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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Arkenstrone: baseless accusations regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

I was recenltly asked by admin Ad Orientem to notice those mentioned even if I consider them not to have been involved. This is why this notification is so late. Veverve (talk) 00:42, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 04:06, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi there! What's the best way to handle this? It was in the article for 13 years. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 14:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

I would remove it but I would not perform revision deletion: too many edits, too much time has passed. — Diannaa (talk) 14:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! And just to make sure you're not confused, I messaged because I had removed the same copyvio from World War II, which you edited today to add attribution to the above content. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 14:41, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

I see revision deletion was done for WWII, so that's perfect. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 18:54, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, can you take a look at Kritavirya if you have time? Thanks Nobody (talk) 08:42, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

I have done revision deletion on the previous iteration but I have no way of checking the current version, as the sources he cites are in a foreign language. — Diannaa (talk) 14:50, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

You had left a message stating "Hello. I am Diannaa and I am a Wikipedia administrator. Prose you find online is almost always copyright, and cannot be copied here; it's against the copyright policy of this website to do so. All prose must be written in your own words. The Wikipedia copyright policy and its application are complex matters, and you should not edit any more until you have taken the time to read and understand our copyright policy. There's a simplified version of our copyright rules at Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright. — Diannaa (talk) 16:12, 14 May 2023 (UTC)".

As you have totally removed it. I have just put the topic title and added template stating needs expansion. Hope this is not a problem any more. Thanks for informing the mistake I made. AlienTasks (talk) 16:41, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello! I saw that you are one of the admins willing to do revision deletes. I originially uploaded File:PostNL logo.svg two years ago, with a vector image that I created myself because I could only find raster images on the internet. This organization has now published an SVG version of their logo and it seems that I got the gradient slightly wrong. I would prefer that the old version is no longer made accessible, to prevent it spreading further. Thanks! PhotographyEdits (talk) 11:12, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi PhotographyEdits. The old revisions are already in the queue for revision deletion. This will take place on May 18. — Diannaa (talk) 11:17, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, do you have time to a look at this edit? I'm not sure if it's enough to qualify for revdelete: it looks like a direct copy of a sentence in this book (see end of p.59 to start of p.60), minus the last few words. The edit misattributes it to two other sources (which I suspect may be sources the original author cites in the accompanying footnote, not visible in Google preview).

The editor in question (H20346) seems to do a lot of this kind of thing and made copyvio edits recently at another article (Muslim conquest of Spain). The revision deletions you did earlier for this article on March 12 ([1]) concern edits that are also, I suspect, by the same user prior to account creation. Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 19:24, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

PS: Actually it might have been copied from this older book (p.233, beginning of first paragraph). The other book I linked is from a possibly polemic/unreliable writer, I can't tell if they copied this author's wording in turn or it's just a coincidence. R Prazeres (talk) 19:33, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

I have fixed this particular edit. Thanks for reporting. — Diannaa (talk) 12:22, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

May need to be scrubbed. Compare content by Xcommun [2][3][4][5] with its source material on Britannica.com, specifically the clause beginning with "because of its armament..." Thanks, Generalrelative (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Revision deletion complete. Thanks for reporting. — Diannaa (talk) 19:46, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello copyright patrollers, we currently have 76 reports at CopyPatrol that need to be assessed. Assistance would be much appreciated! Pinging some recent contributors as shown on the Leaderboard: DanCherek, Sphilbrick, 1AmNobody24, Ymblanter,L3X1, and Onel5969. Any assistance you can offer would be perfect, even if you only have time to do a handful of cases. Thanks in advance, — Diannaa (talk) 20:56, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I'm out of town (post-graduation travel and sister's wedding) until next Tuesday, May 23 and will have limited internet access this week, unfortunately. I will also send out the bat-signal to the WP:Discord CCI channel... DanCherek (talk) 03:49, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I've done another 20. The remaining 30 I don't know how the handle. Nobody (talk) 05:54, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I am doing a few every morning, but tomorrow we are on a holiday, I will try to handle a bit more. Ymblanter (talk) 06:59, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks everybody! — Diannaa (talk) 11:04, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, a revdel notice has been posted to 2023 Manipur violence, but I can't see any evidence of a copvio past or present that merits this, but I'm not in a position to take the notice again. Would be great if you could take a look at it. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:42, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I found some copying from here. — Diannaa (talk) 12:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Possible they tried to Revdel this edit which is a WP:UGC problem? Nobody (talk) 12:53, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

RD1 (copyvio) revdel was asked for though — Diannaa (talk) 12:55, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I do not undertand your criticisms All items are properly attributed to the Wikipedia from which they are tract, for instance Red Mountains Could you please be so kind to tell me and to show me an example on how I could add such items according the rules? I already asked you when you warned me. Thanks LordFalk (talk) 13:31, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Attribution is provided via the edit summary at the time you perform the edit. Please have a look at this edit summary as an example of how it is done. Copying without doing this is a violation of our licensing terms. Please let me know if you still don't understand what to do or why we have to do it. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 13:38, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. The "why" was completely clear to me.

The problem is the "how"

Assume that I put again the part you removed and at "summary" I write

"Attribution: text was copied from World of A Song of Ice and Fire on May 17, 2023. Please see the history of that page for full attribution."

Would it be OK?

