from supervisors of editing articles (seasoned contributors). Oh, My English skill is really poor. --I.hidekazu (talk) 16:04, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa, what is the best single article tag for a science article that does not comply with the third point of the Plagiarism guideline—"Summarising...", here—and so constitites plagiarism that does not infringe copyright? This applies to many maths and science articles, where section after section is either WP:OR or this type of plagiarism. My understandings are the most academically common (like WP policy, and informed by various university guidelines, Lipson and other books, as cited in the WP guideline), and shaped by university teaching experience. For now, I have used a Cleanup tag, here. RSVP here, merci. Le Prof 73.210.155.96 (talk) 01:02, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
((Close paraphrasing))
. If you don't think it fits the case, use the cleanup template. Regardless which template you use, I suggest posting on the article talk page as to what you think the problem is and give details as to which sources you think have been plagiarized. Thanks for your interest in helping with copyright cleanup. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:21, 17 January 2017 (UTC)Two statements newly inserted were exactly copy pasted at Amaravati_(state_capital)#Etymology, from url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/deep-focus/Naidus-smart-capital-will-not-be-made-in-a-day-or-in-10-years/articleshow/52709704.cms.--Vin09 (talk) 04:58, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
When you have a moment, please take a look at a recent edit to Jainism, where a few paragraphs apparently copied from “Six Substances” at JainBelief.com were added to the lead by an unregistered editor. Last edited by: has already undone the edit, but I think the material should also be hidden. Thanks!—Odysseus1479 05:57, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I noticed you deleted Draft:Whistle (company). I didn't think this page was genuinely reviewed, since it was flagged for deletion just a few minutes after submission. It included citations to The Wall Street Journal, CNN and in-depth reviews in publications like PC Magazine. In addition to consumer use, the product is used by universities to conduct veterinarian research. Although I am an experienced editor, I'm not that familiar with the speedy deletion process. I thought once the speedy delete was contested on the Talk page, there would be a discussion. So I guess I just wanted to check-in, because I wasn't sure if you reviewed the page and also felt it should be deleted, or if you were deleting it as a matter of administration, perhaps not realizing the deletion request was contested. Thanks for your clarification in advance. CorporateM (Talk) 16:19, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I came across a series of uploads to Commons of historical photographs where the license is listed as "own work", which seems doubtful for the headshots: link. I'm not sure how to proceed; could you advise? K.e.coffman (talk) 02:20, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello.I'm new here, so I thought citing sources was permission enough to copy.Having now understood the copyright-related-policies of wikipedia is it okay if I put back the information you removed on Indian National Physics Olympiad, albeit, this time, in my own words, with more extensive citations? How much of details should I include, in general, while writing on wikipedia?Also, the page INPhO just contains information about the physics olympiad-Does copyright apply here, given that these are government affairs(websites IAPT and HBCSE), not private? Sorry if I'm being silly-I'm just a high school student! 112.133.232.33 (talk) 07:16, 18 January 2017 (UTC) Siddharth110200 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.133.232.33 (talk) 07:17, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Everything you add to this wiki should be backed up by reliable sources, preferably to sources independent of the subject. Content should be general information on the subject, written in a summary style. Wikipedia is not a directory or how-to guide. The article should not give detailed information about how to qualify for the contest, dates/times/locations of events, or extensive lists of winners. There's some good information about how to write for Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Your first article. Also you might consider visiting the Teahouse, where editors experienced at helping new users are available. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:29, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, thank you for the fix and info on S-layer. We have used most of the wording from our own open-source review (in FEMS; CC BY) on S-layers, used inline citations but did not mark the sentences as direct quotation with double quotation marks, sorry. Anyway, we will rewrite the paragraphs in order to keep it simple (and replace the non-open source phrases). But, a quick question: Since the sentences we used are pretty concise and often only a limited number of ways is available to say the same thing, I would like to know how/where we can check the material before editing the article again. Moreover the figure is my own work, published in the open source FEMS review too. May I use it (including the figure legend) ? Finally, I would like to emphasize that basic and applied S-layer research has made enormous progress over the last decade and thus we would like to stress our engagement in updating the article. Thank you --Adigit (talk) 16:22, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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or by adding details manually like I did here. Another point: The wording of your post implies that your account is shared by multiple people. Shared accounts are not permitted. Each user needs to create their own account please. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
The file you took down was created by me and my brother (Jared Miller) for the sole use of adding to the wikipedia page. There is no original publication to cite, as this is an original work. I uploaded this file in the presence of, and with the permission of my brother Jared who is the sole author of the code for the animation. What should I do to prove I have copyright permission when there is no original publication to cite? If needs be, I will re-upload the file with the copyright under my name. I have no doubt that my brother will transfer the copyright permissions to me as I worked closely with him to produce the animation. Using his name to cite the work was to respect his significant contribution. He has given me full permission to release this animation into public domain. I can have him send you an e-mail detailing such permission. I understand that such an e-mail would not represent proof of ownership, however, I can think of no other way to convince you of the originality of the animation. Cpm827 (talk) 23:00, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
I did take much of the addition from the Ken Sanders page. I did rewrite it into other words, and I did give Ken Sanders the credit in a ref at bottom of page. I feel that I proceeded properly; therefore I am restoring the page as written. If you feel that it should be further modified from the wording in KS' page, please feel free to do so, but I don't think it is necessary to revert. TIA --Spray787 (talk) 00:44, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Here's a sample of your problematic edit: Source says: "In June 1865, John V. Long received a letter from Edward L. Sloan, clerk of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion High Council, stating President Daniel Spencer had noticed that Long's seat at the body's meetings had been vacant and the council would like to know why. " Your edit says: "In June 1865, Long received a letter from Edward L. Sloan, clerk of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion High Council, stating President Daniel Spencer had noticed that Long's seat at the body's meetings had been vacant and the council would like to know why." Overlap: one hundred percent. Suggested re-write: "Long first began to realize that he was in trouble with the Mormon leadership in June 1865, when he received a letter from the Salt Lake Stake of Zion High Council questioning why he had not been attending its meetings." I have to do real life things for a while and will respond later should you post again. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:08, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
