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Benjamin Millepied Conflict of Interest

Hello there,

Thank you for reaching out re: my edit's to Benjamin's page. I believe I cited all my sources correctly and the changes I made were correcting inaccurate information. I would like to make some additional changes as well. FOr instance, Benjamin is a US citizen now which is not mentioned on the page. The page said he had two brothers which is not accurate. I do work with a company associated with him but I am not spreading misinformation, just trying to correct a few things. As far as adding copyrighted material, I'm not sure what that could be referring to. Can you please let me know. I didn't upload anything.

Thanks! Ilafatu4 (talk) 20:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

The copyright material prose was copied from http://www.benjaminmillepied.com/. Prose you find online is almost always copyright, and cannot be copied here; it's against the law to do so. All prose must be written in your own words. There's more information about copyrights and how it applies to Wikipedia 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 our copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:51, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Alavi Bohras

Hello Editor,

Thank you for your suggestions. I have send a request to change my username from "TeamAlavi" to "NoorAlavi".

Regarding the copyright issue, I have never copied any matter from other sources, but if any I have written reference or linked to the external source. I simultaneously edit the website www.alavibohra.org. which is my community website and I have been granted permission to do this task by the Spiritual Head. It might be possible that some words or phrases could have unknowingly got repeated here in Wikipedia. As per your opinion the only way is to donate to Wikipedia my copyrighted material. I have no issue regarding this.

--TeamAlavi (talk) 16:20, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi TeamAlavi. The donation has to be formally recorded via the OTRS ticket system. 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) 16:22, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I have followed the due instructions of OTRS and received the copyright email from Wiki. Thanks --NoorAlavi (talk) 04:08, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Did you receive an ID number? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:30, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

mistake on copywrite claims

Hi, I think you made a mistake with your copywrite claims for the diagram I drew for the page Electron paramagnetic resonance. I didn't actually get the diagram from that book but you will find that diagram in a lot of EPR textbooks (another notable one being this one). Please could the diagram be replaced in the article. Kind regards EvilxFish (talk) 19:56, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

? I didn't remove any diagrams, just prose, which a bot discovered was mostly copied from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-92948-3_1. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:12, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry my bad forgive me I am quite tired so missed the fact the diagram is actually still there but the text is missing. I did try and rewrite it in my own words but obviously not well enough, what do you suggest as the information is quite important as without it one cannot gain a complete understanding of the function of the cavity? EvilxFish (talk) 20:37, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. The way to do it is to leave out the less important details and re-write the remainder in your own words. How about

A consequence of resonance is the creation of a standing wave inside the cavity meaning no microwaves are reflected back to the detector. Electromagnetic standing waves have their electric and magnetic field components exactly out of phase. This provides an advantage as the electric field provides nonresonant absorption of the microwaves, which in turn increases the dissipated energy and reduces Q. To achieve the largest signals and hence sensitivity the sample is positioned such that it lies within the magnetic field maximum and the electric field minimum. Because the microwaves are reflected rather than absorbed, the impedance of the cavity is changed, which results in an EPR signal.

References

Sounds good except may I change the last sentence to the following: "When the magnetic field strength is such that an absorption event occurs, the value of Q will be reduced due to the extra energy loss. This results in a change of impedance which serves to stop the cavity from being critically coupled. This means microwaves will now be reflected back to the detector (in the microwave bridge) where an EPR signal is detected." I propose this change as microwaves are absorbed when the magnetic field strength is of the right value and it is this absorption that subsequently leads to the reflection back to the detector where an EPR signal is detected (as it serves to destroy the standing wave in the cavity). EvilxFish (talk) 12:54, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Also do I need to put the reference as I have referenced this text earlier in the section? thanks EvilxFish (talk) 12:56, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

I think your new suggested version is different enough that it is not a copyright violation so it's okay to use it. Regarding the citation, the source is a journal article titled "Basics of Continuous Wave EPR" that appeared in the journal Quantitative EPR so the way I formatted the citation is better (I used cite journal rather than cite book, include the DOI, and include the article title as well as the journal title). There is information as to how to use the same citation multiple times at Help:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once if you don't already know how to do that. Adding: Each paragraph should have at least one citation. Every new content addition should have at least one citation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for helping me sort this out, I will add in the new version and will check out the links you posted. Kind regards EvilxFish (talk) 14:24, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

From Baby Driver Poisoning Victims

From Baby Driver Poisoning Victims

Diana: I am the source. Mother and I were poisoned pre-filming of Baby Driver, on the same tracks Baby Driver is filmed near our home. Neither Local nor national media are reporting this documented event; however, I possess medical records; 911 and Norfolk Southern National Emergency Records may be available as NS Railroad Police is a private law enforcement agency Wikipedia provides a platform to notify the general public and my community of the dangers and disregard of Sony-Tristar for the safety of their employees and the public. The public is welcome to contact me; If you have any further questions, please contact me. PDH (talk) 21:26, 1 July 2017 (UTC). PDH (talk) 21:31, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but personal testimonials are not considered a reliable source for Wikipedia, as the material cannot be verified. We require write-ups in sources such as newspapers, magazines, or books. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:59, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Hello, I have just removed a large chunk of the above article which seems to be a copy-vio of the Dept's. website. I have warned the user, but I presume that edits may need revdel? I'm afraid I have made some subsequent edits to tidy up refs. etc. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 02:15, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Revdel done. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:09, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Eagleash (talk) 11:11, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Possible libel on talk page?

Do the same considerations about libel/defamation that exist for BLPs also exist for their talk pages? I came across this unsourced allegation, and was wondering. 32.218.42.219 (talk) 03:21, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I've removed it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:19, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

The material has now been oversighted as well. Thanks all — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:36, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Entry on VWI (2 July 2017)

Dear Dianaa, I do not understand why the entry is "unsourced" or even "off-topic" as you wrote 13 June. What is the difference between the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA and the VWI which was founded by Wiesenthal himself. What references, quotes, sources does the entry need, so t can be kept - like in all other language varieties of Wikipedia? Would a magazine article on the institute enough?

Sincerely — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruce Jans (talk • contribs) 14:52, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

You added content to Simon Wiesenthal, which is a Good article, where all content is sourced to reliable independent sources such as books, magazines, and reputable websites. Any additions to the Wiesenthal article need to hold to the same high standard for sourcing so as to ensure the article retains its Good Article status. You can identify appropriate sources for Wikipedia editing by reading Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. Regardless of the sourcing issue, my opinion is that since the only link to Wiesenthal is that he was "personally involved in designing the concept" and you don't have a source for that, that the material does not belong in his biography article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:32, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Copying licensed material requires proper attribution

Hi, thank you for your warning. I will be more correct in the future. --Joetaras (talk) 15:16, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Your Not notable album comment concerning Sun Red Sun (Lynch Mob album)

Diannaa,

This was my first real contribution, and I worked rather hard on it. So I have some questions. I noticed your comment on the history for the page. I'm curious why any original musical effort by a talented, respected, and well known musician would be considered "not notable content" by someone. It received very good reviews in many more publications than I listed, and out of the 11 tracks on the album, 7 of them were original and not found on any other of the bands releases. The other 4 tracks were remastered from their Sound Mountain Sessions EP. Given the original and unique content found only on on this album, it makes me wonder what exactly would qualify as "notable content" considering all the other band's albums are on Wikipedia. Note that I have "undone" the erasure of the content and (and the incorrect link to murder by Lynching that replaced it) in hopes that you can see that it is notable content posted by a newbie. (Note I changed it from being an LP to an EP.) Here are some additional links to look at:

[1] [2] [3]

Best regards,

Metalwind — Preceding unsigned comment added by Metalwind (talk • contribs) 17:25, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

The notability guideline for albums can be found at Wikipedia:Notability (music)#Albums. I don't think the album meets the criteria as there's not in-depth coverage in multiple sources. I have marked the page as unreviewed so that another person can assess. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:19, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Ordeal of Queen Emma

Re: source of The Ordeal of Queen Emma - the source I used was from Herbert Reid, 1885, and out of copyright - and I paraphrased Reid's version - I was not aware of The Fall of Orthodox England and did not borrow any material from it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Epinoia (talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but I did not notice the publication year included in your citation. I have restored the material and added attribution, since some of the cotnent is copied from Reid. In the future you can do this yourself when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:15, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Quotations and paraphrasing

Thank you for notifying me here about my failure to adequately paraphrase the quoted text as I don't want to be found in breach of copy-right law in future again. But I see that you reserved part of the text I had quoted from the source which is an indication that that part was adequately paraphrased. Can I ask if you use a particular application to identify those parts that are not adequately paraphrased and hence in breach of copy-right law? If so I'd like to use the app to check my texts before posting them in Wiki articles as well as to check the texts I have quoted from Skocpol in a few other articles. Thank you! --Expectant of Light (talk) 19:54, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello Expectant of Light. The copyright violations were detected by a bot and assessed by me. The main tool I use is https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ but it's not possible to check your edits using this tool until after you save the page. Since we are not allowed to add copyright content to this wiki, not even temporarily for editing, it's not very useful for the purpose you propose to put it to. General suggestions: 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 for more help in writing for Wikipedia without plagiarism or copyvio issues. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:00, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

question

hi, I added [4] and [5] from Internet_Archive to my sandbox (for reference), just wanted to make certain theres no copyright violation, or anything, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:10, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't see any problem with linking to these documents. Just don't copy over any of the prose! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:35, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:09, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Jekaterinburg or Yekaterinburg ? (and Yerusalem) ?

Hello Diannaa ! Hope all is well ! I just came across the Yekaterinburg article. (Where the Romanov Tsar Dynasty met their murderers). It has obviously been spelled "Jekaterinburg" by us earlier, which in my mind at least, is a more clear spelling (also in English). And the pronounce of this city in the Ural mountains begin with a consonant sound followed by a vowel. Just as Jerusalem (or Yerusalem in a few years perhaps) ? Yericho ? Yapan ? Iwo-Yima ? Rio de Yaneiro ? or even possibly Yesse Yames .. (: joke, the last one.

But there are quite a lot cities as well as countries, that through "J -> Y changes" has become difficult, to see what they actually are. Like "Yemen" and "Yugoslavia" and I'm waiting for Swedish Jönköping to become Yönköping here - these are not local names in the English language, like Vienna instead of "Wien" or Cologne instead of "Köln" or Copenhagen instead of "København" etc - but simple "English-ifications" (in writing) of one single letter, which hardly can be of any help for people who are native in English either. Or am I wrong here ? (Yumbo-Yet, yeans, yoystick, New Yersey, Yubelee Line (a London underground line), Yimmy Carter, yellyfish, yazz music etc)- I'm just trying to say , the J-letter is necessary also in the English language, so why

If you possibly know, if these are our (Wikipedia) work - or whether they have formal support in the very best of English dictionaries. Also, and if possible, am I eager to see what your sharp brain believes about this.

*

And by they way, I happened to notice that I (a few years back) thanked you for something by writing approximately "May the sun shine bright on Manitoba" , and I had both before that, as well as later, "twice discovered" you are from Alberta. A huge blunder made by me. And I'm truly sorry for that. I guess I was thinking of The Guess Who, and a the LP-cover of their So Long, Bannatyne record. Now, on a LP vinyl cover is this by far much easier to see (rather than "to find"), but please just have a look at this external page [6]

- and then look at the top of the number plate on the car - it really says "Sunny Manitoba" , doesn't it ? I bought this album in the early 1980's (and still have got it), then something in my brain connected or "computed" wrong. The build up for my horrific error did begin with this "Sunny Manitoba number plate" - and some 30+ years later I briefly recalled this number plate, and initially believed it was fine to write "May the sun shine bright on... Manitoba" - to you, who lives in Alberta. And I am honestly very sorry, of being guilty of this silly attempt, to move you away from your Alberta home (all across Saskatchewan) and even further, to Manitoba. Could you possibly forgive me for this clumsiness ? Boeing720 (talk) 01:18, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Well as you may know I am quite knowledgeable about Nazi Germany topics but only slightly less well known is this: I also know quite a bit about Russian history, especially the Romanov dynasty and the last tsar and his family. I have grown accustomed to seeing it spelled Ekaterinburg because that's the way Massie spells it in his books. The Russian wiki spells it Екатеринбург and according to Russian alphabet Е is pronounced like the y in "yes" so it looks to me like Yekaterinburg is more correct than Jekaterinburg. Be careful not to get caught up in any lame edit wars over this matter!

Regarding Manitoba, the capital city of which has been memorialized in this memorable song by The Weakerthans, I would be surprised if life there is much different or less boring than it is here in Edmonton. So I accept your apology. I would love someday to move to the Bow Valley which is much prettier and still in Alberta. But I have a really nice little house and have always lived in this part of the province so it would be hard to do in some ways — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:21, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks ! And what a great song, thanks again ! It even doesn't matter that I never mentioned Winnipeg specifically. I've been aware of my huge geographical mistake for a rather long time. But before I really could apologize, did I feel a certain need to know how this "Manitoba and sunshine" idea ever came in to my mind. It went very fast at the time. But then time just passed on. Until I suddenly, as I was packing things down, in order to prepare for a move, had I a look at the mentioned LP-Cover. And then suddenly the coin fell down.

Just for sake of it, noting else, did I follow our (poorly sourced) Ru-alphabet article, which gave me "Екатеринбург" = "Yekatyereoorg" ):

And isn't the English "J" pronounced as English consonant "Y" anyway ? So I just thought, if possible, could you perhaps find some English litterature, older maps or globes even (in English), just to see the English original spelling before the Communists ? (That's only if such objects are very easy for you to find, of course.) But I gather, if this city had not been renamed Sverdlovsk (between 1920's to 1990's, I suppose), that it still would be spelled "Jekaterineburg" or quite possibly "Ekaterineburg".

Edward (later Duke of Windsor), Nicholas II, Alexei, and Prince George at Osborne House, 1909

Given what you told me about the Romanovs, might I assume that you already also know that the Tsar-Mother Princess Dagmar survived, and managed to escape to her birth country, Denmark ? For some 70 years she was buried in the Roskilde Cathedral (which our article fails to mention, but I intend to make an effort there), until a re-burial was made for about 10 years ago or so. It was a somewhat notable event in Scandinavia then, as well as in Russia, I should think. She is now resting by Alexander III's side at St Petersburg somewhere. By the way, about World War One related matters, I believe that King George V, Tsar Nicholai II and Emperor Wilhelm II all were cousins - what a troublesome family they must have been ! Luckily are Trump and Putin lacking all what so ever family ties, I hope ! (: Cheers! Boeing720 (talk) 00:14, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

(*Diannaa knows all*) Maria Feodorovna's sister was Alexandra of Denmark who was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and mother of King George V. George and Nicholas were almost identical in appearance. Kaiser William was first cousin of Nicholas's wife Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (Nicky, George, William, and Alix were all grandchildren of Queen Victoria). "Y" and "J" are not pronounced the same in English, not unless one has a Swedish accent!! I am not kidding — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:14, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Nice picture you found ! And I do most certainly not doubt you ! Not the least, however it's sometimes not possible to see the woods, due to all the trees, someone has said - and even the sun has its spots. Are you not kidding about any "J/Y" ? I mean obviously is "Y" in English used both as a vowel and as a consonant. For instance in "you" as a consonant, but in "why" a clear vowel, correct ? So from now on, I disregard "Y as vowel". But do you then say that for instance "j" in "jet" differs from "y" in "yet" ? And that it's always a very simple matter to hear in just one word (outside any context)? In some other cases have I got "a feeling" that it possibly sooner is depending of how the vowel that follows a "j" or "consonant -y" is pronounced ? Solely "j" vs "y" and "from the Shetlands to Hawaii" ? Always simple and clear ? A brutal example (indeed brutal) - "Jesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.." - wouldn't Beatles have sounded the same, even if the spelling was like that ? :)Boeing720 (talk) 19:22, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Federation of Small Business

Hi,

You recently corrected some of my edits on this article and have locked out access to my last revision.

I can confirm this is/was a "Work in Progress" and i am working to re-write the offending bits and cite further sources. It just barrel rolled out in to a larger and larger job and every time i find the right bit to cite two more things that needed including where there.

Would you please provide access to my last edits so i can address the issues and expand it further.

thanks adam

Sorry but we can't host copyright material on this wiki, even temporarily for editing. I can send it to you by email if you like. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:16, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

not at my desk now, but yes please as per profile email. Adam — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.148.84.210 (talk) 16:06, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:00, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Edit change

Hello Diannaa,

I work at the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and I have permission to update an old and inaccurate article that already exists in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Security_and_Defence_College). However, I have edited the old article twice, and every time it is deleted because of copyright issues. I also experience the same problem with the logo picture of the college. Could you perhaps point me in a good direction for legitimizing our edits? Thank you. Katchr (talk) 08:16, 4 July 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. A second problem: While we welcome most contributions to the encyclopedia, people who work for an organisation are discouraged from editing the article about that organisation. Notable people are asked not to edit their own articles or articles where they may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject. I have placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:18, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Help needed

User:Anandmoorti is removing sourced content from wikipedia to hide the disgusting views about women and their victimisation by rape of his political boss. Please reinstate the text and ban the shill. 43.239.208.130 (talk) 08:32, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I am not a content adjudicator. Consider posting WP:3RRNB or discussing the removal on the article talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:27, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Mi general, Augusto Pinochet

It's the complete lyrics with an English translation. It says ""Mi general, Augusto Pinochet"" is a Chilean Dictatorship song honoring Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator from 17 December 1974 to 11 March 1990. The lyric and music writers are unknown." Although I suspect it will be deleted for lack of notability, it seems to me it's a copyright violation as we have no evidence otherwise. Thoughts? Doug Weller talk 16:29, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Nominated as G12 by Bishonen; I concur and have deleted. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:03, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Belated thanks. Doug Weller talk 14:22, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

RD1

Do you mind using WP:RD1 to the undone edits on Kim Foxx, where copyrighted material was added? Thanks. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:44, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:47, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

unnecessary removal of flora and fauna sections from Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park

I will argue that the removal of the flora and fauna sections from Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park was unnecessary. Most of the information was data, and the reiteration of facts are not subject to copyright in Canada. You might note that the species names matched links in wikipedia and not those of ParksBC.

While wikipedia must be vigilant in protecting copyright, I respectfully submit that wikipedia must continue to present facts. Please restore the removed sections.