Thanks for your patiency LordFalk (talk) 16:53, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

That's what you have to do. Please use a similar edit summary every time you copy from one Wikipedia article to another. — Diannaa (talk) 18:45, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

@LordFalk: That's a good edit summary, but please in the future provide a wikilink to the article from which you copied. — Diannaa (talk) 19:01, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

You have noticed the resemblance between content I recently added to Politics (Aristotle) and content found at sniggle.net. The explanation for the resemblance is that I am the author of the content at sniggle.net, which I'm using for the basis of the wikipedia edits. So, although that sniggle.net content is copyrightable by me, I irrevocably agree to release my derivative contribution to Wikipedia under the appropriate licenses, and so its inclusion should be unobjectionable. Please let me know if there is anything I can to to further satisfy you on this point. —Moorlock (talk) 18:57, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Moorlock. We need to have documentation that shows the copyright holders have given permission for the material to be copied to this website. Wikipedia has procedures in place for this purpose. Please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa (talk) 18:59, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

OK: license-granting email incoming. Moorlock (talk) 19:08, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Q: Is the volume of direct quotation present in this footnote guideline permitted, or excessive? Iskandar323 (talk) 08:22, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

My opinion is that quotations should only be added to citations where the material is contentious and likely to be challenged. But it's a judgement call. Any removed quotations will still be available in the page history. If the content is readily available online it makes sense to remove it. — Diannaa (talk) 10:21, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello,

For the castle section for Clan MacDonell of Glengarry page, could I burrow information from the page links of Invergarry and Storme Castles? I found some books online to can go into depth on the castles (through Internet Archive). Handiwork.Pro (talk) 14:28, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand the question. — Diannaa (talk) 14:36, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dianna. Would you mind taking a look at Dick Matenje? It seems to be a largely verbatim recreation of this Prabook page, but I don't know which came first. Prabook is described as an "a biographical library that was created to secure 'digital immortality'" in Valery Tsepkalo which means it might have gotten some if not most of it's materials from projects like Wikipedia. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:47, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

I would say they copied from Wikipedia, see their pages for Kyle Brandt and Jack Gleeson for example, where there's lots of matching content as well. — Diannaa (talk) 00:00, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at this. I kind of thought that might be the case, but just wanted to see if I was missing something. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:39, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome and tips on my talk page! Huge help! RoundField (talk) 09:32, 19 May 2023 (UTC)RoundFieldRoundField (talk)

Regarding your comment on my Talk page about copying content from text from Jōdo Shinshū into Lineage (Buddhism), I have added the ((copied)) tag as you requsted. I am not too familiar with this tag, but I added what details I could. I wrote the original material on the Jodo Shinshu page way back, so I figured I could just reuse it, but I am also glad to see that Wikipedia has standards and lazy writers like me can't get await with it so easily.  :-) --Ph0kin (talk) 06:36, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to do that. The content may have been altered by others since you added it, so it's best to add the attribution regardless. — Diannaa (talk) 13:46, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi! You recently told me that my page (Draft:Yael Hochberg) "may not contain material from copyrighted sources unless that text is available under a suitable free license." I'd like to make the proper corrections to avoid any copyright issues, but I'm a little confused by which specific parts/sentences of my page are in violation. Or, alternatively, am I citing a copyrighted source that I'm actually not allowed to cite? Basically, if you could provide more details under your original comment on my talk page regarding which specific aspects of my Draft:Yael Hochberg page are in violation, then I can update the page as need be. Thank you for bearing with a newer Wikipedia editor! --Brick1329 (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

There was some content copied from https://entrepreneurship.rice.edu/faculty-staff. The violation was fairly minor and I havew already removed/paraphrased the overlapping content. — Diannaa (talk) 20:03, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I did provide details (though a little late, having heard your voice in my ear). Is more information now required? Rwood128 (talk) 12:02, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Actually I did not notice that in the page history. But it's better if you provide a wikilink. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 12:05, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi there, I noticed you had edited this page, which you think it refers to KFF Laci. The original onset page was created as Tirana AS and its content was then transferred to KFF Laci by mistake. KFF Laci do not have any trophies in Albanian Women Football. To confirm the above you can check the albanian translation of the english page of KFF Tirana, as well as the League history within both pages --Fjorilda09 (talk) 17:36, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing it. — Diannaa (talk) 19:01, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi there, @Diannaa! You had recently deleted a part of the MSDT page’s Retirement section, since you claim it to be a copyright violation. I totally get where you're coming from, and I want to address your concern. Let's dive right into it.

First off, I want to highlight that the link you shared (https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-formally-announces-death-of-msdt-in-windows-11-moment-update-windows-12-beyond/) actually copied information from Microsoft. [Here's the link - Deprecation of Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) and MSDT Troubleshooters | Microsoft Support] But don’t worry, because the words I used were definitely not the same. I put my own spin on them, adding my personal touch and understanding.

Oh, and before I forget, let me mention that I took the responsibility of the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool. This article are super important in their respective domains, since we use troubleshooters every single day to fix those pesky problems that would otherwise take forever to tackle. I wanted to give them the attention they deserve.

But here's the kicker: Wikipedia, the ultimate hub of free and original information, only had two measly paragraphs about the MSDT. So, I decided to step up my game and contribute to this article in a major way.

I want you to know that I'm well aware of the copyright rules, thanks to a little mishap I had with an article called "Girdawary" four years ago. Lesson learned, my friend! I've since honed my skills and treaded cautiously when it comes to copyrighted content. I prefer putting things in my own words, adding that extra touch of creativity!

You see, I'm just a school student, and time is a precious commodity for me. That's why I usually contribute to Wikipedia in "phases." It takes a little longer, but hey, Rome wasn't built in a day, right?

Now, when it comes to copyright, I have a pretty solid understanding. Facts and information themselves can't be copyrighted. It's the presentation style and one's own creative magic that can be subject to copyright. But hey, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm always eager to learn and grow!

So here's my request: could you pretty please restore the content of the 07:32, May 22, 2023 revision under the "retirement" section? I truly believe that my concern and reasoning are valid, and I'd be over the moon if you agree. But if I'm mistaken, don't worry, I won't be bummed out. Just explain the reason why my content (the stuff I poured my heart and soul into) is subject to copyright. I'm all ears, ready to learn and become an even better Wikipedia contributor in the future!