I was looking at User:Raviobbu/sandbox when I saw you simply removed the tag and revdel'd the edits. I think that's the first time I've seen that; AFCH blanks the page when "cv" is chosen as a decline but often the page is still deleted. Is it because of the decline notice left on the page, is that just something you do? Primefac (talk) 03:20, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Joydip.B (talk) 06:16, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Hi Diannaa, Thanks for your review my article "Draft:Tractors India Pvt Ltd", I checked again, but i did not found any direct copy from http://tiplindia.in/about/ page, or any copyright violation however i made some changes again, please review. Thanks
Hello! I'd like to point out that the edits done by me date from 10 September 2016 whereas content deleted by you citing Copyright issues are even older that that. Hence deleting that content would be an ill-advised decision. The content I edited/added is in not plagiarized from the mentioned site. I'm willing to contest your claim. Magnilonam (talk) 08:01, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa have intially replied on my talk page on the https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/License%20Versions#Definition_of_.22NonCommercial.22 website when you click the link permitted uses under the NonCommercial licenses the FAQ section dealing with Wikipedia articles, Can I include a work licensed with CC BY in a Wikipedia article even though they use a CC BY-SA license? Yes. Works licensed under CC BY may be incorporated into works that are licensed under CC BY-SA. For example, you may incorporate a CC BY photograph into a Wikipedia article so long as you keep all copyright notices intact, provide proper attribution, and otherwise comply with the terms of CC BY.--Navops47 (talk) 18:47, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Greetings. I just had a look at the Gervonta Davis article and I can spot at least one instance of direct prose plagiarism from an ESPN article, namely in the final section of Professional career. Would recommend that you have a sweep over it, as you are more experienced in these matters. Much thanks. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 22:13, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Diannaa ! I hope I'm not disturbing you. If possible, could you direct me to a page where all labels like this one "Refimprove|date=April 2007" exists ? That is, if a such page exists, naturally. Can't find any myself. The reason for my question is the "Format" part of the Argentine Primera División article. I would like to put a note there, which states "This could be explained better", or something in that direction. (I'm not certain whether some of the teams play each other twice or three times.) Cheers! Boeing720 (talk) 22:26, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
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for this situation. I found a good listing of available templates at Template:Template messages. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:05, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi dianna, you recently deleted a information from Optometry article, from the 'definition of optometry and optometrist' column. U said it is due to copyright violation from website. But, the definition is universally accepted one, and anybody can use the definition in books, publications etc. I just gave the reference URL to the website, if you wish u may delete the reference URL, but don't delete the definition, it doesn't violates any copyright. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:B10C:947C:7076:7A4C:11B0:BF95 (talk) 04:26, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
The problem is resolved. I haven't made any changes. But u wrongly wrote the <blockquote> format as {block quote}, I have corrected it, and it's all fine now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:B00A:B8CF:6748:ABC0:5552:8025 (talk) 14:54, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:B006:1826:B8B6:F9E9:192B:E80 (talk) 15:02, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. Re your deletion of the extracts from 1930s letters to UK newspapers in quotation-boxes in the F L Lucas article, please note that UK newspaper letters copyright is 70 years - i.e. letters from the 1930s are now out of copyright. (Lucas's letters were never published in book-form.) I'll add a note to this effect on the talk page. Re your other deletion, one short 1935 poem in full, to give an example of his verse, does not seem excessive (the poem has been out of print since 1935). Regards, 163.1.110.149 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.110.149 (talk) 12:17, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa,
I was not aware that facts phrased a certain way are copyrighted. Since this is the case, why only remove a portion of the DCC South entry and leave some without rephrasing it?
SortaScience (talk) 04:28, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, thank you for checking the page. I had quoted some information from Euromuse because I had the permission, but wasn't aware of the steps that have to be taken for donating copyrighted material. I have paraphrased the information now and added further information, citing both sources. Thank you for your help and great work. --HistorischInformiert (talk) 13:43, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa: Would you please consider protecting this article which has been subject to much ip vandalism of late. Thank you, Kierzek (talk) 23:38, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ibex (band), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: the outcome of the previous AfD was soft delete, so, in my opinion, G4 does not apply. Thank you. Salvio Let's talk about it! 11:06, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa, I requesting you to semi-protect my user page. Thanks for reading. --Nothing7898 (talk) 12:03, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Diannaa. Could you please take a look on the recent edits in Southern Gas Corridor? By my understanding there may be (but I can't say for sure) some problems with copyrights issues. Beagel (talk) 17:03, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
These three edits ([9], [10], [11]) introduced material that is potentially libelous. The editor claims he was an eyewitness. Could you please have a look to determine if the edits are suitable for WP:REVDEL? Thanks. 32.218.152.233 (talk) 18:36, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Joplinplayer (talk) 19:57, 25 January 2017 (UTC). 32.218.152.233 awfully heavy handed with me. Got a great deal of nonjudgemental help and comments from others (and dianna previously) made adjustments as requested. The edits reverted were from unsigned contributors, particularly a new contributor who deleted a Fox 6 news citation and associated comment, and who also edited another page with ZERO citations.
Diannaa,
I am reaching out to you because you are a librarian and I have worked with librarians very well over the years. On the Jadoon wiki article, there is a user by the name of "sitush" that deletes everything anyone puts up and categorizes it as using outdated sources. Please read the Jadun Talk page to get some background on discussions I have had with him on this topic. I am an expert on Pashtun tribes and have spent 20+ years researching them(including Jadoons). All the materials on Jadoons draws from the writings written in 1700s /1800s /early 1900s. There are many articles in Wikipedia on other tribes with no references but no one deletes them. Why is Sitush allowed to do this? why don't wiki administrators put a block on him? (they did to me!) The Jadoon wiki is being hurt by his actions because he does not allow any material on the Jadoon to mature, be modified and improved upon. ~~ Mulberry sky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mulberry sky (talk • contribs) 00:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
If I quote something from a book and then give its reference - is that a copyright violation? I have done that in the past. But you did not answer my question - what makes Sitush the judge of deleting referenced information that has been used to substantiate claims in other literature on this topic, just because he does not like it without any repercussion from Wikipedia administrators? ~~ Mulberry Sky
Thanks Diannaa :) (by the way, spent 3 years in Calgary - great place!) ~~ Mulberry Sky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mulberry sky (talk • contribs) 12:17, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Why you delete my editing? What's wrong there? It was the edition of the source in the book in English language. It's very important, because showing what's happend with camp after war. --Swd (talk) 06:55, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Ah ok. I'm sory. If you wish some others books I can help you in future (send you scans, pic). My english is not so good, so maybe better if you corect it, if it's important.