Extemporalist (talk)

The content was copied from http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/myra/nat_cul.html#wildlife and http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/planning/mgmtplns/myra_bellevue/myra_bellevue_mds_sept_2005.pdf. The first one is marked as "Copyright © 2017, Province of British Columbia. All rights reserved". The second one does not have a copyright notice, but it doesn't have to, because under current copyright law, literary works are subject to copyright whether they are tagged as such or not. No registration is required, and no copyright notice is required. So please always assume that all material you find online is copyright. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:31, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

wiki mixmaster

Thanks for your welcome message. For me, Wiki is not intuitive. I am struggling to figure out how to add a photo to my sandbox page and how to ask for approval to post it all to the greater community. Have you done a tutorial page like the "...for Dummies" books I used to read? BrotherBob49 (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Wikipedia:Picture tutorial may help. Please make sure the image is not a violation of copyright before posting.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:37, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Canada govt copyright

Are govt works of Canada in PD like in the US? According to this it appears they are NC-ND but I'm not sure. The reason I ask is Webb National Wildlife Area which is copy pasted from here. I've left the user a final warning as this has been going on for long now. Just want to know if this should be deleted or just add in-page attribution like we would do when we copy from US govt sites. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 14:06, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Government works in Canada are NOT public domain; they are copyright or available only for non-commercial use, which is not a compatible license. There is probably enough copyvio for G12 deletion but the article could be rescued if you have the time to re-write. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:11, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

It is unfair that I was not given time to respond or rewrite the article, especially since it was not a pure copy-paste as accused. I spent so much time in creating it. At this rate, Wikipedia will probably be left with sysops and spammers and no one in between. coffeecup89 (talk) 18:01, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry you feel that way. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:31, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Please Read Section 3.3 Regarding Self-Source

	Please Read Section 3.3 Regarding Self-Source
	To Wikipedia Editors: My posts are per Section 3.3: Posting as Self-Source; please read Section 3.3 prior to editing or deletion; please come to understand your own rules. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.47.209.62 (talk) 00:59, PDH (talk) 01:08, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but your addition does not meet the criteria laid out at Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources#Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves, because it adds to the article information about third parties (such as other people, organizations, or other entities). Surely if there was a chemical leak near a movie set that is notable enough to include in the article about the movie Baby Driver, there would be some reportage in newspapers, magazines, or online. That's the kind of sourcing that would be needed. Also, the incident would have to have been serious enough to have an impact on the filming of the movie before it would be included. Otherwise why would we include it? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:20, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Amtrak Police Wikipedia Page Content

Hello Diannaa, I am currently working as an intern for the Amtrak Police Department and have been asked by my supervisors to post specific content on our Wikipedia page directly from our department website, which we have the copyright rights to. I was wondering if there was a specific way to post large portions of that content directly and cite it properly without it being removed. Any insight that you may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Mryseroo (talk) 13:32, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on 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. 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 about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:38, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Belu-Simion Fainaru

Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page http://museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/?artist=Fainaru%2C+Belu+Simion&list=F. 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) 20:12, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Please see text below. The project and the ticket verifying permission are noted. I am not sure how to use the template noted here. I would appreciate your reinstating the content. Drkup(IMJ) (talk) 04:21, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I have cleared up the issue with Permissions - Wikimedia Commons [permissions-commons@wikimedia.org] and have Ticket#2012051310002101 which states "Texts permissions". Can you please help me reinstate all the texts? Thank you. Drkup(IMJ) (talk) 05:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! The texts have been reinstated and all permission documented in the existing articles. Since the permission is liberal to include all the artist descriptions in that list, I have created a simple template that can be used to acknowledge the authorization for future content at Wikipedia:GLAM/IMJ OTRS. Directions are on that page. This template is pretty important to avoid the material being removed for copyright problems by people who do not know that permission has been verified and to make sure that the rights of the museum are honored. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:50, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Please reinstate based on above - see Wikipedia:GLAM/IMJ OTRS Drkup(IMJ) (talk) 13:46, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Drkup(IMJ). I have found a template created by Moonriddengirl back in 2012 that you can use in the future for additions from the IMJ website. The template is located at Wikipedia:GLAM/IMJ OTRS, and to use it, place the code

{{Wikipedia:GLAM/IMJ OTRS}}

on the talk page of the article at the time the material is added. It would be a good idea to make a note in your edit summary at the time you add the content, something along the line of "Adding content from the IMJ website. This content has been released under a compatible license. Please see the talk page". In addition, a note should be made in the reference section of the article to alert reusers that GFDL reuse is not permitted. {{CCBYSASource}} may be used or it may be replaced by any handwritten notice that includes the license restriction and the source, for attribution. I have done so for the above article and reinstated the content I removed the other day. You might consider bookmarking that article as an example of how to do it in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:16, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Edo Segal

Edo Segal Hi Dianaa, thanks for checking out my edits. I think the copyright flag was when I was quoting some stats on telepods? I'll rework that. It seems like a lot more content was deleted than was related to the copyright. Can we get it back and only rework/delete the phrases in question? Thank you! HeatherRBI (talk) 22:26, 7 July 2017 (UTC)HeatherRBI

Hi HeatherRBI. Some of the copyright violations that I removed were present right from the article creation back in October 2016. Sorry but I won't be able to re-add it. A lot of the material I removed was not copyvio, but it wasn't about Edo Segal either - it was advert-like material about various companies and products. A biography is not the place for that kind of material. We don't particularly want product listings in articles about companies, and they're definitely not wanted in articles about people. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:20, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

What does this mean "Diannaa marked revision 789545001 of page Basic..." ?

Hi D, here's what I found on an article I was creating: 11:39, 8 July 2017 Diannaa (talk | contribs) marked revision 789545001 of page Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation patrolled What does that mean marked revision? Sincerely from Brussels,--SvenAERTS (talk) 14:13, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

New pages are patrolled by experienced users to check and make sure they are suitable for inclusion. This particular article was deleted, as it was a copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:15, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi D, as per wikipedia instructions, I've moved it as a personal page to start an article and invite others to improve it under my account. I re-wrote the whole article and removed titles I copy/pasted from the original article. But now I can't find the article under my page anymore either. Something or someone seems to keep deleting it. Can you help / have a look what's still bothering? Thy --SvenAERTS (talk) 11:33, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Your drafts keep getting deleted because all the material is copied from elsewhere online, in violation of the copyright policy of this website and copyright law. Everything you add here needs to be written in your own words. That includes in sandboxes and drafts. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:42, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Draft:College of Law and Business

Dear Diannaa, Apologies. I'm an amateur editor who likes to help Wikipedia wherever I can, but not always familiar with all of the regulations. The page is at its draft phase, moreover, I also added the under construction box, in order to make sure it was clear that there is more work to be done. Therefore I would have appreciate if you would have left me a comment in the page talk, rather than delete the relevant content. As for this specific case, I do have the full automatized permission to use the few sentences I used, in a matter of fact I'm the one who wrote some of them in the college website. Having said that, I will leave those parts out for now, as I believe they are not "a must". I do have one small request, if you facing further problems with the page, please write to me on the talk page and I'll either fix it on the page itself or bring the requested permissions. I hope you'll understand. Cheers, Roei

Sorry but we can't host copyright content on Wikipedia, not even in sandboxes or drafts, not even temporarily for editing. Please do your amendments before you save the page, or use an external editor. If you work for the college and are editing on their behalf, you have a 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 about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:08, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Kobach edits

Dear Diannaa. You indicated that I had come too close to a copy vio in my edits to the Kris Kobach article. I have no record of the edits I made. Another editor made an inappropriate change to a small piece of the article, which was reverted by a second editor. I'm not sure why you reverted, though I had added some quotes in the article, some from a single extensive Anchorage Daily News (Now the Alaska Dispatch News) article. I can't change quotes of course, though some of the quotes were from an original article on the Wichita Eagle website, which the ADN writer, Richard Mauer, took for his own very comprehensive article. One was a quote by an Arthur K. Brewer, if memory serves, about raking leaves. Both the ADN and the WE were McLatchy papers at the time, but the ADN was sold a few years ago. So I want to accommodate any changes I need to make, but I spent about four or five hours on researching and writing the changes, and rewrote the non-quotes extensively. I can redo that to change my edited text to distance it further than the ADN source, rather than the quotes, but since I can't retrieve my original edits, I'd have to repeat all that research and writing which would be a substantial task. If you could simply post the material you deleted to my Talk page, that would facilitate the rapid modification and restoration of any possible copyvio material and I'll delete all of it from my talk page to transfer it to a personal document the moment I see it restored.

Lastly, my presumption has always been that clearly stated quotes from a source, made by the subject of the article or others regarding some event or issue, can be used on Wikipedia, since they're not copyrighted by the media source, but are simply the reporter(s) repeating the spoken or written words of those quoted. I recall that you reverted some quotes a couple of years ago that I'd put into an article about an individual being prosecuted in Mississippi, where different reporters for different media who were present in the courtroom quoted the defendant(s) or prosecution or judge. They'd all independently quoted exactly the same statements, but I'd picked them up from their own separate reporting of the hearing. My presumption at the time is that because each of them had all repeated the same quotes, adding different text in their articles, that some sort of a bot that identified possible copyvios did not distinguish between what the different writers had created and what they had reported, word-for-word. They were independently quoting the same speaker. I hope you can enlighten me. Of the other two editors whose edits were stricken from the Kobach article by you, the first had mangled a template, which he or she did frequently, it appeared, and I think the second had simply restored the original correct text, so the status quo ante was preserved by the second editor and that didn't change anything that wasn't present before the 11 edits you removed. I'll look forward to receiving your response. Thanks. Activist (talk) 13:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello Activist. I did notice that some of the material was quotations, which are perfectly okay to use in small amounts. But careful checking revealed that this was not the only problem with your addition. Most of the material you added was copied unaltered or with very little change from the source article at the Alaska Dispatch News. 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. Your edit presents the same material in the same order, using practically identical wording. That's a copyrighy violation. I can send the removed material to you via email (you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first), but I won't be able to re-add it to this wiki, not even temporarily for editing. General advice: 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) 13:34, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your detailed response. I had no idea that the retaining the order of a a series of edits could present a problem. I'll review the policy you sent for guidance with this issue and future edits. I'm not sure how to do Wikipedia email. Can you tell me how I might accomplish that? Activist (talk) 14:46, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I've printed out the Purdue material and some of the Colorado State material and I'll read those and see what other parts I need to review. I'll also go through the Wikipedia tutorial on it. Thanks again. Activist (talk) 15:03, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I was able to print out the bot version and was actually surprised. I'm busted! Without realizing it, I had taken many phrases within about eight or nine sentences in his five page article and incorporated them into my edits. It wasn't at all direct quotes that generated the legitimate bot report, as I'd surmised. I should have been considerably more careful. Also, just seeing what the bot generated was very educational, in terms of how to avoid such problems in the future. Some of the bot alerts were very on point, others not so much. For instance, paragraph four of the story had: "Treadwell says he doesn't support the voter ID bill, but Kobach says Treadwell was instrumental in getting him involved in promoting the Alaska legislation." So those five words were enough to produce the alert on that sentence/paragraph. Thanks for the "learning experience." I'm sure this will be very helpful for my future editing as well as the present task. Thanks also for your patience. Activist (talk) 16:08, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

To activate your Wikipedia email, go to Preferences→User profile and select the box "Enable email from other users". Make sure you use Gmail or another good email service that does not reveal your IP address to the recipient, and don't use an email account that reveals your real name in the email account name. Savvy users will create a new email account specifically for Wikipedia tasks so they can abandon it and create a new one if someone unscrupulous starts harassing them via email or other problems like that occur. Having an email account attached to your Wikipedia account also allows you a way to regain control of your account should you forget your Wiki password. There's an information page at Wikipedia:Emailing users. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:35, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry. Family duties called. Okay. I've set up an anonymous gmail account with which to get mail from or send to other editors. Do you just go to my account, to write to me, or do I supply you with the new email address? Thanks for the assistance. Activist (talk) 21:50, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Now that you've activated email, there is a link in the menu on the left that says "email this user" which means I can email you without you having to reveal the email address on-wiki. I am sending you a copy of the removed material now. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:23, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

VSK-94?

Why did you remove my edit? It took me a while to find "Reliable" information? You just think it's okay to disregard people's efforts?

I am new here? To be honest I am not going to bother editing anything again.

P.S I did have permission just didn't know where to apply it. MaejorRaskoln (talk) 14:58, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

The material I removed was identical to that found at http://gunrf.ru/rg_spesial_vsk-94_eng.html and was therefore a copyright violation. 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) 18:10, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Congressional Research Service reports

I notice that a recent edit in Mohammed VI of Morocco contains a passage which can be found here. According to our article Congressional Research Service reports, the contents are generally public domain (subject to a note about occasional inclusion of copyrighted sources which should be credited). I didn't see any internal citations for the relevant portion, so I think it's acceptable to treated as public domain. Of course, it ought to be properly cited. I haven't worked with the sources before so I thought I'd run it by you first.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:01, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

I agree, as a branch of the US Govt, the works of the Congressional Research Service are PD. We can include properly quotations from their documents. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:32, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Confused about redaction

My edit on the article Chuck Missler was redacted. I'm confused by this because I didn't do anything controversial. Can you explain it? Niteshift36 (talk) 15:53, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

The reason your edit was hidden is because of the copyright violation added a few edits earlier by an IP. In order to remove the copyvio completely from the page history, all edits from the time of the addition to the time of its removal have to be hidden. Your edit was not reverted, only hidden. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:30, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Edit on Optical Coherence Tomography

Hello Diannaa,

Is it possible to know what is the copyright infringment on my section of Optical Coherence Tomography  ? Because I made the drawing and the text mysef.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to tell the precise reason to the users you correct, to avoid frustations to get one's work removed.

Thank you for your work for wikipedia though — Preceding unsigned comment added by BP-Aegirsson (talk • contribs) 18:52, 11 July 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 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) 19:37, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

ok Diannaa, but I think you have to be more cautious. The drawing had no problem, and only around 50% of the text had similarities, but you did removed the whole thing anyway. You should know that at least in scientific research, we copy a lot some expresssions from other articles to publish, that's why you can find lots of time the same pieces of sentence in different documents. So even unconciously one is able to copy a source. Anyway I wrote a new one and tried this time to say it with different words. It takes time to do again the references ( I had no copy), isn't it possible to initiate a time-limited discussion with the writer to allow him to change the problematic part before deleting his work ? Like a 3 days ultimatum or something. BP — Preceding unsigned comment added by BP-Aegirsson (talk • contribs) 15:06, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay - I did reply but somehow added my response in the wrong section. Here's what I said: 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 or allowing several days for each person to undertake a re-write is not practical. I am already spending four to six hours a day on this, and the recordkeeping involved in tracking the hundreds of open cases would double or triple that, and my health would suffer. The policy does allow for the immediate removal of copyright violations, so that's what I typically do. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:04, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Te Puoho-o-te-rangi

Hello, thanks for your comment about this page. Skimming your talk page, you seem to be an expert on copyright! So would very much value your advice on how I could construct a reasonable Wikipedia article from the sources that I used.

Cheers

James Somej (talk) 23:51, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Fant4stic

You said that I copied and pasted stuff on the Fant4stic section in worse movies of all time. All I ask is why wasn't it even on the list in the first place. DanteHicks (talk) 01:50, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

All I ask is that you obey copyright law and the attribution clause of our CC-by-SA license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:53, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

About Sholakia Eidgah Maidan

Hello,Diannaa. Thanks for reviewing the page, Sholakia Eidgah Maidan and merge it into Sholakia. but Sholakia is a small town, while the Sholakia Eidgah Maidan is a certain Eid Progression Field at Sholakia.so they need two different pages. As I copied the information from Sholakia, I used some more verified sources & information in the page. so I think they should be kept into 2 pages.--এম আবু সাঈদ (talk) 03:17, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Almost all of the new article - 90 percent of it - was copied from the Sholakia page. That's why I think the few sentences of new material could just be added to the article about the town. You are free to revert my edit if you disagree. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:11, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Bayan Shirey

Hi. The author gave me his book and asked to place an article on Bayan Shirey. But he don't inform me that there is an information at a site. My English is not good, so I scanned the page of his book for Wikipedia. Thanks--Melikov Memmed (talk) 05:53, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

If someone else asked you to edit Wikipedia on their behalf, you may have a conflict of interest. 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 user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:17, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Who ask me to edit Wikipedia on their behalf? Article is about Bayan Shirey? It is a grape variety, grown by the method of national selection. Only now and from you I knew that in Wikipedia may be paid editors. Who paid them? Our scientists are very poor men they can ask but not to pay. I can pay for anybody but nobody for me. --Melikov Memmed (talk) 12:32, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

You said that the author of a book asked you to create this article. If he did not pay you, it's unlikely you have a conflict of interest. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:36, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for the notice, Diannaa. I was unaware that text from Wikipedia articles themselves need to be attributed when moved to another article. I will try to add such a notice in the edit summary if I use such copying the future. --3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 10:48, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Mail

Hello, Diannaa. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:12, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Jules Dervaes

Diannaa, Sorry about the copyright issues on the Jules Derives page. When it comes to biographical background facts like where someone lived, went to school or what jobs they did, it's a bit tricky to re-word that kind of stuff without making it sound overly forced or flowery. If figured (wrongly) since the info came from his CV that it would ok. Maybe I put too much b/g stuff into it? Any pointers you can offer on this one would be great.Thanks –Creativewill (talk) 12:53, 12 July 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. You can see there was a lot more overlap than simply the names of places or schools or a list of employers or university degrees. General advice: 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) 13:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Just submitted a new version. Hopefully it passes muster. –Creativewill (talk) 18:47, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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 or allowing several days for each person to undertake a re-write is not practical. I am already spending four to six hours a day on this, and the recordkeeping involved in tracking the hundreds of open cases would double or triple that, and my health would suffer. The policy does allow for the immediate removal of copyright violations, so that's what I typically do. The the new biography material is okay from a copyright point of view. However the copyvio tool detects a pretty huge copyvio from http://www.denverurbanhomesteading.org/ which was added by an IP back in 2015. I am removing that now. This is unrelated to your new edit. Intervening diffs will be revision deleted from the time of that addition to its removal, so some of the edit history will no longer be visible to you unfortunately. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:01, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Tomotherapy

Hi

All my recent edits (static beam tomotherapy) were my own work and referenced throughout.

Please add back in.

