User talk:LFaraone/Archive/2013/July

Copyright violation in article Harper Lee

It seems to me that the material you removed from the article Harper Lee for copyright violation was added to the Wikipedia article Harper Lee PRIOR TO the copyright date of the article pointed to by http://web.archive.org/web/20111007165031/http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021. These paragraphs appear in the Wikipedia article Harper Lee as of 2010 (This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Koavf(talk | contribs) at 17:47, 20 December 2010. It may differ significantly from the current revision.):

"In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944, she went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Lee stood apart from the other students—she could have cared less about fashion, makeup, or dating. Instead, she focused on her studies and on her writing. Lee was a member of the literary honor society and the glee club.

"Transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist. She did make a greater attempt at a social life there, joining a sorority for a while. Pursuing her interest in writing, Lee contributed to the school’s newspaper and its humor magazine, the Rammer Jammer. She eventually became the editor of the Rammer Jammer.

"In her junior year, Lee was accepted into the university’s law school, which allowed students to work on law degrees while still undergraduates. The demands of her law studies forced her to leave her post as editor of the Rammer Jammer. After her first year in the law program, Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling. She went to Oxford University in England that summer as an exchange student. Returning to her law studies that fall, Lee dropped out after the first semester. She soon moved to New York City to follow her dreams to become a writer.

"In 1949, a 23-year-old Lee arrived in New York City. She struggled for several years, working as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines and for the British Overseas Air Corp (BOAC). While in the city, Lee was reunited with old friend Truman Capote, one of the literary rising stars of the time. She also befriended Broadway composer and lyricist Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy.

"Having written several long stories, Harper Lee located an agent in November 1956. The following month at the East 50th townhouse of her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams Brown, she received a gift of a year's wages from them with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas."[6] She quit her job and devoted herself to her craft. Within a year, she had a first draft. Working with J. B. Lippincott & Co. editor Tay Hohoff, she completed To Kill a Mockingbird in the summer of 1959. Published July 11, 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal."

These pragraphs may have been added even earlier than December 2010 to the Wikipedia article - I only checked far back enough to show it predated the '© 2011 A&E Television Networks. All rights reserved.' So who is violating copyright? Neonorange (talk) 03:26, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

The content was added in this diff. Note that the addition of several paragraphs of uncited text, and the mention of "the Browns" despite them not being previously mentioned in the article. A&E puts the current year as the copyright on their articles, see the present version, so the page probably existed on their site in a different form prior to 2011. The article addition smells like a copyright violation, and it would be strange for the middle of a lengthy A&E biography to have been copied from Wikipedia. Especially when the only parts copied from Wikipedia happened to have added in a single revision. LFaraone 03:40, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. I should have checked back far enough to find the revision that added the material to the Wikipedia article. I understand the clues you list make a clear case for deletion of the material. I don't suppose there is a tool that will find the date and time that material is added to a Wikipedia article? Neonorange (talk) 21:46, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

I simply did an old-fashioned manual bisection and looked through each revision for whether the content was present. Took a few minutes, but was worth it. An automated tool would have been quite helpful :) LFaraone 21:52, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

AfD closure

You relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Art of Dying (Ca$his album) back on June 17. The consensus to redirect and/or merge is pretty clear, but the AfD still hasn't been closed. Could you look at it again? Niteshift36 (talk) 14:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Done, cheers. LFaraone 14:50, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Freak Next Door

Thanks for closing this AFD, however it was actually for two articles (the other being Two Women, One Heart), but you only deleted one of them. Thanks again. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 10:07, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

I see someone else got to it in the interim. My apologies, I missed it. LFaraone 13:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem. I had just refreshed my watchlist and saw it was deleted. I came here to tell you, but obviously you saw before I did. Thanks! Jauersock^dude?/_dude. 13:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumit_Ghosh

Hi there, I've been contacted by a client who has asked me to help them build a submission for Sumit Ghosh but I note that you've recently deleted an entry that was created for this person [1]. I've read the deletion discussion log which indicates that the references used in the last entry weren't sufficient. Just a courtesy note to let you know that I'm going to attempt to build another entry for this person but will see if it is possible to strengthen the references used to demonstrate notability and verify the information being quoted.G2003 (talk) 07:07, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. If you like, I can userify the deleted content for you, but as-is it would require a significant amount of work. LFaraone 01:45, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, no it's cool. I've looked at what's available and there's not enough to support a Wikipedia entry. Trying to explain that to the client now... G2003 (talk) 22:59, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

inre Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emperor: Young Caesar

In serving our readers, I would like to redirect this title to Conn Iggulden#Emperor series film adaptation... a section there that can be expanded if/when other film adaptations of his work are considered. As you were the closer, Thought it best to check in with you first. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 23:05, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Go ahead, thanks for checking. LFaraone 03:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Y Appreciations. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 03:33, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, but ...