Book is in polish, english, french, german and russian. It's more album like book. --Swd (talk) 07:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Thanks for guiding me on the copyright related issue. I will definitely keep it in mind. However, I have a small confusion. The content that I copied from http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/priyanka-chaturvedi-blog/people-in-villages-small-towns-worst-hit-by-bjps-demonetisation-move/ is same everywhere. I mean it is the bio / intro, so do I need to rewrite this too in my own words? Also, there is a reference on the page which is no longer available. Can that content be removed? Edwige9 (talk) 11:56, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
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template. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk)
Hi Dianna. I did some cleaning up, but could you check the copyvio status on July 2016 Turkish military asylum incident in Greece (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? Thank you. Dr. K. 17:54, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, It has come to my attention that content regarding the AChemS Annual Meeting posted earlier this week by someone who does not have a close relationship with the organization was taken down. There was no conflict of interest violation so that posting/edit should have been permitted. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rachelherz (talk • contribs)
These diffs [12] [13] appear to be copied from the about me here [14]. I have no idea about the notability of this article, but the copying probs should be rev deled. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:39, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa - another which needs protection from ip v. If you have time. Thanks, Kierzek (talk) 18:14, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
Diannaa,
Thanks for the post on my talk page. I must confess I was unaware of this, all the time I've been editing articles its not cropped up before. However, if I understand correctly the other sources quoted are books or the online texts of publications and so don't require the attribution. The source in question only exists a web page, as far as I know, so that requires the attribution as you have added to the reference. I have used similar pages in the past and in fact some from same source. these I will need to locate and add the attribution as you have I expect. Regards Adrian
Hi Diannaa,
You deleted content from a page I added. You sited that it was copied from another website. When in fact the writing is originally from MY website for the film and the website you listed copied it from ME. Please don't delete things from this page. This material is 100% owned by me and my company. pinkmermaid — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkmermaid (talk • contribs) 23:39, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
You deleted this sentence ("It was founded by the Ambani family and currently endowed by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group") from this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_Research_Foundation citing that it is a copy righted content!!! . Irulason (talk)
Hey! Would you please help me with What's Your Raashee? by copyediting it? I am intending to take this to GA and then FA. I would appreciate your gesture.Krish | Talk 19:00, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I am new here and interested in editing pages on Nazi Germany. Just wondering if you could give me any guidance, as I don't have much knowledge as to how editing works and I know you work on these pages regarding copyright issues. Any advice would be appreciated. Taylor6644 (talk) 17:20, 29 January 2017 (UTC) Taylor6644
Thanks for your reply and I am actually a student who has been working with a group under supervision to understand Wikipedia. Our specific interest is in Nazi Germany, so through navigating those pages I found your username and understand your credibility as an administrator. My class and I are working towards an edit-a-thon, so I thought it best to seek advice from you, especially to avoid copyright violations during the process. You do really great work from what I have seen on other pages and maybe you could direct me to a link explaining Wikipedia's copyright policy better? Thanks for the help. Taylor6644 (talk) 05:05, 2 February 2017 (UTC) Taylor6644
Thank you so much for all of your help and offering your resources and insight to us, I really appreciate it. Also, thank you Kierzek for giving us some insight on the Nazi pages because I don't know that we would have known all of that just starting! Taylor6644 (talk) 01:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)Taylor6644
Hi Diannaa,
I see that you previously deleted some copyvios from FriCAS, and User:Unicas has recreated the article. You might want to take a look. --Slashme (talk) 20:36, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi there
Indeed, I've recreated the article from scratch. This time from head to keyboard ;) I can understand why the first post was deleted, however, it was by no means a violation of copyrights. The text passages used in the first version are part of the source code (BSD licensed, literate programming) and Axiom and forks are allowed to share it, that's why it occurs in the Axiom "books" (that are generated during the compilation). Nevertheless it's certainly better this way. Thanks!Unicas (talk) 21:08, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm Tim Daly, author of the cited 'bookvol1.pdf'. I give Unicas permission to quote from the book in whole or in part. As a matter of professional courtesy I'd appreciate a link to the Axiom website but this is not a requirement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daly (talk • contribs) 19:48, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Hey Diana, thanks for those reverts on the Tina Arena page. I noticed that one specific IP had made a lot of those copyvio edits and warned them. I had ran the article through Earwig's Copyvio Detector but hadn't caught those. What do you use? Karst (talk) 21:31, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, Diana for your message. Well, the content sourced from the website was for describing the weather trend of the place. They're factual statements, so I don't understand why should it be removed when the references were cited. Of course, it could be paraphrased however, the Weather being a natural scientific phenomenon, facts would remain 'as-is' with little to no difference to the writing. I didn't use any illustrations or charts from the website, except for the weather facts (citing the source), so don't think it was any copyright violation. Hypothetically speaking, the website content could also be sourced from a geography book, and the content provider could memorise and contribute to the website souring from a book altogether, which wouldn't become a copyright violation, would it? OmerMarcel (talk) 22:29, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Since you had some involvement with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. DGG ( talk ) 03:21, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Hope you are doing well, I found that my article/cv has been deleted by you , and I don't know why? is there something wrong, or I missed something must be there.
Regards
Ahmed abo elseoud — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmedmas (talk • contribs) 13:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna. YOu deleted some text on a page I was working on. Thanks for your attention to this. I have extensively re-worked the information that you deleted by verification from other sources of the facts contained in the paragraph and have now added that work. None of the citations now come from the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Ruth Fairfax, but I will include it as an external source.
here is the text I have added: After the move to New South Wales Ruth Fairfax continued to be involved in the Country Women's Association. She was the president of the metropolitan group in Sydney and also honorary secretary of the New South Wales Country Women's Association.[14] She was a vice president of the Associated Country Women of the World[15], and attended conferences in Washington and London in her role.[16] She was also an editor of The Countrywoman in New South Wales : official journal of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales which was published from 1937 - 1957.[17]
She was actively involved in a number of other organisations, including as the vice-president of the ladies' auxiliary of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of New South Wales,[18] and as a member of the board of directors of St. Luke's Hospital, Darlinghurst.[19] She was was a member of the State executive and then the General Council of the Girl Guides' Association.[20] She was appointed a trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales in 1937,[21] and served in that role until her death.[22] She was chairman of the Women's Council of the Australian Board of Missions[23] [24], and a patroness of the Kooroora Club for business girls, which formed in 1929.[25] [26] Thank you --Mawarre (talk) 01:45, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Same IP is back adding the copyrighted list content to Television in Romania. See User talk:Diannaa/Archive 50#Television in Romania for reference. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:12, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I don't know whether you're still checking my contributions or not, but in case if you wanted to, I decided that it would be better to report them myself. Here are the recent contributions. Based on your advice I paraphrased the sentences and didn't copy the words. Keivan.fTalk 11:30, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Gamebuster19901 (Talk | Contributions) 14:24, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for following up on the articles with CDC content added and adding the footer note. I will try to make sure that we do that consistently. James Hare (NIOSH) (talk) 15:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I want to call your attention to a prolific Spanish editor, Vvven, who is spoiling a multitude of articles with his execrable English, unsourced "information" that is frequently distorted or simply incorrect, copyright vios, and generally incompetent edits. You can see the results of his awful work in the revision history of the "Architecture of Mexico" article, for example, from 2012, which I've fixed by either correcting, which is exhausting, because his work is so bad, or simply deleting it. His talk page pretty much tells the story. This poor soul thinks his English is just fine, and vigorously defends his laughably bad stuff. He recently become active again after a brief hiatus when dozens of images he added to articles were deleted because they violated copyright, and he seemed to be depressed. This guy needs to be stopped; he is ruining many articles. Thanks for your time. Carlstak (talk) 02:37, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Again one of the users has violated copyright policies by uploading this image. It's obviously neither free nor in the public domain, and as it shows a living person it can't be considered fair usage. Is it possible for you to delete it? Keivan.fTalk 04:36, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa
Please could you revert the speedy deletion of Higher education in Afghanistan and the removal of text from Challenges for innovation in Malaysia, you stated you have done this because the text uses a non compatible license, the publication is available under CC-BY-SA, as stated on the 4th page of the .pdf.