Matthew Mmsquires (talk) 13:29, 12 July 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. 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) 13:31, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Proposed image deletion

You deleted File:TcshAndShScreenCapture.png because it had the Apple UI controls at the top and bottom. After I cropped the image and reposted it as File:TcshAndShScreenCaptureCropped.png, you kindly reviewed it [7] and decided it was acceptable. It's been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2017 July 12#File:TcshAndShScreenCaptureCropped.png; the actual discussion is at c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Tcsh ejectutándose en escritorio Mac OSX.png. Perhaps you might review the arguments and consider if you still have the same or different opinion. I suppose I could blur out the buttons and the sliders and repost again but is that really necessary? Msnicki (talk) 17:46, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Cinema of the United States

Live action in films and cross over. You remove an edit on live action and note on contemporary cinema for seeming to be "off-topic," and it's "unattributed copying." The Times They Are A Changin' 2602:304:CFF8:5A30:F9B3:1686:D787:31D0 (talk) 00:11, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Please check these

Hello D. I found this person adding spam links. Aren't they also copyvios? As ever thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 05:22, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello again. Since this person continued to add links after my warning I started this thread [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Spamming. I didn't know when you would gt back here so I wanted to let you know where things stood before I went offline. MarnetteD|Talk 05:32, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi one more time D. This IP 36.72.152.50 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has started adding the same kind of links. I did start this thread Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Are these copyvios.3F to try and get more eyes on the potential problems with having these links in the edit history of various articles. I know you are busy and that is increased by so many of us asking to look at potential copyvios. If my worries are unfounded that would be good to know. I hope that you have a pleasant weekend. MarnetteD|Talk 23:16, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi MarnetteD. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I'm not seeing anything in the revision deletion policy that says we are supposed to rev-del these diffs. An edit filter sounds like a good idea — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:42, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Adding: Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking to copyrighted works does say that knowingly linking to sites that violate copyright puts us in a bad position legally, but the revision deletion policy does not at present cover this application. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:47, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for this info D. I was just worried that this piracy (and the fact that people could access the links through the edit history) of the films might put WikiP in some jeopardy with the studios that own the films. Your info notes this - is gap a good word? - in current policies. I know that, when new IPs pop up doing the same edits, I can just report the spamming to AIV as I have done in the past. I do appreciate you letting me know about this. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 01:06, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Message from Lena

Hi! thank you for notifying me as well and leaving the hint on my talk page! I read through the links and learned a lot and now did a better job on the paraphrasing :) Lena08041993 (talk) 16:13, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for WNET copyright correction

I've rewritten the section and the relevant sourcing. Thanks! Limelightangel  —Preceding undated comment added 10:05, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

The new version looks okay from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:21, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Where's that button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion"?

Hi D, you left me a message "you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion", but I don't see that button. I moved the original article I thought I could start directly in the wikipedia to a page under my personal account as per wikipedia rules, but I can't find it anymore. Thx --SvenAERTS (talk) 11:42, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

The page has already been deleted, because it was a copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:43, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

St. James Cathedral (Chicago)

This article is a hodgepodge of copyvio within copyvio; [8] and other subpages on the website are the source. I didn't realize the magnitude until I got back into the article's history just now; unfortunately, I've just been called away on an urgent task and won't have the time in the next several hours to sort it out further. I wanted to let you know about the issue in the interim. Thanks as ever! Have a good weekend - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:07, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Copyvio content was added back in November 2014. Thank you for your interest in helping with copyvio cleanup. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:09, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of my Sandbox - help

Undoubtably there are things I don't understand about Wikipedia. According to my Sandbox page you deleted it on April 17.

I wasn't aware that other people had access to my sandbox page, much less the ability to delete things there. Obviously I am not understanding something.

Seeing as you are the person in the log, I was hoping you could educate me. Thanks!

Here is the message I am talking about:

23:18, 21 April 2017 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted page User:ZeroXero/sandbox (G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page (TW))

ZeroXero (talk) 17:21, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi ZeroXero. The sandbox was a redirect to a draft, Draft:NACRA, which was deleted because it had not been edited for more than six months. Please let me know if you want the draft restored, or if you want to create a new sandbox. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:02, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio on Pakistan Railways

Hello. This edit added material copied from http://www.pakrail.com/aboutus.php , so could you please hide it? - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 22:33, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for the report, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:40, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry and thanks

Sorry for the trouble and thx for the reminder on moving pages. I did read about but forgot. Karel Adriaan (talk) 10:13, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Hutchings Homestead

The words that were used were referenced and cited! You only knew that they were "copied" (and I changed some of the words) because I cited the source! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barneygumble (talk • contribs) 13:51, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

That's not true. 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) 13:58, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution 2

I am sorry but i don't understand what i have to do. — User:A.lanzetta 14:20, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

@A.lanzetta: When you copy from one Wikipedia article to another, you have to say in your edit summary what the source article was. For example, if you find some prose in Watkins Glen International that you want to add to your new article 2017 I Love New York 355 at The Glen, you need to add an edit summary that says "Attribution: content in this section was copied from Watkins Glen International on July 14, 2017. Please see the history of that page for full attribution." That lets future readers and editors know that you copied from that page rather than wrote the material yourself. Doing these special edit summaries is required by the terms of our CC-by-SA license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:26, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi again D. I added the template for this situation to the talk page here Talk:2017 I Love New York 355 at The Glen. I am wondering if there is a place - maybe an FAQ - where examples of the edit summary and template could be displayed. You get questions like this all the time and you could direct editors there in your answer. Just a thought. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. MarnetteD|Talk 18:43, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

It's all covered in WP:Copying within Wikipedia, and it's illustrated on {{Uw-copying}}, which this particular user received on July 6. Don't worry about the repetition; I have the shorter snippets in a sandbox for quick copy-pasta and some of the bigger pieces are stored at User:Diannaa/Copyright, so that I don't have to write them up fresh each time. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:01, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good. I finally remembered to put them in my sandbox after having to search for articles where they had been used before. Of course I should have done that in the first place :-) It's a bit like "forever stamps" - an idea that should have been done decades ago - would have saved us buying those 2 and 3 cent stamps every time the price went up. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 19:49, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Could you have a look

I removed this content in a GA review. It used quotes, but the words in the sentence leading up to the quotations were copied verbatim from the source as well. I haven't come across a case like this before, and didn't want to place the RD1 template unless necessary. Thanks as always for the consult. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:07, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done I think it's enough to warrant revision-deletion . Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:14, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio on Vladimir the Great

Hello again. The (utterly unencyclopaedic) text added with these edits was copied from https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vladimir-volkoff/vladimir-the-russian-viking/ , so would you please hide it? It was also a misleading edit, BTW, because it's not what the book actually says, as claimed in the edit, but an "interpretation" of what the book says, copied verbatim from the review... - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 21:13, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thankks for reporting, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:03, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

2024 Summer Olympics down the Memory Hole.

Care to explain why over 2 years of this page's revision history apparently has been dumped down the memory hole? It seems like this is an abuse of the Revision Deletion tool surely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:30BC:BC00:F5E4:D974:A167:E5C8 (talk) 19:01, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Revision deletion was done to remove from the page history a copyright violation added at 16:55, September 17, 2015. The revisions containing the copyright violation were hidden from view under under criterion RD1 of the revision deletion policy. The reason there's so many revisions hidden is because in order to completely remove the copyright content from view, all intervening diffs have to be hidden, from the point where the copyright material was added to the point where it was removed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:13, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

According to this: "Blatant copyright violations that can be redacted without removing attribution to non-infringing contributors. If redacting a revision would remove any contributor's attribution, this criterion cannot be used. Best practices for copyrighted text removal can be found at WP:Copyright problems and should take precedence over this criterion." I hope you understand that it's incredibly hard to believe that this does not also violate the second and later sentences of this rule. And that all info and revisions on this page were solely copyrighted material? And censoring for over 2 years? This is, incredibly hard to believe. 2602:306:30BC:BC00:F5E4:D974:A167:E5C8 (talk) 19:19, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

The attribution is still present, but is only visible to administrators. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:26, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Seems like there is a pattern of reckless deletion of content by this editor. Muzzleflash (talk) 20:56, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Yiwu International Trade City

The pictures you removed were taken by me, uploaded to Wikimedia commons, and released under public domain. Why were these images removed? Muzzleflash (talk) 20:52, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but I didn't remove any images. I removed some copyright prose copied from http://www.yiwu-market-guide.com/yiwu-market-map.html. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:02, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Marci Geller

I am confused as to why a list of accolades was removed from my revision. The artist won those accolades, so again I do not understand why that is a copyright violation. 375mon (talk) 12:27, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

? I didn't remove the awards. In fact the content is still present in the article. Marci Geller#Awards. I removed some copyvio prose. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:35, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Golden Urn

Hi, I think the material from the Dalai Lama article balanced the single sided perspective that is the present state of article. At present, impression after reading the two articles is diametrically opposite. I had to actually go through the Dalai Lama article for that. That is the reason I selected and posted the relevant content from there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.198.232.109 (talk) 13:18, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't think it's a good idea to drop in all this content from Dalai Lama without any context or any explanation of how it relates to the article Golden Urn. None of the content you added even mentions the Golden Urn — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:28, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Spens Clause

Thank you for reviewing my draft page. I must say that I am finding the creation of this page a frustrating process.

I think (but am not sure) that the changes you have made to this page mean that you now believe the page is acceptable. Is this correct? Or do I need to make further changes? Do I need to do something else or am I waiting for something to happen?

I appreciate your help. Blitzer99 (talk) 21:12, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but I did not assess the article for inclusion into the encyclopedia. You will have to wait for a reviewer to do that. What I did was remove some copyright violations. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:14, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Message from Jim

What about instead wholesale wiping out DAYS of my work (and then copy-pasting a generic message of your own), you actually take the time to look at the very few and limited copyright infringements I may have made, and work to correct them accordingly? I will no longer be contributing to Wikipedia. Jimsmith1978 (talk) 23:15, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jimsmith1978: Sorry you are upset. The only thing I removed was a paragraph you copied from http://www.deseretnews.com/article/655491/Nominee-elected-in-coin-toss-after-tie-in-Florida-primary.html at 09:33, July 16, 2017‎. The rest of your edits are still intact. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:51, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Editor with copyright issues and possible linkspam

Hi Diannaa, I trust you're well. I've come across Lorijometz, who has done nothing but copy and paste material from mgrush.com into articles on management and leadership subjects. I have gone through and undone all the copyright-infringing edits. Do you think this is sufficient grounds for a block, on account of both the copyright concerns and the possible promotionalism at play? Thank you, /wiae /tlk 23:15, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Wiae. I will make it clear to them that this is their only warning and will monitor their contribs. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:54, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! /wiae /tlk 01:49, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Johann Schreck

Hi Diannaa, thanks for your guidance on this article. I've rewritten it on the temporary talk page as you suggested, and hope that this addressed the copyright concerns you raised. Mccapra (talk) 09:31, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Mccapra. There's still quite a bit of overlap. Please have a look at this copyvio report and do some more amendments. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:09, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

ok thanks will do.Mccapra (talk) 03:36, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diana it was very useful to be able to review with the copyvio detector. After my recent edits the only things it is picking up are proper names. It still shows 49.5% but the material it is picking up is the old version under the template (which the instructions say not to delete). I believe if you strike the old text out, what remains will be clean. All the best Mccapra (talk) 18:36, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but it's not there yet. What you need to do is compare the temporary page Talk:Johann Schreck/Temp with the source page archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates/biography.html?-table=archimedes_authors&author=Schreck,%20Johann%20Terrenz&-find. If you do that like I did here, you will see there's some phrasing beyond place names and proper names (what's in the actual article is not included in the comparison, as the detector only looks at one page at a time. The article proper shows an overlap of 68.1%). Please espcially have a look at the paragraph that starts "In 1614, during his theological studies in Rome" and the Astronomy section. Diannaa 18:47, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dianaa the paragraph 'In 1614, during his theological...' isn't in the most recent version. If you look two paras above you'll see I wrote 'Hi could someone please review the revised version (above) which replace the sections (below) to see if they are ok? Many thanks Mccapra (talk) 09:27, 18 July 2017 (UTC' so only the text above that is what I've been working on. I'm sorry if I've done things wrong but I understood the instructions on the template to mean I was not to remove the original, problematic text which was placed under it. If I'm ok to cut all of that I'll do so and you can see that in the modified version there's no copyvio. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 06:47, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dianaa to make things clearer I've removed everything except my most recent, 'clean' edit from the temporary page. The copyvio tool now shows 8.3% overlap, which consists entirely over proper names of people and book titles. I hope this is ok now. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 10:42, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the misunderstanding. The new version is fine, I have copied it over to mainspace. Case closed! Thanks for your help clearing this up. — Diannaa (talk) 12:12, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

No worries at all. Thanks for your guidance and I'll make use if that tool in future to check my work. All the best Mccapra (talk) 12:29, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Replying to your edit

Hi Diannaa,

Thanks for taking the time to be a wiki editor. Apparently an addition I made yesterday to Wiki was not correct. As the administrator and one of the owners of the material from the website I cited, I do have full copyright privileges to everything I added. The facilitation blog is a free, well respected blog with the sole purpose of providing information about running better meetings. The 99% of the posts are written by my husband (I would not quote from guest posts), who is a respected expert in the field of facilitation, and a published author with the CRC Press. Also, for each wiki edit I made, I made sure to add a link back to wiki from the original post. (I have removed these until this situation is cleared up.). I did cite each addition... however, I apologize, I did not add quote marks. Since my husband is the author, and I have his permission to use the material, I did not paraphrase. Obviously I do not want to be blocked from editing. Please let me know what next steps I can take. I appreciate your time.Lorijometz (talk) 11:17, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

@Lorijometz: Thank you for your interest in working on wikipedia. There are a couple of problems with your submissions. 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 also problems with conflict of interest and the suitability of the content you're adding. Adding material from your own website is strongly discouraged, and such self-published material is not considered as a reliable source for this website. Please don't add any more links to your website or stuff copied from your website to this wiki. To do so is considered to be spam, and is not permitted (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming). I have placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:05, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

United States presidential election, 2016

Diannaa, Let us eat lettuce used the article talk page to draft the content you revdeleted from the main space. Could you review Talk:United States presidential election, 2016#Ukrainian involvement and see if something needs to be deleted there as well? I would provide diffs, but the user made dozens of edits and I must to go offline for the next couple of hours. Thanks. Politrukki (talk) 14:37, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

I have checked an yes, the material on the talk page was copyvio as well. Thanks for letting me know. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:55, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Your deletion of edits on Twelve Contemplations

You have deleted my all my linking contributions without any application of mind. You have removed all my linking, sources, adding categories. If there was a specific copyright violation of a line, that could have been removed or changed. Without giving any opportunity to make changes required, if any, you have abused your admin powers by deleting the entire edits regardless of what was copyrighted or not? Hence this is my humble request: Kindly reinstate my edits that you deleted and let me check what was copyrighted. I will make that changes.--Indian Chronicles (talk) 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Indian Chronicles: The only thing I removed was a paragraph on "Importance" you added at 19:38 on July 18, as it was copied from http://jainsamaj.org/rpg_site/literature2.php?id=730&cat=42 at 09:33, July 16, 2017‎. The rest of your edits are still intact. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:58, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Please check the history of Twelve Contemplations [9]. Just see the edit summary of deletions. You have deleted from references, sources, linking and edits done on the top main summary, addition of categories etc. Please check. Furthermore I believe that only one line is appearing in Jainsamaj website. Also for your info, I did not copy it from the website. It is a sentence from a book called Jain study Circular where this article was published. But how am I supposed to know that this website has copied this entire chapter/ article verbatim on its website? Still if that one sentence affects the copy rights then I will change the language totally. The idea is referenced from a book. So it should not be an issue. Please reinstate all my edits. I will make the changes and then you can again check. Trust that is acceptable.--Indian Chronicles (talk) 04:09, 20 July 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. An entire paragraph was copied. That's not okay; it's a copyright violation. It doesn't matter whether you got the material from a book or from this website. You can't copy from either. Under current copyright law, literary works are subject to copyright whether they are tagged as such or not. No registration is required, and no copyright notice is required. So please always assume that all material you find online and in books and magazines is copyright. Regarding what I removed, I have double checked and triple checked and find that I did not remove any categories, citations, or anything but the one paragraph. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:53, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your advise on copyrights. I will ensure and be extra careful of copyrights. But you did remove sources, categories and edits from main summary. You did not check the article history. I am not able to give diffs as you have deleted it. I am sorry to say it is a gross misuse of your admin powers. I want a second opinion of this by another admin. I also want to report your misuse of powers. Please advise where it can be done? --Indian Chronicles (talk) 15:11, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

The best place go go is WP:ANI. Please let me know once you have added your post to that page. Diannaa 18:55, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Request

Please don't spam pavangad wiki page and i request you to don't delete valid data's Bidhunkrishna (talk) 18:18, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

I deleted a list of automobile dealerships. That's not the kind of content you would find in a paper encyclopedia, and we don't want it here. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:15, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

edits to United States presidential election, 2016

I have revised the paraphrasing and citations on the talk page. Let us eat lettuce (talk) 18:40, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

I have removed it, as people objected to and removed the content for reasons other than copyvio before I arrived to do the revision deletions. This article is under discretionary sanctions. Please don't re-add without getting consensus or you could be summarily blocked without any warning, as there's already a discretionary sanctions notification in place on your user talk page. Also, I am doing revision deletion again, because some of it is identical to the wording in the Politico article and the Wahington Post. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:19, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

right I seek consensus. the content was carefully revised to paraphrase. "people objected to" is a little weak. I do support the idea of consensus, but not censorship... Let us eat lettuce (talk) 22:17, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Possible copyright problem–Toyen

Hello Diannaa, could you check this edit; it appears to be a 'copy & paste' on June 13, with no reference. — Woodlot (talk) 19:14, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately I am unable to find any matching content online. Perhaps it is a translation of a foreign language source. There's no way for me to check that theory though. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Plagiarism

Diannaa, I have been searching fruitlessly for a plagiarism banner to add to an article[10] , and thought that you might have a speedy answer? Actually a source is named under "References," but the fact that there are frequent quotations is not acknowledged, so perhaps it isn't pagiarism? Much of the article is possibly quotation/close paraphrase, I plan to work on this article. Thanks. Rwood128 (talk) 19:02, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

How about {{Copypaste}} ? Diannaa 19:20, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time. I have edited the article and posted an over-use of quotations banner. The source was from 1907, so out-of-copyright I'm presuming.

