User talk:Diannaa/Archive 52

Archive 45

←

Archive 50

Archive 51

Archive 52

Archive 53

Archive 54

Archive 55

Part of an article is copied directly from a source; AND no citation

Hello, Diannaa.

See my note in the Talk section of this article: Old Order Mennonite. I don't yet know how much of that article is copied from sources such as http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/eng/Old_Order_Mennonites#cite_note-1 but some of it certainly is, like the Beliefs and practices section.

Over the next day or so, I will work on that section to paraphrase, get info from additional sources, add citations, etc. (I have just started doing so.) Not sure I can single-handedly do so for the entire article if much of it is copied from sources, however. Your thoughts? Peter K Burian (talk) 14:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

This is the "World Heritage Encyclopedia", which is a Wikipedia mirror, which means they copied from us rather than the other way around. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Interesting; thanks for letting me know. Still, very little of the content had citations. I have re-written most of those sections, with info paraphrased from many sources, and added relevant citations. Peter K Burian (talk) 21:32, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to do that. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:35, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Where can I get the Climate chart for Kingston, Ontario?

Another editor and I are doing a lot of work to improve this article. It does not have a Climate chart, and should.

I'm sure articles with such a chart got them from somewhere, but we have no idea where. Could you give us instructions for doing so? Thanks, Peter K Burian (talk) 14:57, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that. The charts for Edmonton and Calgary both show a source of "Environment Canada" so it looks like they are purpose-made using data from the Environment Canada website. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:28, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Proto-Indo-European religion

Howdy. I was reviewing an edit to this page and it looks like you protected it back in 2013 with a note that it might be time to unprotect it soon. Looks like edits have been fairly normal lately. I thought I would put possible unprotecting on your radar. Cheers Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 19:09, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm removing the pending-changes protection. If disruption resumes please let me know, or file a report at WP:RFPP. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyvios on Telangana

Hello. All edits by Special:Contributions/103.245.196.90 today added copyvios, so they're easy to find in the page history. Links to websites the material was copied from are in my copyvio-warning on their talk page. Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 18:17, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

• After getting a final warning as an IP they created Saiteja07032000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and continued adding the same copyvios... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 18:26, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Done — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 21:31, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to have been so curt; not getting much help on the Big Thing today. :/ — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:18, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Judeo-Christian ethics

Hi, Diannaa. I received a note from you about copying information from Bian-na-Bato to Judeo-Christian ethics. That was yesterday. Earlier today, I was doing a lot of moving around of material *within* Judeo-Christian ethics. I have never been anywhere near Bian-na-Bato. I suppose your note must have been information from some Wikipedia software running in the background somewhere; but I'm afraid it is giving you false positive. I documented my moves from "Judeo-Christian" to "Judeo-Christian ethics" on the Talk pages of both articles. I hope this meets the requirements for inter-Wikipedia attribution. Please let me know if I need to do more. Best, Person54 (talk) 21:24, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, it was a copypaste error. The material actually appears to have been copied from Judeo-Christian. In the future, please include in your edit summary at the destination article as to what the source article was. The edit summary is mandatory; a note on the talk page is optional. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:27, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Taboo

You did delete my entire contribution for the article "Taboo" for alleged copyright violation. However, the "Storyline" section which you delete for copyvio was taken from IMDB and was properly referenced, with author's name and source. I never pretended I was the author. If all the referenced material taken from another source of information is considered "Copyvio" so the entire Wikipedia should be deleted, since all the article must to have references and all the information must to be taken from a reliable source outside Wikipedia. In the same article for the film "Taboo" I used several quotes from several reviews websites. I referenced all the quotes, with author and source and you didn't delete them. I really don't understand your criteria. It's very discouraging spend a lot of time to research for an article and another amount of time to write it, just to have you work deleted. Even when you try to make a good job, finding reliable sources and using a lot of references.--SirEdimon (talk) 21:48, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Content you find elsewhere online (including IMDb) is copyright, and it's not okay to copy it here, even if you cite the source in your citation. All content you add to this wiki needs to be written in your own words. Short quotations from reviews are acceptable non-free content. The place to find out more information on these two inter-related topics is WP:Copyrights and WP:non-free content policy. There's also a good overview of copyright law and how it applies to Wikipedia editing at Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright. Copyright law and its application are complex matters, and you should not edit any more until you have taken the time to read and understand these policies. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:53, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets

Hi Dianna. You removed my edit for the plot for the Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets. That was not a copy of copyright information. I rewrote that plot based on the information from the press release which has been used in its entirety on a number of websites around the world. My version was different. J Bar (talk) 22:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

The edit was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and reported here. Sorry but the prose was almost identical to the webpage I mentioned (http://www.australiantelevision.net/skinner-boys/) and is also present elsewhere online. That's why I removed it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Miyota 9015‬

Hi Dianna. You nominated Miyota 9015 page for Speedy deletion, and you sure that the page was translated from http://easternwatch.blogspot.co.id/2015_09_01_archive.html. But I open the link and that page not even mentioned about Miyota 9015, that page talk about Miyota 8000 series, which is a different product. thank you (Bkusmono (talk) 01:09, 3 May 2017 (UTC)).

The article was picked up by a bot as a potential copyright violation. Here is a link to the bot report. The prose is identical to the article you created, only with a different name for the product. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:12, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

you deleted major important details and pics on Fathi Hassan page on wikipedia

Dear Diannaa Hello , I am Mohamed Elkady one of Fathi Hassan's mangers (the other one is " Dalas Barii ") , we have made major edits the last few days concerning the Fathi Hassan's Biography , latest work and solo works and pics of his latest work mostly everything we made , we were just about to add the references so you can make sure , you can go to his official website www.fathihassan.com and contact him on his email : (Redacted) to ask him about these changes we made and about us being his mangers so please do tell me what are the steps I can do to retrieve the last edit , my email is (Redacted) please contact me as soon as possible Thanks & best regards Mohamed Elkady — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohamed Mahmoud Elkady (talk • contribs) 03:15, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

I have removed your email address; it's not a good idea to post it on this wiki. There are two problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material (prose or photos) on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

The second problem is conflict of interest. Writing about 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:05, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

copyright

? See my page Nishidani (talk) 12:59, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Nishidani. An edit of yours to the article Gadubanud was picked up by a bot as being a potential copyright violation. Here is a link to the bot report. Investigating, I discovered you copied some material from that source, and later removed it. Please refer to the page history, where you can see I had to do some revision deletion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:02, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Well, it's all a mystery to me, as I can't see what was added or deleted. Still, for the record, it's the 2nd time in 54,000 edits that a potential copyright violation has been raised against me. Nowun's poifect!Nishidani (talk) 13:31, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

You can view the overlapping content by clicking on iThenticate link on the bot report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Ah, all clear now, thanks.Nishidani (talk) 14:35, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Please do your thing again

At Harbor City International School. And if you're so moved, long term semi protection is certainly in order. It has been protected before. I'll guarantee your ultimate source is a University of Idaho student. This has been going on a while. U of I's network is a source of much garbage editing to the school, other Idaho universities, Idaho high schools and this school. Thanks for all you do. John from Idegon (talk) 16:54, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

This is done. Thanks for your help with copyvio clean-up. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:43, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

List of birds of Illinois

Please enlighten me - I don't see that you've deleted anything. Plus I thought that I included proper attribution for the material. The data are from the same source as the original page and raised no copyright issues since its creation.Craigthebirder (talk) 00:38, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

An edit of yours was picked up by a bot as being a potential copyright violation. Here is a link to the bot report. Investigating, I discovered you copied some material from that source was copied into the explanatory note. You can click on the iThenticate link to see the removed material (source #1). Citing a source does not make it okay to copy verbatim. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:33, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I will delete or summarize the offending notes.Craigthebirder (talk) 15:06, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

copyright

Just lately you removed something from kettlebell lifting article under excuse that it was copyright material. Yes it was copied (but what was copied? a list), but because they had almost all possible grips and holds in one place (saved some time, and editing instances). Grips and holds are not copyright material neither is their description. For example hook grip is hook grip and there is only one way to describe it. Description was really basic and there is nothing there that could be considered copyright. If it was copyright material you'd have to close down 99.9% of all gyms in the world. List of something is not copyright material.213.149.51.107 (talk) 14:39, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Alphabetical lists are not copyright, but this content also included definitions, which can be copyrighted. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:40, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Sekar Segaa

I'm not sure what's going on here... Does anything other than WP:A7 apply here? I'm just asking for future reference. Thanks! Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 19:00, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

I also moved the page before checking if it had been previously recreated. Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 19:03, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

The page was created once as Shekar dubbing artist and once as Sekar Segaa. We normally don't protect until after the 3rd time. The page has no sources and therefore also qualifies as a BLP-prod. I found no copyvio. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you！

Thanks for your advice， I will try to do better next time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bijun yang (talk • contribs) 15:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Con-way edits

Hi, Diannaa. I appreciate your comments regarding my edits. I would like to know, though, what you removed, so that I can revise it appropriately, but I don't see any way to do that. (Comparing your revised version to the version I edited doesn't do it.) Please advise. Also, I'd be happy to do what I can to fix/clean up the comments you made to a prior editor but I don't know to which sentences/sections your comments refer.) Thanks! (I hope I did this right!) LDella (talk) 22:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)LMDella

Hi LDella. Your addition to the article was picked up by a bot as being a potential copyright violation. Investigating, I discovered you copied some material from http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20151030-xpo-closes-purchase-of-con-way-layoffs-begin-within-con-way-system/ or elsewhere online. Here is a link to the bot report. Please click in the iThenticate link to view the overlapping content. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:32, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Attribution

Hi,
Kindly see the last two edits at Draft:Collaborations between Central Intelligence Agency and American Mafia. I hope they follow the wiki procedure. If they do not, kindly let me know. (Please ping me in the reply) Thanks. :-) —usernamekiran(talk) 23:02, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Re : Copyright problem on Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

I disagree with your action regarding the said article.

The content was mostly referring to the website of Senator Marco Rubio, which you have aware and I have cited. Having the same prose appeared from HongKongfp.com does not necessarily mean a violation of copyright in Wikipedia. Rather, there is a possibility of copyright violation made by Hongkongfp.com - which they have copied from the Senator's website. In fact, I never referred to Hongkongfp.com when I was writing the respective article.

After all, since the content of the said act is largely factual, the prose from different sources cannot differ in a large extent. In the light of the citation that I have made before your removal of content, I urge for a restoration of content. Universehk (talk) 10:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

I did check that, and I noticed that the senator's web page is dated February 16, 2017 and the HongKongfp.com page is dated November 17, 2016 (three months prior). So if they copied from the senator, it was not from this document. However, checking again just now I did find an earlier press release, https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=538, dated the day before the hongkongfp.com page, so it looks like that's the actual source. Since this is a US Government web page, I can restore the content, and I will add the template {{PD-notice}} so our readers are award that you copied this prose rather than wrote it yourself. Sorry about the mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:11, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, it is good to clarify. It is reasonable for you to check more carefully about the date, like what you have mentioned.Universehk (talk) 03:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Quotations

Hello, I noticed your [1] edit on User:Zingvin's talk page regarding using quotations from sources in Edsger W. Dijkstra. Could you check if this [2] revert is correct? Marcocapelle (talk) 11:49, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Marcocapelle. This is a block quote, not a quotation within a citation. So I think it can stay. It would be better if it could be shortened though— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:52, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, this is right on-topic for me. I'd appreciate some input on what I did at Balfour Declaration, where – not without hesitation – I took out quite a lot of stuff for just this kind of reason. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:16, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

There appears to be a misunderstanding of what you removed, which was solely quotations from non-free content included within citations and explanatory notes. I have removed it again and posted on the talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:00, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for trying, I didn't mean to get you involved in what is clearly going to be a mess (since the two editors seem quite determined to make it one). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Creative Music Studio

Hello: I intend to request permission from the Creative Music Foundation (I already had their permission, but I will do so formally according to Wikipedia guidelines) to use content from their website to use content on the "Creative Music Studio" Wikipedia page.

I'm puzzled by something that appears in the sample request-for=permission letter, which appears on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_text

It says:

"This user claims on the talk page *[TALK PAGE ADDRESS] to *[have the authority to release this material under CC-BY-SA/ be the original author of the material], but for the page to remain on our site, we need further evidence that this is the case. Please be assured that if you do not grant permission, your content will not be used at Wikipedia; we have a strict policy against copyright violations."

What does this mean? Does "This user" refer to me (Resweet)? Why would I make such a claim, and which talk page could this be referring to? I don't understand this bit.

Thanks,

Bob (Resweet) Resweet (talk) 16:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but I think that example is what a volunteer might say in their email if the contents of the copyright holder's email is inadequate in some way. For a sample wording for the email from the copyright holder, please go to WP:Consent. There's more information at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:39, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Edit Mario Marcel

Thank you Diana I work in the Central Bank and the text in Spanish I did. For me it was important that Mario Marcel was on Wikipedia in English. But as you see, this language is not mine. So that's my first article. I will try to have others who master the language translate their profile into Spanish. (translated by Google) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuidro (talk • contribs) 00:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Chloroplast sensor kinase

Copyright problem on Chloroplast sensor kinase Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538167/. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:25, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Diannaa. However there was no copyright violation at any stage in edits. No text was copied from the page http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1538167/ or any other. That page itself is derivative and seems to have been copied from the original source: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/10061 Note "Author and Info" there states: "Freely available online through the PNAS open access option."

The original is publicly available, open source, and was referenced accurately in Chloroplast sensor kinase prior to your edit.

Please restore the deleted text and previous edits.

Corrigen (talk) 16:44, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

But the page is also marked as © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA. It looks to me like the material is available to access online but that the copyright holder has not released to the public domain. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:50, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for the note on my Talk page regarding the need for attribution for material copied from other articles/contributors. However, as I also wrote the other article, I wonder how I should attribute material to myself? PiCo (talk) 22:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

If you are the sole author of the material that was moved or copied, attribution is not required. However, such edits are showing up at https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en as being potential copyright violations. It speeds up the processing of these reports considerably if you mention in your edit summary at the destination article that the material was copied and from where. If you do it in all instances, these false positives can be dealt with quickly and easily. Thanks, and sorry for the unneeded notification on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:54, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok, I'll mention it in edit summaries in future. PiCo (talk) 01:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyvios on Sustainable Development Goals

Hello. The material added by Special:Contributions/197.133.9.80 on Sustainable Development Goals was copied verbatim from http://undp.org (see http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html and its subpages). Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 06:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but it looks like this material is available under a compatible license. See for example http://www.globalgoals.org/global-goals/no-poverty/ for Goal #1. Click on "Terms and conditions" and its states "you may also use each of the Global Goals explanations and their descriptions under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence" — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 08:14, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

All pages on the UNDP site (which from what I can see is the original source for the material, with Global Goals only reusing/mirroring the material), say "Copyright © 2017 United Nations Development Programme" at the bottom of the page... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 09:05, 8 May 2017 (UTC) Strike that, seems like Google search fooled me... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 09:40, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Possible copyvio Nokrek National Park

Hello Diannaa, it seems pretty clear (atleast for me), that the content [3] was copypasted or closely paraphrased from the given source, a Management Action Plan - the text's formatting, tone and structure aswell as the addition in one single edit indicate as much. However, the source is not available online, so I struggle to check and verify this conclusively. I will post some additional advice and details of my concerns on the contributing user's talkpage, but would appreciate if you could have a look and offer some experienced advice for Nokrek National Park. Ideally some of the source's factual details could be added in the editor's own words, without the park's own self-promotion and tourist guide details. GermanJoe (talk) 12:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I found very similar material in this thesis which appears to be dated November 2016 so I have gone ahead with revision deletion. Thanks for your help with copyright clean-up. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for handling this. If you don't mind a bonus question, what tool(s) did you use to find this PDF so quickly? I am usually only checking Earwig's tool but am willing to learn :). GermanJoe (talk) 21:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I grabbed a well-worded passage that seemed a likely candidate for being copyvio and did a Google search on that. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:27, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I use Google to search for phrases, but never really thought about using it in this context. Thanks for the advice. GermanJoe (talk) 21:30, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab

Thanks for your pointers Diannaa. I've rewritten the sections you deleted, drawing on a wider range of sources and avoiding direct transcription.Mccapra (talk) 16:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

The current version looks okay from a copyright p[\oint of view. Thanks for taking the time to do that. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:56, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Pathways To Peace

Can you take a look at this. Oldest version seems to be copied from the organization, but can't be sure since wayback machine only goes to 2014. Definitely needs rev del from June 2012 until my edits, but might also need G12. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Checking http://www.pathwaystopeace.org/ in the Wayback Machine rather than http://pathwaystopeace.org/, and there's archived versions going back to 1997. Comparing with http://web.archive.org/web/20091228200125/http://www.pathwaystopeace.org:80/ shows a foundational copyvio. I don't know why no one tried an A7 on this either, but by notability chops are not as good as you might expect! I am going to nominate for G12 deletion but if anyone can figure out a way to save this article I have no objection — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:21, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I searched in wayback for the recent copyvio, should have tried the main site. I always like a second pair of eyes when it is G12 on a longstanding article. I guess it'll get added to my list of multi-year copyvios. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:23, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I noticed the little "bump" when I clicked on the "official website" link at the bottom of the article, which meant that I had been redirected. So I copied the url from there rather from what it served me in my browser when I clicked on the link, and that's how I got to the archive urls for the original website. Mind you the Wayback Machine is acting funny today too, go figure. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:29, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Turkish regional jet project

Would have been nice If you revised it but, hay its always easier to delete. --Janissarywiki (talk) 02:52, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violations have to be removed as soon as they are detected. The patrolling administrator is under no obligation to re-write the content for you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright issues when copying between articles

Dear Diannaa, thanks for your reminder/warning re: the use of {{copied}} template. I have been working on Maldives' History articles for few days now, and it would have been nice to also see an acknowledgement of the work done, rather than a block warning. Like this, I wonder whether I should just stop contributing if my effort is not welcome. Kind regards, --Dans (talk) 09:28, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to have hurt your feelings. Of course your contributions are welcome. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:51, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Euler Hermes

Hello Diannaa, You removed my modifications on Euler Hermes because of content copyright from http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/Lists/mediacenter-documents/Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf. However I didn't use Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf. Can you explain me why you removed it ? Thanks Kind Regards

The edit was flagged by a bot as being a copyright violation from that site. Here is a link to the bot report. You can click on the iThenticate report to view the overlap. That's why I removed your edit. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:57, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Ballarat Reform League May 10, 2017

Your message was: Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://explore.moadoph.gov.au/timelines/milestones-in-australian-democracy. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:02, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

My reply is: This page is flagged as being under construction, so there may be various issues until the construction is completed. But I realize that a bot may have highlighted this issue.