Many thanks
--John Cummings (talk) 09:20, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, ok, thanks for your feedback, I will add this to the instructions :) --John Cummings (talk) 15:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Your claim of removing certain additions over the Infiniti Q70 article be cause of copyright violation is questionable. First of all, the possible violation material from Car-Revs-Daily.com source was actually from Infiniti's official media newsroom, so the material removed can't possibly be from Car-Revs-Daily.com anyway. Secondly, if there really was a violation, what was the actual violation? You claimed there was violation, but failed to produced exact quotation that you considered is violation. Instead, you made such claim in some (semi-)automated messages that does not explain the exact extent of violation. That sounded like what you claimed as violation may not actually be the case. This brings to the third point. If there was indeed copyright violation, shouldn't there be some way for third party to review what was removed instead of making full on accusation? Thanks to your effort, there is no way to reveal what was actually been violated now, because you have deleted the key revision that allow others to decide whether actual violations have taken place. In other words, you deprived the accused of due process just to make your point, and that is a despicable tactic. I hope you can revert whatever it was you have removed, just for the sake of clarity. To make the fifth point, even if there were indeed copyrighted material being added without evidence of permission from the copyright holder, it may not even justify removal, since your automated response had already said contributors is allowed to copy/translate a small amount of a source material. Since the material being removed was just 431 over 14,030 bytes, that is hardly breaking the rule. If that tiny amount really is that big of a deal, the more constructive way to deal with it is for paraphrasing the questionable material, instead of going on full persecution mode just to one up against the 'violator' that you can no longer prove because the article with disputed content was removed. -- 128.100.220.37 (talk) 23:06, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Hey, I see that you recently hid some revisions on Elaine Duke because they were copyright violations. I had noticed those violations and removed them, but at the time I did that I was unsure if there was a protocol for following up on such edits and having them removed. If I encounter a similar issue in the future, is there a noticeboard or someone I should notify so the edits are removed? Thanks! Marquardtika (talk) 00:13, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
((copyvio-revdel))
template. If you find the template tricky to use feel free to post here giving details and I will look after the revision deletion for you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:16, 3 February 2017 (UTC)On Battle of Leuthen you deleted some text that I was working on. It should be free of any possible violations now. I've got an in progress template on it now. I'll be working on it more in a few hours. I had the material cited, and you deleted text from 3 different sources. Or your bot did. Not sure. auntieruth (talk) 01:59, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello Diannaa- As I see you have run across the above new user as well, I'm wondering if you think "his" attitude in this interaction might be worthy of attention somewhere. He was not happy with these edits I made to new material he'd added to the Maremma article. Wasn't sure if his behavior warrants an ANI or other action, so I thought I'd run it by you. Thanks in advance for any input. Eric talk 04:15, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Would you mind taking a look at Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies#History when you get the chance? All of the information has been recently added and appears to come directly from 50years
Hello Diannaa Thank you for your heads up message on my talk page, about the Air Barons copyright problem. First of all thank you very much that you had just removed the part of the text and not deletet the whole page about the Air Barons.I appreciate that. Rewriting the facts with newly written text should not be a copyright issue. But unfortunately, my English is not very good (English is not my native language). and I fear that a text reworded by me will not be correct English. FFA P-16 (talk) 08:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thank you for your message. I have an approval to use texts and photos from www.ehc.cz. Anyway, I will adjust the text to make it more suitable for Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Md editor (talk • contribs) 14:47, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you. I do not have an external relationship with the subject of the article. I just asked over an email if I could use the photo and some information from the website www.ehc.cz, of course I cited many other references as well. Hope the text is fine now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Md editor (talk • contribs) 16:05, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
FYI - Updated history section per your comments Thanks! Pajokie (talk) 20:21, 3 February 2017 (UTC)pajokie
Hi. I'm asking this because you told me about attribution on my talk page when I copied from one article to another. The genus Mimulus was renamed to Erythranthe, see the work we've started at User:HalfGig/Erythranthe, about 5 years ago, but wiki has never caught up. Naturally there will be a lot of overlap. We may even redirect Mimulus. Is there a template or something we can put on the talk page for Erythranthe rather than attibuting every time there's overlap? Thank you for the help. HalfGig talk 22:34, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
((Copied))
template on the talk pages of both articles if you do it that way. If at some point you wish to incorporate material from your sandbox into the new article, you might consider requesting a history merge. Alternatively, the content in the sandbox could be used to create the new article using the move function. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:50, 3 February 2017 (UTC)Dagar (disambiguation) was created by copy-pasting a revision of Dagar, which was deleted today per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dagar (2nd nomination). Will this create any attribution issue? - NitinMlk (talk) 22:41, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, if you're inclined to do some rev/deleting, I think nearly all the content in the article was a copyright violation from various press releases and websites before my mass reversion earlier today. Thanks and cheers, 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 01:21, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
I saw your edit at List of birds of Sri Lanka and wondered if you think that a notice like the one you made needs to be applied to the many other lists in the "List of birds of ..." series. There are many that use the same or similar language. Thanks for your input. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 01:45, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Diannaa for taking the time to review Kōzō Okamoto for copyright. However I'm thoroughly baffled by your decision to remove content that had clearly been rephrased from a news source, with correct and proper citation. In addition, I quote a single sentence from said source, with proper quotation marks and explicit reference to the source (beyond the citation). I say this from memory as I have no access to the text.
All of the above shows conclusively that I have made every professional effort I could to avoid copyright infringement. In addition, my contribution based on the news source was limited in quantity (the source article is much longer, and the verbatim bit is a single sentence in quotes, all other half-dozen sentences are my own rewording). It couldn't be the case that every word I contributed were in copyright violation.
So I kindly ask you to explain exactly how one should add content based on news outlets without infringing on copyright, since as it stands your decision contradicts everything I have learned in academia regarding proper referencing and citation. I'd like to keep my motivation to contribute more, but, without understanding exactly how to avoid this situation, I'll have to refrain.
Thanks for your understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Therealash (talk • contribs) 15:14, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
I wanted to add TBRB's championship policy and its rankings guidelines so I copied it from tbrb website but not the entire charter and since it's a rankings guidelines its best not to be changed or paraphrased. Also, the main tbrb website page clearly says the website can be shared and encourage spreading their page to other websites so I thought copying certain parts of the text is just fine. Is there any chance for me to add the contents you removed since it's a very important part of the page? Pacphobia (talk) 06:34, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, would you mind, or are you able, to remove the deletion tag placed on the photography of Stacy Schiff I uploaded yesterday? I forwarded an email from her giving permission for its usage on Wikipedia to the email address you supplied, but I'm concerned that the photo will get deleted before anyone reads it. I have never, and would never, upload a photograph to Wikipedia that's copyrighted and not used with permission. Thanks for your help, Terry Foote (talk) 16:14, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
((OTRS pending))
. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:50, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your guidance re. copyright - I was still drafting the article and hoping for input. I had assumed that since some of the text was from the subject's website it would not be a problem but I understand the need to re-write this information in my own format. I've since found more information from other sources that I will be able to combine into the article.