Message from David-waterways

Hi Diannaa, not clear where to reply, so I hope this works. I trust you have seen the permission request regarding my work in Inland Waterways of France? I sent this to "permissions" as instructed. I note the instruction to cease and desist until release under compatible license, but how long do you think that might take? Thank youDavid-waterways (talk) 15:09, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

The permission could take a while, as the OTRS team is experiencing backlogs. Pelase be patient. Continuing to add material from that website is creating extra work for the copyright cleanup people such as myself, who are not comfortable leaving it up on our website without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. Thus my request to stop until the permission email has been processed and an OTRS ticket issued. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:13, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

@Diannaa:I have been careful not to do any more copying from French-waterways.com, but I am encountering difficulties with a series of articles I am posting about hotel barges; there is no COI as I am totally independent of these operators. There I son difference in notability or type of information compared to the dozen or so hotel barges that are already covered by articles. I have posted a notice on my Talk page, and I also have a draft article that has not yet been reviewed Draft:Aslaug (barge). I'm sensitive to your issue of backlog of stuff to check, but would be very grateful for your assistance at this point. Bon dimanche ! David-waterways (talk) 09:47, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I don't have time to assist with assessing drafts; the copyvio work consumes pretty much all of my available editing time (and more some days). I suggest you add the template {{subst:submit}} to the top of the draft so as to get it in the queue for review by the people who assess drafts. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:35, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Moves & redirects & moves....oh MY!

Could you take a the editing history of A2j2manimals? They did a lot of moves/redirects/moves/reverts especially on Cochin International Airport, Talk: Cochin International Airport. I think everything ended up ok but am not sure - would appreciate another set of eyes on this. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 18:46, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Shearonink. I didn't find any issues with the page moves. Everything seems to be in its correct place. Both Sabarigiri International Airport and Draft:Sabarigiri International Airport are loaded with copyright violations and I have nominated them for deletion. — Diannaa (talk) 11:57, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I was just wondering if all those Cochin Airport moves were against policy... it seems confusing to me. Is that the way that re-directs are supposed to be established, through multiple moves etc.? Shearonink (talk) 19:42, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Redirects should be created like any other new page. I'm not sure it's against any policy to move pages about willy nilly but it's pretty disruptive and a big waste of other editors' time, i.e., the folks who end up cleaning up the mess or even just trying to figure out if there is a mess. — Diannaa (talk) 19:50, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Ah ok, well I guess then I wasn't quite wrong that the maze of A2j2manimals's edits were disruptive but I see your point that they caused no harm in the end - so, in this case, Hurrah! all's well that ends well. I'll just try to keep an eye on their future editing to see if this is a pattern. Hopefully not... Thanks again for your reply etc. Shearonink (talk) 23:11, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

IEEE Power & Energy Society

Hi Diannaa, how are you? I am an IEEE PES Member and member of the IEEE PES Membership Development Committee. This committee gave me the job to make better the IEEE PES wikipedia article. I did some changes in the article with the information of the IEEE PES website, some IEEE PES conferences and congress web pages and some pictures and logos that IEEE PES members gave me. Maybe I made something wrong because I find the article modified. What can I do to make those changes with no problem?. I am remain attentive to your answer. Thank you so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FelipeGaitan (talk • contribs) 00:24, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on 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 placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 11:44, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Motor oil

Hi Diannaa, Thank you for copying me the detailed explanation about copyright. I will write it in my own words. Best regards, Petr Petr10 (talk) 14:35, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Pers Z S Operational Environment Section

Hi Diannaa, there was some parts copied from the David Alvarez DOI document, but all of the Doi document has been taken from the same sources I have, principally Volume 6 @ Volume 6. Almost all of it has come from Chapter V - Intelligence of that document, just paraphrased, which is in the public domain. You can see that from the doi sources. It can't be a lot, as I tried to paraphrase it. The Keital statement, the communication kit, the Ursula Hagen quote, Liaison with Chi-Stelle OB.d.L: Fix to facts, are public domain. The ‎Intercept Network: Operation environment explained. is certainly paraphrased, but I think it is public domain, but I can rewrite it, but it will be almost exactly the same as the doi, but not the same words. I will have another go tomorrow, and attribute the doi doc. scope_creep (talk) 21:38, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Editor with copyright issues

Hi Diannaa, I trust you're well. I've come across I have gone through and undone all the copyright-infringing edits. And I have made all the edits, please don't again delete it. Sabarigiri International Airport. The proposal of Airport is a real one and all the matters and details I wrote is 100% correct. I hope you understand me. Thank u — Preceding unsigned comment added by A2j2manimala (talk • contribs)

A lot of the material you included is copied from the web page http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/cabinet-nod-for-sabarimala-airport-on-cheruvally-estate/article19311160.ece and other copyright web pages. Copying material from elsewhere online is a copyright violation, which is against the copyright policy of this website and violates copyright law. Please don't add any prose you find elsewhere online. You will be blocked from editing if you do. — Diannaa (talk) 11:21, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Message from 2602:30a:2e6a:9420:b4ce:2f46:28b4:8458

To: Diannaa re National Collegiate Private Student Loans\ Why do you remove the entire article then, rather than only the copied lists of program lenders and list of portfolio transfer agreements that you find objectionable? Why do you remove the reference footnote to the relevant SEC URL if that better conforms to the editing and quality standards? Seem like you did not actually read the newly contributed copy. The original entry for NC Trust (now restored) is a mere stub with virtually no useful contents. It would be appreciated if you were more discerning in what you delete lock-stock-and-barrel without actually having reviewed the material, assessed its quality or lack thereof, as the case may be, in your experienced judgment, or at least compared it to original SEC-filings (running over hundreds of pages (print equivalent) in the nature of complex financial transaction contract documents, and what is describes and explains what is SEC filed. - Have a good day

The place to discuss is the article talk page talk:National Collegiate Trust. — Diannaa (talk) 21:07, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

m:User:COIBot/XWiki/french-waterways.com & m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/french-waterways.com

Hi. I see that you have been dealing with the issue of the links to the website with the contributor. I thought that it may be useful to link a couple of report pages for the website. I have also asked at Commons for the contributor to identify the source of the underlying maps and some of the images as it seems that we may need some OTRS. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:14, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

The contributor has responded to me at their Commons user talk page, and given some background to their passion. I have requested that the contributor follows the OTRS process there. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:11, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I hope we do get an appropriate release for this content, both the prose and the pics. — Diannaa (talk) 23:38, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Punyaboy#Copyright problem on History of rail transport in India

Diannaa, there was a reply to your post at the link above, but no ping; since it's a copyright issue, I thought you'd want to know right away, especially since your edits to correct the matter have apparently been partially or completely undone. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:33, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Replied at User talk:Punyaboy — Diannaa (talk) 19:24, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Declaration of consent for all enquiries

Hi Diannaa! I've recently been attempting to add information to my company's and its CEOs page. I've declared that I'm an employee and being paid and such and I also emailed the "Declaration of consent for all enquiries" to donate the materials of our website. Can I add my material without it being removed, or do I need to wait through the 281 day backlog for someone to get back to my email? Thanks! Jdchapman15 (talk) 17:18, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Jdchapman15. I'm not seeing a declaration on your user page or talk page that you are a paid editor. It's best if you do this as well as the templates to the talk pages of any articles you edit as a paid editor. I am not going to restore the material I removed from Jerrold D. Green, as it appears to have been copied from http://stage.uscpublicdiplomacy.org/users/jerrold_green, which is a webpage of USC Center on Public Diplomacy, not the company you work for, which according to your declaration is The Pacific Council on International Policy. — Diannaa (talk) 19:24, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I'm back again. I spoke to the deputy director at the public diplomacy school that runs the page and she suggested we try this link (http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/users/jerrold_green) rather than the stage one since the content is "not as locked" according to her. Do I have them fill out a declaration of consent form that I can then forward to the permissions email, or is there a better way to get their permission? Thanks a bunch! Jdchapman15 (talk) 20:12, 26 July 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) 12:19, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

We released our copyright. Our material keeps being removed because the bio that Jerrold gave us (PCIP) is the same one that he gave USC Jdchapman15 (talk) 16:56, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

This is the type of situation that needs to be sorted out by the OTRS team. I have no way of confirming permissions, whereas they do. Please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for what to do next. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

Hai Dianna I am A2j2manimala, I am sorry on again adding such a mistake in copyright. Sorry I will never again Repeat It.

Licensed material, but how should it be acknowledged?

Hallo Dianna, Could you have a look at Louise Davidson and see whether it meets the requirements for attributing the copying from its source? It's a verbatim copy of http://www.andreageyer.info/revolttheysaid/d.html , and the editor makes a statement on the talk page, but it's just cited as an ordinary source on the article itself. Is that OK? PamD 08:03, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

No it's not enough. We need a blurb in the article so that our readers are made aware that the material was copied. I've gone ahead and done that. I already notified the editor yesterday. But now I see they did this on a whole series of articles so I will clean up the whole lot of them. Thanks for letting me know. — Diannaa (talk) 10:44, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Attribution can be added manually like I did here, or there's a template, {{CC-notice}}. — Diannaa (talk) 10:54, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio at Chandala

Long time, no pester! I have no idea why it has taken me so long to spot this at Chandala. The paragraph added in that edit which mentions Romila Thapar is a copy from the first full paragraph on p. 154 of her book here. - Sitush (talk) 09:09, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Thank you for letting me know. — Diannaa (talk) 11:06, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Another! Vatsyayana gotra

This is a copy from the cited source. - Sitush (talk) 09:54, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Removed, revision deleted. Thank-you for reporting. — Diannaa (talk) 11:00, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Correct attribution

Hi Diannaa,

I noticed you added a CC logo and attribution notice to ref 1 on Ami Mali Hicks. I had wondered about doing this myself when the article's copyright issues were first dealt with, but wasn't sure how to do it correctly. Obviously there's no template, but is there a standard format for such attributions? Triptothecottage (talk) 11:45, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Triptothecottage. Actually there is a template: {{CC-notice}}. I usually do it manually though, as I have a blurb already on hand and ready for copypasta in my copyvio sandbox. The main thing the attribution has to do is indicate that the prose was copied rather than written by the person who added it. — Diannaa (talk) 11:53, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Draft:St Andrew Lodge No. 418 SC

Hi Diannaa,

Its great to be within a community that has active moderators. I'm a noob to this so please bear with me.

In terms of the amendment you made, I'm the owner of the website referenced, what do I need to do to retain the sections identified for removal?

Thank you for your interest in working on 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. 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 about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 12:21, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Noted - the COI is the reason I've written the passage as it is. Can we include the following - removing the link - (Redacted)?

I think maybe you misunderstand how copyright works, since that's pretty much identical to the copyright web page https://www.standrew418.org.nz/about-us. So no, you can't use that in your draft, and you shouldn't be posting it on my talk page either. It's a violation of copyright law and the copyright policy of this website to do so. — Diannaa (talk) 19:11, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Merge question

I don't do a lot of merging, but I would've thought that merging, as in this example, would've required identifying the source in the edit summary and best practices would be to follow the instructions in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Do you know if merging is a special case that as an exception to that practice? The editor has a lot of edits, so I want to make sure that I'm not missing something before I make the suggestion.--S Philbrick(Talk) 11:55, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

The merge is mentioned in the edit summary, but for proper attribution the source article does need to be specified. I would go ahead and notify them but don't use a template; make a hand-written note — Diannaa (talk) 12:25, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks--S Philbrick(Talk) 12:46, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

USS Marlboro (APB-38)

Hey, uh, i dont know if i forgot or anything, but im no stranger to article writing as Marlboro was number 34 or 35. I always put This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. at the top when it has info from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, which is public domain. Hope that helps.

--The Haze Master (talk) 01:48, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Oh I see it now. Most people put it at the bottom with the citations; that's why I missed it. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 13:09, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

The issue of moved between the two articles of Darreh Shahr and Darreh Shahr County

Hi Diannaa,

Earlier you mentioned the issue of some text moved between the two articles of Darreh Shahr and Darreh Shahr County in my talk page.

Well, first and foremost, I would like to thank you. Yes, you were right. However, the reason why I moved those parts is that these tourist attraction are actually not IN the city and rather around it, so it is more relevant to the country.

Second, regarding the problem of copyright violation, I just moved the text and its reference and did not paid full attention to the fact that it was a carbon copy of the referred website.

Meitei people

Hi Diannaa, I'm removing passages from this article that appear to have been copied. Perhaps you can have a look and see if any rev/del is in order. Thank you and cheers, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 17:41, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

I've finished the revision deletion. Thanks for reporting. I will leave the report active at AIV in case activity resumes in the next short while. — Diannaa (talk) 18:10, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I can appreciate he zeal to fill in all the empty sections, but..... 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 18:17, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Perkiomen School copyvio

Howdy again! Hoping you can spare a moment to revdel some copyvio of remarkable vintage at Perkiomen School, going all the way back to 2010 (I'm sure you've seen worse, but this is a horizon-expander for me)! Thanks, and have a good weekend - Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:05, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

I will do that one now, and will get around to cleaning out the Category:Requested RD1 redactions in the next 2 days max. Cheers, — Diannaa (talk) 18:12, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Nichole Moudaber copyright concern

Hi Diannaa, I removed the introduction to this article Nicole Moudaber, as the majority of it was a copy paste from this source https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?872501, the owners terms and conditions here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/terms state their content is copyrighted and cannot be copied. The intro again has been re-inserted by the same editor User User talk:Rromero1103 as is, and not reworked in their own words.--Navops47 (talk) 03:35, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

This is the same copyvio stuff from Soundcloud that I removed at the beginning of July. I have removed it again and warned the user and will watch-list the page. Thanks for letting me know. — Diannaa (talk) 12:55, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

It's me, again!

This comes from this, which existed at least as far back as 2006. - Sitush (talk) 10:48, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 12:41, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

About "cross slip" copyright issues

Hi, first thanks for your attention and precision. I change the article a little and write a question on it's talk. can you please check it and let me know if it's acceptable or not? Mhs76 (talk) 08:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Cross Slip — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:28, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Yoshiko Uchida

Thanks for the note. Was this the sentence in question? (Redacted) Was there anything else? Gandydancer (talk) 14:56, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:22, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Nuer people removal of copyrighted text

As per WP:COPYLINK, the material that was removed from the article on Nuer people was sourced from https://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/10.htm and referenced, and as stated does not need the copyright holder's permission to reproduce. As you are an experienced editor could you double check the policy and reply? The information is definitely valid and relevant to the Nuer People, even to be expanded into it's own page at some point. Thank you. Desdinova (talk) 15:58, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

It's not okay to import content from their website to ours, because the material is released under an Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US) License, which is not a compatible license. This is because their license does not permit commercial use or derivative works, and our license permits both of these. WP:COPYLINK is not the applicable policy here; it's WP:Copyrights. There's a list of compatible licenses at Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:29, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

/* undefined */ new section

Re: Seventh-day Adventism in popular culture

You just wiped out hours of my detailed sourcing and rewriting from multiple websites. I've not violated any copyrights. Way way way overreaching with your deleting my work. Please restore. Legacypac (talk) 19:28, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Replying on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:37, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright issue on Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency

Hey! User Oaassociate has added copyrighted information to the page Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency for the 3rd time. I've put up a revdel request for 2 of the versions and refrained from reverting the third version in an effort to not escalate the situation to a back and forth edit war. It would be of great help if you could look into the matter. Thanks in advance! Jiten Dhandha • talk • contributions • 20:55, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

I've removed the content again and done the revision deletion and issued another warning to the editor. Will also watch-list. Thanks for your help with copyvio removal tasks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:59, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia

Good afternoon. You sent me a message about copying within wikipedia. This is IRT the Brazilian Portuguese page. I notated the copying in the Talk page for the article and made it clear what I copied, why I copied it and where I copied it from. I don't think it is necessarily in the right place on the Portuguese main page but I can understand why someone would want it there. Thanks for the help and link for copying. I'm considering cleaning up the other page also. I just wanted to do it in steps and get ao consensus before I do it, hence the talk page request. If you could, take a look and let me know if you feel the same way. Have a great day. Rorschaq (talk) 21:21, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

A note on the talk page is optional, but mentioning in your edit summary at the destination page where you got the content is mandatory. In this way attribution is added to the edit history at the destination article. Please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia for more info on this topic. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:26, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Restoring deleted articles

Hi Diannaa. Is it possible for the administrators to restore a deleted article? I know that based on WP:Administrators' guide/Viewing deleted pages there's an option available for admins to view articles that have been previously deleted, but is it possible to restore them as well? Should a request be given on a specific page about the deleted article and get consensus first? Keivan.f^Talk 23:40, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Deleted articles can be restored. The place to start is the talk page of the deleting administrator. Depending on the reason for deletion, they may be able to restore it. If you are not satisfied with their response, the place to go is WP:Deletion review. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:46, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Draft Flagged (again) for copyright violation.

Can you tell me how to avoid copyright issues with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ronnie_D._Green? I wrote the original material upon which copyright violation is alleged, I've disclosed my relationship with the university (at least to another editor, Wiae); and with Wiae's guidance, I added creative commons licensing info to the page upon which copyright violation is alleged. Now I find my Draft deleted, again. As I've never submitted for approval, would it be possible to provide guidance rather than just deletion without any opportunity to fix the issues? I can understand that if the page is published. But it has never ventured beyond Draft.

Hello Bcrisler. I have checked the source webpage and it is indeed now released under a compatible license. So I have restored the material and added the required attribution to the draft. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:27, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

2017–18 Tampa Bay Lightning season

Hello,

You flagged an article for possible copyright violations. I provided an alternate update to remove the issues within a day or so back on July 4th or 5th. It is about a day shy of being a month and no action has been taken on the copyright issue investigation. I am just seeing if it actually takes this long for them to examine the issue because it sounded like it would only take a week to do so. Any information would be appreciated.

Sorry for the delay. We have a very small handful of people who work in copyvio cleanup, which as you can tell by looking at the many unresolved cases at WP:CP – or even worse at WP:CCI – leads to backlogs and delays. Your re-write on the temp page looks to be free of copyvio so I will paste it over to the article in a minute here. Thank you for your patience. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:34, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Alliance for Securing Democracy

Diannaa, does this set of changes help? --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 17:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

I learned more about running the reporting tool. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 18:24, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

The G12 aspect has been addressed, but there's still the notability issue. I am leaving the A7 tag in place for another admin to assess. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:02, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

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Swallow Reef

Good evening my dear. I haven't added anything to Swallow Reef. I've tried to clean up the incredibly biased additions of an over-enthusiastic newbie. Yes, as you have identified, their enthusiasm has included copyright violation. I pruned it to remove the excessive enthusiasm, but please, don't blame ME for the violation. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:25, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

i.e. Don't blame me, blame User:Candycane1616, and don't delete the visibility of MY edits, delete the visibility of theirs.