Thanks a million for understanding, Diannaa. And please forgive me if I've taken up too much of your precious time. Regards,

Sugeeth Jayaraj (talk) 18:38, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

The page from Microsoft is marked as "© Microsoft 2023" and the page where I found the matching content is marked as copyright as well. You can check the extent of the overlap by visitng the copypatrol report and clicking on the iThenticate link. I realise it can be difficult to rewrite material in your own words but that's what is required. So no, I will not be restoring your edit. — Diannaa (talk) 19:31, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Is it okay if I can add the content back in quotations?

I really believe that timeline is important. However, I want to get your approval before adding that content back as quotes. I'm really dumb to not thought of this before, and I'm really sorry about that part slipping my watch. I was in such a hurry to somehow contribute in my little free time that I completely overlooked that part.

Thank you.

Regards, Sugeeth Jayaraj (talk) 18:12, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

No, please don't add it back as quotations. We have rules about quotations, and what we're supposed to do is use only short quotations, and only if there's no alternative. Wikipedia articles should for the most part be written in our own words, and quotations used only when absolutely necessary. Wikipedia:Non-free content#Text says "Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea"; "Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited." Please see Wikipedia:Non-free content, especially Wikipedia:Non-free content#Text, and the essay Wikipedia:Quotations for more details. — Diannaa (talk) 20:46, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Not sure what to do with this one. Thoughts? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:28, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Copying is extensive, but the article might be of value. I would list it at WP:CP as the amount of rewriting required to save the article is extensive. — Diannaa (talk) 21:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:08, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Text in the lead of the François Ozon article which is referenced to [6] seams to be copied from that website unless Moviefit is a mirror, in which case it should not be being used as a ref!SovalValtos (talk) 14:57, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

It's a Wikipedia mirror. I will removew the citation. — Diannaa (talk) 19:13, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you.SovalValtos (talk) 21:27, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Recently you deleted my additions from conversion therapy and claimed that they were copied from some other document. These passages were already on the Wikipedia page Kenneth Zucker, and they have been for months. What evidence do you have that they originally came from the external document? I've reviewed that document and it appears to be a simple copy-and-paste of the content that was already on the Wikipedia page Kenneth Zucker.

The document you referenced appears to be a Christian anti-trans document that copied and pasted some passages from Wikipedia (passages that are very different in tone from the rest of the document). The passages are also very clearly presented as a quotation, with different formatting from the main text body. For this external document, there is no author or date provided.

http://www.lifehousecc.ca/uploads/1/1/5/5/115560779/%E2%80%98re%E2%80%99defined__gender__sermon_.pdf

Now please refer to a diff of 17 changes to the article Kenneth Zucker spanning from October and November 2022:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Zucker&diff=1120161777&oldid=1115366577

I would like to have this content restored, as the content and its references provided valuable details about the history of conversion therapy at CAMH, and the circumstances surrounding the closure of the GIC there. There is no reason that this content, which was originally authored for Wikipedia, should be deleted. I think that when claiming copyright violation, some real justification is needed for that, beyond just copying and pasting a URL to an anonymous document that copied text from Wikipedia. Hist9600 (talk) 01:28, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Hist9600. Sorry for the mistake. You can help me avoid this mistake in the future by including an edit summary stating where you got the content from. In fact to do so is required by the terms of our license. see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia for full details. — Diannaa (talk) 11:07, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for restoring the visibility and the content. Hist9600 (talk) 11:17, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I see on your talk page you mention that you originally wrote the content at Kenneth Zucker. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not technically required. But as you can see, since much of Wikipedia has been reproduced elsewhere online, it is very useful to patrollers if you do so regardless, to help us avoid this type of mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 11:20, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Two of my edits (which purely removed copyright content and then added the revdel template) were revdel'd, while two of the IP's edits remain up with copyright vios in them. Not sure if I messed up the range in the template or if the revdel removal just slipped a bit further down the range, but figured I'd let you know. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 15:51, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for the correction. — Diannaa (talk) 19:32, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for documenting that I had taken text from Christianization without actually removing said text. I thought you told me it was okay for me to copy stuff I wrote in the first place and reuse it. Is that wrong? Did I mess up again? Jenhawk777 (talk) 05:45, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

No, not at all. It's just that there's no quick way for me to check who wrote the text and it's a little pointless for me to do so. Besites, the text might have been altered by other people since you wrote it. — Diannaa (talk) 11:46, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm relieved. Thank you. When I reuse my old stuff I check to see if anyone else has reworked it, but generally I recognize my writing style. So no worries there. I am trying to get into the habit of writing attribution in the reasons for edit, so genuinely thank you for catching my miss on this one. I appreciate what you do. Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:08, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T337674

Because so much of Wikipedia has been replicated to other websites, items like this sometimes get listed at CopyPatrol as a potential copyright violation. It actually often takes quite a while even to figure out which article the content was copied from, and to determine who is the original author of any particular piece of prose and whether or not it has since been altered would be even more time consuming. I could tell you were the primary author though by using the page statistics tool. Today that tool and everything at XTools is is throwing a 504 error so even that bit of research will not be possible until it's fixed. — Diannaa (talk) 12:33, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Wow, I had no idea. I will be more careful to include the appropriate references to make it possible for you to do this important work more readily. I'm sorry to have made things more difficult for you! Wow. Thank you again Dianna. Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:34, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I had a problem with XTools a few hours ago. I got this message. The database servers that power XTools and many other tools are currently being rebuilt. This may cause downtime that is estimated to persist through around 2023-06-01. Cullen328 (talk) 21:45, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, Cullen328. — Diannaa (talk) 21:50, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

hello,I have edited my own written content on page "the Crafts of Sindh" I hope it's not going to be any copyright issue, if it is then kindly tell me so I delete it. AngelicDevil29 (talk) 13:38, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