May I ask why quotations are not necessary when citing a video game? How will a reader know where the information is coming from, specifically? I'm not saying you're wrong, you know better than me, but I'd just like to know for next time. Thanks. WackyWikiWoo (talk) 09:35, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, thanks for your guidance on copyright violations. I will rework those sections paraphrasing it as per Wiki guidelines. Regarding the Alumni section, there is indeed a more detailed list on a separate wiki page. However, in consonance with the practice of other business schools, it might make sense to have at least a truncated list of alumni on the main page, with a 'See also' for a more detailed list. Moreover, I will provide some detail to each of the programmes and student clubs (ensuring no copyvio) since they comprise an important component of the information about the business school. Thanks! Raunakshah8 (talk) 11:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna, The same vandal who is coming back with different user names have come back and added text that is against the Wikipedia policy. His actions have caused unnecessary amounts of work for the administrators. The Url is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premakeerthi_de_Alwis The same user who has come back under the names of Wipeouting, Academiava has now come back with Premakeer. Thank you for looking into this. Ramya20 (talk) 17:21, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
I see your point regarding the structure and copy. I will re-do with unique language. Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate it.--YongMein (talk) 01:47, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, so you deleted my "copyrighted" short description of Army Men III, however, I have exclusive permission from the game's developer and can even provide proof that he did so on Steam, actually he edited the Army Men III article himself, I just most recently added a picture there, again, in accordance with his permission.
I also respectfully request that the request for deletion of the page be removed if you are a person in power, I believe the people have the right to know about the fan made project in the game series in which a lot of work and effort was put into.
Thanks in advance and have a nice day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by $oldierboy (talk • contribs) 13:30, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Could you please try to talk some sense into this fellow? First he started an edit war in this article, then he became obsessed with removing your warnings, and now he's very rudely removing my warnings not to do that.--Max Tomos (talk) 20:33, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Checking the logs I saw you and another admin have deleted this page twice as G12. My browser can't load the past website it was a copyvio from for some reason, but thought I would alert because the text contains bracketed numbers which suggests it was copied from somewhere. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
May I ask what exactly the copyrighted material was? You give no indication - instead you just gut a whole section.
Also, you deleted my sandbox page?!? It's not even public! — Preceding unsigned comment added by WorldPizzaDay (talk • contribs) 03:23, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Should versions from the creation of the article to my last edit by revdelled for copyvio or just leave them be? --NeilN talk to me 16:54, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
If using articles in other languages as sources how would one cite said articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deum ex machini (talk • contribs) 17:22, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
((cite book | last = Keller | first = Gustav | title= Der Schüler Adolf Hitler: die Geschichte eines lebenslangen Amoklaufs | trans_title = The Student Adolf Hitler: The Story of a Lifelong Rampage | publisher = LIT | language = German | location = Münster | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-3-643-10948-4 ))
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suggested) (help) — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)Just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you for pointing out the copyrite issue - I actually wasn't sure about that and I appreciate the clarity. I'm working hard to be a good and welcomed contributor (because Wiki rocks specifically because of mentors like you!) Thank you! :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akrumoftruth (talk • contribs) 18:07, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I noticed your entry at: User_talk:Reattacollector#Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution. It suggested to me that you may have insight to offer regarding concerns I posted at User_talk:NeilN#Possible problem spanning multiple vehicle articles (and again at WikiProject Automobiles#User making large unilateral changes to vehicle articles over short time period without discussion).
Thanks for your time and consideration, --Kevjonesin (talk) 14:02, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you so much. Sorry I had to no idea how to change the title of an article, and I promise that I did attempt to Google it. The only solution I found was to create a new article and redirect the old one. I quickly realised that this was no correct since another user (Xx236) informed me. Thank you again. I shall look through my history and see which pages I have moved and list them in the link you provided. Thank you and sorry. Leave a message on my talk board if you want to discuss something - BardiaSaeedi. 22:13, 11 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BardiaSaeedi (talk • contribs)
Hi Diannaa, I removed some content in 2011 Southeast Asian Games that was copied from various sources. Think I got most of it but the issue is that some seems to have been added over 500 revisions ago. Would it be worth doing a huge revdel here or would that be excessive? And would WP:CP be a better place for this? Thanks, /wiae 🎄 14:17, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
I may be wrong on this, but it seems that your revision deletion on this article may not be compliant with WP:CRD: "If redacting a revision would remove any contributor's attribution, this criterion cannot be used." Mdrnpndr (talk) 17:23, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Could you please check the recent edits I made to INPhO and tell if they're okay(i.e., no plagiarism/copyright infringement, summary style etc.) Siddharth110200 (talk) 18:58, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Yeah, had a brain fart and hit the wrong button while I was editing - sorry about that. I meant for a preview instead, and it went live. Last night wasn't one of my finer moments all round, I'm afraid. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:36, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Why you deleted this page? Page described Lithuanian mentions as a Slavic language which NOT duplicates an existing Lithuanian language topic. Craft37by (talk) 18:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I'm trying very hard to learn, and can't imagine what copyrighted material I may have included. Could you please give me more info on this? I'd really appreciate the guidance. Peter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petersmillard (talk • contribs) 23:23, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Perfect. Excellent changes. I am a bit confused about the different manufacturers being removed, though, since that is a point that WHO makes clearly. This is because different manufacturers would have very slightly different sizes, even if they were listed as the same. I don't believe the Gomco clamp has been copyrighted for many years, but I am not an expert in copyright law.Petersmillard (talk) 23:43, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Got it! Thanks for the clarifications and improvements.Petersmillard (talk) 01:05, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Could I ask you to edit the Prepex article? I am trying to clean up the circumcision devicesPetersmillard (talk) 01:04, 15 February 2017 (UTC), but don't know where to start with this one. It seems like marketing to me. I'd really appreciate it. PeterPetersmillard (talk) 01:04, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa--a student of mine needs a hand. Can you look into the license problem? I'm not very good with that kind of stuff. Thanks! Dr Aaij (talk) 15:37, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
A quick question. Why was this deleted? A WHO expert review meeting on infant circumcision concluded that the procedure is easier to perform and associated with less pain and fewer complications when performed within the first two months of life.[2] When infant male circumcision is performed by well-trained, adequately equipped and experienced personnel, complications are minor and rare, occurring in 1 of every 250 to 500 cases.[2] It doesn't seem to be copyrighted material to me, but I am just learning. Thanks!Petersmillard (talk) 21:45, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Understood. Thanks.Petersmillard (talk) 22:25, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, info at Allama Gohorpuri Rahimahullah has been repeatedly reinstated since 3 August 2016 and appears to be copied from this website. The article had numerous problems prior to that but, I think, was probably at least free of copyright violations. I vaguely recall you recently mentioning that there is a revdel tag for situations such as this but I can't find it. Can you assist? Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 00:20, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
((Copyvio-revdel))
but you can post here instead if you like. I am seeing the copyvio coming from http://www.shariahcouncil-midlands.co.uk/articles/shaykhul-hadith-allama-nooruddin-gohorpuri.html ; the Wayback Machine shows they had the content first, as they archived it on April 2, 2016, and the content was first added to our article in August. Revision-deletion is done. Thanks for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:35, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the heads up about my cut n paste move. I currently have a problem with the title of the article. It currently is "British-Israel-World Federation" but the real title of the organisation is "The British-Israel-World Federation"[1]. Can you please assist me?? Thank you again, Scynthian (talk) 07:05, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
References
Would you please tell me what "we do not build our articles using primary sources" actually mean (??) and how you connect this with:
Primary source From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In many fields and contexts, such as historical writing, it is almost always advisable to use primary sources if possible, and that "if none are available, it is only with great caution that [the author] may proceed to make use of secondary sources".