And yes, you've really annoyed me with your ill-informed and undeserved accusations. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:32, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

In fact, I'd like an apology thank you. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:34, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Further, you have NO justification for deleting the visibility of ALL of the edits. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:43, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

I have double checked and the other user was the first to add the copyvio content. You removed all their additions at 11:05, August 1, 2017‎ but then re-added some of the content at 11:24, August 1, 2017‎. That's the edit that the bot picked up as being copyvio. For some reason the bot did not flag the first addition but you are right, I should have dug a little deeper into the page history. The copyvio material was still present in the article when I arrived on the scene. Revision deletion was done on the entire series of edits from the point of addition to the point of removal so as to remove the copyvio completely from the page history. Sometimes it means that, like in this instance, innocuous edits are hidden. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:57, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Hmmm. It's hard to continue to be cross with someone who provides a reasonable explanation for their behaviour. I'm still very cross, but no longer have a reason to be cross with you. If I'd just deleted the newbie's contribution and not tried to be nice to them, the situation wouldn't have arisen! (i.e. Murphy's law says what ever you do, you can't win.) Oh well, the world didn't end, and I'll eventually calm down and get over it. But I've gotta tell ya, it's much easier being a grumpy old man than it is being nice to newbies! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:05, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

You should check out the Wikipedia:Old Fashioned Wikipedian Values! Four simple rules. Being Canadian I especially resonate with #3. :) Off to work now, TTYL — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:12, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

LOL! Someone wiser than me said: "The older I get, the better things were". ;-) Pdfpdf (talk) 14:41, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Otey, Texas

Sorry about that. Thanks for reverting, if it had to be so. I did not think that such a fairly short excerpt could entail a copyright violation. Is there a threshold -- in terms of maximum number of words, say -- below which borrowing text would not be cause for concern? Thanks. Toddcs (talk) 14:21, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Your copyright violation was large enough that it was flagged by a bot and reported at https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en. 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) 19:20, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio at Untouchability

Hi, it is a long time since I looked at the Untouchability article and it has changed beyond recognition, now being generally well-written but hugely unsourced. I noticed El Cazangero (talk · contribs) had a large input in January 2016 and I think we have a big problem there. For example, in this edit, the paragraph starting The varna model of social ranking comes from p. 172 of Encyclopedia of Sociology, Volume 1, Edgar F. Borgatta, Marie L. Borgatta (Macmillan: 1992) and the paragraph beginning Untouchables were confined to menial comes from p. 251 of the same source.

I notice that the user was blocked for copyright violation, and there is much more that they added that, well, seems extraordinarily well-written. Would it be best to revert to the article as it was just prior to their involvement? It would be a lot of work to unpick it all. - Sitush (talk) 17:06, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

I checked and there's been no sourced content added by others since his last biggish addition on May 21, 2016 (which I easily discovered was copyvio), so there's no reason not to restore the old version. So I have gone ahead and done it. I copied the end matter such as see-alsos and the list of untouchable groups from the most recent revision. Thanks for the alert, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:47, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics

Diannaa, since you put a lot of work into this article already, would you mind move protecting it for a few days? Following the awarding of the 2028 Olympics to LA via an unconventional process, there's been a lot of activity, including a couple moves, but only minimal discussion. We're in the process of getting a discussion of the handling of the article going on the talk page, but in the span of a few hours, two editors who have had no involvement in the article have dropped in and moved it to a title of their choosing rather than participating in the discussion. It needs move protection for long enough to get the discussion moving toward consensus on what to do without constant moves-and-reverts. Thank you! ----Dr.Margi ✉ 17:28, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Could you please file your request at WP:RFPP? thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:24, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

I can, yes. I was trying to expedite lest we have an edit war, but things seem to have settled down a bit. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 22:17, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

That's good, because I am super busy with my copyvio work and don't have time to investigate it properly. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

That's fine. It's been submitted. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 22:26, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm a bit displeased by @Drmargi:'s framing of the situation. If she had to undo both me AND another editor, it's likely that there's not consensus for her title, and that she may be verging on POV pushing. pbp 00:43, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Time to move?

• Well, it's been a week now, and it looks like only DrMargi wants things the way they were. Me, Jmj, PhilipTerryGraham and SuperNintendoChalmers want it as both 2024 and 2028; two IPs want it at 2028 only. I'd have to say consensus is in favor of 2024 and 2028. Would you be kind enough to make the move? pbp 00:57, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Tebyan Cultural Institute

Hello. It seems that you are not familiar with the copyright rules. It is indicated on the IBNA website that the republication of its articles is permitted, if the name of this news agency is mentioned as reference. Moreover, I don't copy and paste the content of references that I use for the articles in Wikipedia, but compile them by re-writing them. If you have any question about how to compile the contents of notable websites and other sources in Wikipedia, you can ask me. Removing some parts of an article in Wikipedia is explainable, if there is a misunderstanding about that, but making it disappear from the history of the article, as what you have done, is not acceptable. It was better to keep the history and not make it completely disappear, so that I and the other Wikipedians could see its content. Please keep the content of the article and show me if any problem happens before removing it from its history. Thanks.Amidewiki (talk) 01:00, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)-The tone (and esp. the fourth line) is majestic!Winged Blades ^Godric 08:47, 3 August 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. The source web page states: "All rights reserved; Citing materials is authorized by making reference to IBNA." Citing materials and copying them outright is not the same thing. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:34, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

St Wendolins

I wish to add my hometown of Saint Wendolins Ridge on Wikipedia Markedama (talk) 03:56, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Markedama. A good place to go for help getting started here on Wikipedia is the Teahouse, where there's experienced people ready to help new users. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:37, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia and copyright

Hello~ sorry i'm reply your message ^^ and how about adding some images? coz before i was added some images with insert name's owner but get delete it and said i'm not permission although i'm insert name's owner and officially image's link. Have a nice day, thank you~~ Fenny novita (talk 04:31, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Photos that you find online are copyright, and we are not allowed to upload them to the Commons or display them on this wiki. Please don't upload any photos unless they are pictures you took yourself. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:40, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

But, can you check on Monsta X#Members ? since before i'm upload it too and got delete. but a contributor add it again with same photos when before i added ? thanks Fenny novita (talk) 05:06, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Those images have been on the Commons since January 2017, and all appear to be correctly and compatibly licensed. If you have any further questions about your uploads at the Commons, please contact an Commons administrator. I am unable to look at your deleted images on the Commons, because I am not an administrator on that wiki. The deleting administrator was Daphne Lantier. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:31, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Copy vio check

You may want to have a look at this edit.Cheers:)Winged Blades ^Godric 07:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Not sure what is the problem? The edit appears to be properly-attributed copying from one Wikipedia article to another. i.e. the edit summary reads: "Attribution: content on Trap-neuter-return was copied from Trap-neuter-return and Celia Hammond on August 2nd, 2017. See the history of that page for attribution", which is exactly perfect — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Delete or not

[[11]]--Inoslav Bešker (talk) 08:15, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

The article has been deleted by another admin. Placing pretty much the entire article in quotation marks does not let us off the hook from a copyright point of view. The material not in quotation marks was also copied from the source web page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Eunice de Souza

I've just reverted a copyvio of this at Eunice de Souza. Does it ever end? - Sitush (talk) 10:15, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

It never ends, it merely slows down a tad on weekends! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:48, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Shakunneed

Please note the source for the reviews that you had removed from the page: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6140#t=reviews Thanks for your help. Shakunneed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shakunneed (talk • contribs) 11:44, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

You need to add the source to the article please. If you don't know how to do that, see WP:Citing sources. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:57, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions. I have inserted the source on the page. Shakunneed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shakunneed (talk • contribs) 12:14, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Cypress Woods High School

Please take a look at this article when you have a moment; I flagged a range of revisions for copyvio revdel. There is an apparent COI user with either the school or school district who is skirting the edges, at best, of chronic problematic behavior from a copyright standpoint; I'm suspicious of the images in the article but I'm having trouble puzzling out whether the user has re-uploaded copyvio images. Thanks for your help, as always! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:51, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Julietdeltalima. I am unable to look at the deleted images issue since I am not an admin on the Commons and that's where that aspect of the problem is occurring. That said, File:CrestCyWoods.png, a recent upload, is obviously not the uploader's own work so I have nominated it for deletion at the Commons. I can't find a source for it online so it's not a candidate for fair use. The article comes up clean from a prose point of view so I will watch-list it for further activity. I am notifying the user Cywoods18 re our COI guideline. Thank you very much for your help in copyright clean-up. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:12, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Edits at Dunkirk evacuation

Hi, in regards to the dunkirk article

can't we have some talk of them or a sentence? what with the endless articles about whitewashing dunkirk? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.130.13 (talk) 17:53, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

I am not going to edit war to keep it out. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:56, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikimania?

Gretzky learned to play basketball by tossing this object into a net

I know you are a long way away from Montreal, but I wondered if you were planning to be at Wikimania? If so, I'd like to say hello in person.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:57, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but no, I will not be attending. :( — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:01, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

So holding out until Wikimania is in Calgary (or Edmondton - count me in if there's a meetup there - home of some basketball history)? --S Philbrick(Talk) 19:09, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

I am not sure I would ever go, as I am very protective of my real-life identity. Basketball is not really our thing, as you well know? I suspect you are pulling my leg — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:18, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

I can appreciate the desire to protect your life identity.

However, regarding basketball I am most definitely not pulling your leg. My spouse and I traveled to Toronto two summers ago to attend the Pan Am games. We watch the Canadian team upset the USA team to win the first ever Pan Am gold in women's basketball. I was on the phone with a friend today who called to tell me he bought tickets for basketball game in Toronto in December we are both going to. And Edmonton is the home of the Edmonton Grads, one of the greatest women's basketball teams of all time. I have the book "the grads are playing tonight" which I read a year or two ago. Last week the U19 (under 19) championships took place in Italy. The Canadian team won the bronze medal, their first ever medal in FIBA U19 history. I follow several of the Canadian national team players on twitter, so no definitely not pulling your leg.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:17, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the info; this is very interesting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:04, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Freeman Article

Diannaa, please enlighten me? Using the crux of anything copywritten, I have been told, is fine. Is your objection that it was 'copy-pasted' or too much was used word for word? Can't this be corrected very easily by summarizing the information? These are very valid and informative sources. Please advise how I can fix, or if you want to fix yourself? thanks 107.181.69.41 (talk) 09:22, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:46, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, please activate the CUR/PREV options, so I can fix the freeman article. At the moment they are not usable. I have never seen this happen before. Even the "undo" option is gone. Anyway, I need to see what I did in order to fix up properly since I did not keep an independent record. If easier for you, just send me my changes here, and I will take it. Thanks. 107.181.69.41 (talk) 01:37, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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. From the Forbes article, https://www.forbes.com/2000/06/22/0622.html, two paragraphs were copied, the ones beginning "The most direct play" and "At the current $15 level". From http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/2xl.shtml one paragraph was copied, the one starting with "Best freakin' toy ever". Then a little further down there was a description of the Talk 'n' Play toy copied from http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-Vintage-Child-Guidance-Talk-N-Play-Cassette-Tapes-and-Books-w-Carrying-Case-/261849011697. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:42, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Extensive copying in "Economic history of Portugal" article

Hi Diannaa, I want to call your attention to the large amount of unattributed text in the article Economic history of Portugal copied from this page of the Country Studies website. The source of the content there is given as the U.S. Library of Congress. Here is the pertinent page of the LOC site. The material may be in the public domain, but surely such massive copying should be acknowledged and cited in the WP article, if that is so. Thanks. Carlstak (talk) 14:30, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

The article already included a statement at the top of the references section stating " This article incorporates public domain material from the Library of Congress Country Studies website http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/. – Portugal" and I have added citations behind each copied paragraph/partial paragraph, along with the attribution template {{PD-notice}}. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:51, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Oh, wow. I missed that. Thanks, again. You're the best. Carlstak (talk) 15:40, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Creative Music Studio

Hello Diannaa,

I am an OTRS agent. I am handling Ticket:2017050610009412. We have received an email from author of the book All Kinds of Time: The Enduring Spirit of the Creative Music Studio. He has released pages 57–62 of his book under the free license CC BY SA 3.0. You had previously removed the contributions of User:Resweet. Could you please restore them? I have added the appropriate tag to talk page of the article. Thank you. 4nn1l2 (talk) 15:09, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for your help resolving this case. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:32, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Possible copyvio on Kenneth Feinberg

Hello Diannaa, I came across this edit on Kenneth Feinberg. I saw previous redacted edits by the same IP so I'm assuming the edits are similar. Just a heads up! -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:23, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Different sources this time, but yeah, flat-out copyvio from the same IP. I will add the article to my watch-list for a while. Thank you for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:31, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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Major copy&paste copyright violations

This edit[12] is a complete copy & paste from the source. The source PDF can be downloaded for free and checked here (University of Arizona)[13]. The new lines are all copied from pg 482 under "The Lake Nojiri Site Group" section. The 1st part (3 sentences), from "The Nojiri-ko Formation is divided... " to "...is unique for well-preserved organic materials.", is a direct copy & paste with sentence reordering. The 2nd part, from "Most of the mammal fossils..." to "...final stage of Middle Paleolithic." is a complete copy & paste; (Ono 2001) was even copied. Fraenir (talk) 14:30, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Cleaned. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:47, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

@Fraenir:, the section was reverted to previous revision which was not sourced properly as well the reference link is dead. Instead to make an easy edit of the section to fix the copyright problem, because the new source is very informative, you wasted writing a report. Very constructive.--Miki Filigranski (talk) 15:04, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

This is another series of edits that are copy & past copyvios. This source is also available for download (ANU) [14]; even though the book is available via open access, I believe the authors still claim copyright to the material. This sentence is mostly a copyvio, with the introduction of a factual error to hide the copyvio: the editor switched from 8 (source, pg 52 under "Materials and methods") to 10. [15] "...the 10 samples radiometrically dated using 14C to between 27,000–4,000 before present...". This phrase "...show geographic specificity within Southeast Asia" is copied directly from the source, again with the introduction of a factual inaccuracy to hide the copvio (source, pg 51); the source uses Asia, not Southeast Asia. There are also several phrasal plagiarism elements lifted from the source; those occur in the other sentences, but it's not as bad as direct copy and paste copyvios. Fraenir (talk) 15:06, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

@Fraenir:, we both know why are you intentionally doing this reports to an administrator. You are taking it too personally. I advise you to stop because you're only going to hurt everyone. I had enough of your personal accusations and attacks from the Jōmon period's case and I do not want to hear them and experience such discussions anymore. I will repeat myself once again, I take the responsibility if violated copyright (did not know about it to such extent), however, those were constructive edits with which the article(s) were improved and the issues can be easily and soon fixed by any editor, without the loss of editing history.--Miki Filigranski (talk) 15:19, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

When a copyright holder publishes material online, they do not give up their rights under copyright law. While this source document is marked as © 2017 ANU Press, under current copyright law, literary works are subject to copyright whether they are tagged as such or not. I have removed the material as it is a copyright violation. Thanks for the report, Fraenir. Miki Filigranski, content that violates any copyrights is deleted. The person removing a copyright violation is under no obligation to re-write the content. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:26, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure this entire edit[16] is mostly a copyvio. I haven't checked all of the sources, but the ones that I have are clearly direct copy and pastes. 1. "...Upper Paleolithic, characterized by Trapezoid industries..." to "... the emergence of pottery at the end of this period" is a direct copy & paste from the same University of Arizona source above, pg. 477 abtract. "The combined evidence of charcoal, human bone, and freshwater food residues ..." sentence and "...wider distribution of successful maritime adaptations..." are also direct copy & pastes from [17]. I've checked two sections/sources, and both are complete copyvios. Do I need to check all of them? Fraenir (talk) 15:27, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

No you do not need to check all of them. I have presumptively removed all the content added to Japanese Paleolithic by Miki Filigranski. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:34, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much. Fraenir (talk) 15:39, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

I wasn't speaking to you Diannaa, yet to Fraenir. The editor is well informed about the topic and can easily re-write the content in the same period of time he is wasting to write the reports. He has chosen the second choice because of personal reasons which have something to do with me, actually, it's still him, not the Wikipedian content. If this satisfied him, oh well... That's what is not understandable for me - you, or Fraenir, should have warned me about the copyright violation and I could rewrite the content within hours. Now everything, seemingly, is lost. It is not constructive, it is a total destruction, not to mention that I am more than sure not everything did violate the copyright as you thought. However, if rules are as such then alright. I wrote seemingly because while I edit I save the revisions from time to time in Word files to not lose the work because of some technical issues. I think I will be able to restore the information very soon, but first, will read the instructions so I can do it properly, but thanks anyway.--Miki Filigranski (talk) 15:53, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

@Miki Filigranski: No, you misunderstand how things work on Wikipedia. You may not exactly copy or closely paraphrase information from other sites or sources and place them on this site. You may not simply brush it off and assume someone else will come and fix the issue (as you did above by stating that Fraenir "can easily re-write the content"). Looking through your edits, I can see at least three different articles where you have done this (based on those Diannaa has reverted and hidden). You must stop doing this now or you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Copyright violations are very serious, and they will not be tolerated here. Your dismissive attitude regarding these blatant violations is not acceptable. Please listen to and heed the warnings from Dianna and now from me. You will not get another chance. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyvios by Jon698

Thanks for responding to my ping at User talk:Jon698#Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and copyrighted information. You might also want to suppress this section which I removed after my initial post, and also take a look at David Graham (US politician)#Campaign themes which I added to my comment after my initial post. That David Graham article was declined at AfC three times before being accepted without any obvious added evidence of notability. I'm tempted to PROD but I don't want to push the issue... Funcrunch (talk) 16:09, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

The keynote speech is excess quotation from copyright material and not a copyright violation per se, so I did not perform revision deletion on that one. Content on David Graham (US politician) was copied from Ballotpedia, which is not released under a compatible license, so I have removed and revision-deleted. Thank you for your interest in helping with copyright cleanup. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:41, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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Adolf Naef edits

Hi Diannaa, thanks very much for your comments and guidance on my edits to the Adolf Naef article--they're extra appreciated, as I am new to editing Wikipedia. Can you point out which specific edit(s) of mine was/were the cause of copyright concern? In thinking back over my changes, I've identified three possibilities:

1. The photograph of Naef that I added to the infobox. I believe it is in the public domain based on its date--but is that insufficient? I realize on re-reading image copyright guidelines that it may be. Sadly, I haven't been able to track down any more details about that photo, but I have found another photo of Naef that, according to the library of the University of Zurich, will be in the public domain in 2019. Perhaps Naef will just have to remain invisible until then!