I participate in Wikipedia, have for years. I do not choose to be a member. Nevertheless, I sign my posts manually by way of taking responsibility for what I say.

Incidentally, you may want to rephrase a part of your offer if you extend the same offer to other IPs. Nothing about WP:SIGLINK states that an account, a signature, or a signature link to a talk page is a "must". It merely points out that if you do not sign in, an automated SineBot signature will be added. I trust you do not feel that choosing to remain an IP -- albeit an identified IP -- is inherently disruptive, so the last part of your link should not apply.

All the best, Tenebris (with five tildes) 04:06, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: Since the conversation was started on User talk:99.248.201.5, my reply went there. LFaraone 04:25, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

UTRS Account Request

I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. LFaraone

I've enabled your account. Thanks for volunteering.--v/r - TP 15:06, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, July 13!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 00:55, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Degree college.jpg & File:Zamidar house.jpg

You deleted these as F1, meaning that there is another copy on Wikipedia which is pixel-to-pixel identical (except for downsizing), containing the same watermark. Would you care to tell where to find those files? The deletion rationale at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 July 6 applies to those too as we only have any use for the copies without watermark on Commons. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:04, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Note while commons has F8: exact or scaled-down duplicate, Wikipedia's criteria is "redundant", which also covers lower quality images. If you had marked the two images as {{nowcommons}} with an explanation of "watermark-free image now available", they most probably could have been also speedily deleted via that process. LFaraone 13:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

RE: Your undoing of my Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/Special case edit

Sorry about not stating the reason for my edit last Septtember of the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/Special case page. I see that I stated what I did, but not why I did it. At the time, I was working on the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education page and related pages when I came across this particular page. Two of the userboxes were (and are) present on the Userboxes/Education page, here and here. The 3rd is a userbox for an academic institution that exists only in the Star Trek science fiction universe. This userbox was (and is) present on the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Television (shows)/Science-fiction and fantasy page here and on the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Media/Film page here. This particular userbox is also catagorized under the Star Trek user templates heading. Now, given that the 2 real world userboxes were already part of the primary educational userbox page and that the third was already part of the appropriate science fiction and fantasy film category pages, like similar userboxes for the schools of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter science fiction universe, the stand alone page I edited seemed redundant and unnecessary. In hindsight, I should have stated that and then asked that the page be deleted. I will rectify this now. Thank you. Drdpw (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

I think you may have missed one?

Hello. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Flood (animator) also included the article Jack Morrison (actor). I think it should also probably be deleted, or possibly be relisted on procedural grounds. I dunno, but I thought you might want to take another look. Thanks. - Grayfell (talk) 02:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Ugh, I opened that one to delete but then lost the tab. Thanks for the note. LFaraone 02:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

AfD

You may have missed 4 deletes as part of this delete all close. Regards :) ~Charmlet ^-talk- 02:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done, cheers. LFaraone 02:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

OTRS noticeboard

Sorry for screwing that one up and thanks for fixing.--ukexpat (talk) 15:23, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Ban me! I'm not doing any more free editing for you Wikinazis!

Hello. You have a new message at GorillaWarfare's talk page. See the post on MY Talk page, Hello. You have a new message at LFaraone's talk page.

Ban me!

FrankSanello (talk) 20:38, 19 July 2013 (UTC)FrankSanello

User was blocked for this post. LFaraone 20:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Advice

Hi there, there had been discussion on the Writopia Lab page back when it was first brought to Wikipedia's attention and then I think you felt that it was appropriate for wikipedia. Now, there seems to be a new person challenging it as sounding like an advertisement again. I had thought that the language was approved by you. Do you know how to assess whether these are legit editors or? And what to do next? Thank you! ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaxieJojo (talk • contribs) 06:38, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't have time to review the article currently. You're welcome to ask the editor (Trlovejoy (talk · contribs)) who added the template. LFaraone 01:57, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Request for Review

Hello there

I am the contributor for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditi_Technologies page.

I have cleaned up all the issues and have aligned the content to wikipedia guidelines. Can you please review the page and help me to get away from the status message - "This article has multiple issues.

I am open for feedback.

Many Thanks Ashwin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashwinckm1983 (talk • contribs) 10:43, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps the peer review project could offer more direct advice. LFaraone 01:58, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milagros J. Cordero

I'm confused about why the AfD wasn't closed as delete. There were more keep votes, but AfD isn't a head count. All of the keeps were not based on any guidelines or policies. SL93 (talk) 01:42, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

I've relisted the debate to better judge consensus. LFaraone 01:44, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm fine with that. SL93 (talk) 01:49, 26 July 2013 (UTC)