That edit is okay. You might like to try out our comparison tool; we call it Earwig's tool. Example comparison — Diannaa (talk) 13:46, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

@Diannaa I see that in your edits you delete virtually all hyperlinks which bring people to other and related subjects. What is the reason behind this? Camachoborracho (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

That's really odd. I will fix it now. Please stay off the article while I do so. — Diannaa (talk) 21:25, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

There's an option in the menu on the left (Vector Legacy version) to remove all links - I must have hit it by mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 21:37, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

@Diannaa, Requesting you to have a look @ copyvio apprehension expressed @ Template:Did you know nominations/Zakir Husain (politician) and help with your assessment as second opinion if possible. Bookku (talk) 05:26, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Done — Diannaa (talk) 00:48, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa. I did a small survey of Pbsouthwood's recent contributions after blanking Marine construction. I found some concerning ones and have listed excerpts here. Would you agree that those are unacceptable close paraphrasing? Best, CandyScythe (talk) 08:33, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello CandyScythe. If you think an investigation is warranted, he best course of action is to find at least five instances of copyvio/too-close paraphrasing, and file a request at WP:CCI. — Diannaa (talk) 13:08, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

CopyPatrol is running again, and we now have more than 160 reports awaiting assessment. Good news: no reports were lost during the outage. Bad news: major backlog. Not quite as memorable as the Big mess at Colon cleansing, but it's pretty major. Pinging some recent patrollers as seen on the leaderboard: DanCherek, Sphilbrick, CandyScythe, L3X1, 1AmNobody24, Ymblanter, Moneytrees. I have to take my mom shopping new but will do some more when I get back. Thanks in advance for any help. — Diannaa (talk) 15:30, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the ping, I couldn't really keep up with the phab page and was wondering if anything about copy patrol had changed or if was just restoration of service? From the cases I've done it seems like nothing has changed but I wasn't sure. Thanks, ^Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 17:00, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi L3X1, We had an outage for a couple of days where the CopyPatrol page was not being generated for behind-the-scenes technical reasons. However EranBot kept chugging along flagging and storing the cases we needed to examine. Nothing has changed with the CopyPatrol interface from our point of view. — Diannaa (talk) 21:26, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Greetings. I have created a new article Rajputs in Himachal Pradesh, and this article doesn't exactly copy from other articles word to word. It is an article that is for the distinct Rajput history of the Himachal region. I would like you to check it, and please let me know if there are errors to fix. Thanks, No2WesternImperialism (talk) 18:40, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Wjat kind of errors am I supposed to be looking for? — Diannaa (talk) 20:04, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I've encountered this entry on CopyPatrol, where the article is a copy from everybodywiki's AB_Liner. I tried adding ((Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa3|url=https://en.everybodywiki.com/AB_Liner)) but that doesn't work because everybodywiki is on Wikimedia's global blacklist. Do you know how to deal with that? Thanks Nobody (talk) 05:32, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Same problem on this CopyPatrol hit. Nobody (talk) 06:04, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Pinging blacklisting admin Billinghurst Nobody (talk) 07:58, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

you don't need to add an active url--leave off the http. As long as people can work out the target url that is sufficient. Not somethign where we would either remove ro the blacklist or even try to whitelist. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:34, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Got it, thanks for the help. Nobody (talk) 10:55, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Everybodywiki is a Wikipedia mirror which often hosts articles that have been deleted through WP:AFD. Their article AB Liner is a copy of our deleted article AB Liner, which was deleted as the result of a deletion discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AB Liner. So this article qualifies for G4 speedy deletion.

Regarding the Beyonce diff, there's a message at the bottom of the Everybody Wiki page that shows their content was copied from Wikipedia too, from an old revision of our article by the same name. Another clue is the access date on the citation in the diff you're examining Diff of Cultural impact of Beyoncé. So again I dscover a deletion discussion closed as delete: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural impact of Beyoncé. There's not enough overlap to have it qualify for speedy deletion, but any parts copied from there, and since the article was deleted, it's now impossible to provide the required attribution, so it will have to be removed. — Diannaa (talk) 12:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I see, thanks for the explanation, I'll apply this if I encounter everybodywiki copies in the future. Nobody (talk) 12:19, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I have cleaned the Beyonce article. It should probably go the AFD as it looks like the author intends to cover the same ground as the deleted artice, via a rewrite, and the same reasoning for deletion likely applies. Don't nominate it yourself though unless you have some experience with AFD nominations (I don't). I will delete the AB Liner Inc. article now that you have had a chance to review. — Diannaa (talk) 12:24, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

PS. You might notice that when people are copying deleted articles they might make subtle or not-so-subtle changes in the article's title to try to avoid detection. This sometimes makes it tricky to find a link to the deleted article (and the relevant deletion discussion, if there is one). — Diannaa (talk) 12:33, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup. The problem I have most of the time is, that I don't know if the article qualifies for G4 since I don't know if the new content is the same as the deleted one. I leave it alone most of the time knowing that the admins patrolling CopyPatrol will know hot to handle it. Nobody (talk) 12:39, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I would be happy to investigate any potential G4s for you when you run across them. — Diannaa (talk) 12:46, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Awarding you this barnstar in recognition of your continued dedication and hard work in relation to investigating and removing copyright violations, poorly sourced and unsourced additions and in general keeping up the integrity and standards of this encyclopedia. Kierzek (talk) 15:07, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Kierzek! — Diannaa (talk) 15:14, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Not sure if this customer is restoring any of the copyvio stuff, or just the unsourced parts. Iskandar323 (talk) 05:59, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Just found another copypaste-lover that you've been around the block with before. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:10, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