Could you please temporarily reinstate the material that you deleted? Just so that I can see what you are referring to, and fix the problem by inserting a quotation reference or by paraphrasing it.

Many thanks, SurveyorMJF (talk) 02:29, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

On second thoughts, please ignore previous request to reinstate. Much new work has been added now. Cheers. SurveyorMJF (talk) 05:59, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio

Copied content from Jammalamadugu at this edit from this link.--Vin09 (talk) 09:30, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:21, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice <3 I'll try not repeat the same mistakes boss but..

That was my unit for a very long time and the story about why we call ourselves First Attack was completely 100% wrong so I replaced it with the real history and reason for the nickname, there is only one true history about our unit and that was the one I copy and pasted it, was I supposed to invent a totally new history and chain of events that got us our nickname? And as for attributing...I'm not really sure what you mean because I got the information about 1/227 directly from 1/227 and the sources that were used before I fixed it were wrong or dead links or from 3rd parties not associated with us and I anything I else I added was because I was personally there and seen it with my own two eyes, I'm not really sure how to attribute myself and trying not to get offended because it sounds like you're calling me a liar :-( but I'm pretty sure (hoping) that wasn't your intention.

Now the 1/227 page looks retarded because there are two HISTORY sections, at least change it back to how it was before my edit. It was better when it was wrong because unless you already know the history you won't know it's wrong, now they won't read it at all because it's all stupid looking.

I was so tempted to add the things we were really doing in Iraq because it tears at my soul seeing lies go down as fact in th history books.

Here is from the journal I kept while I was there...could maybe make a special section for it somewhere yea?

Part 1 How I got my TOP SECRET CLEARANCE

When our unit 1/227 AVN BN 1 CD “First Attack!” got orders to deploy to Iraq they sent the Executive Officer and this skeleton crew of officers 30 days ahead of everyone else to spy on Saddam and pick out targets for our Apaches to strike the instant they arrived by boat from the States.

I was the CSM’s driver the lowest part (the b*tch) of the Command Group so I was in the room when they were deciding what to do and how when the X.O. says “Well…we need someone to do the…solider work.” The CSM looks at me and says “Take Backowski, anything else? Now get out, sir.”

I knew exactly what the X.O. meant they needed someone to clean up crap but I did not care I wanted to go so bad and I loved the X.O. all the officers were great, you just learn what they like and make them like you and they can’t help but not mind that you’re there and be nice to you.

When we get to Kuwait we were given a tent and plopped in the middle of Camp Udari, in deep shifting sand near this huge pile of rubble all the other counties in the coalition were using as a dump that someone had covered with a huge plastic tarp.

Nobody knew what to do, no one there knew English to ask for help, we had no help coming for 26 days ,when the rest of our unit arrived, then one of the female officers says to build wooden floors or something because it was hard to walk around in the sand and gets everyone talking about it.

I had already been told many times we couldn’t take the huge tarp covering the trash it was new the people who had just dropped it off were about to tie it down and there was no more time for arguments so I took it from them and dragged it our stuff and started setting our tent up on it as quickly as I could. The one officer that had the stupid idea about the wooden floors was the only hold up so I said if General or something pissed tell them you told me not to do it but I did it anyways, with that they all agreed because the equipment we had to unpack was extremely sensitive and needed constant dusting. They all helped set up the tent and they all didn’t stop talking about it the whole time, not complaining but like if a piece of the tent resembled an umbrella they would have to point it out, I wasn’t really listening because …there was just a lot of sh*t going on at the moment.

Right away they made the tent this TOP SECRET off limit zone I wasn’t allowed to go in whenever they were doing anything important, they had always been really strict about it even in the states I wasn’t even allowed near the door which was guarded whenever they were having TOP SECRET meetings.

On the second day they kicked me out of the tent because they needed to have a TOP SECRET while I was right in the middle of highlighting power lines on maps so our Apaches wouldn’t fly into them (now that I think about it they were probably messing with me.), it pissed me off because I couldn’t even hang out near the tent to get out of the constant blowing sand.

When they got finished with their meeting the X.O. pops his head out and yells for me to dust everything, I run up to him and in a dejected voice “Sir I really want to but I can’t because there might be TOP SECRET stuff laying out that I’m not allowed to see and I don’t want to get anyone in trouble Sir.” He laughs and pats my shoulder “Ahhhh come on Backowski stop playing around get in there let's go, that’s an order.” Then I said “So if a General or something asks what I am doing in there I can say that Major (forgot his name) said it was ok?” then he said “Yes sure tell them that, now come on.” I finally flatly said “Sorry sir I cannot.” he just looked at me and went back into the tent.

The next day he hands me a TOP SECRET clearance orders along with a dust pan and broom, grinning “Now dust everything, all the floors too.” I said they need background checks it’s a fake and tried to give all that crap back but he said “No I walked it up the chain of command to General (so-and-so), it's TOP SECRET “intern” clearance it expires when you leave the unit.” I asked him “Sir you don’t want to dust that bad, is it that big a deal for you?” he said it was.

Sorry but I have not had time to read or respond to this message yet but hope to do so soon. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:12, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Advice please

You have been so patient with me and I really want to do the right thing. I have a lot of respect for intellectual property. If you are not too busy, could you tell me if this document is in the public domain or not: Justice Department and then how should it be cited?

Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 20:34, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

The document was written by the US Department of Justice and is therefore in the public domain. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:12, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

PLAMO KYOSHIRO HELP

hi i need your help with something to improve the quality of this article. please i beg you, help me with this

PLamo kyoshiro comic cover original first volume

this image is under copyright. i tried to upload this image to commons. But i wich license apply. PLEASE can you make the upload for me please? using the correct license? i beg you i would give you the credit for the upload

--Cheposo (talk) 01:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

They don't accept non-free content at the Commons. It has to be uploaded to this wiki and templated for fair use. I have gone ahead and done that and added it to the article for you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:25, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

DIANA I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME WITH THISSS LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

may i have a link to your facebook? i would like to meet you

--Cheposo (talk) 12:50, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Muhammad Ahsan Dar

Please restore the revision so I can rewrite the whole thing in my words, and let me know on my talk page. I've been out more than five years and so I didn't pay attention to the need to reword the text. Thanks! Liberal Humanist (talk) 05:02, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

The edit was picked up by a bot as being a potential copyright violation. You can view the bot report here. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlapping content. I have also sent you an email that shows what-all I removed. Hope this helps. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:19, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Would you please resend that email? I changed my email id a couple of years back. Thanks! I remember you from when I was active like 6 or 7 years back. I'm surprised to see you are still here. Most people leave within five years. Liberal Humanist (talk) 12:25, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

I sent it via the Wikipedia email system so it has gone to whatever email you have listed in your preferences. I have re-sent just now. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:30, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Flora of Azerbaijan

Hello Diana! I understant that, it seems I copied all the material. But it`s the translation of the article in Azerbaijani wikipedia. I can rewrite, but the content will be same.I`ll try to rewrite. Thanks! User:LadymooN —Preceding undated comment added 13:52, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

The material is identical to the webpages http://guide-map.az/info/Flora.aspx?lng=en and http://az-tourisme.ucoz.com/publ/flora/8. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:57, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Ilka Gedő

Hello Diana,

I am writing to you with regard to what you saly on the talk page:

The owner of the website http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/ has sent an email to the OTRS team. I will restore the content once the ticket is processed. Ticket number is 2017030410000259 — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:31, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

What does this mean?

Regards,Hungarian David Biro (talk) 18:30, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

It means that if and when we receive an email releasing the material under license from the owner of the source website from whence the prose was copied, the material can can be restored. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:56, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa - Need your help please - thank you!

Hi Dianna, you left a message on my talk page regarding a copyright violation. I apologize for making the mistake, but since the material was completely deleted, it's impossible for me to see exactly where I erred. I believe I quoted a source directly, and correctly attributed the quote to the source using footnotes (or whatever they are called on wikipedia). In any event, I can't remember and would like to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Is there any way I can see at least a partial (redacted) version of what I originally wrote? Thank you in advance.

UPDATE: Never mind - I found an older version from a previous edit. I posted it on my talk page. Can you please take a look and let me know? Do I need to better source the Venture Beat article? Thank you in advance.

More importantly,, and on a related note (as it relates to the same page) I made an RFC on the Controversial Reddit Communities page, and have not yet heard from any editors. Since you seem to have quite a bit of experience regarding process and policy, would you mind taking a look? Koncorde seems to think I am barking up the wrong tree. I am genuinely curious as to what your thoughts are. Best Regards! 2602:301:772D:62D0:F122:F9AD:7CD1:4259 (talk) 06:27, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

I hid the revisions because the material was copied directly from http://www.adpub.info/2015/03/reddit-study-shitredditsays-is-sites-most-toxic-threa.html, a copyright web page. Please don't add copyright material to this wiki. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

I was under the impression if we use quotes and cite the material, it is permissible. Perhaps I am mistaken. I will take a second look. Also, were you able to take a look at the an RFC on the Controversial Reddit Communities? Thanks again Diannaa! 76.79.205.162 (talk) 14:39, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

The material was not in quotation marks, so it was not a quotation per se. That's why I removed it. I am not going to be visiting the discussion on the talk page; I don't have time — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

City Council of Rijeka

Hi, I don't understand why you have deleted the article. There was no copyright infringement. The cited page is public domain and the city of Rijeka is the most transparent city in Croatia. It most certainly is not a primary source. So I don't see the problem. Thanks in advance. --Tuvixer (talk) 12:45, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Tuvixer. The source web page https://www.rijeka.hr/en/city-government/city-council/scope-and-rules-of-procedure-of-the-city-council/ is marked at the bottom as "© 2017. City of Rijeka" and therefore is not in the public domain; it's a copyright document, and it's not okay to copy it here. That's why your article was deleted. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:55, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, but that is simply not true. You can check the Croatian law on copyright, https://www.zakon.hr/z/106/Zakon-o-autorskom-pravu-i-srodnim-pravima, it clearly states that you can cite text from a web page or a document that is published buy a unit of local or regional government. Probably you don't understand how copyright works in Europe or specifically in Croatia. I mean, every web page of a newspapers in Croatia has © marked at the bottom. That doesn't mean that you can't cite the content on that page or an article. I mean, the point is that you have to cite it. And I did, I have cited it. Here are 3 major daily newspapers in Croatia, often used to cite articles on Wikipedia: http://www.novilist.hr/Vijesti , http://www.jutarnji.hr/ , https://www.vecernji.hr/ Also here are links to The Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung: https://www.theguardian.com/international , http://www.sueddeutsche.de/?variant=newsticker Every one has © marked at the bottom. Please, can you restore the article. I can add more sources. Thanks --Tuvixer (talk) 13:21, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but there's a big difference between writing your own prose and citing a source, and copying verbatim a web page that is marked at the bottom as being "© 2017. City of Rijeka". I am not going to restore the article, as the source web page is clearly marked as copyright, and it's not my place to do so regardless, as I was not the deleting administrator. Please speak to them first, and if you are not satisfied with the outcome your next stop is WP:Deletion review. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:33, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Well the problem is that you don't understand how you can or have to cite a source in Croatia/Europe. But ok, most of the articles are copy-pasted from a web page that has © marked at the bottom, the only problem is when I try to add new contend for my home town, then I am doing something wrong. The article should not have been deleted. If the problem is that I have cited correctly and without plagiarism than ok, I will write the article in my own words, but to delete the article is simply wrong. I just did what was done 5 months ago on this article Zagreb Assembly. Now someone can continue their personal crusade on Croatian local government and delete that article too. --Tuvixer (talk) 13:49, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Possible copyright violation in text

Hi,
I saw you posted a notice to user Asilis regarding copyrights. The same user made this edit, which seems to be a possible copyright violation. But I don't know how to verify it, nor how to issue notice to users. Would you please look into it? —usernamekiran(talk) 14:02, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for your interest in helping with copyright cleanup. I have checked out this edit and it looks okay. Quotations are okay, and the part that is not a quotation does not appear to be copyvio.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:13, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Please help

Diannaa, I just noticed that you've queried the copyright of the latest image I uploaded. The company I work for own them and I was allowed to scan the images to upload and make them free for anyone to use. The covers are from 1924, this is over 50 years ago so the copyright for the stamps/postmarks has expired. What do I need to say that I am free to use them and therefore anyone else is free to use them? Obriens86 (talk) 14:40, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

If the copyright holder wishes to release this material to Wikipedia under license, please see the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:46, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

mail

U R about to get it.Dlohcierekim (talk) 16:22, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

You should be receiving a reply shortly if not already rec'd. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:41, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Quick revdel

Hi Diannaa, wonder if you wouldn't mind revision-deleting a bit on Petar Rajič (if you think it meets the RD1 criteria, naturally). It's from here to here. Normally I'd just restore the copyvio-revdel tag but I have a feeling it might be removed again. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 12:15, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Done! thanks for your help with copyvio cleanup. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:20, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Pablo Grimberg Umansky

Hi Diannaa. I listed Pablo Grimberg Umansky (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) at CP as I wasn't sure how to handle it. The website probably copied from es:Pablo Grimberg (deleted), but it is a copyvio since it did not follow the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence (no attribution, etc.). Organiqa created the article here and then at eswiki with the same text. Should they all be deleted on copyright grounds since proper attribution to the original author(s) has not been provided? — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

The fact that the source web page contains wikilinks to es.wiki is a strong indication that it is a mirror of that page. We could add the attribution now if we were keeping the page, but the point is moot as it will likely be deleted as it's a BLP prod. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:56, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

It will probably be moot. It would be a mirror of the deleted page, not the current page, so how would we add attribution? — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:31, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Not sure pointing at a deleted page on another wiki is sufficient attribution. You did right to list it at WP:CP. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Bodies of water of Azerbaijan

Hi, Dianna. Thanks for warning me. I changend some parts. But I`m administrator of azersu.az website, and I have translated all the material of this website. You deleted heading "Water sources". I think I have right to use it.

Sorry but we can't take your word for it that you are the copyright holder or have their permission to post the material here. We need written permission directly from the copyright holder. There's the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials and a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:41, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

But you deleted all my additons that I wrote in my words, not copied. I think it is unfair. You don`t estimate my attempts.