Yours sincerely,
--ORANSIGLOT (talk) 12:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Well, I gave a second opinion as best I could. I also asked a question, which hasn't been answered, so I started to take a bit of a look. What are your thoughts (if any!) on the status of this document in view of this and this? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:04, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
This comes from this. - Sitush (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
I see no reason why you allowed that user SundayClose to delete my edits, since both are sourced, I wish there were 100 studies saying a drug cures Autism, but at least there is one source in both edits, the Q10 page for example says at the beginning of Supplementation:CoQ10 is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of any medical condition, yet there are 8 subsections, why was my edit the only one deleted? I was going to post the link, but I saw that SundayClose deleted my edit completely, it cannot be restaured, WHY? What's so bad about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Granito diaz (talk • contribs) 20:21, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. As you had previously said in order to avoid plagiarism we should paraphrase the sentences. That seems reasonable when we want to use an article or book as a source but what about a list of items or things? As it's been common in Wikipedia, the articles about royal figures usually contain the names of their patronages. For example a series of charities are currently listed on Diana, Princess of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, etc. Here's a list of all the charities that were under Diana's support. My question is that how the names of these charities should be added to the article? Or is adding only the names of buildings, items, charities, flowers, etc, that are mentioned in a source a copyright violation at all? Keivan.fTalk 08:29, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa. Sorry couldn't get to to you in time. I am sorry for the non para-phrasing of data. if you re-enable my previous edits, I may be able to fix the problem.Messiaindarain (talk) 09:48, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I understand you had to remove the content that were creating copyrights and plagiarism issues and therefore I'll try to rewrite or to follow the correct procedure to quote / donate etc copyright content. What I actually don't understand what is the content you found "advertorial", I can work around on the copyright issues, so could you advise on what was advertorial, please? I'm trying to understand how Wikipedia works and therefore when your guides / helps aren't so clear I cast an eye on pages that I find similar to the one I'm working on. For example, I broke in two a bulleted list as I found the code in a page, as the "help" in the dashboard doesn't say word about. Similarly, I wrote the board of trustee as I found it in the LAMDA page; why can they show it? How can I find the correct template to follow to populate wikipedia pages? How can I understand what exactly kind of organization is a certain business? Finally, could you be so kind to help me to understand how to upload a business logo? I really don't have the faintest idea of what I have to write to "explain how the use of this file will be minimal". I'm really sorry. Thanks for you help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppanico (talk • contribs) 11:01, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
The organisation is the first point of contact for those seeking information about training, education and assessment at all levels of study in the sector. The organisation's members make an enormous contribution to the sustainability and international profile of the UK creative industries.
...working hand in hand with Accredited schools and Validated awarding organisations to ensure that provision remains at the forefront of current industry trends, and addresses the real world needs of employers, with the purpose of securing the supply of high quality practitioners for the future.
...ensuring excellence in examination provision...
...contribute to the sector’s wider understanding of its history and contextual influences...
...makes a valuable contribution to the development of safe and professional standards of practice in pre- or non-vocational teaching settings...
I got the message about the picture in Standard Manufacturing DP-12 I added as well as the article. I was a little unclear about the article part, is it just in reference to the picture in the article possibly being a copyright violation or other parts of the article as well? Would removing said picture be sufficient? PackMecEng (talk) 19:07, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my talk page and for the warm welcome. I fully understand that it is important to not cite too much from textbooks in order to avoid copyright problems. But what I don't get is, why you deleted the DSM-5 criteria for SPD. Because they're the same as in DSM-IV- TR and these are cited freely everywhere on the web anyway, e.g.: http://behavenet.com/node/21648. Thanks in advance! Best Wishes, --Schattenblitz (talk) 22:52, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
You are going to get fed up of me, sorry. I have just commented out a paragraph that appears - sometimes directly, sometimes very closely - to come from this book. I actually suspect pretty much all of the additions of the last couple of days will be violations but most of the sources are not online. - Sitush (talk) 12:35, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Your input would be appreciated with the possible copyvio noted at User talk:Drmies#Help, I think I found a mass of copyvio / Talk:Bluebird K7. — JJMC89 (T·C) 20:27, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I understand to a degree that you removed the section, but the information is technical and has to come from a government source. The newspaper cannot make up a list like that on its own. So I doubt that the information is copyrighted, - it would mean that they made it up. It would be nice if the newspaper would reference their source.Ekem (talk) 02:13, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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or place it in quotation marks, so that the readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:35, 20 February 2017 (UTC)Hi Diannaa! You'd been very sweet to me with an issue last year with an article I posted and I'm writing in the hopes you can help shed some light on something that happened last night! Over the weekend a friend posted a ted talk on their facebook page. I really dug the speaker, Richard Greene, and started looking into him on Google. Turns out he has a fascinating life and career; and also has been a popular talk radio host on Air America; a judge on a Learning Channel show; and is a regular writer for Huffington Post; as well as a global speaker and author (he wrote a book for Penguin Publishing with a forward by Tony Robbins (who he was partnered up with apparently (Robbins wrote the intro to his book and it's on the net on a bunch of book selling sites)). Anyway, I was JUST starting to post the article I wrote about him when I got an immediate red flag - speedy deletion. And then I contacted the user who added the tag and spent the night adding in over 40 links/references I found on the net. Anyway, I just woke up and it was deleted by another user. I would be so grateful to understand why it got deleted. I wasn't trying to promote him, just add what I think is good content on a credible and noteworthy person! :-(!!!