2. I moved several existing citations from "References" into a new "Works" subheading, because they did not fit my understanding of a citation. For example: the existing sentence "Naef visited and worked in Anton Dorn’s Zoological Station in Naples, Italy in 1908, studying the squid Loligo vulgaris, the subject of his dissertation." was followed by two references which comprised Naef's actual dissertation (a primary source). I found the information in that sentence--Naef's travel location and date and study subject--in multiple secondary sources, along with more details. So I expanded the sentence into two: "Naef visited Dohrn's Zoological Station in Naples, Italy in 1908. Although initially planning to collect eggs from a variety of animals, he ended up studying the embryology of the squid Loligo vulgaris." and cited a published biography (Boletzky 2000) with the understanding that secondary sources are generally preferred for Wikipedia citations. And I moved the two primary sources (Naef's dissertation) into Works, a subheading I had seen in other biographies (e.g. Arnold Lang). If this sort of change is frowned upon, I'd love to understand which part of my reasoning was flawed.

3. I have only just realized that the page's existing text (previous to any edits of mine) included an extensive copy-paste from the external page, "Adolf Naef - A Potted Biography." (I had added a link to that page under Further Reading during one of my edits, an addition which I now understand to be an error and which was deleted by XLinkBot.) The copied text runs from "Naef’s studies were framed within..." all the way to "...the Handwörterbuch der Naturwissenschaften." and it is, of course, still present on the page, since I was not the one who added it. I would be delighted to rewrite this section from scratch and I dare to think I could even make it somewhat more accessible to a general audience.

If the problem is not any of these three, I am certainly very eager to learn about and correct it! To my knowledge, all the text that I added was my own original composition and not published elsewhere, so it would be quite surreal to discover otherwise.

All the best, Cephalopodiatrist (talk) 22:33, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Your edits (all three edits) were removed by a bot, as you included a link to a blog (http://urhomology.blogspot.ca/2007/11/adolf-naef-potted-biography.html). Checking closely, I see that the blog is dated November 28, 2007, and the content in question was added to our article November 27 (the previous day). Therefore the blog copied from Wikipedia rather than the other way around. None of the overlapping content was added by yourself. So I was incorrect to warn you about copyright violations for those two reasons. I made a mistake and I apologize. I have restored your edits, except for the link to the blog, as there's nothing much there that we don't already have, and blogs are user-generated content and not considered suitable to add. Sorry your experience on Wikipedia has not been very good so far! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:18, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the quick and kind response! I hope to continue contributing as I am able. Cephalopodiatrist (talk) 03:49, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Amy Castle (entomologist)

Whoops, thank you for picking that up. A placeholder that I intended to come back to but clearly forgot. StellaMcQ (talk) 01:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright

Janet Holmes (linguist)

Hi Diannaa,

Thanks for letting me know. Could you please point out which part of the content did you take out?

Regards, TomCa — Preceding unsigned comment added by TomCa (talk • contribs) 03:01, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

The content was immediately after "Janet has published widely on an array of topics" and was identical to the source. It needs to (as much as possible) be paraphrased by putting it into your own words, putting the material in a different order, etc. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:38, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

User:Dushyantkumar

Hi Diannaa. Hope you're having a nice summer.

Despite the warning you left on their user talk, Dushyantkumar went ahead and uploaded File:Naagini Kannada.jpg as "own work". I went ahead and tagged it for speedy deletion per WP:F9 since it can be found in various place online prior to upload, but the editor in general seems to be having some major difficulty with image files. Not sure whether another attempt to explain image usage to them will have different results since they do not seem to be responding to posts left on their user talk. Maybe a short block will get their attention?

Their difficulty also seems to extend to articles as well since they have also created Naagini (TV Series), which is in a pretty bad state. Any opinions on whether the article is worth keeping? -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:23, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

We can't keep the image, even for fair use, as the only sources I can find are copyvio YouTube videos. I can't find any sources online for this TV show so it might be a prod candidate. Short blocks don't work well for copyvio; the editors tend to resume what they were doing immediately after the block expires. So I use and indef-block and will unblock if and when the editor can provide us with a statement that demonstrates that they have read and understand our copyright policy and intend to follow it in the future. Then after the unblock I monitor their contribs until I am sure they have got it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:57, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:17, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Possibly overly long quotations

Greetings. There is a lot of quote-blocked material at Wladimir Klitschko#Retirement, with sources, but I'm thinking the amount of words may exceed WP's copyright policies. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 19:20, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

The quotes are excessive and not very enlightening. I have removed them. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:32, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

RevDel request

This article has some copyright issues. - NitinMlk (talk) 22:30, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Diannaa, I've cleaned the article and marked it for RD1. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:14, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:45, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. BTW, this article is in need of revdel. - NitinMlk (talk) 17:50, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

I had a look and found some fairly minor copyvio. The material from radioandmusic.com is a big quotation and the webpage http://www.newsindiatimes.com/awesome-arijit/26475 copied from us rather than the other way around. I am stopping now. If you see something here that I am missing please let me know. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:14, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. There seems to be a bit more coyvios left. So, I will check it tomorrow. - NitinMlk (talk) 17:54, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

I have removed some copyvio added from http://www.zoom4india.com:80/entertainment/features/item/79193-my-life-has-always-been-a-mess.html on April 1. The large quotations are throwing off the copyvio detector results. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:49, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks again. :) NitinMlk (talk) 20:05, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

patten (band) - Need help with possible copyvio

Hi Diannaa!

At first I thought the last addition of text in the article patten (band) was copied from https://vk.com/wall291434180_1922 (September 2016), but it appears as though that post was taken from http://wayback.archive.org/web/20160926190655/http://new-team.org/viewtopic.php?t=67993, which was archived in Septemer 2016. The text however appeared on Wikipedia in this revision from July 2016 before being removed for being promotional. Not sure who is copying who here. Could you help investigate if this is a copyvio, or backwards copy, an if we need to (revert the artice, and) do WP:RD1s?

Thanks! (t) Josve05a (c) 02:49, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Noting the addition uses an access date of 9 March 2014 for some of the content, I checked back further and found that's when some of it was originally added, and the remainder was added on July 14, 2016, which is prior to the date of the earliest archived version of the new-team.org web page. So it looks to me like the page is a Wikipedia mirror. It also looks like someone with a conflict of interest is posting on the two websites (new-team.org and Wikipedia) in parallel. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:57, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Unattributed copy/pastes

Please can you find time to look at my comment here. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 07:26, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

I agree with your assessment. Let's wait a few days or a week and see if anyone responds to your comment before rolling back to an old version. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:02, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey @Sitush: I went ahead and did this today as per your suggestion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:23, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm glad you remembered because I didn't! - Sitush (talk) 07:00, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright, user kevinpwong

Hi Diannaa, thanks for the info. Want to make sure I'm updating wiki correctly. I edited the iHeartRadio wiki page because I work for the entity's parent company and need to update the app's functions and services - for instance, in December/January we launched an on-demand subscription service for music streaming, and that is not detailed in the page.

What's the best way to do this? We included citations along with the information, including articles from news outlets as well as press releases. Should I send you the information first for review? Thanks, let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinpwong (talk • contribs) 14:57, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kevinpwong. Thank you for your interest in working on 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. 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. Another editor has placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:32, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Words count

Hi Diannaa, how does someone go about checking the amount of words an article contains? Thanks.--Sein und Zeit (talk) 20:28, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi there Sein und Zeit. The way I do it is via a script: User:Dr pda/prosesize. This script excludes block quotes, captions, tables, and the like. Another alternative is to paste the article into a text editor and use it to perform the word count. Doing it that way on the Hitler article using TextEdit on the MacBook gives a word count of 13,909 including all words, even the [edit] links (to the bottom of the article proper, excluding See-also and below). For our purposes the script is a better option. If you need any help getting started using scripts, please let me know and I will try to help. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:08, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorted. Thanks very much.--Sein und Zeit (talk) 11:01, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Your comments and edits were very helpful. I'll take a bit more time and make sure to properly site and make necessary updates in accordance with the terms you helpfully provided. Shabby2020 (talk) 21:06, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

List of Birds

Hi Dianaa, as part of new page patrol I just came across List of birds of Grand Canyon National Park and List of birds of Channel Islands National Park. It seems the underlying data is taken from the national parks websites for Grand Canyon and Channel Islands], so as I understand it, if attributed, is public information as government website. However, the source is not attributed, which would be a minor offense. The NPS seems to take their data for Grand Canyon National Park from a publication called "Birds of Grand Canyon" by the Grand Canyon Association. I was wondering if this would then still fall under the government website waiver or may raise copyright concerns as we would know what license the NPS has? I think for the Channel Islands list this is more straight forward as the list is published in the name of the NPS. The main concern really is if this would fall under general indiscrimiate lists of things... _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk

Hi Jake. These are part of a series of articles created by Craigthebirder. The prose in each article has been copied from the related Wikipedia articles (for example, in List of birds of Grand Canyon National Park, the prose about plovers was copied from Charadriidae). Alphabetical lists are not copyrightable. Whether the articles merit inclusion in the encyclopedia or not is beyond the scope of my Wiki-fu. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:36, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Great, thanks for clarifying. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 13:49, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

User: Moldykarkin

Hi Diannaa. I saw the recent edits to Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner and wanted to make you aware of another article. You may have already checked it out, but I wanted to bring Craig Mackey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to your attention, as the user has added material there which could be copyvio. Apologies if you've already looked into this. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 22:17, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Paul and thanks for the tip. I am looking at Craig Mackey and Cumbria Constabulary. That's all he's edited so far is these three articles. Craig Mackey: I found no copyvio per se, some of the quotation came from http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140122182235/http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Witness-Statement-of-Deputy-Commissioner-Craig-Mackey2.pdf which is likely public domain or Open Govt License, but still. Regardless, I removed all his edits as unsourced. On Cumbria Constabulary I found his additions were not copyvio but again it's unsourced. On Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, some of the stuff that was removed was copy vio and some was similar unsourced negative stuff. I am going to contact the oversight team and see if they think the additions on all three articles warrant oversight. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:03, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Sounds like a good plan, particularly as he restored the unsourced stuff. This is Paul (talk) 21:24, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Update: Oversight was not done as it was not quite over that line, but they revision-deleted the material. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:25, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Olympic plagiarist back?

Just a heads up, no action needed, but we may have the IP/editor (sock farm?) that added so much copyvio/plagiarized content to the Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics back. I reverted one edit that substantively was a direct lift from an article in the LA Times, then later rewrote it; the editor (User:RKO Radio Pictures) just reverted to their version with no explanation. There's even a discussion of the edit, after a fashion, on the talk page, so no excuses for the revert. I'll keep an eye on it, but thought you should be aware there might be a new problem. Best! ----Dr.Margi ✉ 21:42, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Drmargi and thanks for the alert. Are there any revisions that need to be revision-deleted? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:15, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Maybe soon. I just gave the editor a warning, and I'd like to see if it works, then we can revdel away! ----Dr.Margi ✉ 22:34, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Later... Go ahead and revdel. The response to my warning was a recommendation I travel to a very hot place. Somehow, I don't see a lot of cooperation on the horizon. Do you need links? ----Dr.Margi ✉ 00:33, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

I think I got it all. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:18, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

You've got it all. Thanks again. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 11:45, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure rev-del-ing was needed here, particularly since there wasn't any consensus in the discussion Drmargi references for her interpretation of COPYVIO. We're talking about two sentences, neither of which were direct lifts. Most of the length of the removal is due to removal of sources; Drmargi removing them along with the text she didn't like is questionable in and of itself.

I'm also a bit displeased by the incendiary language Drmargi is using toward RKO, which I see as part of a disturbing pattern of OWNership by Drmargi of the LA 2024/2028 article (I tried to discuss this with Drmargi on her talk page; instead of responding to my concerns in a reasonable manner, she accused me of "throwing a tantrum"). The article's history is loaded with Drmargi reverting almost everyone else who edited the article. The article's talk page is loaded with Drmargi badgering everyone who disagrees with her. It's no wonder RKO cussed Drmargi out...Drmargi has been far too unkind toward him. me and virtually anybody else. Mind you, this is a person who has been stalking User:Robberey1705 for some time now, so it's not by any means her first instance of misbehavior. pbp 04:40, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Purplebackpack89, and thank you for your concern. I did my own check and determined it was copyvio before I did the revision deletion. This is not the place to discuss behavioural issues as I don't have time to help. Clearing yesterday's copyvio reports took eight hours and spending any additional time online is bad for my health so you will have to find another way to solve your disagreements. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:37, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

User:brandongunderson

Hello Diannaa,

I'm new here so all the new wiki markup and guidelines are new to me. Could you please clarify what was wrong in my page with copyright issues that prevented the page from being published? I hope to prevent this issue in future pages and edits I make as well. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.

Brandongunderson (talk)

Material that you included in the draft is identical to content on the copyright web page http://www.fashionablecanes.com/Dr-Gregory-House-Walking-Canes.html. We do not accept copyright content unless the copyright holder has released the material under a compatible license. Please see Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright for a simplified description of how copyright law applies to Wikipedia editing, or have a look at the copyright policy page WP:Copyrights. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:31, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

If I omit that content until I edit it myself or try to contact the company, can the page still be published without it? Thanks again for your help on the matter.

Brandongunderson (talk)

I already removed the copyvio content. I recommend submitting your draft for review by adding the template {{AFC submission}} to the top of the page so that an experienced reviewer can assess your draft. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:17, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

There was no copyvio, please restore

On my talk page I found the following notifications:
(Deletion log); 12:46 . . Diannaa (talk | contribs) changed visibility of a revision on page Garmsar: content hidden ‎(RD1: Copyright violations: https://www.waterlog.info/pdf/garmsar.pdf)
(diff | hist) . . Garmsar‎; 12:46 . . (-593)‎ . . ‎Diannaa (talk | contribs)‎ (remove copyright content copied from https://www.waterlog.info/pdf/garmsar.pdf)
The reference used says: "Public domain". Hence there is no copyvio. Please restore the deletion. Water and Land (talk) 20:44, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

I have restored it and added the required attribution. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:53, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Crown copyright#United Kingdom

While I probably should have rewritten the text in my own words, at Crown copyright#United Kingdom, in the bulletpoints, you will find that text on official Government websites is specifically waived from copyright protection, in order to improve access to government information. Would you please roll back your edits to Royal Army Medical Corps so I can commence the rewriting process. Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 23:13, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but I can't do that, because the specific web page you copied from (http://www.army.mod.uk/medical-services/29940.aspx) has a copyright notice © 2017 Crown Copyright. I was surprised by this because much of the UK government pages are released under the Open Government License or Open Parliament License. This particular webpage is not. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:46, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

1300–1400 in European fashion

Actually, and for the record, I realized afterwards it wasn't a copyvio, but material had (I think just by accident, by someone trying to paste into their homework perhaps) been duplicated from a little lower down in the article. This had also been used by the crap book I found on a search, but was original to WP, in fact I wrote some of it years ago. Sigh. Johnbod (talk) 01:58, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. It gets complicated sometimes! I have reversed the revision deletion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:33, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 14:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Confusing edition​ my Talk page

@Diannaa: Hey there 8 hrs ago you added a new section on my Talk page about Hindu Cosmology and about its deletion but nothing has been changed on Hindu Cosmology page Please double check what have you done on my Talk page User: IndianEditor 🍁 (talk) 8:09,12 August 2017 (UTC)

The content was removed by another editor, not myself. The removed material was copied from http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~goyal/age_of_universe.php or elsewhere online and the edit was reported by a bot on our copyright violation report. So I visited the article to do revision deletion and notified you as to our copyright rules. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:39, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Draft:The Mars Generation - No Copyright or Image Use Issues

Hi Diannaa!

There were no copyright or image violation issues since the owner provided the content and image for the Draft:The Mars Generation Wikipedia page.

I just talked to her and she will rewrite the intro/mission/history so there are no future issues...she said it was just easier that way. She wants to know how she can provide Wikipedia written permission to use The Mars Generation logo image. She also changed her mind on what licensing category the image should fall under but I don't think I'm able to do that. Do we just delete the image and upload it again?

On a different note, I would like to move the Draft:The Mars Generation page into my sandbox to work on it, but I have a redirect link in sandbox. Is it possible to move the Draft:The Mars Generation Wikipedia page into my sandbox?

Thank you Diannaa!

--Tracykarin (talk) 21:50, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on 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. Normally we permit logos as fair use, but they are not allowed in draft space or sandboxes, only in article space. So we can re-add the logo when the draft is accepted for publication.

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 placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. Third question: your draft could be moved to a userspace sandbox, but there's no point in doing that, as the same rules are in place regarding copyright etc. and it is no more private and functions in exactly the same way as a draft. I have removed the redirect from your sandbox so you can use it for something else if you like. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:24, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your alarm. That was true. I did not summarize the content.--Saber gouiez (talk) 05:48, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Arlington County Police Department

Diannaa - could you double-check your last edit here? Alchetron is a simple mirror and attributes Wikipedia at the bottom of their article. Kuru (talk) 16:16, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kuru. The content was added at 01:56, December 24, 2009. The content also appeared at http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/Police/divisions/operations/sos/PoliceDivisionsOperationsSosDefault.aspx which was the citation included at the time the content was added and is now a dead link. The archive link is here. Click through on the links "Auxiliary Officer Unit", "Crisis Negotiation Unit", and so on to view the copyright content on the Arlington Virginia Police website. I will add a correction edit summary and will cross-post this data to the article's talk page. Sorry, I should have done this before I left for the gym, I knew my edit summary for that one was wrong and I should have fixed it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:47, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Perfect - I assumed it was a bookkeeping issue, just wanted to make sure. Thanks for your tireless efforts! Kuru (talk) 15:17, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Re: Jugular Street Luge Racing

The website you provided has nothing to do with the material I supposedly "copied" from. My article was on a video game, while that weblink is to some college school. Please do not post links that have nothing to do with my "violation". I'll paraphrase from now on. You don't have to remind me again. Thanks. Videogameplayer99 (talk) 21:18, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, the correct url where I found the matching content was http://ca.ign.com/games/jugular-street-luge-racing/pc-661378. It was a copypaste error on my part. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:20, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Draft:The Mars Generation - No Copyright or Image Use Issues

Hi Diannaa!

Thank you for your response and making my sandbox available! I am fairly new at Wikipedia and realize there are many rules that everyone must follow to maintain Wikipedia's integrity and that's a good thing cause I Wikipedia is a great resource of unbiased information.

I am not a paid editor for any business, organization, or person and do not expect to receive and would never accept payment or compensation of any sort from anyone. I am a retired disable vet and my passion is to promote STEM/STEAM education, especially for our children. Creating a page on Wikipedia provides me the opportunity to do this and just have read and follow *all* of the rules.