I have double checked and the content you re-added was a 93% overlap with the source document http://ocaz.eu/en/economy/water-reserve/3026-water-resources.html. The content can be restored if and when a permission email is received. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:17, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Re: Copying Licensed Material Requires Proper Attribution

Hello Diannaa! Thanks for the message of your concerns about my recent edits on Game & Watch ports and remakes. After looking into it, the link you posted shows a matched edit being added on September 17, 2007 (http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_Gamia:Merge/Game_%26_Watch?diff=93116&oldid=93115). However, this information was on Game & Watch on Wikipedia first on June 22, 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Game_%26_Watch&diff=60008297&oldid=59622481), meaning that Encyclopedia Gamia moved this information from Wikipedia on to their article. I moved the "Clones and Unofficial Ports" section from Game & Watch to Game & Watch Ports and Remakes.. -Patrick Boots CEC (talk) 22:30, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

If you copied from within this wiki, the same deal applies: you need to provide attribution. In the future, when copying or moving material from one article to another, please say so in your edit summary at the destination article. Here is a sample edit summary: "Attribution: content in this section was copied from Game & Watch on May 12, 2017. Please see the history of that page for full attribution." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:31, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

The Holocaust

If you can, would you take a look at the situation at The Holocaust? There have been two users with similar usernames making similar, problematic edits for several days. I've been trying to assume AGF and have hesitated to make any formal report, either at SPI or ANI, thus far. Most recently, copyvios problems have been alleged, and a revert was made (and I believe a request for rev-del in progress). In the meantime, there has been a bit of back and forth, with a longtime editor restoring the disputed content. The only admin who appears to be watching the article is involved and so cannot act. At this point, I'm wondering if full protection might be warranted. I'd appreciate an uninvolved opinion, if you're willing. Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 22:47, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

The same two have visited Wannsee Conference and I suspect they are either the same person or editing from the same household. It might be impossible to tell which. Things are quiet right now but that may be merely because they're in a different time zone. I think full protection would not be granted right at the moment for that reason. Best to post at WP:RFPP where people who are more experienced in protection will be found. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:27, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Help with a page?

Hi,

I am brand new to Wikipedia and I am being asked by a Professor here at Towson University for help with his page. It is way over my head because I am not an editor or librarian but I saw that you made some editing changes to his page recently so I thought I would reach out to you.

How can I have someone look through a page and help me cite content and make it verifiable so it meets the Wikipedia requirements. His name is Richard Vatz.

Thank you in advance.

Urandrod (talk) 14:37, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Urandrod and thanks for your interest in helping build the encyclopedia. My recent edit was to remove some copyright material from the article that was copied from elsewhere online. The material was copied directly from another website, and thus was a copyright violation. Everything you contribute needs to be written in your own words please. for help working on the article, I suggest you visit the Teahouse, where you will find editors with experience helping new users. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:34, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Anastasiia09

Hi Diannaa. Anastasiia09 has been repeatedly adding copyright violations of the same material in her userspace. I think she needs to be blocked; however, if your think a final warning is appropriate, then let's try that first. — JJMC89 (T·C) 15:33, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

The most recent addition had an OTRS template on it, so I am talking to them — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:45, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Adirondack wild forest

Hi the page was corected to fix the violations. Thank you for noticing. Tripp155 (talk) 00:22, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Dianna how are you?, I have a small question; The cited source says: "One of the main aims of the regime was to transform Romania into a communist atheist society in which religion was considered the ideology of the bourgeoise. Thus in 1949, the Society for the Popularisation of Science and Culture was established. The main objective of this anti-religious society was 'to propagate among the labouring masses political and scientific knowledge to fight obscurantism, superstition, mysticism, and all other influences of bourgeois ideologies'. ...the regime's anti-religious campaign aimed to discredit the church and to reduce the influence of religion in society.", so I reword the text to conform to the source; and here my reword Authorities in the People's Republic of Romania aimed to move towards an atheistic society, in which religion would be considered as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; the régime also set to propagate the laboring masses in science, politics and culture to help them fight superstition and mysticism, and initiated an anti-religious campaign aimed to reducing the influence of religion in society. Is this edit a be a copyright violation?. Thanks, and have a nice day.--— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jobas (talk • contribs)

It's very close to the source, as it presents the same ideas in the same order using almost identical wording. I would call it copyvio or at the very least plagiarism. Please see Wikipedia:Plagiarism and WP:Copyright policy. Identical portions are highlighted in bold:

Source: "One of the main aims of the regime was to transform Romania into a communist atheist society in which religion was considered the ideology of the bourgeoise. Thus in 1949, the Society for the Popularisation of Science and Culture was established. The main objective of this anti-religious society was to propagate among the labouring masses political and scientific knowledge to fight obscurantism, superstition, mysticism, and all other influences of bourgeois ideologies'. ...the regime's anti-religious campaign aimed to discredit the church and to reduce the influence of religion in society."

Your version: "Authorities in the People's Republic of Romania aimed to move towards an atheistic society, in which religion would be considered as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; the régime also set to propagate the laboring masses in science, politics and culture to help them fight superstition and mysticism, and initiated an anti-religious campaign aimed to reducing the influence of religion in society"

— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:30, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Question regarding addition of a link

Hi Diannaa - a page I created was recently approved local search optimisation page. Now I am contacting you to seek your kind advise. On top of the page one can read a little notice saying "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles". The first thing I tried, was to go to the search engine optimisation page and add a link within the list of links part of the "internet marketing series". This is visible on the right side of the page. Unfortunately I have not managed to make the edit. Could you please advise of how one should make this specific edit? thank-you in advance for your kind help Josezetabal (talk) 06:23, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

The orphan tag was removed on May 2, as the page is no longer an orphan. I think perhaps you are asking how to add the template Template:Internet marketing to the page? If so, what you have to do is transclude the template onto the page by adding the following code: {{Internet marketing}} — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

than-you so much Diannaa, very appreciated - best Josezetabal (talk) 05:27, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Premier Model Management

Hi Diannaa,

I'd love to be able to revive the Premier Model Management page that was deleted on 1 Feb 2015. How would I go about doing that?

Alex (Alexbabahmadi (talk) 10:32, 18 May 2017 (UTC))

The article was deleted in 2014 as a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Premier Model Management and twice in December 2014 and again in February 2015. The reasons for deletion were three: The article was worded like an advertisement; the subject does not meet our notability guidelines; and the content was copied from elsewhere online, and thus was a copyright violation. I suggest if you wish to try again you create a draft article via Wikipedia:Articles for creation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:57, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violation on Salman of Saudi Arabia

I think you may have deleted the wrong revisions, perhaps I filled the form out wrong. The copied content is still present in the history. Could you double check please? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Looks like I missed a bunch, sorry about that. Please check and if there's still a problem let me know. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:05, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

I have checked and the problem has been resolved. Thanks. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 10:20, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Guatemalan vandal

190.104.115.98 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). I've opened open an SPI for it as well. I was thinking, instead of coming to your talk page all the time, I can open an SPI and ping you and someone can do the block in the event that you are not on Wikipedia at the moment. Is that fine with you? Erick (talk) 21:12, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

You could try SPI or even AIV, since you have prepared an LTA page anyone should be able to get the gist of why this needs doing. Blocking range 190.104.115.0/25 for one month as no one else seems to be using this range. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:12, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Sounds like a good plan. I'll keep that mind next time. Erick (talk) 23:33, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Also, we need still moar acronyms, our speech is not cryptic enough just yet — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:36, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

A warning, perhaps?

Hi, Diannaa! I'm still not sure if this really needs a CCI or not, but I've closed Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2016 April 18 and listed another article today. The editor doesn't seem to want to hear anything I have to say, so I wondered if you'd like to have a try? Best regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

• Hello Diannaa! Actually for once the editor above and I agree. A warning to someone is definitely in order. At the risk of creating a "copyright problem" by quoting that editor, if I don't "seem to want to hear anything I have to say" - my response to the latest here should explain that. Seriously. Thanks. X4n6 (talk) 06:40, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

I contribute on wiki on and off whenever i get time from my job, even sometimes do this from office too. Will ask you for any help whenever i am in need.

Thanks

Sulaimandaud (talk) 11:45, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

New puppet account of English Patriot Man - my suspicion

Hello Diana! Lately I've been having a problem with an unidentified IP user, who destroyed sourced data in a couple of articles, including an article on Untermensch. After I've reverted his multiple edit-war attepmts, he created an account named Alfhard21257 from which he is now editing it again: [4] - I'm currently trying to discuss the problem with him: [5]. Everything would be OK, if i didn't see this: [6]. I remember "English Patriot Man" quite well, as he tried to destroy some Nazi-related articled back in the day. I remember you being very helpful in making the sourced and true data stay on Wikipedia, and blocking his attempts to delete it. Could you take a closer look on his account and tell me, could it be User:English Patriot Man performing his ravage again? Thanks. Yatzhek (talk) 13:12, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Yatzhek. I noticed this too and blocked the account yesterday. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:12, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa. You're one of the most helpful Wikipedians. Yatzhek (talk) 22:03, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the positive feedback — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:06, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Eyes...

It would be appreciated if you could take a kind look at List of Sharpe series characters.Winged Blades ^Godric 05:17, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi there. The first one with copyvio from http://sharpecompendium.net/cast.html is the addition at 18:31, May 20, 2017‎. The material added from my last edit to that point can be re-added if you think it's worth keeping. I have done dome revision deletion on the page. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:31, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! No ideas as to the worthiness! Came straight from Copy-patrol..Winged Blades ^Godric 10:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out at CopyPatrol! This will free up some of my time to help at New Page Patrol, where we've got a shocking backlog. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:59, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Help regarding user name & user page

Hello Diannaa,

I have been having problems with the user page creation and want to create my user page. I have tried before but somehow the page got removed or is blank. I had thought of changing the username but the current user name is also good.

Can you please help me out in creating a user page for me so that I can share with the world what I have contributed and things that I have to contribute in future. Please look into my user page (Anishchaube) and let me know if it's good.

Thanks, Anish Anishchaube (talk) 08:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Anish. The user page you created at User:Anish Chaube was deleted, because that's not your username. If you want to change your username, please go to Wikipedia:Changing username. If you don't mind the current username, just carry on with that. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:22, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Re: Sam Jacobs (judge)

Thanks for fixing the things that caused you concern - you doing so makes my life very much easier than me having to guess what particular things might be causing you particular concern. (i.e. Your fixes are appreciated :-) BTW/FYI, note that you changed the meaning and intent of a few things I added that were not mentioned in the source-of-your-concern. No big deal - more important is that you have fixed the copyvio issues that were of concern to you. Cheers (and thanks), Pdfpdf (talk) 09:33, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry if the meaning was changed. Some parts were taken right out due to copyright concerns and this may be what caused the issue. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:34, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

No worries. As I said "No big deal - more important is that you have fixed the copyvio issues that were of concern to you". Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:23, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Errors in articles

I have noticed a number of errors in articles to which you have removed access to the edit history. I will address these errors.
In an earlier post I stated or implied you had introduced errors. I have no basis for making such statements, and apologise for doing so. Pdfpdf (talk) 09:49, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

BTW: I see you have deleted access to the histories of Jack Roderick, Bonar Dunlop, and Jack Ellerton Becker. Are there any other articles I've created that you've deleted access to the history of? Pdfpdf (talk) 09:55, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

• Sam Jacobs (judge) Pdfpdf (talk) 09:58, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

The articles of yours that I checked were Sam Jacobs (judge), which was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation, and then I went over to Special:NewPagesFeed and checked the ones that were listed there that you had created. There were about ten of these, and copyvio was found in the three that I mentioned on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:09, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification and the information. I will now go away and stop bothering you. Thank you for your help. Pdfpdf (talk) 05:42, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Move of material

Hello D. When you have a moment would you please take a look at these edits. I'm sure this newb is unaware of the copy/vio and attribution problems with their edits and I figured you would be able to straighten things out. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 21:54, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

 Done — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:04, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Nightfall (1988 film)

Hi Diannaa - I did not mean to breach copyright from memory I amended the text to a sufficiently significant degree, but when I went back to check you'd deleted the log of all my contributions for some reason. You did this last time. Was there a reason for this? Not having a go, just trying to understand. Regards Dutchy85 (talk) 02:08, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violations are typically revision-deleted to remove the copyright content from the page history. The content was not changed at all - it was pretty much identical to that found at the LA Times website and elsewhere online. The edit was flagged by a bot a s a potential copyright violation and was checked by me. Here is the bot report. You can view the overlapping content by clicking on the iThenticate link. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:00, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa - sorry to be pedantic, the report says it was 74% and that included a quote from the newspaper's critic which was given quotes, ie. completely attributed - you say it was not changed and all but it was changed. I accept that it needed to be changed more than it was and I will keep an eye on things like this in future, I just didn't want you to think I had nothing.Dutchy85 (talk) 20:07, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dutchy85. Short quotes from reviews are okay. I didn't remove that part, only the copyvio plot summary, which was pretty much identical to that in the LA Times. You've been warned about this before, and my suggestion to you at that time was to not add a plot summary unless you've seen the film and are in a position to write one yourself using your own words. You know this. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:11, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa - I watched the film. I couldn't understand the plot! See it and see what I mean :) But point taken... Dutchy85 (talk) 22:01, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

History of Lebanon under Arab rule

Hi Diannaa,

I see that you oversighted some edits at History of Lebanon under Arab rule, and one of the involved editors has added a whole lot of new content. Maybe you'd like to check? --Slashme (talk) 14:52, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

There's nothing copied from http://www.ghazi.de/medieval.html, which was the source for the original foundational copyvio. However there's some copying from another website http://wlcu.com/ng/blog/2017/02/14/lebanon-in-history/ and some copying without attribution. I am dealing with it now — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:26, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Visual thinking

Thanks for the catch. I completely failed to consider that might be copyvio. Pinkbeast (talk) 05:34, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on J & E Hall

Thanks for your note on my Talk page, and for your further work on paraphrasing the Dartford Archive content. In trying to marshall content from several sources, I clearly relied too much on that reference. Thank you also for the note about copying within Wikipedia - that is not something I was aware of, but will be from now on. Paul W (talk) 11:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Yoder edit

The Kevin Yoder Sea of Galilee incident is certainly notable.

Here's what remains of my original edit:

“On August 4, 2011, during a GOP trip to Israel in which lawmakers partook in a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee, Yoder went skinny dipping.[70]”

That guts the real import of the incident.

It wasn't mentioned in Yoder's article at all, though there was some regional press about it, after disclosures about it were made. It did not become a major issue in his reelection campaign because his successive opponents were relatively unknown and underfinanced, so the race attracted little local attention, even though a long term "Blue Dog" Democrat, Dennis Moore, held the seat before Yoder won it. Yoder ran against the incumbent's wife. The Democrat did not run for reelection, because he suffered from early onset senile dementia, which I seem to recall went entirely unpublicized at the time, quite possibly the media were anxious to spare him unnecessary embarrassment.

However, it became a matter of considerable “inside the beltway” concern to the House Majority Leader and Whip, because they were both present with him in the water at the time, and all those social conservatives may have "had a few," so repercussions might have affected their reelection campaigns, one presumes. (Cantor has been ousted by an even more conservative VA successor, and McCarthy had "zipper problems," which impeded his subsequent career and heir apparency to Boehner's role.)

I had originally included just the names of the two party leaders. Then on second thought, I realized that removing their roles would leave little context for the casual (especially metro KC) Wikipedia reader to understand why it actually was important, so went back and revised it to include their positions at the time. I shuffled the info so as to avoid any copyright violation, though apparently not enough to do so.

I made the edits, not being aware that a much more truncated version may have been previously deleted. I tried to change the reporting of the incident to avoid any BLP violation, but had few facts with which to work.

Only a few hours subsequent to my edits, MelanieN asked for more info, in particular the precise date of the incident, though I had already provided the year it occurred. I accommodated her request, though I didn't understand her need for that info. She's a very experienced Wikipedia editor, so I complied. That added to the original text, I presume, which may have triggered a BLP violation bot, but there was no other way to state the date without some awkward, low-quality edit, such as “August the eleventh, twenty eleven.”

You cautioned me last year about my edit of coverage of a Mississippi corruption investigation and prosecution, with my edit being identified as having a BLP problem because, I presume, I used a couple of long quotes. Of course, I wasn't able to change the quotes, and the quotes were not editorial or reportorial work product, but straight up stenography. The same quotes had been carried extensively in local and regional broadcast and print media.

The “skinny dipping” mention was not from the text of the news article, but rather taken from its title, though if memory serves, a tiny local independent weekly may have used it at the time.

I'll go back and rework it, and once again leave out the precise date, if Melanie's happy with that, or you can persuade her it isn't necessary.

I'll copy you on the revised, hopefully suitable edit.

Mind, part of the problem is that there was virtually no original reporting on the incident, so the actual RSS info is relatively sparse.

The source I used was a Colorado TV station, though Yoder's district is a good 500 miles east, entirely in metro Kansas City, KS, to include the populous Johnson and Leavenworth counties, and it really didn't go beyond the original CNN mention. The congressman successfully avoided commenting on it because the local KCK media snoozed through it. In their mind, I expect, it was just a regular useless, non-notable expenditure of considerable taxpayer funds for a holiday junket, which the press rarely notices, save for the element of Yoder's disrobing in front of young female staffers on what was a religious-based tour, which didn't attract much local attention. But the real story is that he had potentially compromised the party leadership. Much, much later, he apologized for his indiscretion.

(The Watergate burglary didn't attract much attention until someone started "following the money," and wondered why Cuban regime opponents and "intelligence assets" might be involved in a D.C. "black bag" burglary.)

The congressional party attendees were spontaneously pressed into joining the frivolity by the restaurant staff, which jumped into the Sea and dared the Americans to join them.