It's bible quotes, not copyvio. — Diannaa (talk) 11:19, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Sort of. Seems to be copying entire chapters - surely there's a limit on that? Iskandar323 (talk) 11:22, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

It's unencyclopedic and could be removed but it's an editorial decision, not an admin issue — Diannaa (talk) 11:23, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Does it make the difference that chabad.org is unreliable and the website itself does not credit the translation to anyone? Normally a given translation of a religious work will state the version used. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:28, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

The reliability of a source is not something determined by an individual admin. You're better off asking that question at the RS notcieboard. They do have Hebrew text right there alongside their translation. — Diannaa (talk) 11:41, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I wasn't asking you to determine reliability. It's been discussed at RSN before and deemed generally unreliable except for re: the views of the Chabad movement, e.g. here Iskandar323 (talk) 11:55, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I have used some content on the page "The Crafts of Sindh" from a citation, i hope its not copyrighted. AngelicDevil29 (talk) 15:00, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand the question. What did you copy from, and where did you copy it to? Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 22:48, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

In an edit summary to Civilization: A New Dawn you wrote remove unattributed content, copied from Fandom https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization:_A_New_Dawn.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but you did check first so that fan site didn't copy its content from Wikipedia, right?

I mean, deleting unsourced content is still okay. Using "it's a copy", however, is not, if the fan site copied from wikipedia instead of the other way round.

This is just a comment and you don't need to do anything. Have a nice day! CapnZapp (talk) 07:48, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

That sometimes happens, and it's difficult to locate if it's not currently present on this website. But checking the page history at Fandom leads me to believe that the person who added it there in 2020 is the author. It's okay to copy licensed material, but unattributed copying is a violation of the terms of the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license, so the copied content needs to either be removed or the required attribution added. How I handle each individual case depends on the circumstances.

While answering this question , I discovered by accident that as of June 7, 2023, Wikipedia is now licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license and the GNU. — Diannaa (talk) 12:03, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Since you repeat the rules (unattributed copying is a violation of the terms) I feel the need to make it clear that I know the rules, I'm not questioning the rules, and this is not at all about the rules. Instead, I am asking you (in a polite way) if you checked so the alleged copying really is copying. If the content originated on Wikipedia, and was later stolen by the fan site, then deleting it from here might still be alright of course (for unrelated reasons: for example, because the content is unsourced or plain false), but it is specifically inappropriate to delete it with a "content is copied" motivation (as you did judging from your edit summary). Now then. If you by "That sometimes happens" mean that you agree that yes, sometimes it's the other way around, and those removals are mistakes to be corrected, then we are indeed in agreement. If, however, by "That sometimes happens" you mean that content sometimes gets deleted from Wikipedia because of a mistaken belief Wikipedia copied the fan site, then, no, that's not okay - in fact, it is the specific reason I am posting this talk message! Thinking this to be "difficult to locate" is not a valid excuse: I can totally understand if you don't have the inclination to trawl the article history of Wikipedia articles, but if you don't take the time to go through our page's history, then I would like to ask you to also never assume our content is a copy of someplace else. Have a nice day today too! CapnZapp (talk) 07:27, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Checking as thoroughly as you seem to expect me to do is beyond the scope I am prepared to do, and is a waste of administrator/editor time because trawling through article histories where there are no clues as to where to look is a futile thing to do. In this particular case the content I removed was as far as I can tell never present on Wikipedia. I did look, as best I could, but the content I removed from Civilization: A New Dawn appears upon Google search and searching Wikipedia to be on Fandom and nowhere else. Of course sometimes I make mistakes but I am happy to correct them when they are pointed out to me. — Diannaa (talk) 13:01, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

For this particular edit, here's the process for checking who had it first. On Fandom, Here's the edit where the content was added on 5 October 2020. On Wikipedia, we can check the revision dated 25 July 2020 and we see the content is not there. Alternatively, I use the WikiBlame tool and discover that the content was not present in any revisions prior to Oct 5, 2020, the date it was added to Fandom. You seem to imply that I must also check other articles. If so, I would appreciate your telling me how those articles would be identified and what the process would be to check them. — Diannaa (talk) 14:12, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Nope, I did not imply (or think of) other articles; that would be a herculean if not sisyphean task. I just asked you politely if you checked the article history for the content before you claimed our editor copied it from some other site. Cheers! CapnZapp (talk) 22:50, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa! Hope things are well with you. Yesterday I removed a likely copyvio and link to the copyvio source (?) at [7] added to Map by a new user, [8] and carried forwards. I warned the editor concerned but other stuff cropped up and I forgot to notify it for removal from the article history... Thanks for being there! Haploidavey (talk) 08:18, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Revision deletion complete. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa (talk) 13:03, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello Dianna! I'm wondering if you could determine if [9] would be copyvio or CLOP. Thanks for your help! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 16:31, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I have amended the prose sourced to The Wire to better comply with our copyright policy. The new version still presents the same points in the same order but I don't think that can be helped in this instance. Sorry for the delay in looking after this - Earwig's tool had a lengthy outage yesterday. — Diannaa (talk) 12:40, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa :) — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 08:34, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Are today's somewhat profane edit summaries from this IP worthy of being revdel'd?

Clearly this user is not here to contribute, and the address appears to be static. I wonder also if a block is in order?

