User talk:JosePauloPereira

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October 2011

Your addition to Dactylorhiza insularis has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/details/species/id/8131548 OlYeller^Talktome 17:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Are you sure the addition was a copyright problem? It looks like a very straightforward list to me, and I don't see how else the same information could be formatted. I'm not a lawyer, but I would guess that there isn't enough originality in the material to be eligible for copyright. Melchoir (talk) 17:42, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

(We're referring to this addition.) Melchoir (talk) 17:44, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not a lawyer or incredibly knowledgable about such things either so we're in the same boat. I essentially applied the WP:DUCK test. I saw that in one edit, an external link was added to the article and in the next edit, synonyms were added to the article in the exact same order and almost the same text save a few small changes, as the webpage added in the previous edit. There's also a drastic change in prose from portion to portion of text. In one area, Jose says, "It's kind of the western Mediterranean" then "The lateral sepal and asymmetrical oval and stand upright". To me, that implies that these are the writings of two different people. There are a few differences but it's still very similar and has signs of a copyright violation. OlYeller^Talktome 18:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh, you mean this article? Yeah, that's concerning. It could be a rough translation from another language, and the original source might or might not be under copyright. I couldn't find an alternate-language Wikipedia article that looks likely, so it might be safe to assume that it was indeed a copyright problem. Melchoir (talk) 18:53, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Ah, my bad. Linked the wrong one. Ya, the [#] references were confusing. Not sure where they came from. From the user's other edits regarding references and reference sections, I'd say there's a lack of understanding of the WP ref system. OlYeller^Talktome 19:03, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Dactylorhiza insularis. Wikipelli ^Talk 17:56, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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