Hopefully my fiddling with a revision will avoid any semblance of a BLP violation. I await your conclusion as far as that's concerned.

Thanks so much for your continuing vigilance regarding the interest of the integrity of Wikipedia. Feel free to remove this lengthy explanation, of course. It's just "inside baseball," I expect. Activist (talk) 06:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

You must not realize the reason I removed the content is because it was a copyright violation, copied directly from the source article http://kdvr.com/2012/08/21/gop-lawmaker-skinny-dipped-where-bible-says-jesus-walked-on-water/ and not as a BLP violation. I don't have the time or interest to read your post above, so I hope I am not missing anything important by not spending a lot of time on your rationale as to why it needs to be included in the article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 06:57, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm nominating you for the "Miss Congeniality" award. I certainly hope that you can spare the time to accept it, if you win. Activist (talk) 20:19, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright of articles

Hello Diannaa!! Diana, a great name attributed to the Roman goddess of hunt. Thank you for the inputs. I'm really sorry for not paying attention to your constructive criticisms. I really wanted to learn more so please guide me in my future editing.Markx121993 (talk) 11:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Alan Furst

Can you take a look at, for example, this website? I can't tell if Wikipedia copied the site or the other way around. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) The text in the abebooks.com page does say they took some of their content from here: From Wikipedia: "Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of .... Crow^Caw 15:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

• @Crow: I guess because it was sandwiched in the middle of that wall of text I missed it. Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 15:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Message from Jenhawk777

Hi Dianna! I found your edits on my draft today and I genuinely appreciate the heads up and went and reread the information on copywrites. I had moved a bunch of stuff into the draft because I rented an article for two days and was going to lose it, so I intended to paraphrase and adjust it after that at my leisure. I never intended to keep it all but didn't have the time to work out what I wanted and didn't want within that rental period. I'm too cheap to pay the forty dollars to buy the rights to it--should I go back and do that? Even if I do that won't alter the copyright though--it doesn't give me rights to it does it? I will go back and check everyone of your edits. Thank you! There is another article here on Christianity and violence that has been marked for bias and I attempted to edit it first, but the guy didn't like my edits and reverted them all. He had a good point on one of them--it didn't have adequate source citing--but he didn't only remove that one and the others were cited and properly paraphrased. So I figured he had a point of view and wasn't going to accept anything else and that's when I decided to attempt--attempt--to write something more neutral. I'm trying! It's a big project! Huge topic! Thanx again for your help! Is it okay if I restore what you edited with the intent of dealing with it in the manner required? I am not anywhere close to done with this! Jenhawk777 (talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)Jenhawk777Jenhawk777 (talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC) Sorry! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenhawk777 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

urldecoder.js

Hello Diannaa. Per this mention at VPT in 2013 I gather you may be another user of User:Js/urldecoder.js. Is it working for you currently? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:06, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it is working just fine, I tested it on several pages and it works perfectly. I am using Chrome on a MacBook Pro with Mavericks. It did not work in Safari with wikEd activated but worked again when I shut it off. It works in Chrome with wikEd turned on or off. So this may be a browser issue or incompatible gadgets or both. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

George Lucki

I deleted the past versions, before your redaction. Can I remove the CSDG12 sticker, or is there more to delete? Copyvios isn't reading for me.Dlohcierekim (talk) 01:18, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

I removed some copyvio, and then discovered more, so tagged as G12. Deleted now — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:40, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Chad Jackson DJ edits

You have just told me my edits to my Chad Jackson DJ page were copyrighted - I am actually the artist and the info I added is owned by me. Some of the info which was on there before my edits was incorrect, so I decided to put some relevant info up. Thanks you for your attention. Katowidget (Chad Jackson). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katowidget (talk • contribs) 07:09, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia. There are a couple problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

The second problem is conflict of interest. Working on your own article 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 placed some information about conflict of interest on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:45, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Ranjit Atapattu

Happy to go and remove any copyright violations however by deleting all my edits you have removed a significant amount of other material from the article, such as his birth name, birth date etc. Could you please revert your changes to allow the non copyrighted material to be reinstated. Dan arndt (talk) 00:00, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the extra material being removed. I have re-added material deleted by mistake, but I did not re-add the date of birth, as we don't add that without a source. Please feel free to re-add it with your sourcing if you have such. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:31, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

My fault for not being conscience enough and checking I was violating copyright. Have added further referenced material to the article - thanks for the re-vert of the removed material. Dan arndt (talk) 06:03, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Kyrandia (Major BBS)

Hi. This turns up zero using Earwig's tool, but it really looks like it's a copyvio of a gameplay book. Not sure how to evaluate, or if a revdel is warranted. Thoughts? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 03:10, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

I can't find the material online either, except for the introductory paragraph, which is here. Regardless, he says he copied it, so I have done revision deletion and posted a warning on the user's talk page. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:12, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyvios...

Can you please skim through the articles created by Spem Reduxit (esp. the law-related articles).Allmost all such creations are flagged at copy-patrol.But am not sure about whether they constitute a violation or not.Cheers!Winged Blades ^Godric 05:19, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Works of the government are copyright in Canada, so such material would be a copyright violation in my opinion. It's okay to put excerpts from Canadian court decisions as long as they are framed as quotations. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:22, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyright - Marguerite Bays Reply

Hello Diannaa, You erased a substantial part of the article above under the generic argumentation that it was copyrighted. All the material mentioned was dully sourced and much of it was transcribed under my own words. I strongly disagree with this indiscriminate deletion under the generic argument of "copyright violation" and this subjective view of "small amount" of text. Have you really READ what you were deleting? I don't think so. Schoenstater (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

I have double cheked, and the content I removed is pretty much identical to that found at the copyright web page http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2015/02/blessed-marguerite-bays-lay-mystic-and.html, in particular the sections "Visions and prophesies" and "The medical inquiry into her stigmata". — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:02, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Roger Owensby, Jr.

Hi Dianna I have read your comments and note that you have put a line through my edits on 26 May 2107 but not my edits on 25 May 2017. I'm not sure what you are wanting me to do. Could you please explain further. SeptimusDaisy (talk) 05:31, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

I removed some of the text you added at 14:34, May 25, 2017 as it was copied from the copyright web page http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/22/loc_owensbytimeline23.html. Diffs prior to that point did not have to be revision deleted as they did not contain the copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:03, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Yosef Haim HaCohen

Hi,

I wonder if you could help me with something. There is a message in this article: "The article is translated from Hebrew: Brit, magazine of Moroccan Jews, volume 28, pages 62-67, Ashdod, 2009." in the first line of the References section.

This sounds like it might be a copyright violation, is that so?–CaroleHenson (talk) 19:43, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

It could be, depending on how closely it was paraphrased. See Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing#Translation. This would be difficult/impossible to prove without access to the source article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:47, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I have not been able to find anything about this magazine, let alone find the actual source article.–CaroleHenson (talk) 20:13, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps the person who added the content can help — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:00, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio advice sought

Hi Diannaa. As a bit of an expert in dealing with copyright violations, I'm hoping you might be able to help me with Seaspan ULC. The report for the article suggests that significant parts of it are copied from quite a large number of sources, to the extent that it's difficult to identify all of the individual passages that are violations. What would you suggest that I do in this situation? Cordless Larry (talk) 21:48, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi there Cordless Larry. I found a fairly recent clean version so I rolled it back to there. The copyvio is being added by one user, and I have given them a final warning and will watchlist the article. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:22, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'm keeping an eye on it too. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:47, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Willie J. Hagan

Hi Diannaa,

I have disagreed with the editor who tagged Willie J. Hagan and expressed those concerns at Talk:Willie J. Hagan. I know you work regularly with this editor. But I would appreciate a pair of objective eyes, if you're comfortable possibly overriding him/her. Or if you'd rather just recuse yourself, let me know. Either way, I'd really appreciate outside looks. Many thanks! X4n6 (talk) 22:46, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

The article is already listed at WP:CP and will be resolved in due course. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:53, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Not sure if that was a recusal or refusal, but I'll wait and see what happens there. X4n6 (talk) 00:05, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Ephraim of Bonn

The truth is, I knew that it was supposed to have that reference (that it was copied from the public domain), but I had no idea how to make it, and I figured someone would come along and fix it. Thank you for being that person :). Also, thanks for showing me how to make the template.

Ephraimhelfgot (talk) 03:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Re: Copying Material

Hi Diannaa, thanks for your message, which is the first message I have received. I am new to Wikipedia and the learning curve is steep, especially regarding Wikipedia protocols for citing and referencing articles, so I value your input. I believe that I have referenced every source of information (something that I feel strongly about) but not necessarily in the correct Wikipedia format. Furthermore, I now know that I have not used quotation marks, or re-written referenced material to extent required by Wikipedia. Your message provided me with useful guidelines which I will use in future. Regards, Roget's Minion (talk) 04:19, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Wannsee and introduction

Dainnaa good morning,

Thank you for correcting me. I am new and trying learn how to use wikipedia - it's hard.

Can you help me? I will truly appreciate.

Regards.Henia Perlman (talk) 14:27, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Henia Perlman. I suggest you visit the Teahouse, where you can meet Wikipedians with experience helping new users. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:28, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Deleted Posts: Copyright Ingringement

Dear Diannaa

I have read your mail regarding changes that I made to a Wikipedia reference. You have deleted my changes citing copyright infringement. I'm sorry but I just can't see this. The material I provided was all appropriately cited, and where other's material was used both fair use was applied and only public domain material was included.

I'm sorry, there seems to be a bit too much bullying happening here. First there was a complaint that the material violated neutral point of view material and now a copyright infringement argument is being used without actually showing which material you believe was infringed.

I think there are more sinsiter motives going on here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HolyOil (talk • contribs) 14:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello HolyOil. The material I removed was copied pretty much unchanged from the web page http://eaca.org/wp/about, and thus was a copyright violation. The content was hidden from view in the page history to completely remove the copyright violation from our website. I see you have re-added the objectives of the Church; it's the same material I removed already once as a copyright violation. Regardless of the copyright issue, we don't normally include vision statements, mission statements, or corporate goals. Please don't re-add this material again. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

About the "Manchester metrolink logo"

Hello,
I have noticed that the category:Articles with missing files contains many files today. Some of them, like Abraham Moss tram stop, have a unique problem: they use "{{s-line|system=MML..." which needs File:Manchester metrolink logo.PNG.
You deleted this file in 2013 because it was available on Commons. But it was deleted from Commons today, see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Manchester metrolink logo.PNG.
Is it possible, for you, to restore the initial file on the English Wikipedia?
Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 20:48, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi NicoScribe. I've restored the iamge and templated it as {{PD-shape}}{{Do not move to Commons|reason=USonly}} but getting the image to display within the s-line template is beyond my template-fu. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:05, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much! No modification is needed in the template. The articles will be updated, we just have to wait for the update of servers cache. For instance, the article Abraham Moss tram stop is already displaying the restored file. Thanks again! --NicoScribe (talk) 21:13, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio - Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham

Hey! First and foremost, thank you for your efforts in finding/revdel'ing articles with copyvio - you've done an incredible amount of work in that field and I feel that people dont appreciate admins enough for their work thinking that its their job to do what they do. Coming to the topic: Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham has had a history of copyvio edits in the last few days and I have a feeling its the same editor doing it over and over. A page protection might be in order along with a revdel to many past revisions. It'd be appreciated if you could take a look into this. Thanks in advance! Jiten Dhandha • talk • contributions • 11:01, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jiten Dhandha: I did the revision deletion a few days ago, but it looks like page protection will not be required, as the activity has stopped. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:16, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Swallow Song of Rhodes

Hello! I have noticed that you seem to be the foremost expert on copyright violations. I have a question regarding recent changes at the article Swallow song of Rhodes. The article has, for a long time now, incorporated the original ancient Greek text of the song, which is in the public domain. User:DesdinovaUK recently added an English translation, copied directly from this webpage [7], without giving credit to the translator. I removed it, believing it to be a copyright violation, and left a comment on DesdinovaUK's talk page. DesdinovaUK restored the translation, this time giving credit to the translator in a citation at the end of the quotation. I modified this to give the translator credit by name in the text of the article itself. The translation is not in the public domain and is still under copyright protection. Does giving credit to the translator allow the translation to be used, or is it still a copyright violation? --Katolophyromai (talk) 16:53, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Katolophyromai. Thanks for the question. Short properly attributed quotations from copyright material are okay to include. The way you've done it is perfect. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! I just wanted to check and make sure. --Katolophyromai (talk) 15:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Diannaa. You have new messages at Talk:Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority.
Message added 03:30, 30 May 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Vin09 (talk) 03:30, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Your deletion of Hutchinson Builders ABCC sanction

Thanks for your inputs, Diannaa. Since you appear to be based in Alberta you might be forgiven for not being familiar with Australian copyright laws.

The text you have deleted was:

• pertaining to a legal sanction - where re-phrasing may not have been an appropriate way to retain the exact legal meaning of the text.

• sourced from a Commonwealth of Australia (i.e. federal government) web site (i.e. copyright but with Creative Commons, as standard). Source attribution was clear enough from footnotes. More on CC Australian Government copyright here: http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/government/

• also published using the same text in a media release. As you will know, media releases are explicitly designed to be used verbatim if necessary https://www.abcc.gov.au/sites/g/files/net2406/f/170331_notification_of_sanction_under_building_code_0.pdf et al.

Your deletion of the text in its entirety seems to be something of an over-reaction.

I did check carefully because many documents of the Government of Australia are released under a compatible license. But this particular source page is marked at the bottom as "© Copyright 2017 Commonwealth of Australia" and there is no link to a Creative Commons license, so I have to assume that this particular page is not released under license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 09:41, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Harold B. Lee Library copyvio

Also at User:Katelyn Sun (BYU)/sandbox3 which I can't figure out yet. That editor is a BYU employee. It probably comes from this or this. It was pretty much straight copyvio when added in 2008 but has been tinkered with, but is still obviously from the same source. What do you think? Just delete it all or rewrite? I don't have the time myself. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 14:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

She's also editing User:JAGrace (BYU)/sandbox and although I can't find the source it's obviously screen scraped. Both editors have a declared COI (she says she "is currently employed as a Wikipedia editor for the Special Collections department of the Harold B. Lee Library". She's spamming (continuing after warning) BYU library links as ELs although they are just links to information pages about the documents so fail EP:EL. Doug Weller talk 14:13, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

• User:JAGrace (BYU)/sandbox is unattributed copying from Elijah Abel
• I think User:Katelyn Sun (BYU)/sandbox3 should be deleted as the basis for the translation is the copyvio material at Harold B. Lee Library
• Harold B. Lee Library should be listed at WP:CP for cleaning.
• I will get started on these actions right now — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:18, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

User:Katelyn Sun (BYU) has also been spamming external links to special collections at the Harold B. Lee Library, persisting despite warnings about COI and spam from two different editors. User:Rachel Helps (BYU) says she is the "Coordinator of Wikipedia initiatives" at the library. Perhaps it would be useful to have a chat with her and her editors about acceptable editing, especially when there is a conflict of interest. 32.218.46.220 (talk) 16:37, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

She was already warned yesterday about conflict of interest and inappropriate external links, and has not edited since those warnings, so no, I will not be having a chat at this time. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:42, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

No, she continued editing after those warnings, adding an additional half-dozen external links. 32.218.46.220 (talk) 16:47, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa. The IP is right, by the way. There are a number of links that she added still in articles. Doug Weller talk 17:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

I am really busy with my copyvio work, as there's currently 101 reports waiting to be checked, which represents about five hours work. So I would appreciate it very much if someone else could check her edits and remove the remaining spammy links. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:08, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

They've already been removed by User:Magnolia677, but with her ignoring two warnings, it seems highly likely that there will be many more to come. This is neither the first time nor the first BYU editor who has spammed links to their library. It's just not clear that the BYU editors "get it". 32.218.46.220 (talk) 17:17, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for pinging me. I tried to clean up the copyvio on the library page earlier, but I didn't realize that it extended to those other pages. I've asked Katelyn to stop adding links to pages. There are official Wikipedia library guidelines about adding external links the special collections at Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Cultural_Professionals. I don't think I would consider all the links spam, although I should have explained the task better to Katelyn. Most of our work focuses on doing research on subjects of our collections. I'm happy to clean up the copyvios on the library page--I'll work on that today, but if you believe that my being a library employee will hinder my ability to tell the truth about the Harold B. Lee library's history, please let me know and I'll stop. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:06, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

We have a saying: verifiability, not truth. Simply include content that you can source properly, preferably to secondary sources, and it will be fine. You can work on a subpage as indicated in the template in place on the article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:33, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

I e-mailed a release to OTRS, since that seems like the simplest thing to do. I would like to diversify the article's sources though, and I've found some newspaper articles that will help with that.Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:03, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

List of Scouting memorials

I had significantly cleaned yo and cropped the wording-what must I do to see that included? ps surprised to see a pic of my hometown on your talkpage!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 01:05, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kintetsubuffalo. Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. The content will have to be a lot more thoroughly re-worded. Or if you wish to include the inscription in its entirety I suggest you do it as a quotation. i.e. "The inscription on the memorial reads as follows:" and then put the whole thing in as a block quote. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:00, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank for the Heads Up

Hi, Thank you Diannaa for telling me, i'll be aware on what i'll do. I had a hard time looking on how type it through here. Thanks for adding the attribution on to the page. - NightwingGuy (talk) 18:47, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Writing article about yourself

Hi Diannaa

Thanks - yes, I didn't understand the Wikipedia policy about not adding information about yourself on a page about you. (I read the part "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." on the US-engineer-stub too literally I think!).