Thanks in advance for your consideration! Dorsetonian (talk) 23:03, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

I can't decide what to do. Please post at WP:AIV instead. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 23:47, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Will do - thanks for your advice! Dorsetonian (talk) 07:34, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Diannaa, could you please take a look at the article to evaluate whether it should be deleted per WP:G12 or the infringing material excised instead? The website it was copied from is here. Thanks a lot! --Bbb23 (talk) 19:51, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

It's fairly minor; I have done some fixes. — Diannaa (talk) 00:12, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Well, I guess I didn't do a very good job reading the two pages. I see a tool used when a Wikipedia article is tagged as G12. How do I use the tool to do a comparison when an article is not tagged? That way, I can avoid bothering you in the future.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:56, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

WP:EARWIG -- Whpq (talk) 01:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Eawig's tool showed a percetage of 33.8% but it was mostly the titles of films he's been in. The actual removable prose was not a hella lot. — Diannaa (talk) 01:11, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks much. I'll try to remember the next time I have a copyright issue.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:44, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dianna, most of the versions before my latest edits seem to have infringed copyright. What can I do about this?--Hongqilim (talk) 12:25, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I noticed this yesterday when you added or re-added some content about the coat of arms. The page was listed at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Sengkang but it's marked with a red X which means whoever assessed it at that time found no violation. I see you removed a large amount of content as being copyvio without saying where they copied it from. So I have nothing to compare it against. I would not do revision deletion for the content you removed, since some of it has been present in the article for six years or more. — Diannaa (talk) 12:38, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

As I was the only one editing that article today, June 13, I'm assuming by "attribution" you meant the stack of ten citations with quotes I had added, which I am adding to all the districts in the disputed Kashmir region. Is this the same as copying text, or is an acknowledgement in the edit summary, such as this one required because of the quotes? In other words, would I have needed the acknowledgement if the ten references had no quotes? Please let me know what the rules are. Thanks. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 23:12, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Or are you saying, I just realized, that the quotes should only be in Gilgit-Baltistan and the other articles should have the quote-less cites and a pointer to GB for fuller information? Fowler&fowler«Talk» 23:39, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Are they quotes? I thought it was prose written by Wikipedians, If they're quotes they should have quotation marks please. — Diannaa (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 03:15, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Actually, you are correct. There is prose too at the beginning, though quotes thereafter. I'll fix in some fashion. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 03:18, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 03:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

You are much better with WP:COPYRIGHT than I am. I took a look at Babylon 5: The Road Home and found what I think is a copyright violation. The specific edits in question are here, "as he unexpectedly finds". They were added by Jstewart2007, a user you have repeatedly warned concerning copyright issues. What are your thoughts? --Yamla (talk) 18:32, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

They got some warnings re: attribution but not copyvio warnings per se. I have given them a no-copyright-plot warning and will watch for a while. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 21:44, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks for looking into this for me! --Yamla (talk) 22:33, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dianaa, I've reviewed an article Callosciurini which is basically a list of species which is giving a 93% violation on Earwig when checking for copyvio. I haven't tagged it so as not to alarm the newbee editor but wanted your opinion as to whether this is a genuine violation of copyright or not. Regards. Hughesdarren (talk) 06:20, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

The long list is setting off alarms. But it's a false positive. — Diannaa (talk) 10:20, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I came across this CopyPatrol report. It looks like they added content from a Wikipedia Mirror, but I can't find which one. How would you deal with this? Thanks Nobody (talk) 06:09, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

The Everybody Wiki is hosting a copy of a deleted Wikipedia article. (They say so right there on the page that it's copied from Wikipedia.) If you go to the history page at J-Boog and click on "see logs for this page" you will see that there was an article at J-Boog that was moved to Draft:J-Boog and then deleted in November as an abandoned draft.

Soooo, looking deeper in the history there, I see we had an article from as far back as 2006 and it was changed into a redirect several times, on 9 December 9 2020, 14 December 2020, and 15 December 2020. The page was re-created again with the same content on 19 May 2021, and an unwary reviewer moved it to draftspace as not ready for mainspace, which has been the problem all along - the person is not notable enough as an individual performer to meet our notability requirements. But moving an article that dates back to 2006 to draftspace was not an appropriate thing to do

Here's where you need an admin to check for you: the text of the new article is indeed the same as that in the deleted draft, so we can't host this content without attaching the page history. So what has to happen is to request a history merge of the deleted draft at Draft:J-Boog and the current article J-Boog, This is probably the best way to handle it as the content should never have been moved to draftspace to begin with. But we still have the notability problem. So at that point it could once again become a redirect or be nominated for deletion at AFD.

To request a history merge, the template ((History merge)) is placed on the destination article. I am not comfortable doing history merges so I will put the template on the page and a history merge expert will come along shortly and assess if hist-merge is appropriate in this particular case. — Diannaa (talk) 14:41, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

So if it's from a mirror, not a fork (i.e. an old Wikipedia version), I should: 1. Find the deleted version (either article or draft) 2. Use History merge to get an admin to merge the old history.

And since the history is restored, it solves the copyright problem. Alright, thanks for the explanation. Nobody (talk) 17:25, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, he's either a really quick writer, or.... . Best, Johnbod (talk) 17:11, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Have you checked any of these yet? — Diannaa (talk) 19:24, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

If you've found 5 or more copyvios, the thing to do please is to ask at WP:CCI for a case to be opened. I don't have time right now to check all their edits. Thank you, — Diannaa (talk) 19:33, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Diannaa, I've just removed most of a very long quote used on the above article. It is taken verbatim and without any gaps, from the War of the Flea by Robert Taber (d. 1995). It's been on the article a very long time. Is a quote this lengthy a copyvio? Cambial — foliar❧ 15:09, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

No, but it's a violation of our non-free content guideline. Quotations should be kept short and used only when absolutely necessary. WP:OVERQUOTING. In most cases, there's no reason why original prose could not be prepared. — Diannaa (talk) 21:38, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I hope you are keeping well. If you've time, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on CCI20220720 and Martin's ongoing block. I should say at the outset, I completely understand the rationale for the block, and I know that Martin does too. He did make contributions which infringed our copyright policies, and did so after having been warned/blocked for similar transgressions previously. There's absolutely no disagreement on that. And crucially, moving forward, I am confident that Martin now "gets" the issue, such that the risks around him repeating the actions that led to the block are very much reduced. I'm among a number of editors who have worked with him on article drafting and, in particular, the dangers of close paraphrasing, and I think, with ongoing support as required which I, and I'm sure others, are willing to provide, Wikipedia can have confidence that further copyright violation issues won't arise.

