User talk:Gaia797

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Recent edit reversion[edit]

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

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DearUser:Shpilbrick,

Thank you for your suggestions! I am about to add the licence statement in the pages where I added content. Once I add the source, would it be possible to add again the content I inserted before? Many thanks! Gaia797 (talk) 14:27, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gaia797, Unfortunately, no.

It continues to amaze me that the UN produces substantial amounts of material but chooses to license it in a way that cannot be used by Wikipedia. The FAO report has the following license:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

That license does not permit usage of the material in Wikipedia. S Philbrick (Talk) 12:47, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear User:Shpilbrick,

Please note that this document - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_State_of_the_World%E2%80%99s_Forests_2020._In_brief.pdf- was given an OTRS permission (please see at the bottom of the page linked above). Would it be possible to restore the content I added before, please?

Thanks a lot!

Gaia797 (talk) 14:30, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Gaia797, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. User3749 (talk) 11:29, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear User:User3749,

Please note that this document - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_State_of_the_World%E2%80%99s_Forests_2020._In_brief.pdf- was given an OTRS permission (please see at the bottom of the page linked above).

Thank you for the suggestions!

Gaia797 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"The State of the World’s Forests 2020"[edit]

All of your activities in English Wikipedia seem to focus on copy-pasting parts of this document into as many articles as possible. Why? Geogene (talk) 14:45, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Gaia797! Your additions to Food loss and waste have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Hut 8.5 18:21, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hut 8.5, thank you for keeping an eye out for copyright violations. However, in this case I don't think the material falls foul of copyright. The article makes use of openly licensed text, which to be fair isn't that common on Wikipedia. There is a statement about it in the source section, repeated below for reference. The report has been uploaded to Commons under a new licence, rather than the one it was initially published under. This is a step by the FAO to make their work more open and has been checked over by an OTRS agent. Please would you undelete the content? Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 18:42, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (license statement/permission). Text taken from The State of Food and Agriculture 2019. Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction, In brief, 24, FAO, FAO.

OK, I've unhidden the edits. However I still don't think it's a great idea to copy and paste text from this report into Wikipedia without modification because the report is written in a very different style to a typical Wikipedia article. Hut 8.5 19:06, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]