User: Athaenara - thank you so much for replying. I tried to speak with Reddogsix immediately upon him adding the tag to my article; and the response I got was to leave the tag there and contest the deletion. I'm really coming from a point of wanting to be educated - and while I've been waiting I'm finding more links - like this one from CBS news that clearly states Greene's significance and mentions his legitimate connection as a speaking coach for Princes Diana - something I think on it's own would be of interest to the community - http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/04/28/master-of-charisma-shares-his-history-with-princess-diana/ - So, I guess I will try Reddoggsix again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akrumoftruth (talk • contribs) 20:01, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
User: Diannaa - hey - I am not getting any response from Athaenara - I wonder - since something clearly was misunderstood here - is there any one else I can contact? Sorry to bother you! Just wondering if you had any further insight for me. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akrumoftruth (talk • contribs) 01:15, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the information you supplied in User_talk:Vfrickey#Copying_within_Wikipedia_requires_proper_attribution. I was unaware that such copying was in any way restricted under our project's licensing. But, looking up over this editing xcreen, I and other editors are warned "Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions." I was obviously negligent in not having followed the link "certain terms and conditions". I note that it doesn't point directly to the relevant guideline in this case, which is WP:CWW. I ideally ought to have read the source cited for that transferred material and written my own precis of it for the article Incapacitating agent, which would, I think, have eliminated the attribution issue entirely (or would it have?). And what about paraphrases of other editors' content? Is attribution required then? I'd say it was under a broad construction of WP:CWW, but the guideline doesn't address paraphrased material specifically. Thanks for your time and help. loupgarous (talk) 17:32, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for correcting me on what might have been a contentious error with respect to Copying Within Wikipedia! loupgarous (talk) 17:36, 20 February 2017 (UTC) |
I've prodded this as an opinion essay, but the content reads to me like it was copied from somewhere. Copyvio detector only is at 54% and I didn't see it as blatant enough for G12. Thought I would see if you had an opinion on it since you are so good at finding copyvios where others can't. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:56, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, I have a problem and I don't know how to resolve it. I'm a specialist of Khmer language. I wrote the biography ot the famous Khmer writer Soth Polin (and others). I spent weeks to write it, trying to do my best (I'm new in Wikipedia) with all the good references (Universities, Journals, Reviews, translations, etc.), etc. It's a big work. I had a problem with Triptothecottage. He sent me a warning that I was vandalizing Wikipedia. I was not, of course, I was just correcting my own text! I told him he was to fast. I removed the warning but he never apologized. And two days after, he removed my page for "Investigation of potential copyright issue". I don't know what to do. It's too complicated for me to resolve this (I tried to follow the procedure but I am lost) and my page will be deleted soon. It's unfair. I asked him to help me. But he didn't. Please have a look. It's just because of few sentences in a small biography before an interview here (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/55431), which was just a English translation of my own work in a the French Jounal "Europe" (everything is written in "References", Triptothecottage should have read this) This is a very serious work which now has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale... I'm sad. I tried to do my best and the only thong I received it's an offer of deletion... Please help me. Domrey Sar Domrey sar (talk) 02:24, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Have made a mental note that next time I come across a copyright violation (like Mount Pleasant, New Zealand), I shall change visibility of the revisions as part of my edit. Schwede66 18:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC).
Hi Diannaa, I have a wee problem/request. I've been trying to get hold an image for several weeks. The image of the front cover of a code book used by the British during World War II. This is it Front Cover. I spoke to the guy who I thought who owned it, about three months ago. He came back, says he gave the code book, the whole lot, to Bletchley Park Trust. They have came back with an email yesterday, which states:
Does that mean the copyright of the image is still active, or would it be in the public domain? If it is still active, would you happen to know who I could contact to get a licence on it, to produce it. Sorry for dumping it on your lap. Sometime I look at these emails I get, and I can't make heid nor tail of them. scope_creep (talk) 00:26, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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. Document is OK for the Commons. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:44, 22 February 2017 (UTC)Hi Diana, thank you for your inputs. I have been requested by the Professor himself to edit his page on Wiki, and add the content that appears on his own website. Perhaps you could help me with how I could go about doing it without violating any copyright issues? I would greatly appreciate your inputs on this, as the Wiki page on this very talented and creative person is sadly inadequate. Thanks! Sandii555 (talk) 03:42, 22 February 2017 (UTC)Sandii555
Diannaa, The Conference Topics section that was removed from the LREC page comes from the Call for Papers of the conference. LREC and ELRA have not copyrighted the CfP, but since we, as Programme Committee of the conference, are issuing this call in the first place, we are entitled to use it including on Wikipedia. ISCAPAD is just conveying this information we have provided them to their community. Please put the section back in the LREC page. Looking forward to your reply, Best,
Helene Mazo (talk) 09:08, 22 February 2017 (UTC)Helene Mazo
Dianaa, I am not sure I understand why this is related to copyright issue: the topics of the conference ARE the content and the terms used in this scientific community cannot be rephrased or replaced with synonyms. In this field, "Information retrieval" or "Speech translation" are terms that are found all over the scientific literature, but also announcements more random documents, and understood by all the members of the community. I would be grateful if you could help me sorting out this specific issue, as I am sure that you have come across this already. Thanks Helene Mazo (talk) 09:36, 24 February 2017 (UTC)Helene MazoHelene Mazo (talk) 09:36, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Please don't destroy sources by stripping them of quotes, often the quote is the last reperesntation of the content when the original source is down and the webarchive couldn't save it (too old, robots.txt etc). Please consider reducing the length of quotes to a save length instead of eradiction in future. Thank you! Shaddim (talk) 19:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
There has been a long-running dispute at Talk:Lichfield Gospels between users Wilshire01 and Blackstache regarding an external link to a University of Kentucky site pointing to a collection of images of these medieval manuscripts. It is my impression that Wilshire01 perceives some defect in the CC licensing declarations at the Kentucky site. They place in evidence a contract between Lichfield Cathedral, the institution which owns the documents, and an organization that performed the digital scanning. Earlier editors involved were PseudoAristarchus and Johnbod. There may also be allegations of an academic dispute about attribution or suspicions of COI editing.
Both sides have stated they were calling for administrator attention, but I can't find any results. And the dispute continues.
I've seen you handle some copyright issues before and I would like to ask you, with your expertise, to try to settle this back and forth, which has been going on for a couple of years, it seems (so I guess there's no deadline). It's not a routine problem and posting it at WP:CP did not seem like a fruitful path.