Here was the original page about me (below). Perhaps we should just delete the current page and restore it back to the original? Given that I now understand the policy, I'd rather not have my name listed as the one adding the information - let someone else do that.

Hi Larry. Sorry but restoring the page back to an old revision will not remove your name from the edit history. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:38, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa. In that case, it sounds like the best thing to do is simply delete the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry heck (talk • contribs) 15:27, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

@Larry heck: You can always request a username change. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 15:59, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Larry. Administrators are only permitted to delete pages for specific reasons, and this is not one of them. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:30, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Onomatopoeia

Hi, Diannaa,

I see “03:56, 27 May 2012 Diannaa protected Onomatopoeia.”

The “click it or ticket” entry was marked “Please clarify”, which I think I have done, but I don’t know exactly what was unclear to the person who so marked it. Perhaps you can take a look and let me know what you think. Woodlandtrail (talk) 13:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Looks ok to me — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:07, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

US Gov Acknowledgement

Thank you for calling this to my attention. I have added what I believe to be the necessary acknowledgement. Please let me know if further improvements are required. I plan on eventually expanding the article and rewriting the sections taken verbatim from the 2012 US Census of Governments. Mpen320 (talk) 15:03, 4 June 2017 (CST)

Another way to do it is to include the template {{PD-notice}} as part of your citation, like I did here. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:08, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

your arbitrary reversion of articles and behaviour that could be constituted as a threat

hello their

you will excuse me for skipping the pleasantry's here but i intend to be very forthright with you today and whilst i wish no offence to you personally (i do not know you after all) i wont be holding back my feelings on this matter either and i WILL be upfront about my intentions, im hoping you can respect that

now to brass tacks ...you recently reverted an article i wrote on Novar PLC

now just so you know this is the first article i have written and whilst i can understand and can respect the reasons why you removed it, i felt that i had changed quite a sizeable chunk of the information to make it fall under fair use, felt that the info itself was not copywrited material, felt i made proper citations and had already spent a sizeable amount of time (8 hours to be exact) trying to add to the community and be more productive

wasted hours that i WILL NOT be getting back any time soon, and to be frank ....i feel annoyed by with the way you have approached this issue

not because you reverted the article, having read your page i can see that this is your main field of expertise and you have done this before, but because you used what could be perceived as a threat, using bold text to scare me with bans and restrictions arbitrarily, without cause ...and without justification, and without taking my situation as a editing newbie into account in a satisfactory way, something that is CLEARLY stated on MY talk page ....i also feel you have ignored the talk protocol on the article in question and have tried to be judge jury and executioner, and that you have generally not followed a proper procedure or have made improper use of your moderating powers in the way you have executed this revert

now i feel that this is not a productive thing to do, this is not how you nurture newbies to wiki editing, and it is certainly not a good environment for people to learn in, and actively puts me off wanting to contribute in the first place, about a wide variety of subjects that i am knowledgeable in

put short i do feel you are NOT doing your job properly by simply reverting these pages and threatening with bans, and i am writing to let you know that i will not lie down and take it should you follow up on this, i am FULLY READY to report you to the proper authority's but i will personally see to it that your admin privileges are removed should i feel that anybody else is being bothered in an inappropriate way or anyone's right to edit this wiki is being restricted arbitrarily

now make no mistake this is not a threat to you personally nor do i wish it to be one, i do not know you personally and i wish no suffering over a minor slight i am simply stating my position and how i feel i should proceed given how i feel i have been treated

put short i am simply responding to your choice words on MY talk page, .....if i do not feel my banning was reasonable than i will pursue this route, i am currently doing so with someone called Nan over on the Tamil wiki for this VERY reason (again ...stated on my talk page) and whilst i have no desire to edit the wiki over their, i am perusing this simply because i feel that it isn't the point, ...i will not have someone slandering my name with a racism ban all because i kept reverting his edits to my home page and i am fully willing to defend my rights here if needs be .....this is just the kind of person i am

now i do not want to end this on an sour note, im just stating my position, and i feel i have been disrespected, but i am not unreasonable nor am i an asshole, in fact i am hoping you are not an unreasonable person and we can come to a compromise on this matter,

you see i feel this should have been brought up on the articles talk page .....where i posted an description of what i had done and asked for input, and the article should have been simply moved to a safe place to give me a chance to edit the article in accordance with community wishes, and possible attention should have been drawn to it as a violator of copywrite, but as it stands i feel i have lost hours of work because an admin decided to the law into their own hands

i feel better steps should be taken and that leaving one person to be judge should not be the way this wiki is run and i wish to take steps to assure this happens to no one else in my position, as it is demoralising, and down right insulting to people who are just trying to help

i suggest that in future you follow this path, and i in turn will endeavour to make better contributions, but i DO want the article back so i can make the necessary changes to comply with the wikis rules

i cannot currently access the page history and simply put i do not want to lose all that work i put into it and start from scratch since it took a lot of time and effort to learn how to do things properly and format it so that it looked like a wiki article, and i feel their must be a way i can access it

if you are going to inform me that their is no way this is feasible, rest assured i will continue to explore this possibility in other ways for future references but i am yet to decide how i will next proceed

i will leave the ball in your court as they say

kind regards

Tony Spike (talk) 01:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Tony Spike: It is saved on the article's wp:page history. If you wish to restore it, first address the issues brought up. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 01:52, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Jim1138: thank you jim that was a helpful piece of advice and i shall be happy to access it, but it appears i am currently locked out from doing so,and this is part of my gripe here .....i feel i have been mistreated and restricted arbitrarily already Tony Spike (talk) 02:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Tony Spike. Sorry for the harshly worded warning. The reason the material was removed was because it was a copyright violation. Copyright violations are a serious problem with legal considerations, and must be dealt with promptly. Since there's anywhere from 50 to 100 potential violations to be assessed each day, and there's only a very small group of people working on copyright cleanup, discussion of each individual violation is not practical, and for clear-cut violations it is not necessary. The revisions containing the copyright violation were hidden from view, and that's why you can't access them any more. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 09:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Diannaa: thank you for your concise explanation, i already understood why you removed it, i was more upset with the way, but i can understand the approach now and im sorry ::if i seemed like an asshole, is their any way i can get the wiki edit data back please (i think its called formatting ....like using 3 commas to bold something ect ect) i dont want ::it reverting i just want to copy it to my clipboard so i can re write it

its a shame to waste all of the information and work i put into it and whilst i HAD changed a fair chunk of it i really dont want to start totally from scratch?

Tony Spike (talk) 17:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

I can send the removed content to you via email if you like. But you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:12, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Diannaa: thanks that will be sufficiant, it SHOULD already be activated but failing that i can give you my actual email

Tony Spike (talk) 07:59, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Email sent. Just want to address a couple of points in your original post, both for your information and for anyone else watching this page. First, you are correct when you say that Wikipedia administrators work independently and with little or no supervision. Nobody is double-checking my work. It's a position of trust that I take very seriously, so I perform my chosen task as carefully and correctly as possible. None of the decisions I make are arbitrary. I have done literally tens of thousands of copyvio clean-ups and make few mistakes. When I do make a mistake I quickly apologize and fix it. Second, unfortunately the large volume of potential copyvios that need to be assessed each day (50 to 100 reports each day are posted at https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en alone) leaves little time for the nurturing of newbies. By the end of the month I would be mentoring literally thousands of people, leaving no time for the copyvio clean-up task. Nor does the workload allow for the discussion on the talk page of each individual problematic edit. I would need a hella big spreadsheet or database to keep track of all the open items. The policy does allow for the immediate removal of copyright violations, so that's what I typically do. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:02, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Diannaa: yes i can appreciate this, i guess i didnt take that into account but at the time i was less rational and more angry and i apologise, anyway i have revised the article, could you check that it meets standards please, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novar_plc, if it does not i would appreciate it if you would send me the data via email again that way if you need to remove it i can still revise it,

it would be a help

thanks

~ T. Spike ~|✉ 13:54, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

@Tony Spike: There's a huge overlap with the copyright web page http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/96/Caradon-plc.html. Please have a look at the copyvio detector report and you will see for yourself that this is not an acceptable level of paraphrasing. I will be removing your addition shortly. Please make a copy now, before I do so . — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:04, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Diannaa: no need to copy it, i still have it open for edit i was in the process of making changes, as for paraphrasing, how else do you expect me to add the information on this company without doing so, i HAVE to paraphrase facts otherwise i might be accused of lying .....everything paraphrased is a basic fact ....all i can do is shift them around

~ T. Spike ~|✉ 14:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

:Content has to be written in your own words and not inclusive of the source material at all. It's been suggested that not so much as three words should be together in the same order as the source. One thing I find that works for me is to read over the source material and then pretend I am verbally describing the topic to a friend in my own words. Stuff should also be presented in a different order where possible. Summarize rather than paraphrase. This will typically result in your version being much shorter than the source document. There's some reading material on this topic at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing and/or have a look at the material at Purdue or study this module aimed at WikiEd students. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:29, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

right i will bear all that in mind, and i will keep coming back here till get this right ......i hope you dont mind lol ~ T. Spike ~|✉ 14:32, 9 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony Spike (talk • contribs)

Just keep in mind that we are very strict about copyright. Don't add copyright material to this wiki, not even temporarily for editing. Prepare your addition offline in an external text editor. Study those student exercises and links. Get it right. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:56, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

i got it down to 30% and that is because the article has the same references .....witch i havent changed this entire time .....see if it gets removed again and if it does i give up and go back to minor edits ~ T. Spike ~|✉ 18:26, 9 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony Spike (talk • contribs)

Help with article National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology

You had removed content from the above mentioned page on 04:14, 19 January 2017. I'd like to state that the article was written based on the source cited in your edit summary. I'd also like to point out that according to [8] , the content is copy-right free. An acknowledgement of reference, as required, will be added, if you can revert the content to the previous version. If I'm missing anything, please let me know. Also, if you feel that that the article is biased, please feel free to refer me to any person who is in a better place to write it. Cheers and thanks in advance.

Magnilonam (talk) 07:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi, Magnilolam - you may want to list this at the Administrator's Noticeboard for attention, as Diannaa is most probably asleep at this time. Thanks, Keira1996 08:23, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Magnilonam. I have read the material at http://nifft.ac.in/UserView/UserView.aspx?TypeID=1175, and it's not a free enough license to be compatible with Wikipedia, as we allow our content to be re-used for any purpose whatsoever, and theirs does not. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 09:11, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Hey Diannaa, Can you suggest what options I have about expanding the contents of the page?

Magnilonam (talk) 09:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

I suggest you find some independent sources and use them to write some prose of your own. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:44, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Greenpeace India

Hi Diannaa,

This may require some rev/del for copyright violations. Thanks and cheers, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 13:38, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

All done. Thank you for your interest n helping with copyvio cleanup. Another admin has given the user a short block — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:52, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, more of same. Block evasion and renewed copyright violation. Perhaps page protection is necessary. Thanks again. 2601:188:180:11F0:10B2:FACE:BCEA:FDB1 (talk) 10:27, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

All done. I will watchlist the page for a while — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

My thanks to you and to Materialscientist. Cheers. 2601:188:180:11F0:10B2:FACE:BCEA:FDB1 (talk) 11:13, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Bonin Bough

The draft was restored by Anachronist including revisions with copyright violations. The February 2017 revisions should be redeleted or revdel'd. — JJMC89 (T·C) 19:58, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

I have revision-deleted the February revisions. The April versions are completely different content, i.e., the page underwent a total re-write between my last edit and the April 12 version. Thanks for letting me know. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:11, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

American Society of Cytopathology

A new collection of copyright violations to be rev/deleted, dropped at your doorstep. Thank you, Diannaa. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thank you, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:42, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Renewable energy sculpture

(Paroucheva (talk) 04:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC))Your messgge 17 March 2017 No problem copyright Dear Diannaa, no copyright problem, I am the author of this artwork. Please not remover the picture. The website http://www.art-elena.com is my website. (User talk:paroucheva)

If you are the copyright holder and wish to release this material to Wikipedia under license, please see the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 04:26, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

the article "Maryann Keller" Testingblog (talk) 05:28, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Dear Diannaa , I will very much appreciate that you help address the issues raised by the warning tag in the article "Maryann Keller" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryann_Keller . I appreciate very much your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Testingblog (talk • contribs) 04:43, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

My talk page

Dear Diannaa, after I wrote my first articles, you put a warning of copyright on my talk page, and I appreciated it. I have a lot more experience now and I feel I am well schooled in this issue now. Would you be able to remove the notice from my page? I'm starting to be embarrassed by it, it is the old me and i am not that person anymore. I know I can edit it myself, but it would mean much more if you did it. Thank you. Soniamaddox (talk) 07:03, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Soniamaddox. I am glad you are finding your way here on Wikipedia and plan to stick around. It's okay for you to manage your own talk page any way you see fit. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:08, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Mayawati

Hi Dianna. I hope everything is well. Just a note to keep an eye on that article. Some recent additions were of very low quality. Take care. Dr. K. 12:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Where I got reverted by a sock within minutes. As I expected, this is going to get worse before it gets better. Dr. K. 12:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello Dr.K. I removed the article from my watch-list back in May 2016 when people started heavily editing the article. I just don't have time any more to look after its maintenance, as it is no longer stable and likely no longer meets the Good Article criteria. I have semi'd the page for a week to help relieve the situration for a while. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much Dianna. I was wondering about that. Normally, I used to see you there, always fixing all kinds of terrible editing. But I see how busy you are fixing copyvios and I understand, although your presence there will be missed. I haven't been very active in that article either and I was shocked when I saw it at its recent state. The situation doesn't look good. Getting instantly reverted by a brand-new sock doesn't happen often and, when it does, it indicates a very bad editing environment. I'll see what I can do. All the best. Dr. K. 12:31, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

National Bolshevism

Hi Diannaa, another report offender for copyright violation, another rev/del necessary. Thanks and cheers, as always. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 20:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

All fixed up. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:26, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Maturidi

Hello Diannaa, could you please inform me of the recent spat of edits (and what I presume is some sort of admin lock) to the article Abu Mansur al-Maturidi's View History between (4 June 2017) and (18 April 2017). I'm unable to compare revisions (including my own after i reverted a user over WP:FIES). -DA1 (talk) 21:49, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello DA1. I removed some content as it was a copyright violation, copied from the copyright web page http://www.archive.org/stream/EncyclopaediaDictionaryIslamMuslimWorldEtcGibbKramerScholars.13/06.EncycIslam.NewEdPrepNumLeadOrient.EdEdComCon.BosDonLewPel.etc.UndPatIUA.v6.Mah-Mid.Leid.EJBrill.1990.1991._djvu.txt. The reason you can't view the edit history is because the intervening diffs were revision-deleted to remove them completely from the page history. This includes the edit where you removed the content added by Historiantheman, who is the person that added the copyvio. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:49, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

The main reason I reverted was due to the lack of edit summaries for his (around ~70) edits. However, I did notice he re-inserted his edits after my reversion (again with no WP:FIES). Precisely because of the lack of summaries and the extensive content change, I'm unable tell whether it was all productive or some disruptive. The intro/infobox looks well from a glance, but I'm unsure whether to tediously cross-check the Body content or simply revert back to the initial date (18 April) pre-edits. DA1 (talk) 22:57, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

I can't speak to the value of the edits prior to the insertion of the copyright violation at 01:31, June 3, 2017‎ (the same content was later re-added, along with additional copyvio, after you removed it), as my only reason for visiting the page was to remove the copyvio. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk)

Not all the content you deleted was blatantly copied.