The related issue is the Copyright Cleanup, CCI20220720. A wide range of editors have done absolutely sterling work, reviewing Martin's contributions and revising/deleting as required. But it looks to me, nearly a year after the CCI was begun, that there is still quite a mountain to climb. In those 11 months, Martin has endeavoured to support the CCI, as far as his editing privileges allow. He's also stuck around, in very constrained circumstances, and I know that he wants to get back his editing rights and to make a positive contribution. So, my question - do you think there is any way to "decouple" his block from the completion of the CCI? If there was, I know that Martin would work diligently to help review the remaining cases, and I would be very willing to help with that, as I know other editors would. If there isn't a way to de-link the two, are there ways in which the CCI could be reinvigorated and expedited? I fully appreciate I could have done more here, and I'd be pleased to make a firm commitment to do, say 20/x page reviews per week. Are there ways others could be further encouraged to do likewise, similar to the backlog drives I've seen at GAN or AfC?

I really appreciate your taking the time to read this, rather long, post and would be equally grateful for your thoughts/advice. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 09:06, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello KJP1. I am not in a position to lift the restriction that the CCI must be completed before he can get unblocked, because it was not me who levied that restriction. (I would never make such a restriction, because of the incredibly long time most CCI cases remain open.) I do see on his talk page that he agreed to it, but I don't know how the restriction originated. Whether it was community consensus or the decision of one admin or a group of admins, that's who you'd have to go to to get that lifted. Or it could have just been an assumption by himself or others.

We have done at least two CCIs where we had a project set up with a list of people who signed on to help. But the most recent one still took over a year to complete and the work in the end was completed mostly by one person. (This here case). — Diannaa (talk) 19:02, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

I noticed the page for Stone Point Capital has been protected since some users have been trying to repeatedly recreate it without understanding what is needed to qualify as an article. I am interested in creating an article on it. Any chance of removing the protection for it?

- Imcdc Contact 06:48, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

The best thing to do is to get the article started as a draft and submit it for review. That way people who are experienced at assessing notability can have a look and assess whether or not there's significant coverage to meet the notability requirements for corporations. WP:CORP — Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 13:50, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) There is a deleted abandoned draft at Draft:Stone Point Capital. Can that be restored for them to work on? BilCat (talk) 19:58, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Maybe. I will have a look at it tomorrow when I have access to my admin acct. — Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 04:54, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

There's no need to restore the old draft. I already created a new one from scratch. See if this is ok? Imcdc Contact 16:54, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

I have removed a bit of content that is a match to an article in the Wall Street Journal. If you think your draft is ready, please submit it for review. If the draft is accepted for publication, the protection can be removed at that point. I don't assess drafts. — Diannaa (talk) 01:44, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

I have submitted it but it's still rejected. Its fine though. I dont really think it's worth so much effort for one firm. Thanks for listening to my request anyway. - Imcdc Contact 02:13, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

I wrote the 2022 article, which means I have the right to use that text in the 2023 article without having to attribute it. Cherrell410 (talk) 13:11, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Cherrell410: Text that you added to that article was originally contributed by other editors such as Dannyyankee12 at 2021 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby (see Special:Diff/1043970487, for example). Compare this version from September 2021 (before the 2022 article was even created) with 2023 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby#Rules. Attribution is needed because you are not the sole original author of that content. DanCherek (talk) 13:36, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Diannaa

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to address the recent block placed on my Wikipedia account and to provide some clarification regarding the content I have been contributing.

Firstly, I want to emphasize that I am the author and owner of the concept and intellectual property known as "Film/Video-Based Therapy." I have invested significant time and effort into developing this approach and have published relevant research and articles on the topic. As evidence of my credentials, I would like to draw your attention to my ORCID ID: [ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8849-2780]. It provides further verification of my expertise in this area.

I understand that the aim of blocking accounts is to prevent vandalism and inappropriate edits, and I appreciate your dedication to maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia. However, I assure you that my contributions are not intended to vandalize or misrepresent the content. On the contrary, my intention is to provide accurate and valuable information based on my expertise in the field.

I kindly request that you reconsider the block and take a closer look at my credentials and the validity of the information I have been adding. I believe that a thorough examination of my work will demonstrate that I am not only the rightful owner of the intellectual property but also an expert in the subject matter.

I genuinely appreciate your efforts in safeguarding Wikipedia's content, and I would be more than willing to engage in a constructive discussion regarding the inclusion of my work on the platform. I am open to providing additional references, citations, or any other form of evidence that may assist in verifying the accuracy and credibility of my contributions.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to a fruitful resolution and the opportunity to continue contributing my expertise to the Wikipedia community.