I downloaded The Mars Generation logo from their Press Room webpage...this is the link that is on their page that I downloaded the image from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B899A57P7J9Za3ZWZEkxMEFjQjA/view?usp=sharing Since they provide the images to the Press, I assumed it was okay to use because when I read Wikipedia's rules on logo use, it says that logos with simple typefaces, individual words or geometric shapes are up-loadable without permission. When the image was tagged for deletion, I contacted the owner to ask for permission, she asked what licensing category I was using and said she did not want me using the one I selected. So I said I would need permission for the logo and was asking how I can provide that.

I will assure you that I will not copy any information from their website and their will be no copyright infringement and I will check and remove any links or citations that link back to the website.

Thank you for your guidance and support Diannaa...it's must appreciated!

Tracykarin (talk) 22:34, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Right to material from the owner

I received a message from you stating that t had used copyrighted material without evidence of permission but i have been given the right by the owner to use it to upload it on the page. Should i post it again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhruvdube (talk • contribs) 16:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@Dhruvdube: No, don't. How are we to verify that you have that permission? Ian.thomson (talk) 19:21, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

This is regarding the article Vinay Sahasrabuddhe. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder or have their permission, 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:26, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Hitler friends

I got a real problem with the new addition....but don't feel like getting involved with 2 edit warriors......things going downhill fast back and fourth edits changing the meening of the text. I wonder how much knowledge these two have of this topic really.....as ones using a primary source all over... the other ones quoting the Globe and Mail. Would be interested to know it these 2 editor have ever read anything about Ernst Moritz Hess.--Moxy (talk) 20:16, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

I had to stop reading the talk page for a couple reasons, and am simply trying to perform copy edits and check the citations to verify they back up what's been added / changed. I do this because it's important to me that the article maintain its GA status. I was surprised to see a copyvio being added. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:24, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Can we get you to delete Hitler Sein und Zeit (talk | contribs) Revision as of 11:48, August 15, 2017 ....copy paste of "Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris 1998, Volume 1 page 81....and later version Ian Kershaw (2013). Hitler. Penguin Books Limited. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-14-190959-2.. Will let you issue second warning if you like.--Moxy (talk) 17:36, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

I will do the rev-delete and issue a warning. Note this is a different editor from the one who did the copyvio yesterday (that was Mystichumwipe). Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:35, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Crown Memorial State Beach

Diannaa, The image you describe was already on the subject page before I started working on it. While I have done some editing of text on the subject text, including slightly changing the size of the photo to fit the inbox, I did not add (or subtract) images already on the page. I'm no expert on copyrights, and I have learned to leave adding/deleting images up to professionals who are. Bruin2 (talk) 01:40, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

The problem was not the image, it was the prose you added, which was copied pretty much unaltered from the copyright website http://www.ebparks.org/Parks/Crown_Beach. I removed it. Prose you find online is almost always copyright, and cannot be copied here; it's against the law to do so. All prose must be written in your own words. There's more information about copyrights and how it applies to Wikipedia 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 our copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:20, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Rephrased content

Is okay if i post the content in my own words? Do i have to give source for that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhruvdube (talk • contribs) 05:49, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

All content you add to this wiki needs to be written in your own words, and all content you add needs a source. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:16, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Visa policy of the Schengen Area

You flagged my recent edit as a possible copyvio. It was copied, but not from the site you suggested. It was from the referenced PDF, available at [27] (select the EN / PDF). The EU's copyright statement is available here [28]. I'm not sure if that's free enough for Wikipedia's use. LongHairedFop (talk) 18:17, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

I am not sure, but my opinion is that it is not liberal enough, as it does not explicitly permit derivative works. You might consider asking them at the email address provided at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html#droits — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:33, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

I've asked Wikipedia's copyright gurus on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#EU document copyright. ---- LongHairedFop (talk) 19:57, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

@LongHairedFop: It would make it easier to figure out what citation goes with what content if the citation is placed *after* the content, not before. Also, in the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:30, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Jay Franklin (baseball)

You just about drove me off Wikipedia...

• First, by editing the page as you did, you made it impossible to see specifically which material you "redacted".
• Second, Wikipedia's policy on biographies requires referencing from trusted sources. How many trusted sources do you think are available on an individual who spent just three weeks in the majors? Would you have preferred the article remained a stub?
• Third, you deleted material that is a matter of record; and a baseball pitcher's career record is nearly universally written in the same manner and order. - "Franklin posted a career record of 28-1 with 363 strikeouts, three no-hitters, seven one-hitters and 15 shutouts." - A matter of record. How many ways can this be written?
• You were correct in this instance: "It was also at Madison that he picked up the nickname Jay; with five players named John, Warhawks Coach Tom Christie needed a way to keep everyone straight." - Agreed, this sentence could have been further rewritten to avoid the appearance of plagiarism.
• This sentence was rewritten and corrected as it was factually incorrect: "Since Major League Baseball started its first-year player draft in 1965, the Washington area has produced just three other players taken in the top 10 picks: McLean High grad Seth Greisinger went sixth overall to the Detroit Tigers in 1996, while Severna Park natives Gavin Floyd and Mark Teixeira went fourth and fifth, respectively, to the Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers in 2001." Again, this type of material is a matter of record. The author in question simply collated it (and got it wrong).
• That's all I could recreate as you prevented me from seeing my "previous" edits. Restore that ability and I'll rewrite the sections to which you took objection.CarlitosCorazon 07:19, 16 August 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CharleyHart (talk •

contribs)

Sorry to hear you will be leaving Wikipedia. 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. In addition to the material found by the bot, I found some material had been from The Washington Post. I agree its hard/impossible to paraphrase baseball stats but that's not what I removed. There was prose on his high school days, descriptions of injuries, and the like. I can send you the deleted material by email if you like, but I'm not sure there's any point, as you've reproduced pretty much all of the removed material here on my talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:08, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Delete sorce "Dong Sheng"

Hi Diannaa, can You kindly delete my page "Dong Sheng" from Wikipedia?. Thanks

Sorry, it no longer qualifies for G7 speedy deletion (one author who has requested deletion or blanked the page), as several other people edited the article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:00, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Adult female short-haired chihuahua (sleeping).jpeg

Thank you Diannaa for your assistance.

The copyright owner, whilst having provided me with permission to use the image, is wary of privacy and so I will not be able to email the permission.

I intend therefore to place the image in question under the guise of non-free fair use, as the image is being used for factual non-commercial purposes.

Regards

UPDATE - I have reconsidered and, for simplicity, please delete existing upload for me. Thank you Diannaa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gfoxwood (talk • contribs) 12:16, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Done. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:10, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Jesus ben Ananias

The reverted edit contained a list of facts, and the amount of text was short. This subject, on both Jesus ben Ananias and Josephus on Jesus, has been subject to arbitrary "patrolled" edits from POV editors, who have removed essentially any mention of the proposition that there are many similarities between the New Testament figure Jesus of Nazareth and the Josephus character. The list of similarities is factual and was not copied word for word. Nor was the author who had posted at josephus.org (a scholarly site posting relatively undisputed facts) obvious for attribution, but that is irrelevant, as the facts stand for themselves from well known texts.

There is simply no copyvio problem with a single paragraph drawing from the single most comprehensive source adapting the wording on the facts. If there was you could have dealt with it by modifying the text in a copyedit. The choice to revert rather than simply cut the wording back to the clear facts suggest you are part of this POV that is "patrolling" these articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.94.233 (talk) 13:22, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Copying a paragraph from elsewhere online is indeed a copyright violation. The patrolling administrator is under no obligation to re-write the content. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:26, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Even a totally unattributed paragraph - which this wasn't - is fair use, especially on a factual matter where the text is mere reporting

A copyvio revert leaves the author's version inaccessible so that themselves or others have to wholly rewrite it rather than adapting it to meet your arbitrary criteria. That is an oppressive practice and edit, and in the case of a goodwill edit you should be moving that material to the talk page where it remains accessible.

You haven't answered the concern about whether you are part of the POV "patrolling" this article. Are you in fact a believing Christian, or an atheist or Muslim invested in the theory that Jesus was a historical man without the ability to do miracles? The article has to be marked POV for failing to point out the only reason that anyone actually cares about Jesus ben Ananias, which is, this figure is either 1. proof of Josephus incorporating questionable stories thus making him useless as a validation for the existence of Jesus or James or John the Baptist 2. prototyping or reporting a character in War of the Jews that is later adapted in the Gospels by himself or other authors 3. evidence for a rather remarkable claim that there were many prophets named Jesus wandering around Jerusalem, annoying the authorities, getting whipped to the bone, refusing to apologize nor condemn his torturers, and dying horribly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.94.233 (talk) 13:37, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

My only reason for visiting the article was to remove the copyright violation. Placing the copyright material on the talk page is not an option, as we cannot host copyright material anywhere on this wiki, including talk pages. If you need to view the removed material you can do so at the page where it was copied from, or look at the bot report (click on the iThenticate link to view the overlapping content). — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:47, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Taylor (Firm)

Please verify edits prior to tagging for copyright . Removing the entire Corporate History where there was no copyright violation is excessive and abusive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjkoncur (talk • contribs) 13:43, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

The material was was copied unaltered from http://taylorstrategy.com/about, and was therefore a copyright violation. The page is marked at the bottom as "Taylor 2017 ©". — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:48, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Could you please provide insight for why you edit down to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taylor_(company)&oldid=796088849 as opposed to other company listings that are not flagged (for example) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman_(firm) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjkoncur (talk • contribs) 14:23, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Certainly. All content needs to be sourced. Please see Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources for more information about sourcing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:08, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Jesus ben Ananias 2

IP copied and pasted content from the following link: http://www.jcrelations.net/Transformations+in+Telling+the+Passion+Story.2191.0.html?L=3 Copyright from 2010. Could you please delete it, thank you. You've also recently deleted copyright violation from the same IP in the article recently. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 02:58, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:36, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Ettore Sottsass

Dear Diannaa, I understand very well, i thought citations would be enough to avoid plagiarism problems. Best, Philippe49730--Philippe49730 (talk) 08:57, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

British Navy Board and Admiralty Board Flags copyright

Hi Dianna there is a discussion going on here: Wikipedia talk:Non-free content regarding two flag files that were originally uploaded by an author who released his based upon versions under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication they were wrongly assessed as a copyright infringement against CRW Flags.I have since found an official source showing the actual flags here: here these are under the OGL V3 licence UK as part of that website can you take a look and give some feed back I also wanted to know can we use the images from the official site or what would be the best way forward so we can have an image or at least correct flag image for these articles Navy Board and Admiralty Board.--Navops47 (talk) 13:09, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Macduff Lifeboat Station

Thanks for your note on the copyright of content on the Macduff Lifeboat Station page.

I am authorised to use this content as I wrote some of it for the RNLI. The RNLI allows the use of its content for education and promotion. If you wish to contact me about this you can email me at (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike Rawlins (talk • contribs) 19:27, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

@Mike Rawlins: Thank you for your interest in working on wikipedia. However, you cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder or have their permission, 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:40, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of one of my subpages

Diannaa, why did you delete User:Flyer22/Pine Valley (All My Children)? Sure, I haven't gotten around to recreating that article, but I don't see why the subpage needed to be deleted, especially when my other subpages still exist. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:12, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Flyer22 Reborn. I deleted it because it appeared at the list of broken userspace redirects at User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects/Userspace. If you want it back that's no problem. Alternatively I could restore User:Flyer22 Reborn/Pine Valley (All My Children) which was also recently deleted. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Alavi Bohras

Hello sir, I have created a gallery in Alavi Bohras page, but could not add new images. After uploading new ones it doesn't get displayed as a result it couldn't be fetched in the gallery. Please explain... Thanks.--NoorAlavi (talk) 04:52, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

When adding to a gallery, don't wikilink the photo, don't ask it to align right, and don't make it a thumbnail. All images should be listed between the opening gallery mark-up and the closing gallery mark-up. Here's what I did to fix — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:34, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Near-death experience page

Hello Diannaa, I seek your advice with respect to an issue I am facing on the near death experience. I undid one of the recent edits and asked the editor to take it to the Talk page see [29] and he refused (see [30]) and this despite the fact that information from a review article (ref name=Parnia2014rev) is completely lost in the edit he made. Given that this is edit war, what is the best course of action please? should I re-undo the edit and slap an edit war template on the person's talk page ? Josezetabal (talk) 06:33, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

I see the other editor has already opened a discussion on the talk page. That's the first step in any dispute resolution: Discuss on the talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:36, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Information deleted from my draft

Hi Diannaa, thanks for reviewing my draft (Draft:Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art). All of the work that I had put in for two weeks has been deleted due to copyrighting issues. While I understand how serious it is, I now have nothing to work off of to fix my mistakes. Is there any way I can see that information again to work from? I worked so hard on my research and would like to correct my errors. Thank you. Kt161 (talk) 13:41, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

I can send you a copy by email if you like, but first you will have to activate your Wikipedia email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:06, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Mastiksoul page

Hi Diannaa, thank you for reviewing Mastiksoul's page. I will definitely make sure to license our text, given that his biography is taken from his own page, which we own. Would you recommend us doing this, or just paraphrasing instead? Please note I am Mastiksoul's label (4Kenzo Recordings) manager. In either case, is there any way we can please remove the redirecting from Mastiksoul's page to a "Only Love" Shaggy remix page in the meantime? There is absolutely no reason why when somebody looks Mastiksoul up on Wikipedia, it would lead to a song that he once remixed... Thanks! 4kenzo (talk) 14:09, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

The content you added was both a copyright violation and "horribly promotional" to quote the person who initially removed it. So I recommend that you not bother with getting the material compatibly licensed as it would not be accepted for publication in its present state. Also, the article was deleted via the articles for deletion process, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mastiksoul (2nd nomination), which means that in May it was determined that he's not notable enough at this time to qualify for an article. The article will speedily be deleted again unless his situation has changed a lot in the meantime.

A 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 placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:26, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, understood, thank you for elaborating. Can you please explain then why there is a Mastiksoul page on the French Wikipedia, where he is apparently "notable enough"? If I try to submit a page on the Portuguese Wikipedia, will he be "notable enough"? I'm confused as to why the criteria is different or interpreted differently in different languages. Also, could you please reply to the second part of my original question, regarding whether it is possible for us to remove this 'redirection' to a page that has pretty much nothing to do with him, please? Thanks! 4kenzo (talk) 14:48, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Each language Wikipedia is independent and has different policies and guidelines. The redirect can be discussed/deleted via WP:RFD. — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:33, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Also, please let me add that he has definitely "had a single or album on any country's national music chart" (Portuguese music charts) as is a condition under the artist eligibility criteria... so I am confused as to why he was determined not notable enough at this time to qualify for an article. Please elaborate. Thank you! 4kenzo (talk) 16:27, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) The guidelines at WP:MUSICBIO only suggest that someone may may be notable. There still needs to be sufficient independent, reliable sources to satisfy WP:GNG, which is why the article was deleted. — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:33, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Draft:List of neuro

Hi, thank you for advising about copyright issues. I deleted the page my self. Gcastellanos (talk) 02:14, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT)

Dear Diannaa,

Thank you for your information regarding copyright concerns for Neurologic music therapy (NMT) pages. I am actually working on editing this page on bahalf of Drs. Thaut (Michael and Corene Thaut) who is a founder of NMT. I discuss with Drs. Thaut about the contents and texts before I edit. In case I worked with them for this pages, I am wondering that I still violate the rule/policy of wikipedia regarding the copyright. Thank you so much! Kyurim1 (talk) 15:35, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on 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. 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 about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:15, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Just noting that Alexbrn posted the same CoI message there a few weeks ago.—Odysseus1479 23:01, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I will remove the duplicate message, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Draft: High Watch Recovery Center

Hi Diannaa,

Thank you very much for flagging the possible copyright violations. I have made changes that (I think) address your concerns.

Specifically, I added back some of what you removed from the New Milford Spectrum in a manner I believe is proper. I also left out the references to highwatchrecovery.com, as you had done.

I hope this addresses your concerns and if not, please let me know.

Best regards,

Jason

I found and removed some copyvio. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:18, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

I changed the word "facility" to "structure" ... I hope that is consistent with your goal avoiding a copyvio. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonperillo (talk • contribs) 02:32, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Advice about copyvios and paraphrasing from primary (published) source

Hi Diannaa, I need your opinion and advice on copyvios on the Rene Guenon article (I see that you are working on copyright cleanup).

The old version of the article (see here) included many copyvios (from the published English translation of Guenon's works) and paraphrasing from the same primary source. This was discussed many times: for example here, and here. One admin even complained to editor TwoHorned that he was reinserting the copyvios after he removed them [31].

The editor (User:TwoHorned) responsible for inserting the copyvios again and again was blocked, but now a new editor has started gradually making partial reverts to reinsert the copyvios section by section.

If you look at the old version, here, with the exception of the Biography and the Reception section, all other sections include as their (almost) only source lengthy quotes, text and paraphrasing from the same primary source (English translation of Guenon's works).

In the current version, this is the case for example in the section Metaphysical core and in the section Other_writings_in_metaphysics.2C_hermeticism_and_cosmological_sciences. In these two sections, almost everything is quoted and paraphrased from the same primary source.

The new editor (Unamroma (talk · contribs)) wants to keep the copyvios in the article, and is continuing re-inserting more of the copyvios from previous versions of the article.

I need to know if I am correct that they should be removed and not re-inserted. Thanks..--Dekacarandaebonelm (talk) 19:02, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

User:Dekacarandaebonelm, as already mentioned in the talk page, please underline the excerpts that you believe to be copyvios. I have already checked many of your vandal edits are not justified by copyvio argument. I will be analyzing them with you if you just indicate these passages. Unamroma (talk) 20:54, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

@Dekacarandaebonelm: I suspect you are correct but the case is beyond the scope of what I am prepared to handle at the moment. I suggest you list the article for cleanup at WP:CP. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:24, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Hi, Diannaa. Thank you for the information about copyrights. I am new to Wikipedia. I have received permission from the source to use its written materials from the pages you highlighted. I have sent that correspondence to permissions-en. Can you please share with me what the next steps are to return my edits to the page? Many thanks.