I've reworded most content and was busy changing the table below, it wasn't just copying as you claimed. 58.187.168.230 (talk) 22:58, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Korean mun. I carefully removed prose that was identical or almost identical to the source webpage, http://primaltrek.com/koreancoins. Some prose was left in place and some was parahrased. The tables are okay to keep. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

What you removed was mostly numbering, and I've carefully reworded most of the numbering, changed the style of dates for WP:MOS, Hardly copying copyrighted material. 58.187.168.230 (talk) 00:13, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Literally only the numbering was identical, the rest was all reworded. 58.187.168.230 (talk) 00:28, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:13, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Though the content you removed makes it seem like these coins were being produced continuously from the time of Sejong the Great which could confuse the readers, though I'm a bit more careful in phrasing the content I'll add back to the article for minimum overlap, and I'll add more references to quote for, even for content already referenced, if needed. 🔍 58.187.168.230 (talk) 05:37, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Attribution for content for hurricane preparedness from tropical cyclone tracking chart

Didn't I specifically note this in the 19:06 edit from yesterday? Or is there another hurdle/step for attribution? It was content I added to one article and then to the other. I was the editor in both cases. Forgive my confusion -- even though I've been editing here for 11 years, I haven't much during the past 2-3 years. Thegreatdr (talk) 23:12, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not seeing it. I am not seeing any edits at 19:06 UTC yesterday by you on that or any other article. What am I missing? Note what we need is an edit summary on the destination article along the lines of "Attribution: content in this section was copied from Tropical cyclone on June 5, 2017. Please see the history of that page for full attribution." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Comptroller of the Navy (Navy Board)

Hi Diannaa hope your well? I need some feedback I created this article Comptroller of the Navy (Navy Board) and have attributed copied content under the OGL V3 compatible licencee and provided the source however another editor has tagged the article and stated his reasons on my talk page here User_talk:Navops47#Ways_to_improve_Comptroller_of_the_Navy_.28Navy_Board.29 I have replied to them outlining my reasons for creating it and have improved the lead at the top to indicate its an article about a British naval role but does the tag need to stay in place any feedback would appreciated. --Navops47 (talk) 05:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks for your feedback.--Navops47 (talk) 04:05, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Gerry McKenna

Hi. Please re-review page to see if it passes muster now. I trimmed and rewrote as best I can at the moment. Thanks. Yours, Quis separabit? 14:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, the current version is okay from a copyright point of view. Thank you for taking the time to clean it up. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:30, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Bishop article

As to the copyright infringement in the Maurice Bishop article, if I change the wording and still include the notions would this violate the copyright; and if I am allowed to rephrase it would should I include the reference? Thanks for your help with this. Jzsj (talk) 01:55, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

The material I removed appeared to be copied from the news article at http://kalamu.com/neogriot/2013/11/04/history-forward-ever-backward-never-remembering-maurice-bishop/ , which actually was not cited as a reference. What you need to do is re-write the material in your own words and include the reference. One thing I find that works for me is to read over the source material and then pretend I am verbally describing the topic to a friend in my own words. Stuff should also be presented in a different order where possible. Summarize rather than paraphrase. This will typically result in your version being much shorter than the source document. There's some reading material on this topic at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing and/or have a look at the material at Purdue or study this module aimed at WikiEd students. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:06, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Double checking my work

Hello D. When I saw material being split off from the Akira Kurosawa article I made this edit and its summary and added this template to the talk page of the new article. I based those on the edits that you made after my post User talk:Diannaa/Archive 52#Move of material. Would you please double check that I have done things correctly and fix anything that needs it. I have also pinged you at the talk page of the editor that started the new page but I want to leave the details here as well. As ever thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 04:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi MarnetteD. The way you did it was perfect. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:07, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Good to know and thanks for taking a look. MarnetteD|Talk 15:04, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

California Bureau of Investigation

Can you review this for copyright status. The text content was copied from here. It has a copyright symbol on the site but also claims public domain status. I've removed the rev del template but thought a review would be useful. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:06, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Outside observer. While the text may be public domain by that statement, it's still inappropriate for Wikipedia as it's non-NPOV primary source material. And I am also concerned about the images. They were uploaded to Commons instead of as local fair use, with a tag claiming "own work", when they are clearly not. I reverted them out of the article, leaving only the locally uploaded, tagged as fair use version of the logo. I don't know if they never essarily need to to be revdeled, but it's pretty clear that the user is not paying proper attention to copyright. oknazevad (talk) 04:13, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Agreed on the text having no place on Wikipedia: copied text rarely does regardless of copyright status. The question is if we should revision delete it. Thanks for your assistance on the images. I'm much more familiar with text than I am image copyright. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:17, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

The source web page is marked at the bottom as © 2017 DOJ so we have to assume that they mean it: The web page is copyright, and its contents cannot be imported to this wiki. The four images will be dealt with separately at the Commons; please see Commons:Deletion requests/File:CA-BI-Logo.png. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:16, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Got it. Was unsure what our policy was when there was conflicting data on the website. Taking the more conservative approach makes sense. Thanks for the second pair of eyes as always. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:23, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Notice on copyright problem on talk page

Hi Diannaa, thank you for bringing to my notice the copyright violation on my edit to the page Motilal Nehru College. I did not know expanding an article by copying information directly from the official website of the article in question is a violation of Wikipedia's content policy. I will be more careful anyway, and I hope I am not barred from anything, yet :) KakhoSimpson (talk) 05:41, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi KakhoSimpson. Thank you for your message. You are not banned or barred from anything at this point! The notice was informational and a warning. Many people are not aware when they first begin contributing here how strict we are about copyright! Happy editing, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:19, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Howling

The other editor doesn't really seem to get the hint.★Trekker (talk) 04:49, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

So is there actually anything I can do about this or should I just leave them to make trash edits on a bunch of franchise articles?★Trekker (talk) 08:13, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I don't know. I only visited the pages to clean up the copyvio issues. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:43, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Copy right issue on Tali Shiva Temple

Hai Diannaa, thanks for bringing the issue of copy right on my edits in Tali Shiva Temple, will make necessary changes to answer the copy right issue. But please do not delete the article. Anilcalicut. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anilcalicut (talk • contribs) 07:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright on Onion

Diannaa - Yes, I had inadvertently pasted some notes from my scratch file on my external editor rather than my copy that was on another page. It was corrected within two minutes, but I understand why that shouldn't happen. I think that may be the first time it's happened in ten years. Theclevertwit (talk) 09:34, 11 June 2017 (UTC)theclevertwit

Lurish dances problem

Dear diannaa,

Thanks for your attention to my edits in the page: Lurish dances. I did some edits and corrections on the added topics and I hope to be useful. BestSHADEGAN (talk) 14:17, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Khuzami BLP

Hello Diannaa,

Thank you for your message. Which part of the the article did you identify as being a copyright violation? I quoted a section of it, which I included in "quote" marks but not using blockquote Wiki markup. I can change that of course. I am more concerned if what I thought was rephrasing of the New York Times article was detected as being copy-paste. Please let me know what passage you were specifically referring to, and I will remediate the issue.--FeralOink (talk) 15:27, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Ah, I see now, from the difference logs on the article revision history! Okay, I will work on that now. Thank you!--FeralOink (talk) 15:30, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I am back. I don't know what was deleted because the deletion history was removed from public view. I don't remember what I wrote on those sections, since I spent most of the day learning and writing about Khuzami. That's okay, as the article flow still seems fine. I will just leave everything as is.--FeralOink (talk) 15:43, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem Hilton Schilder

Thanks for letting me know about the copyright problem on the Hilton Schilder article. It goes to show how good google translate is. I used google translate to translate the German de:Hilton Schilder article. Clearly the German author of that article used Google translate to go from the english [ http://www.marcocarnovale.com/2013/12/cape-town-tour-and-music.html] to German. I didn't even know that article existed. Wayne Jayes (talk) 17:13, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Site C dam

Hi, thanks for your info on my talk page User talk:VicGuy#Copyright problem on Site C dam. I appreciate your efforts and changes, but I don't think my own edits copied any copyrighted material - I take great pains to avoid that. The article looks good now, although I can't compare my edits to previous versions because the last year or so of changes are struck through. Thanks and cheers, VicGuy (talk) 22:42, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi VicGuy. It was the prose from the opening paragraph of this article, which was added by yourself to the article unaltered on June 7. I found it when an edit by a different user was reported at https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en and I ended up checking the entire article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:05, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Group of Representative Bodies

Hi, Diana. The page you deleted was not from the page of this ERFA website you mentioned. Only a partial description as they are also a member of the association was taken by them from a 3rd source. It was a skeleton for a more thorough article and I wanted to add the different sources. At least it would have been nice to talk to me before asking for the deletion of the article. Thanks. molui (talk) 09:57, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello Molui. I nominated the page for deletion and another admin checked it and found it was enough of a match to warrant deletion. The same material appears at the GRB's own website, but that does not make it okay to copy it here. While you were advised of the impending deletion, we are under no obligation to discuss it with you first, as copyright violations are against the policy of this website and against copyright law. We can't host copyright material here, not even temporarily as a framework for future editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:19, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright

Good evening. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I thought that it can be used with information of the page as reference. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks ! Captain Nikitakis (talk) 13:44, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Site C Dam history

Hi Diannaa, could you take a look at the Site C Dam dam Revision history, the diffs are not available prior to your edit ??? Dougmcdonell (talk) 17:47, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

I now see that you've hidden the last year worth of history, why so much? Dougmcdonell (talk) 18:35, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Revision deletion was done under criterion RD1 of the revision deletion policy. Some of the copyright violations were added quite a while ago. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:37, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, didn't realize that! Dougmcdonell (talk) 22:04, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Curious to why you are deleting my submissions?

I work for an organization and you deleted significant parts of our Wikipedia page Chuckchaney (talk) 01:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Which organization? Which article? Jonathunder (talk) 04:34, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

For FC Wichita. I put out a very thorough history section and about our crest. It was deleted, not even flagged.

• It was copied from http://www.fcwichita.com/, which is copyrighted. If you are the copyright holder, and wish to release that content under a free license, which also allows anyone else to use it for any purpose, even commercially, you can follow the steps at WP:DCM. Crow^Caw 06:43, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Your deletions in "Fyling Hall railway station"

First of all, I fully understand that apparent copyright issues may come up on occasion, and more power to those that fix them. However, changes to the content should remain traceable. As you have simply deleted some edits in the article Fyling Hall railway station instead of editing normally, you have made it impossible for me to see what exactly was wrong with my contribution, and to retrace your changes. Instead, it would have been much better if you had edited the article normally. It is well possible that some of the formulations were very close to those on the website which I cited, but I believe the text was properly attributed by the citation. As it is, I shall never know what the real problem was because of your deletions. If you had fixed this issue in a traceable way, I would even have thanked you for doing so, but so, I cannot, because now I have to go back and see what information might have been lost in the process. It is not much work in this case, but it could have been done more efficiently. Next time, just flag the issue and give the original contributors time to fix it themselves. --Schlosser67 (talk) 05:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

The reason the material was removed was because it was a copyright violation, with some of the content you added being identical to the source web page http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/fyling_hall/index.shtml. Copyright violations are a serious problem with legal considerations, and must be dealt with promptly. It's not an occasional problem: there's anywhere from 50 to 100 potential violations to be assessed each day. Since there's only a very small group of people working on copyright cleanup, discussion of each individual violation is not practical, and for clear-cut violations it is not necessary. The revisions containing the copyright violation were hidden from view under under criterion RD1 of the revision deletion policy, and that's why you can't access them any more. The new version you wrote is okay from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:54, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

I understand that cleaning up copyright problems is a major and demanding task, and have duly noted that quotations or near quotations need to be dealt with more strictly in Wikipedia than elsewhere. I still think that the conflict could have been resolved in a different manner without temporary loss of content, but that's water under the bridge. You did a splendid job in paraphrasing some of the text, but left out some content in doing so. This was the main problem for me, even though it was only a sentence or two, but I consider the case closed.
On a related note: Have administrators still got access to "hidden" past versions of articles? Can the latter be made available on request for the purpose of editing, in particular if more than a few hundred bytes worth of content has been hidden, and the perceived source is not accessible to an author? Loss of content can amount to a long-term problem, while copyright problems are usually quickly resolved thanks to your work and that of your colleagues. --Schlosser67 (talk) 13:16, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violations on this website are a serious problem, with potential legal ramifications for the person who adds them as well as for the website as a whole. This is a far more serious problem than the loss of content that results from removal of copyright violations. The simplest way for you to avoid such loss is to make sure everything you add to this wiki is written in your own words. Revision deletion is done so as to completely remove copyright violations from this website. Therefore to post the copyright material on-wiki is counterproductive. What I normally do is offer to send the removed material via email. Content that has been revision-deleted is visible to administrators. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:31, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio on Plum, TX

Hey, Diannaa! Thank you very much for the information on copyright violation. I was unaware at the time of how strict Wiki was on potential copyright violations and I hope I haven't been banned from editing. I completely understand that I likely made an error in overusing the phrasing of the Fayette County website. Is there a way I can get the article back so as to rewrite it for you? So sorry to have caused any potential legal issues for Wikipedia or any trouble for you in having to fix my mistake. I'm sure you have a lot of mistakes to fix. I certainly won't let it happen again.

I hope I haven't been too much extra work for you.

Thank you again, Ellagracecastro (talk) 00:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Ellagracecastro. I am sending you a copy of the deleted version via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	For your tireless, never-ending work against vandalism. Keira1996 02:15, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright AAA 400

Good afternoon. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I thought that it can be used with information of the page as reference. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks! Robbie2448 (talk) 19:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

RE: Copyright AAA 400

Good evening. I do hope you are well. Apologies. I had no idea about the copyright information. I'll be more careful in the future. Many thanks! Robbie2448 (talk) 19:49, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Louisiana Creole people

The IPs are at it again. Maybe it's time for semi-protection. Strawberry4Ever (talk) 02:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Semi'd for a week; also added to my watch-list. Thank you for the report, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:31, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright question

Hi Diannaa. I came across Timothy Steele while doing some non-free image checking for possile WP:NFCC#1 problems. I'm almost positive that the image needs to go, but I am also concerned about Timothy Steele#Selected work. Would this be considered a copyright violation even though it is supported by a citation? It seems to be something which is not allowed per WP:COPYQUOTE and WP:POETRY#Quoting from poems and copyright issues, but I'm not sure. - Marchjuly (talk) 04:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

This is a grey area; quotations are permitted under the policy, but they are not supposed to be extensive ("brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media"). What is extensive? that's the point that's not made clear anywhere. The two pages you link to are not policy pages; one is an essay and one is a wikiproject guideline. Nevertheless I agree with you that quoting one of his poems (presumably in its entirety) is excessive and I am removing it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:41, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)I certainly wish we had some clear policy on this. There's a bit more more guidance at WP:NPS, which I've sometimes cited with success (and sometimes with none). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:50, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at this Diannaa. I think the closest we can come to policy is WP:NFCCP (more specifically WP:NFCC#3b) in that quoting part of the poem may be acceptable, but the enitre poem is excessive. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:20, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

I agree a short excerpt would be acceptable — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:28, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

RFC/N discussion of the username "Cantdecideifimgonnacollidewithhopeormakemybridetheropeorjusthideinthedope"

A request for comment has been filed concerning the username of Cantdecideifimgonnacollidewithhopeormakemybridetheropeorjusthideinthedope (talk · contribs). You are invited to comment on the discussion here. Linguist^talk|contribs 13:43, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Alien Costume Saga

Hi Diannaa! I'm here because I think you've made a mistake of deleting my information on "Alien Costume Saga" because I didn't copy it from any website. You see I recently got a book called "The Amazing Spider-Man: The Saga of the Alien Costume" and I was just using the information of what I know. I just didn't have enough information about "Alien Costume Saga" because the book only contains stories from The Amazing Spider-Man #252-259. It didn't even have the story from "Web of Spider-Man #1" where Spider-Man have his final confrontation with the symbiote in the church. I'm telling you the truth. I didn't get that information from any website. But I do need help writing "Alien Costume Saga" on Wikipedia. How can you help me? talk 10:09, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. If you need general help the best place to start is the Teahouse, where there's people standing by who are experienced in helping new users get started. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:19, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Some copyvio was readded. — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:37, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Lord Taylor of Warwick

You deleted a link to a BBC news page for "copyright" reasons? I don't understand this. Wikipedia is full of references to websites which might be said to be the subject of copyright. Is there something special about this one? I genuinely don't understand. Regards Ironman1104 (talk) 15:04, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I think I now realise what you might be on about. What about fair dealing? Source fully acknowledged. Ironman1104 (talk) 15:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I understand the concept of fair use, but that's not what you did. The source was acknowledged, but the material was not in quotation marks or acknowledged to have been copied directly from their article. The way you presented it was a copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:19, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I forgot the required attribution

Sorry Diannaa, I will add CC-by-SA Vorpzn (talk) 22:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Help with copyright questions

Hi, Diannaa. I'm a fan of women's soccer and I've been creating and improving articles related to the theme. I also follows some pages about women's soccer. Recently, I saw some pictures of some players which articles lacks a picture. I did contact the copyright owners and they are very willing to upload the pictures on Wikipedia, since they are also enthusiasts of the sport. However, they are asking me several question and I'm not an expert on the theme. I would like to know if there's some way they can contact you or some other admin, who can answer their questions. So, they can find out, if they want or not upload the pictures under Wikipedia License. Because, I don't want to give them any wrong information.--SirEdimon (talk) 05:15, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

It sounds to me like they want legal advice as to the consequences of releasing their images under license. If that's the case, the are going to have to discuss with their lawyer. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:42, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Dianaa, they want to know how it's work on Wikipedia. That's not a legal matter.--SirEdimon (talk) 22:21, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Then perhaps the information at WP:Donating copyrighted materialsis what you are looking for? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:26, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

copyright issue

Hi Dianna thanks for your message, but I am the admin of the snuproject.wordpress.com, would it solve the issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrsanS (talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

If you are the copyright holder and wish to release this material to Wikipedia under license, please see the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:25, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Help on blocked content for GC page

Hello Diannaa, I am in the process of making the Wikipedia page for Galapagos Conservancy more robust, and received your message that my recent edits were in violation of copyright. As the President and founder of the organization, it was not on my radar that I would be in violation of any of Wikipedia's policies, since much of the text I am including is content that I have written at one point in time. But if I am understanding the policy correctly, I still need to provide citations (from our website, for example?) on text that I am citing -- is that correct? Can you please provide more guidance as to how we can best align with Wikipedia's policies and restore our page, or let me know specifically what you found to be in violation of Wikipedia’s copyright policy? Thank you in advance for your help.