Thanks, jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 05:56, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I got your message. I looked at the document, which was written in 1945, as part of homework for TICOM. I can't see how it can be in copyright. The stuff that is posted up in that web page is written out from the document. General Praun only wrote one document, and that is that. I took the view that as Britain is in Europe still, copyright terms would be the same, i.e all documents before 1995 are in public domain. It mentions the report creation on his article: Albert Praun, scope_creep (talk) 14:08, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
"If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required." Does this not apply anymore? Kinston eagle (talk) 17:01, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I feel I must challenge you on the removal of the plot from The Girls (musical) page on the basis of copyright. The show has the same plot as Calendar Girls and as such I used this article as a starting point, and used the same plot description as per the movie. I have tracked this plot description back to an edit made to Calendar Girls back on May 26 2008, where it has been in place for almost nine years - unchallenged, yet your reasons for removal cite an article from 2015 . I believe this was original writing by user MovieMadness as I can not find an earlier use of this prose elsewhere. It appears, rather, that this local production in NZ source looked to Wikipedia for a plot description for their production. Mark E (talk) 23:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC) ETA: I note from your page you may be able to assist in how to correctly use this plot description from Calendar Girls in The Girls (musical), any guidance appreciated!Mark E (talk) 23:34, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I apologize for putting that template on the article. I should have read the talk page archives. I'll make sure to consult the talk page in the future when I see intros with more than 4 paragraphs. Thanks and keep up the great work! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 02:05, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
User:Herblouise945 is still uploading random copyright images such as File:Gov. nathan deal (cropped).jpg - I think a block may be needed to get the point across. Twitbookspacetube 03:28, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
you are overreacting. I understand my past uploads were not allowed because they were screenshots taken from youtube videos without premission however this was modified from a file uploaded on here that allows for modification — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herblouise945 (talk • contribs) 03:45, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Dianna can you advised that I am okay to copy some content from the following book Hamilton, Admiral Sir. Richard. Vesey, G.C.B. (1896). Naval Administration: The Constitution, Character, and Functions of the Board of Admiralty, and of the Civil Departments it Directs. London: George Bell and Sons. the author died in 1912, for a draft The Department of the Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty that I am doing I would be including it the section Secretariat branches as its the only published work I could find that explains the structure if okay I have already included an attribution notice in the draft many thanks.--Navops47 (talk) 07:47, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
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as part of your citation like this. The way you did it in the draft in your sandbox 5 is also okay. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:20, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Was wondering if anything further needs to be done about Special:Contributions/62.232.203.120? Someone using that IP address posted that they are an employee of Odeon Cinemas and the account seems to be going around editing articles related to the chain. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:27, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
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on the talk page of articles they edited. This IP was copy-pasting copyright material from the corporate website the other day, so we will have to watch for more of that. I've tagged the main article Odeon Cinemas for COI as well — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:39, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Is a photo of a print of a 1925 poster within regs? Hope you're well! O Fortuna!...Imperatrix mundi. 13:20, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
With regard to the issue that you raised on my talk page re the above, I have revised the wording and added the section back into the article. It is always difficult to change the wording of sporting regulations without changing the actual meaning. As you may notice, I had made no attempt to hide the actual source of my information, having quoted it as a reference. My source was not the webpage that you quoted on my talk page. GTHO (talk) 23:04, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Diannaa, I believe your comments about copyright violations on the Journal of Management Inquiry are erroneous, but I altered the text to satisfy you. Also, it is odd you are welcoming me to Wikipedia as I have been here since it was created, but thank you anyhoo! Good luck with your work! SamotracesVictory (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
thanks for your feedback, Ayaani (talk) 17:44, 26 February 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm not understanding. The Washington Post is a credible news outlet. I used what they had for woodson history because it was accurate. I cited where it came from. I don't understand why it was removed. Please explain further. I was not stealing there story. I credited them.Dornessa (talk) 18:35, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. Would you mind taking a look at one of my edits? I came across the article article at WP:MCQ#How to definitively satisfy Wiipedia's image copyright criteria and saw that someone had embedded an external link into the article. In the process of cleaning that up, I saw that the relevant text was basically copied and pasted as is into the article. I rewrote it a bit to try and clean up the copyvio, but I'm not sure if my version is OK or if the previous version needs to be revdel. I am also not sure about the reliability of the source which seems to be user-generated by a "bird expert" who may be the same person as mentioned in Rex Graham nature reserve, which might make it OK per WP:UGC. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:28, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your message and rules. I am Mrs. Skip Mahoney and the entire bio that I posted was written entirely by me with input from Skip Mahoney. Now the resources section I admit I was not sure about and put links to the Washington Post and the Washington City Paper. Should I have put the articles' authors or something more. I am also the developer of the group's site. Any assistance you can give me to get the group's info in Wikipedia would be helpful.
Thank you
Renee Maoney — Preceding unsigned comment added by GMAHoaney (talk • contribs) 04:03, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
My sincerest apologies. I had no idea the history of the 1150 facility in College Station, Texas was copyrighted. Joe Polichino (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I would like to create a page for 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron for the unit. I work for the federal gov't, department of National Defence. I've had some difficulty uploading some unit historical information and am a new user to Wiki. Are you able to help me? Please email me at (Redacted) where I can provide further information. Thank you kindly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Canadian_Mechanized_Brigade_Group Edmonton-signals (talk) 22:18, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Edmonton-signals
Thank you for your assistance on the editing of the Architecture article. I thought that by creating a link to the main articles I made it obvious that the insertions were extracted from the main articles. I will be more careful next time. Thanks again for your assistance on this subject. --Christophe Krief (talk) 22:42, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
I think you can explain better to this so call new user (No way do i belive he/she new with the ability to link policy as they are doing in first day talks). See Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism #Why is attribution of public domain established as compulsory by this guideline?.--Moxy (talk) 06:16, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
I've noticed that you have deleted some copyright violation edits in various geology articles over the past months. Thanks for doing so.
I don't know what the correct procedure is for arranging for copy/paste copyright violations to be deleted, but I thought I'd inform you that I reverted some copy/paste copyright violations by User:Hbf1184 on the Neogene article on 27 February 2017. Can you fully delete these copyvio edits, so they can't even be browsed in the article's revision history, please?
If I find any more copyright violations, should I continue to report them to you, or follow another procedure?
GeoWriter (talk) 16:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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template to request revision deletion of copyright violations. Alternately, if you find the template awkward to use, please feel free to post here instead. Neogene is done. Thank for reporting this. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:16, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Thanks for your help. GeoWriter (talk) 21:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, Dianna. I am not very experienced in Wikipedia. Also, building a page for Dosho Port is a complex process. Even though I have access to him, his history in American Zen is quite complex. I was lofting in the stuff I found, planning on changing it. But I realize that is dangerous. I will add source and references to my own words. I have external notes to the page that also allow me to build text and put it in. Thanks again. I will be more careful, oh Wikipedia Master. In gasho, TooTallSid (talk) 18:32, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Regarding your comment here about User:Mark Linton, are you still planning to notify the user? I don't see anything recent from you on his talk page. This editor recreated the article today (Feb. 28) after it was deleted per G12. I haven't checked it myself to be sure there is a copyright violation. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 19:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)