108.32.63.122 (talk) 20:27, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Some of the content was copied from a webpage belonging to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and some from a McGowan Institute web page. I think you'd better wait for the OTRS team to process your permission email. Another option is to re-write your additions in your own words instead of copying from the corporate web pages. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:32, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello, again. The OTRS team has noted the permission received on the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine talk page. Will I be able to make edits now, or is there something else that I need to do? Many thanks for your help. 108.32.63.122 (talk) 19:39, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

You can re-add content but only from the web page noted on the OTRS ticket. Please make sure you provide attribution, as described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Copying material from free sources — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:21, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I hope I have it correct now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ga2wan2 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Hi. I see in the articles Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Sébastien Balibar, and others, you included material translated from the French Wikipedia. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this legal requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:23, 24 August 2017 (UTC) Template:Notification Hi, please just tell me how should I mention the item is translated from French to English. I did translation from en to fr quite often and e have the following mention in French items : * Template:Traduction/Référence. Is it the same with English Wikipedia?--JCL16 (talk) 13:36, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi. Just to be sure I followed now the legal reqs when translating : after having translated Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Sébastien Balibar full articles (i.e. new biographies articles), I've also add a missing section to an existing English bio (Jean-Baptiste Waldner). As you did, I've mentioned in the history summary "adding 'Nanocomputers and swarm intelligence' missing section - translated form french Wikipedia". Is that correct ? Thanks for any advice, I'm quite new on en.wikipedia and not yet familiar with all the procedures--JCL16 (talk) 14:52, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

@JCL16: There's two things you need to do: (1) State in your edit summary that the material was copied and where you got it. Here is a sample edit summary. (2) Optional: Place a {{translated page}} template on the article talk page at the destination article. Here is a sample template. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:04, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the advices. I will complete the articles according them.--JCL16 (talk) 06:53, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Spanish Civil War & appologies

Hello Diannaa! I'm sorry if the "Jesterday" joke-attempt wasn't funny. (However a nice linguist explained the Y/J issue in detail.) But now for a serious matter. Given what you have written earlier (my impression of you as contributor), wouldn't I be the least surprised if your knowledge (and interest also, perhaps ?) of the Spanish Civil War is of a very high standard. In my opinion does our article suffer of/from severe problems. Or at the very least might do so. (also including "surrounding articles"). I discovered this, as the article (until I made a correction) stated "The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, originally under the leadership of José Sanjurjo, against the elected, leftist government of the Second Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña.". Although the main occurrence is true, did this event happen in 1934, and is more or less insignificant in the context of the actual outbreak, in July 1936. So do Anthony Beevor also say, more or less, in my only reliable source (which sadly just is available in Swedish) [32] - especially interesting parts of this article begins at line 5 "Det verkar.." (try Google Translator Swedish->English, it actually appears to work better now than earlier. Although ambiguos words still can result in a very strange word in the context. But apart from such errors, do I think it will be understandable enough) And about the "José Sanjurno coup" , third part "Om man bortser..". (I'm certain You are aware of these matters already, but I still want to show you "my source" so to speak). Further - History (or parts of it) is sometimes reevaluated. Like who killed all those Polish officers found in today's Belarus, today we know that Stalin was to blame for these killings. And while discussing that person, did his successor as General Secretary of the USSR Communist Party, Nikita Chrustjov, reveal a whole lot more about Stalin's tyranny. And parts of the history was rewritten. But if just one author comes up with an idea, and isn't followed by others, nor included in encyclopedias published 20 years later etc, in such cases do I believe that we (at the most) can present a such discovery as a theory. The wide majority and recognized quality of authors surely must be our primary way of describing the history. (?) In this article is it stated that the outbreak (or coup) was planned four months prior to July 19th. I'm open to new revealings but I have never before heard any other reason for the military coup initially led by Emilio Mola, but the one about first a nationalist assassination of a republican police officer. Followed by the Madrid police murder of José Calvo Sotelo (as Gil-Robles and some others couldn't be found). And when the government refused to take some kind of action, then Mola and other generals began the coup which soon led to the war. NB! This is just what I have thought for some 25 years, and I haven't read that much about this war. But I strongly fear that far too much of what our article tells as of now, is based on very shaky grounds. I base this on 1. What Beevor states (from line 5) 2. Checked Swedish encyclopedias published in the early 1940's , 1950's, 1960's and the CD-version of the last (?) major printed Swedish encyclopedia (from 2000) - and none of them mention any "four month planned coup". 3. Our lead impairs heavily with the Spanish one. To this can I add, that I can well imagine that many generals had ideas of overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic. But I strongly doubt that there was a specific plan that led to this coup. But if there are a sufficient amount of recognized authors that have accepted this idea, is it of course different. However does Beevor not appear to be included in a such group of authors. He also states there's a large disagreement about the reasons for this war (line 5..) If you have the interest and time, do I think that you most certainly are a contributor of the demanded caliber for this important task. And that was not a joke ! Boeing720 (talk) 17:25, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the external link, but have a look at [33] - a full translation, and the main reason for my fears. And that part should then be deleted. Boeing720 (talk) 00:07, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

@Boeing720:Sorry I don't have time to help work on pages relating to the Spanish Civil War. But, are you saying you added some copyright material to your sandbox? If so it should be removed and I will revision-delete it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:09, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

No worries. I just wanted to see IF this possibly could be something for you. I can however see how busy you are. I'll remove the translated text at once ! Thanks ! Boeing720 (talk) 22:42, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

The text is now deleted. Boeing720 (talk) 22:55, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Revision deletion done. Sorry I can't make time to help. I am trying to limit my editing time so as to ensure I don't suffer ill effects from extended periods of sitting / working online. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:35, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

CSD-copyvio / Muntra Tank

Hi,

When spotting a copyvio, IMO a good idea is to double-check the article history for versions which are OK. Staszek Lem (talk)

I normally do that, but must have missed doing so for this instance. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:06, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

American Piano Company

Hi Diannaa. I was a little suspicious of the format of the text added by an anon IP here. I wonder did you want to take a closer look? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:59, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

I was unable to find any of this prose online. However the whole addition could be removed as unsourced, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:34, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks for checking. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Dallas McCarver

Hi,

This G12 was declined by Patar knight, but the licence used (copied form Everipedia) is CC-BY-SA 4.0, which is not compatible with Wikipedia according to Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright. The site just says Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, but the link given is for version 4.0 (so I'm assuming it's 4.0, as apparently has Patar knight). I've deleted the probable copyvio. Should the history be revdeled? Or have I got this all wrong? Thanks. Adam9007 (talk) 00:24, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

It took some digging but here is their license page: https://everipedia.org/wiki/everipedia-terms/ which displays a link to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. This is not a compatible license (because of the share-alike part). I will do some revision deletion in a minute here. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:39, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Are you sure the lead isn't a copyvio too? Adam9007 (talk) 00:49, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Its okay, as it contains no creative content and is impossible to re-word. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:53, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

My bad, I found that Everipedia page as well, but the Creative Commons summary page for CC BY-SA 4.0 is unhelpfully identical (except for the name) to the one for CC BY-SA 3.0, and I didn't think that anything at the more info link made the two incompatible, which I now realize is not what the table at WP:COMPLIC says. Do you have a link to the Wikimedia Legal team's reasoning for the incompatibility as mentioned in footnote 2 on that page? Thanks, ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 03:58, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Patar knight: I don’t know where that is, but it may be obsolescent; see m:Terms of use/Creative Commons 4.0/Legal note. Unless it’s an issue specific to ENWP … Maybe you can find more background in the discussion on the parent page’s Talk, which links to a poll with some 60% support for adopting CC 4.0. I have no idea whether or not that proposal is still a going concern; perhaps there’s something incompatible in the current TOU that will make a ‘package’ of changes necessary to implement it.—Odysseus1479 04:51, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)x2 See Wikipedia_talk:FAQ/Copyright#CC-BY_4.0_compatibility.3F. Basically the short of it is that a licensing upgrade would solve the problem but lacking a licensing upgrade CC-BY-SA 3.0 is stricter than CC-BY-SA 4.0 so 4.0 licensed text is not compatible with current WMF projects that operate under 3.0 TonyBallioni (talk) 05:14, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright issues on Duterte wiki

Hi Diannaa,

Thanks for pointing it out. I revised the text to resolve the issue and would welcome your input. Also, I noticed the same problem in some of the other entries on the Duterte wiki, but I'm not sure if I should go in and correct them.

Thanks again Randall tor (talk) 03:23, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Melvyn Weiss

Hello,

I have been instructed to edit Mel's Wiki page because it currently has nothing about him. I am unsure as to why my changes have been declined. I have received this bio of Melvyn from a factual source and did not take anything out of the previous Wiki page. Please revert this to the changes I made on August 23rd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballroombika (talk • contribs)

Thank you for your interest in working on 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. 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 about conflict of interest and copyright on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:29, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Melvyn Weiss copyvio

Hi Diannaa, can you rev-del the revisions in between these two; it's a copyvio again. Home Lander (talk) 14:42, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the alert. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:44, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Hope you don't mind I modified the section title below this one; a template was somehow included in the title and broke it up. I hadn't yet seen a section title that was missing its edit button, but that one was. Home Lander (talk) 14:49, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

All fixed now. Thank you — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:57, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

connected contributor Melvyn Weiss

Hello Dianaaa,

I am technically a connected contributor-- Yet, I have never met Melvyn, nor am I being paid. I am just editing his wikipedia to add his education and career from the goodness of my heart. In the case of copyright---how can something that's factual not be approved? It simply discusses his education and career from an unbiased stance.

Quote from RadioLab

Greetings Dianaa,

I cannot see what I had contributed on that page now, but in my edit summary I noted that I had used a quote.

Was the quote too long? Did I forget the quotation marks?

I would appreciate in your initial edit summary having more details as to why my contribution was removed, so I can relate that to WP policy and help me learn how to avoid doing this in the future. I also agree with these values as well.

Thank you, A ri gi bod (talk) 16:21, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

While your edit summary stated that the material was a quotation, there were no quotation marks. Also, we don't include content such as "Good news people!" even as part of a quotation. I think the main thrust of your edit was that an older tree had since been found, so perhaps you could just say that in your own words and avoid the use of a quotation altogether. Don't forget to cite your source. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:46, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I forgot to included quotation marks and should have- thanks for catching that mistake. Since the my original edit is no longer visible, can you still see it? If yes, then did I also forget the citation as well?--A ri gi bod (talk) 16:35, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

I can still view your addition. The citation was provided. It was from http://www.radiolab.org/story/91722-be-careful-what-you-plan-for/, and the content you added was identical to the paragraph that starts "Good news people!" and ends "Phew!". — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:58, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Cuenca Public Transportation Statistics

Hi, Diannaa. Re your removal of transportation statistics from the Cuenca article: as I remember it (dimly, maybe incorrectly), somebody sourced some statistics from the Moovit website, and I tweaked them. I don't see how that was violation of copyright as opposed to properly sourced data. Can you explain? Awien (talk) 21:01, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

The original wording was identical to that found on the cited website. Your edits did not remove the copyright violation. If you wish to re-add the stats that would be fine but the prose descriptions would have to be re-written in your own words. the specific source for Cuenca was https://moovitapp.com/insights/en/Moovit_Insights_Public_Transit_Index_Ecuador_Cuenca-3813. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:07, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Ok, I hadn't noticed that the wording was copied. I'll try to add back the information in an acceptable form when (if) I have time. Awien (talk) 21:50, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

You might be interested to know that the edit was one of over a hundred such entries citing the same source as a form of ref-spam. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:29, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violation in history of Jwalamalini temple and Narasimharajapura

Hi, a user added copyrighted material to both the articles, I have cleaned it though. May you want to delete it from the history? Thanks Hitro talk 20:10, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done, also checked his uploads at the Commons — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:36, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

User:vijayantgovinda

Hi Diannaa. Regarding the copyright violation for No Scalpel Vasectomy, i changed the concerned line in my own words. And cited the source too. I appreciate the help. I would like to improve the article to a good article. If you could guide me to the right template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vijayantgovinda (talk • contribs) 08:20, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Al Smith

I don't think any great harm is done by having a distinct article Al Smith presidential campaign, 1928, but as I reminded Jon, there is no point in having two articles with a similar level of detail. He'd have to redact Al Smith. Thanks for picking up the cut-n-paste. Rhadow (talk) 21:17, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Removal of Public Transportation Statistics Data - user: JayMeydad

(your message: "Copyright problem on Miami and elsewhere")

Hi Diannaa Regarding the claimed copyright violation on data about public transportation - all the data I added rephrased before added to wikipedia. Moreover, with every edit I made I added a link to the source, which is open for any user online and does not contains any copyrighted information. The statistical data is very relevant to the articles I added it and enrich the content with information that people who looks for this type of data may find highly valuable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JayMeydad (talk • contribs) 12:26, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

@JayMeydad: Sorry but the pages are marked as © 2017 Moovit - All Rights Reserved. That means that the content can't be copied here, as to do so is a violation of copyright law and Wikipedia's copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:57, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

@Diannaa: Please check Moovit site again: https://moovitapp.com/insights ; The data is now available under CC license (as described now at the footer). Can you please undo removal?. — JayMeydad

That is a compatible license, so I will revert the removals as soon as I have time (hopefully today). There were a couple removed by other users for reasons other than copyvio, so I will not be restoring those. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:07, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

I hven't seen the remoed tet (since itis revdel'ed), but I ust wnt to point out that merly numbers and figures (such as stats) and not copyrightable, despite any possible "© 2017 - All Rights Reserved" (copyfraud), since it would be too simple to be copyrightable. Only way such a thing woud be copyrightable would be if it was copied verbatim. But again I have no idea hat the actual text was which was removed. (t) Josve05a (c) 16:26, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

@Josve05a: In addition to numerical data, the descriptive prose for each statistic was copied verbatim. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:31, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Edition visibility in Zaragoza

Hi Diannaa. You changed the visibility of three revisions in the article for Zaragoza, but I think you made a mistake. One is correct (and you reverted the edition), but the other two just added citations that remain in the article. I see nothing wrong with these citations, by the way. I don't know if that visibility change can be reverted but, if possible, I think you should revert it for those two changes.--Gorpik (talk) 10:38, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

The reason I did it that way is because in order to completely remove the copyright violation, all intervening diffs need to be revision deleted, from the insertion of the copyvio to its removal. This means that sometimes harmless diffs have to be hidden. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:48, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Copying licensed material requires proper attribution (re: Austronesian alignment)

Hello. You left a message on my talk-page. I responded there to indicate that I do not know what material you are talking about that was copied from Blust's ebook, The Austronesian Languages. Please specify what that material is. Raphinou (talk) 13:18, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Replied there. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:53, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Looked over the iThenticate report. Left a reply to it on my talk-page. I do ask that you remove the revision you included in the references section of the Wikipedia article on Austronesian alignment. Thanks. Raphinou (talk) 00:15, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Replied there. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Replied to your comment there. Thanks also for removing the revision.Raphinou (talk) 15:50, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Potentially libelous material

Does this seem like something that should be revdeled? Thanks for your opinion. 32.218.152.249 (talk) 14:40, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Before an edit war starts, one should point out that the article is about the company, not the principals. Therefore, if the allegations are to be recorded, they belong in a biography. Rhadow (talk) 15:51, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

"if the allegations are to be recorded"?? There are no sources (The cited sources are bogus links.), so why would the allegations be "recorded"? 32.218.152.249 (talk) 16:04, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)As a note for D, I've emailed oversight asking them to assess the situation as a whole dating back to the 2015 BLP vios. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:16, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) I've revdelled the material as a BLP violation. BLP applies to "any Wikipedia page", and any unsourced or poorly sourced material should be removed immediately. Professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic secondary or tertiary sources would be needed to add those claims to any article. No comment on whether it'd belong on that page or an independent biography. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:21, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks TonyBallioni and Ian.thomson. 32.218.152.249 (talk) 16:26, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Amos Deason Home

Hello Diannaa,
When you have time to check it, this article seems to have some copyright violations. Woodlot (talk) 19:08, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

I found that the Wordpress page is dated after the material was posted here so that's a Wikipedia mirror. If the prose was copied from some other source it's not something I am able to find online. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:24, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

My mistake, did not consider "mirror". Thanks. Woodlot (talk) 21:03, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Are you sure this was a copyvio?

Are you sure this was a copyvio? You can't copyright the statistics, and it was not verbatim from the source. - Jmabel | Talk 04:04, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

The specific source for Bursa was here. The reason I removed it is because the descriptive prose was copied unaltered from the source web page. While copying numerical data is okay, copying verbatim the accompanying prose is a copyright violation. This entry was one of over a hundred such edits by this user citing the same website, as a form of ref-spam. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:51, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Transport in HK

Hi Diannaa, I see you deleted my edits. Can you restore it? And why did you delete my edit and other edits? My edits were not copied.

Thanks.101.178.163.208 (talk) 05:40, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

I did not delete your edits; I removed a copyright violation that had been added on June 26. Your edit was hidden in the page history as part of the revision deletion process, but the material you added was not removed. Please check this diff which shows additions to the page from 07:46, June 26, 2017‎ to present, and you will see what I mean. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:15, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio on CZ 75

Hello. This edit added text copied verbatim from http://cz-usa.com/product/cz-75-sp-01-tactical-9mm-black-3-dot-tritium-sights-18-rd-mags/ , so would you mind hiding it? Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 16:42, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:40, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

English Patriot Man

Hi. Could you look over the edits of Sein und Zeit with an eye to determining if this is another of English Patriot Man's many socks? They began editing just after Robinson98354, the last of EPN's known socks, was blocked. I think I have enough evidence to file an SPI, but it would be quicker if you were to take a look, as you are familiar with this sockmaster's editing, I believe. Certainly, the subject area overlap between the three is a perfect match, since it's all about Nazi racial policy. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:41, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

If you think it's better that I file an SPI, just let me know, and I'll do that. Beyond My Ken (talk) 11:52, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

I think we should go straight to SPI and have posted what I have so far at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/English Patriot Man. I will keep looking for more evidence. Feel free to add your findings while I continue to look. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:59, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

I have used the Contribution Surveyor as an aid to locating further evidence: see User:Diannaa/sandbox. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 12:05, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

If you need anything from me, drop me a note on my talk page or send me an e-mail. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:32, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Fetal abduction

Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied from the copyright web page https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267260633_Cesarean_Kidnapping_Maternal_instinct_Malingering_and_Murder. 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) 21:13, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

to Diannaa Yes I think your edit rollback was excessive and premature. I just noted in article talk that Parker paper was source of some of the new cases on list. But obviously I am in middle of editing searching for better sources and rewriting list. Did you read what you delete? 4 cases and 4 attempted cases are missing from version plus much editing. Also you deleted other items not on her list which I found through google, as well as format tags like TOC margin. It would be courtesy to first send message to ask whether working on this list as stated in article talk.-Yohananw (talk) 22:22, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

I removed copyright content only (eight paragraphs), not the TOC template or any other content. The TOC template was removed by someone else after I left the page. Content was removed to bring the article in compliance with our copyright policy and copyright law. I can send you the removed content via email if you like, or you can view it at the source article. It will need to be completely re-written in your own words before you re-add it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:48, 31 August 2017 (UTC)