Sincerely,

Dr. Joshua Lee Cohen

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Drjoshcohen (talk) 21:42, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Your account is not blocked. I can see where I removed some copyright content from the Wikipedia article Film/video-based therapy back in 2019. Is that what this is about? If so, if you are the copyright holder and wish to release this material under a compatible license, please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 04:52, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

You had contacted me earlier about an issue. I noticed that are an administrator here. With you background, I wanted to express my concerns about deletion policies on Wikipedia. It comes across as discriminatory in what is being set up for immediate deletion. It seems that if a man and a woman both write books about wounded veterans, the article about woman writing the book is considered an ad. I just experienced an immediate deletion of an article about woman author. The following is a snippet of why it was deleted. Part of the deletion was based on this quote in the article: This heartfelt tribute to the great Harriet Tubman, by outstanding African American and Hispanic leaders

I am not sure who I should discuss this with. I saw on your page that we were in the Canadian Armed Forces after you sent your message about copyright issues, so I thought I should forward this issue to since you an administrator as well. Starlighsky (talk) 14:11, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

I don't have anything to add to what you've already been told by others. — Diannaa (talk) 19:36, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

I understand. Thanks for getting back. Starlighsky (talk) 19:38, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I just accepted this NOMe-seq https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=NOMe-seq&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 however the page indicates https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en?filter=all&filterPage=NOMe-seq&drafts=0&revision=1142560319 ??...any help is welcomed, thank you,Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:44, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

I removed some copyright content from that draft back on March 3. The source document is https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7768-0_12, which is a journal article behind a paywall. Earwig's tool cannot see behind that kind of paywall, but the Turnitin service that operates behind the scenes at CopyPatrol can. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlapping content. — Diannaa (talk) 01:30, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:06, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

hi, you recently went to this draft and deleted without warning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Acute_abdominal_pain_in_children I am still in the process of compiling the references and completing the text. If a reference was not placed, this does not mean that there are no references, it's because I am considering it a draft and working at my own pace. I placed undelete request, and I mentioned multiple DOI , to inform about the resources I am using, but the admin told me to talk with the person who deleted it. Kindly undelete the content and let me complete at my own pace. The text is using multiple references. Thanks Acetylcholine (talk) 21:42, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

I didn't remove content because of a lack of references; I removed some content because it was copied unaltered from the source, and was therefore a violation of our copyright policy. Please don't add copyright content to Wikipedia, not even temporarily for editing, not even in sandboxes or drafts. Please do your amendments before you save the page, or use an external editor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs and work on it there until you are sure it's completely original. The content I removed was copied from one of the tables in this document. — Diannaa (talk) 01:23, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Kindly note Ms.Diannaa, the content you are referring to also is also compiled from multiple sources and just copy pasted.

Such is the nature of human medicine. We cannot change wording of a finding on x-ray which correlates with certain possible diagnosis. Both the finding of x-ray and possible diagnosis will remain the same. Same exact words will be used.

A standard terminology is used which we cannot alter to change them with new words or even synonyms. Human Medicine does not work like this.

If someone has done a work of compilation and now I want to do same work for Wikipedia from multiple sources , this should not be considered wrong. Otherwise Wikipedia will become restricted. And the precise material will not be available because it cannot be altered. "Double bubble sign for duodenal atresia" stays same everywhere.we cannot write another wording for this sentence. This is human medicine. Thanks Acetylcholine (talk) 04:31, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

As well as copying the descriptions of symptoms, you put the material in the same order and used the same table format. That's not okay. If you would like to get a second opinion, please consider asking one of the people on this list. — Diannaa (talk) 12:15, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa,

I am hoping you can help point me in the right direction for what needs to be done with this copyvio issue. It spans from 2009 to 2023 - with a lot of users, and a lot of them IP users. I know you're a busy woman - and probably excessively so since an outage / system down issue. My request is: What should be my next step?

I have cleaned up an article that had a 89.9% likelihood of a copy vio. It was largely unsourced and as I added citations (a defined, limited population of sources), I found that nearly always the content was copied from the source.

I worked on paraphrasing the article and it's now down to 13.8&, with duplicates = article title, organization names, and song titles.

It seems to me that the versions between 1162446141 on June 29, 2023 back to the first instance of the use "drifted" in version 296634204 on June 15, 2009, which sticks out and is the major source of duplicates.

Thanks so much. I send wishes for a calming breeze, refreshing drink, and maybe a nice dessert! –CaroleHenson (talk) 22:54, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello Carole. I personally would not do revision deletion back that far any more. But your first link (89.9%) shows you comparing the article with itself? — Diannaa (talk) 22:59, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I am making Greek Orzo Salad! — Diannaa (talk) 23:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dianna, I am having a Greek kebab salad. Funny!

Oh, I think I know what I did wrong with earwig, I ran it against a specific url - that doesn't have the web search and article sources option.

I also ran earwig just before I started paraphrasing - using the best snapshot that a user thought to use - and it was nearly 50%.

Should we just let it go, keep it as is? Or take a snapshot now, delete the article and start a new one? –CaroleHenson (talk) 23:47, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I think it's probably best to keep it as is. There's no deletion criterion that calls for deletion in a case like this. Enjoy your Greek salad treat! Mine is already gone, but there's some leftovers, yay. — Diannaa (talk) 00:06, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

That sounds good to me! I just meant a fraction of time that the article would have been gone. But if you're good, I am totally fine with it!

I have enough for one more salad. Love it! Now want tiramisu or not-too-sweet baklava. I guess I will settle for a low calorie mocha coffee.... oh, no, I may be going overboard talking about food. But it's been fun.–CaroleHenson (talk) 00:34, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks so much!–CaroleHenson (talk) 00:35, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

You need to unmark my edit, because I didn't violate the copyright, per https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berea,_Kansas&action=history otherwise it looks like I was violating the copyright

• Sbmeirow • Talk • 14:31, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

In order to completely remove the material from the page history, all the intervening edits have to be hidden, from the time of insertion of the copyright material to its removal. This means that in many instances, harmless edits such as yours have to be hidden. — Diannaa (talk) 14:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for explaining. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 16:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)