Johannah Barry (talk) 16:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

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 placed some information on conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:27, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Dear Diannaa,

Thank you very much for your responses here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bfujiy#Wikipedia_and_copyright

I've modified Rojas-Suarez's bio according to the Wiki policies you pointed out. I hope everything conforms now. Regards,

Bfujiy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bfujiy (talk • contribs) 18:14, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

The new version is okay from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright

Can you please advise on this GA review, Talk:G_(New_York_City_Subway_service)/GA1 there is a possible copyright issue and I don't want to act without guidance, thank you. Seraphim System ^(talk) 19:20, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

this is the photo on flickr linked to in the article. It now says public domain, but the archived version says All Rights Reserved and the source for our file is an ebay listing — none of our editors have claimed credit for it, and it hasn't been verified through the usual Flickr upload process.

[9] this is our file

Kew Gardens 613 Has posted links for the ebay source to the GA review page. I don't want to pass the review until one of our admins has approved the file, thanks Seraphim System ^(talk) 19:36, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

I don't think we can keep either of those images and I have nominated them both for deletion at the Commons. I have responded at the GA review page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:01, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Seraphim System ^(talk) 20:02, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Timecop (franchise)

Hi, I've noticed you've cleaned up some copyvios by MSENDER007. This article was created by that user. I've attributed in edit summary the parts of the page that were copied from other Wikipedia articles and rewritten pretty much everything else, and I think it may be prudent to revdelete old versions, as the article was rife with 1-2 sentence copyvios and close paraphrases (see here). Daß Wölf 01:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

I have revision deleted that particular addition to the point you removed it. If you see any other diffs you think need to be hidden please let me know. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:02, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Local Churches statement of faith

Hello, thanks for sending me a message about your concerns. The text is an official statement of faith from http://an-open-letter.org/en/our-faith not the campus website (they copied it as all statements of faiths by religious organizations are copied because of the precise wording). How to you propose representing the Local Church statement of faith without copying it? I believe it is a key piece of information to the article, as there have been questions on these very issues about the group. Thanks!

Content you add to this wiki should be written for the most part in your own words. Short properly attributed quotations are okay, but this was not short; it was 725 words. It needs to be shortened and properly indicated as being a quotation, or re-written in your own words. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:10, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest and Copyright information

Hello Diannaa, This was very helpful. How can I retrieve the work I did up to this date? Is it cached somewhere or did we lose it entirely. Johannah Barry (talk) 16:01, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

The article was deleted because all of it was copyvio, with all the prose being copied from the organization's website. There's no usable prose whatsoever. It has to be started over from scratch. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:31, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Unblocking, lesson learned and a sincere talking

Hello Dianna

It's me Martimc123.

I need to unbur, to talk with you, because this whole thing started when I made my first article and it felt good, but at the time I didn't know about the policies and at the time because I want to let the readers know about puroresu, but the time I didn't saw and care, because I tought that it was all editing.

Then, I when they started to put the speedy deletion notices, I started to delete it as you know, then you blocked me.

Then I started to create many accounts because I wanted to get my articles recognized but instead I did it the wrong way.

I started to repost them without contacting any admin, and they started to get speedy delete and I tought you admins were trying to get my articles deleted and enimes when you were trying to help.

One day, I was so furious that I tried to get into Ribbon Salminen's account only at the time, but then he told me to wait only six months and do the WP:SO and I started to wait, then in December I returned and I did some of the old basics, but then I got blocked, I tried to ask for an unblcok and it was told me again and I waited, but the thing is in mid Mrach, April of this year, I return editing, and I wanted to make WhatCultutre Pro Wrestling but it was deleted all because they tought that I was a sockpuppet of some guy called "Dwdpuma". Then I wanted to make that goal possible and I pretended to be this "Dwdpuma@ and I asked an unblock on his account without knowing anything about him but I failed.

And it can be hard to belive in me, but I'm telling the truth and I'm being sincere and honest with you.

Although I did sockpuppetry, although I did copyright, although I removed notices, altough I pretended to be someone that I don't know but only with propose of wanting of contribute, to get my articles recognized and be the gratest contributor ever, that's my goal.

That's why I need to ask you one last chance, I waited 6 months, I know that the things that I did were not the way to show my good faith but please I don't want to wait anymore, I just want to contribute, it is hard to belive in me but you have to belive in me, I learned my lesson, and the block is no longer needed, I really want want to contribute.

So please give me one last chance.

I promise if you give you give, you will not regret it and I will make my goal happening and make useful and big contributions, but if don't give it, I understand, probably I wasn't made to this, and you are in your right if you don't want to unblock me, I failed with you and that's what I deserve.

Sorry for what I did, I hope you understand. :(

Thanks for your time

109.49.183.212 (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but if you wish to resume editing you will have to stop using IPs to avoid your block. I see repeated attempts to get unblocked using the UTRS request service have been declined. Pretty much all of your attempts to add content to this encyclopedia have been reverted. I don't think Wikipedia is a good fit for you and suggest you find something else to do with your leisure time. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:37, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry my first response was pretty harsh. I'm sure that had your post to my talk page been the first and only edit from this IP my response would have been quite different. But you've been avoiding your block from this IP since the beginning of June. That's not the way to earn people's trust and get yourself unblocked. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

The company authorized me to edit their Wikipedia page

Dear Diannaa,

The company asked me to draft a Wikipedia page for them, but it was speedily deleted from Wikipedia, saying that the page was a direct copy from their company website. The photos uploaded are also come from their website, but Wikipedia does not allow me to upload. What can I do to let Wikipedia knows that I am authorized and appointed by the company? I have sent an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Thank you!

Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:41, 20 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katiecpy (talk • contribs)

Hi Katiecpy. Thank you for your interest in creating an article for this organisation for wikipedia. There are several problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works. I see you have submitted an email showing you have permission to copy the material to this wiki so that's a good first step.

The second problem is notability. I am not sure the organisation is notable enough, as Wikipedia defines it, to have an article. We require write-ups in reliable third party sources such as newpapers, magazines, or online publishers to establish notability. New articles about persons or organisations that are not notable are typically speedily deleted. All of the sourcing for your draft was from the corporate website. If there's no coverage of the company in secondary sources such as newspapers or magazines the article will probably not be accepted for publication.

The third 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 (and material copied from the corporate website is seldom worded neutrally and is typically not appropriate for Wikipedia). 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 see you have already got some information on conflict of interest available on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:59, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

GODWIN OBASEKI PROFILE EDIT

Hello Diannaa, Thank you for the update on the profile of Godwin Obaseki i edited earlier. I would like to know if you have taken time to review the content. This is the correct and complete profile of the man. Also i probably will stop editing as it seems like editing on Wikipedia would be a waste of time writing and rewriting. It cost me time to do the voluntary writing and it may be better that i submit to my personal blog than the reverts i am getting writing for Wikipedia.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Debravura (talk • contribs) 07:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. I removed the content, because it appeared to have been copied from elsewhere online in violation of copyright law and the copyright policy of this website. Sorry to hear you are going to stop editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:03, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Some questions left

Hello Diannaa

It's me Martimc123 again

I need to talk with you, I still have some questions, how can I get unblocked?

How can I gain your thrust back and proove you wrong?

Also, how can I contact you further without using the IP thing?

P.s: Please don't block this IP, because it is from a café, also the IP that I'm using is not avoid, simply I changed my home network, that's why I am using that IP since June.

Thanks for your time

82.154.211.153 (talk) 13:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Please stop logging into various IPs to evade your block. You did this not only to contact me, but to edit Wikipedia during the entire month of June, or more if there were other IPs. Your account is globally locked because of copyright violations and abuse of multiple accounts. Please don't post here any more. If you have something to say please log in to your account and post on your user talk page or use the UTRS ticket system. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:40, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

As to how to return to Wikipedia editing, please read Wikipedia:Standard offer — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:49, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Ilka Gedő

You say:

Hello Bíró Dávid, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Ilka Gedő have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder.

This is not true. I have not used any copyrighted material without permission.

Please highlight the cases where I use passages written by someone (including me somewhere else).

I even rewrote the timeline making it much shorter and using different language from the timeline that is available at the end of my memoir. I added a considerable number of references indicating, for example, that the two Glasgow exhibitions did take place. Bíró Dávid (talk) 14:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

The content had still had a very significant overlap with the material already available at http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/. I know you have already sent a permission email to the OTRS team back in March. Please don't re-add the material until the OTRS team gives the okay. Regardless of the copyright issue, adding unsourced material from your own blog is inadequate sourcing for our purposes. We require independent sourcing in reputable newspapers, websites, or books. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Grindlays Bank - Removal of material

Hi Dianna,

I am new to Wikipedia and so may well have got some things wrong but are you able to add the material you delete from the Grindlays Bank page to my sandbox. This way I can make the necessary edits rather than having to start from scratch?

Andrew Fletcher 21/06/17 — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewFletcher (talk • contribs) 14:55, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't do that, as we can't include copyright material anywhere on this website, including sandboxes and drafts. I can send it to you via email, but you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:07, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Ilka Gedo

You say:

The content had still had a very significant overlap with the material already available at http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/.

This is not true, as I highlighted all the parts that I have taken from my own work. Then I deleted all these parts a rewrote the article.

You say:

Regardless of the copyright issue, adding unsourced material from your own blog is inadequate sourcing for our purposes.

I have not added any unsourced material. I rewrote the article in Hungarian, then with the help of a native speaker, we rewrote the article.

I don't have a blog. So I could not have taken any materials therefrom. As regards sourcing I substantially increased sourcing. I quote five British newspaper articles on Ilka Gedő's exhibition. Plus I backed up the fact that there was the second exhibition at Glasgow's Third Eye Centre with direct reference to Third E+ye Centre's website plus I quite the poster of this exhibition from Wikipedia Commons.

When I used, even more, sourcing referring to published studies by art historian, then you deleted these quotes saying that the length of quotes must not exceed a certain percentage of the total length of the article.

You say: We require independent sourcing in reputable newspapers, websites, or books.

This is just what I do, or did in the past. Bíró Dávid (talk) 17:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I made a mistake. The source document is not a blog and it's not unsourced. However it is a self-published work, and not necessarily a reliable source as Wikipedia defines it. Regarding the copyright issue, you can see for yourself the huge overlap with the source webpage by viewing this report. In addition, large swathes of content you added had no citations, so I removed your addition in its entirety. That's why I said earlier that even with the release of the source webpage under a compatible license that this material is not very suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia in its present form. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

You basically have three choices:

1. Wait for your OTRS permission to get processed and then we can re-add any material that you copied from http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/
2. Add a release under a compatible license to the webpage http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/ using the instructions at Wikipedia:DONATETEXT
3. Write some totally new prose, with no overlap with the material already online, using the original sources that are acceptable under WP:RS. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

I have questions

If I choose option 2, how long do I have to wait. Does choosing option 2 have the same implications as choosing option 1

If permission is granted, can I re-add materials copied from http://mek.oszk.hu/07400/07416/html/?

Can I add sources backing up information about the first Glasgow exhibition, i.e. about the fact that there was an exhibition in 1985 in Glasgow.

Can I add information backing up the fact that there was a second Glasgow exhibition thus showing that I am not lying.

Exhibition poster

thumb|Gedő Ilka-kiállìtás plakátja, Glasgow, Third Eye Centre, 1989-1990.

Thanks for your time. Bíró Dávid (talk) 18:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

References

Option 1: The current backlog for OTRS is 213 days (7 months). If you wait for the OTRS team to process your email you could be looking at another four months or more, since you sent your email at the beginning of March and the emails are not necessarily processed in the order they were received.

Option 2: If the copyright holder adds a compatible license to the source web page, the material from that website can be re-added to the article right away. Note that you do not control the article, and any editor is free to remove material or re-write the article to conform to Wikipedia standards and style.

Your final question: You are free to add sourced content to the article at any time, as long as you do not violate the copyright policy and the other rules of this website when you do so. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:12, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

If I choose option 2 (Option 2: If the copyright holder adds a compatible license to the source web page, the material from that website can be re-added to the article right away. Note that you do not control the article, and any editor is free to remove material or re-write the article to conform to Wikipedia standards and style.) can I then return to the status that prevailed around the beginning of March (3 March), prior to your blocking me from access to Wikipedia editing? Also I would like to ask you whether I can add sourcing backing up the fact that there was an exhibition in 1985 of IG in Glasgow and that there was also a second, much bigger exhibition of IG in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow at the turn of 1989 and 1990.

Once again thanks for your patience and time.Bíró Dávid (talk) 19:38, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Once the page is compatibly licensed with Wikipedia you can re-add content from that source. The revision deletion will be removed and you will have access to the all the old versions of the page again and thus will be able to roll it back to whichever version of the article works best for your future editing. In answer to your second question: You are free to add sourced content to the article at any time, as long as you do not violate the copyright policy and the other rules of this website when you do so. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:45, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Possible to Get Back Deleted Revisions?

Hello, again (from a long time ago). I've learned a lot since the last discussions about using Wikipedia, etc. But I now noticed the revisions I had made (that were since deleted) are now also deleted from the revision history. Do you know if there's any way I could get at least one of those (the most complete one) back for my own records of that text? Thank you for any and all help. This is regarding this page and the revisions from May 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lia_Halloran&action=history Best, Adam

Hi Adam. I could send it to you by email but you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Behcet's Disease modifications

Dear Diannaa,

I thank you for your warning, as you can see it's the first time I try to contribute to Wikipedia so I was not aware of all the rules to follow. This notwithstanding, the article I linked and quoted on the page regarding Behcet's Disease is an Open Access pubblication of which I am author. Does this make any difference or do I still have to reword/rephrase the paragraph? Thanks for the advices

Lorenzo — Preceding unsigned comment added by LorenzoM88 (talk • contribs) 05:51, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

"Open access" means the prose is available online and we are able to read the article without having to pay a fee. However, this is not the same thing as being released under a compatible license. If you are the copyright holder and wish to release this material to Wikipedia under license, please see the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:05, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Rauvolfia serpentina

Hi there Diannaa, Yes - the content was lifted from a third party. However, the current article contains nothing of the risks that can be associated with rauvolfia serpentina, and whilst appearing neutral, appears to offer positive support to using it in medication. This is not my field, but I suggest that you or another editor do something quickly to remedy the lack of substantive medical information that we have about the rauvolfia serpentina. (20040302 (talk))

Please don't add copyright material to this wiki no matter how urgent you believe it to be to get the info out there. I suggest you contact the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine and suggest the article needs work as I am not a medical person either. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:08, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

I have requested permission from the copyright holder. They may well be happy to give it to WP. Yes, and I deserve a slapped wrist. I've been an editor for 13 years, and I know better. (20040302 (talk) 14:25, 22 June 2017 (UTC))

Copy-pasting of large chunk of text

Hello again Diannaa. When you have time, could you take a quick look at this edit and give me your view on whether a quote that long violates copyright rules? Thanks in advance! Cordless Larry (talk) 09:57, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Cordless Larry. I think it was too much, and it wasn't made clear where the quotation ended, and no citation was provided. I have shortened it a great deal and added a proper citation. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Diannaa. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Careful with the G8 deletions

You just deleted the talk page redirect from my bot's page to my talk page with your recent G8 deletion blitz. I might suggest going back through those deletions you just made to make sure they all fit G8 policy. You made nearly 30 deletions in 60 seconds. 2 seconds per deletion is a bit fast. IronGargoyle (talk) 01:35, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:38, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

copyright on Battle of Emmendingen

Battle of Emmendingen has been static for a while, until I tweaked some of the text about the battle and put it into GA consideration. I've tweaked it more (bringing it down to 59%), but I suspect it is more likely the copyright vio goes the other way. auntieruth (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

@Auntieruth55: The edit that triggered the bot report was this addition. Does that material appear in older revisions somewhere? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:14, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• I have no idea. The material is in my lecture notes, though, and that section has now been substantially reworded. auntieruth (talk) 14:18, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• and when I compared this version 644295036 in earwig, I still get 43 percent or so. The bot is telling me that the consistencies are in directions, dates, people involved, etc . I don't know how to change that. auntieruth (talk) 14:19, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

The content in the terrain section does appear in an old revision, added by you in this diff, where you cite the web page in question as your source (it's been on the source webpage since 2009, at which point our article did not exist yet). It's got to be fixed. The rest is now adequately paraphrased. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School re-copyvio

Thanks for nuking the prior installment of copy-pasting from this school's website. An IP came along today and reintroduced content from here: [10]. I reverted solely based on the meaninglessness of the promotional content, perhaps thinking someone would have learned a lesson about copyright. It appears to me that all edits postdating your revdel are now tainted by copyvio yet again. Thanks as ever for your assistance! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:56, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

SoundSpectrum Wiki page

Hi Dianna,

I work at SoundSpectrum Inc. and have permission to update a very old and inaccurate Wiki! Perhaps I am just not aware of the correct way for us here at SoundSpectrum to take more responsibility for the content on Wikipedia. Can you point me in a good direction for legitimizing our edits?

Brandon SoundSpectrum— Preceding unsigned comment added by Artisinformation (talk • contribs) 19:12, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

There are a couple problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent.

The second 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 user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Asher Crispe

I have the feeling you made some kind of mistake on Asher Crispe. Speaking only for myself, why was the edit in which I added a category removed? Debresser (talk) 20:35, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the mistake. I have struck out the incorrect warning (edit warring) and added a correct warning (copyright violation). Your edit was not removed, but it was revision deleted, because in order to completely remove the copyvio from the history, all revisions from the point of addition to the point of removal have to be hidden. The category you added is still in place on the article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:41, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for the explanation. Debresser (talk) 21:10, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Marc-Louis Solon Clarification Requested

Hi there,

In regards to the Marc-Louis Solon page, I think I might have added or changed a couple of words here and there, but I didn't copy and paste any text from an outside website into this wikipedia page. I had never even seen the website you linked. I was only trying to make the page flow better since previously all of the career information was contained in the introduction. Now I am remembering that I think I added in some extra information from an existing wikipedia page, pate-sur-pate, is that the text you are referring to? Is adding information from another wiki page not allowed? That page also discuses Solon's life, and hasn't been edited for a while, so I thought it was fair information to use. I believe I even changed the language so that it wasn't a direct copy from the pate-sur-pate page. Can you please clarify? The website you linked, http://jansantiques.com/Lot/jac1896.php, looks like a literal copy and paste from the pate-sur-pate Wikipedia page. It is not the website owner's own words, it is only copy and pasted text from an existing wikipedia page.

Also, why is this my final warning? I'm new at this editing thing so there will likely be some trial and error, but I've never repeated the same mistake, and I am personally trying to improve these pages and not doing anything with malicious intent.

Thank you. --Olivia4nier (talk) 13:34, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the mistake, the bot does not check the wiki and I did not spot that it was internal copying rather than from elsewhere on the web. What you need to do when copying from one article to another is to mention in your edit summary where you got the prose from. In fact such attribution is required under the terms of our license. Please see WP:copying within Wikipedia for more information on this topic. I've re-added the material and provided the required attribution in the edit summary. The reason you received a final warning is because you've already received two previous warnings regarding copyright violations, one in 2013 and one in June of this year. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:03, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm sure it didn't help that the external website was just a copy and paste of wikipedia text. I will add if I am using internal information in my future edit summaries. Is there a way for me to add this kind of information to my past edit summaries? And thanks for clarifying the warning, I thought there would have to have been more of a pattern in a short time frame to be blocked from all editing on wikipedia, but I guess not. Will this last violation be removed from my "record"? Thank you. --Olivia4nier (talk) 15:58, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

You can go back and add attribution by making a tiny inconsequential (but useful) edit to the page and saving it with an edit summary that provides attribution. Here is an example. I have already posted on your talk page noting that this was a false positive. Regarding tolerance for copyvio, since adding copyright content is against the copyright policy of this website, a policy with legal implications for both the website and the person who adds it, we don't have any flexibility. Please be more careful in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:02, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyvios

Hi. I was recently led into believing that a COPYVIO programme you and TonyBallioni are working on automatically checks new articles for blatant copyvio in the way that the Coren bot used to. Maziar Heidari, a new page I just came across, seems to be evidence that this is not so. If there is something I'm missing, please let me know. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Kudpung, I come across a fair amount of stuff in the new pages feed that I fix on my own using Earwig. CopyPatrol is my late night stress relief (weird as it sounds), so I don't often use it around the same time I do NPR. From what I can tell as someone who works both, CopyPatrol is generally better at picking up copyright violations introduced after the initial creation of the article. It will pick up things that are brand new creations as well, but I generally have better luck with Earwig on these. Diannaa is certainly more familiar with the program than I am, so I'd be interested to hear her views. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:44, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Another one, TonyBallioni, is Limitless lmc 2008. It was so blatant (99%) that immediately after tagging it I decided to delete it myself. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:34, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kudpung. The bot checks all additions to the wiki that are over a certain size. It checks both new page creations and ongoing edits. I don't know why particular edits or page creations do not get flagged. The documentation at User:EranBot states that it runs eight times per day; if that's still the case perhaps these copyios were detected manually shortly after they took place and prior to the next bot run. The best person to ask about the workings of the tool is User:ערן (Eran), the primary creator and maintainer of the tool. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:13, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Generally the bot scans all edits with size +500 bytes (after removing wikicode) - including new pages. I don't have access to the deleted page to check if it above this certain threshold. However, I checked the history of previous catchs, and it seems that the last suspected new page was Special:Diff/785663495 (2017-06-14) - which seems suspicious as the bot recently (06-14!) changed its input source (not using IRC RC, but rather EventStream). I need to check it more closely, but this seems very suspicious. Eran (talk) 20:52, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [11]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [12]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [13]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Aging (journal) and sockpuppet investigation

Thank you for your work on Aging (journal). Please see [14] for a sockpuppet investigation I have opened regarding recent edits on that page. -Dan Eisenberg (talk) 16:18, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Diannaa. You have new messages at Anand.abhishek73's talk page.
Message added 21:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

You are ruining my day here. Kindly respond and do the needful asap. Anand.abhishek73 (talk) 21:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Respond again please. - Anand.abhishek73 (talk) 22:57, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

LGBT rights in communism

Hello, the information you removed from LGBT rights in communism page was from Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2 - Marxism, per the citation. http://dyneslines.blogspot.ca/2013/02/c10.html had copied and pasted it onto his blog. Could you reinstate my edit? --Plasticaxes (talk) 00:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality is a book published in 1990 and edited by Wayne R. Dynes. dyneslines.blogspot.ca is his blog. Books from 1990 are still under copyright, so I won't be able to restore your edit. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

== Your A10 Speedy ==

Hi, Diannaa - Just curious... are admins unable to delete articles such as in the case of Marian Veevers? I'm thinking maybe DGG, as with me, didn't realize Anna Dean was a duplicate except for the mention of her pen name. There's no valid reason it shouldn't be a redirect, so why are we wasting time at AfD? ^{Atsme📞📧} 17:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

I don't consider he notable under either name. DGG ( talk ) 17:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

I nominated for A10 speedy, and another admin declined, as it is a plausible redirect. Not sure what you expect me to do now; I am not going to delete as A10 under those circumstances. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:15, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I totally missed seeing the decline, but upon review, the admin did suggest a #Redirect, so can any editor do that or is that action frozen until the AfD closes? ^{Atsme📞📧} 20:02, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Redirect is a possible outcome at the AFD, so I think it is best to wait until closure. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:09, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not do on Union Public Service Commission. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. The use or WP:RD1 is not suitable as seen in the redaction done on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Union_Public_Service_Commission&direction=prev&oldid=787408078 version of the page. Multiple good-revisions are redacted with this commit of yours. Use appropriate methods for such cases. Anand.abhishek73 (talk) 19:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

The revision deletion appears to me to abide by the policy, as no non-infringing material was removed, and no attribution of non-infringing contributors was hidden or removed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	For bearing with me while I may have had gone grumpy. Anand.abhishek73 (talk) 23:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Vincent Rue

Thank you for your comments.Wikicotilla (talk) 00:30, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Thubactis

Hi Diannaa

Yes Some statements have been copied, but not completely quote and some statement have been corrected and write properly.

http://www.mfzly.com/en/index-php-en (web page) link, you can add it as the quote — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enaro (talk • contribs) 11:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. This is too much to add as a quotation in a tiny article like this. The material will have to be re-written in your own words please. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:55, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Mass creation of copyvio articles

Alerting of of this situation since you're online and every article Jaxhks has created seems to be a G12 copyvio of the presidents of Davidson College. I tagged seven myself as G12, and am going to spot check non-creation edits now. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Tony, I had to go to work; back now. The remaining edits look to be okay. Thanks for your help. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:54, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

No, thank you for being a good second pair of eyes. I didn't see anything other than the creations, either. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:17, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Man overboard

what ????? i have cited the publication the artacal appeared in year and month as advised to do when i asked on the editor irc channel and used an extract of that,lengthy piece that is over 50 years old ,Yes people can go to the navy archives and read the whole thing and that is to give a flavour of the information in that archive .

As to punctuation "" , ect, Not a collage kid i am an ex member of the service the RNMSW became the RNXS However i am dislexic and have to read thought it dozens of time to correct such errors as i have been doing and you just destroyed all that work ....thanks

All in all this has been a pretty disappointing experience, i see no point in continuing trying to help update wiki as requested in there mission statement.when it come to an historical entry's, as this is.Where very little information survives, you even deleted the Winston Churchill entry that was correctly attributed in HANSARD this over the top approach to this "Alleged" CR infringement" over something printed over 50 years ago is detrimental to wiki`s mission statement, .i used an "extract from what are lengthy piece in the navy news, cited dated and that not good enough, the recruiting posters 0ver 50 years old and PD as per the copywrite rule i used

strangely i was discussing getting the page updated from a stub given the amount of new information added when the message appeared from you i guess --Dixon hill (talk) 19:56, 28 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dixon hill (talk • contribs)

Hi Dixon hill. Since our servers are located in the United States, we are required to follow the copyright law of the United States. Please see the Hirtle chart which can be used to determine the copyright status of the source article. For works first published outside the U.S. between 1923 and 1977, the term of copyright is 95 years after publication date, unless the article was in the public domain in its home country on 1 January 1996 (the URAA date). It's not possible for the article to have been in the public domain as of 1 January 1996, since the copyright law of the UK at the time the article was published in 1955 was life of the author plus 50 years. 1955 + 50 = 2005. The article may have been in the public domain in the UK as of 2005 if the author died that very year (1955), but does not enter the public domain in the US until 95 years after publication. Sorry. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:35, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

The artical was printed in the NAvy news in 1952 {{PD-UKGov}}) the site you had the link to copied the same artical they dont have copywrite as it was in the navy news {{PD-UKGov}}) so not sure what your objection is --Dixon hill (talk) 20:49, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

In that case I can restore it. I will do that right away and add the appropriate attribution. Sorry I did not realize the Navy News was a UK government publication. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:54, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you i appreciate the quick resolution --Dixon hill (talk) 21:05, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

As i mentioned i was on the IRC channel asking if this could be upgraded from a stub given the amount of new information , i was directed to the wiki entry to do that, but i cant make heads nor tales of it (thats my dislexia) would you agree that enough information has been added to remove the stub and if so i think from my understanding an editor has to do it but it does not make clear (to me anyway) what kind of editor one like me or a approved editor ?--Dixon hill (talk) 21:21, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

To be honest I think we have a bot that removes the stub tag from articles over a certain size. This one is no longer a stub, so it's okay for you to remove the stub tag. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:26, 28 June 2017 (UTC)still learning i will get there .can i mention the discription you removed from the flag

Circular Yellow Cable surmounted by Naval Crown and Panel inscribed R N X S Enclosing Mine Exploding in Heraldic Sea against Blue background1954-1962. 

This is actually a important bit ,it relates to the way the flag was official diesined by the navy using heraldic imagery this flag was altered in 1962 for the amalgamation and renaming to rnxs when the service was renamed this design specification proves navy providence ie that they are the same flag with a name changed approved under Royal warrant --Dixon hill (talk) 21:38, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

The caption will be a little long since I reduced the size of the image, but it's ok to re-add it if you think it's important. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:40, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for resizing the image i wanted to but could not figure it out ,i will add it back and see how it looks on the page ,i might just put a section related to the flag in the text for this entry and the RNXS entry that has the unpdated flag and description of its Navy design specs seems like a good compromise ? --Dixon hill (talk) 22:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner; I been busy. A lot of articles have a short subsection on the insignia; for example 1st Infantry Division (United States)#Insignia. Good idea — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:33, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Nazi Germany

You've truly done a lot of work on Nazi Germany.

But do you also enjoy the old-fashioned Germany? [15]

-New account 2 (talk) 22:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Transcending OPAC

If they haven't already been implemented at your library, take a look at Vufind or Encore. -New account 2 (talk) 22:42, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright issue with List of birds of Nunavut

Thanks for adding what you did. But I thought I covered the issue in the edit summary of the Ducks, geese, and waterfowl section, the first edit which inserted text from other pages. Craigthebirder (talk) 22:51, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Craigthebirder. You need to add the attribution every time you copy from one article to another please. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:40, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Category pages?

Last December you deleted several tracking category pages I was setting up. (Such as "M_0".) As near as I understand, this was for reason "C1: Empty category (TW)". Or perhaps it was because I may not have added the proper headers. At any rate, I hope there is no objection to restoring them. These are for tracking various uses of a template ({{M}}), some of which are rather obscure and likely not to be seen for some time. (All the more reason to track them, so we can see when they are used.) If being empty is a potential problem, is there any way to flag the category page to prevent it from being deleted? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 04:59, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

I have no objection to these being re-created. I found Template:Possibly empty category which might be the solution to keeping them from getting deleted when empty. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:38, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't know about that template (there's soooo many of them!); I'll try it out. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:48, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Talk:1.8 Series

permission via OTRS ticket.Dlohcierekim (talk) 19:53, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Moreira Chonguica

I apologise for not doing this correctly but I did do the original post and I am his official representative and publicist so all that was written was in my own words and I have the authority to edit it where I see fit. It was just very outdated and I am attempting to update it. Please can you re-instate what I did because it took a while! Regards, Lesley Wells 165.145.204.209 (talk) 15:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia. There are a couple of problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

The second problem is conflict of interest. Working on 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 already placed some information about conflict of interest and paid editing on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:42, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

User:Johnny Brockman

I noticed you left a notice on User:Johnny Brockman's talk page, regarding 2024 and 2028 Olympic article issues. He also persists in removing or moving the copyvio template on Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics despite being warned to leave it alone. He doesn't seem to think the massive plagiarism is from a number of sources, notably the Los Angeles Times, is any big deal, and has repeatedly removed the template to make edits to the article. He's been referred to the Copyright problems page, but if he's doing anything to remove or otherwise address the plagiarism, it's not being communicated to other editors via the article talk page or edit summaries. I'm put a couple warnings on his talk page, but so far, it's done no good. He'll respond, but he's determined to have his own way. I've just reverted another mass of edits with a template move, and warned him to work with other editors not just do what he wants, but thus far, it hasn't penetrated. I'm dropping this here as a heads up; if he persists, a time-out for disruptive editing might be in order. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 18:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello D. This edit may indicate WP:CIR issues for this editor. MarnetteD|Talk 18:42, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

I've seen a number of similar edits, where he's altered dates from 2024 to either 2028 or the two without any changes to sources. He seems to have taken the position that LA has conceded 2024 to Paris and is now actively seeking 2028, which couldn't be further from the truth. So not only does the disregard for the plagiarism remain an issue, now he's disregarding the date of the bid in sources, and simply changing 2024 to 2028, or adding 2028. I agree with MarnetteD regarding competence issues with this editor, particularly given his long-standing unwillingness to improve his editing. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 19:03, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

As a solution to the template removal at Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, I have started the copyvio clean-up, but after an hour of work I am nowhere near finished. I have to go to the gym now and will complete the cleanup over the next day or two. Most of the copyvio appears to have been added by Mmkjc717. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:58, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

You've undertaken a Herculean labor so far. Once you're done, ping me, and I'll smooth out the writing and get rid of those silly pseudo-PR headings. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 08:21, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, will do! We will may need a lot fewer headings too, as most of the content is copyvio and will be gone. I am trying to save some of the more important bits — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:26, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

@Drmargi: Okay, ready for copy edits and clean-up. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:14, 1 July 2017 (UTC)