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Again, welcome! Fettlemap (talk) 00:29, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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Sorry - I must have missed that question in the upload process. I've posted a source and removed the template now - is that OK? Mobi Ditch (talk) 09:47, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Issue on Confederate Roll of Honor

This was a false positive - the content was added by someone else. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:38, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello Mobi Ditch, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Confederate Roll of Honor have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here. 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. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) 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. Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste. 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 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. In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow. 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 in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@Diannaa: Thanks for your note. It's a little hard to tell what text you removed. However I'm deducing that it was the same text I added here, in a previous edit: [1]. As you can see, I indicated that I'd copied it from another Wikipedia article, which is permissible. However, it appears that you were able to locate the non-free origin of that text. If that's the text in question, then it appears the text was first added to Wikipedia in 2014, with this edit to Helena Artillery: [2]. If that is all correct, then please let me know so I can rewrite the material in both articles. Also, I seem to recall there may have been other text, without copyright problems, that was added in the same edit. If so, could you please restore it? Mobi Ditch (talk) 20:18, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

After investigating further, I found that the editor who made the original edit has made a habit of copying material, despite warnings. I've left a comment on his talk page[3] and posted at CCI.[4] Mobi Ditch (talk) 23:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Mobi Ditch and thanks for your help investigating this matter. The website that is a match for the prose is this one. Unfortunately the page was never archived by the Wayback machine, but given the dates on the copyright notice at the bottom of the page and the history of the user who added it, I think we have to assume that it was indeed copied from that source. Sorry for not realizing that you'd copied it from another article - for some reason the bot I use detected the second time you added it but not the first. I have cleaned the Helena Artillery article. Regarding Confederate Roll of Honor, the only content I removed was the copyright prose (The roll was to list the names of soldiers from each company who were singled out for valor or good conduct displayed during victorious battles. The names were to be selected by vote of the company members. Companies voted after each battle. A company could also decline to choose a name, and the honor could be awarded posthumously. The completed roll was to be published and read in each regiment, and published in the newspapers across the Confederacy.), replacing it with a new version ( Nominations were made by company members after enemy engagements. The soldiers voted after each battle, and the results were listed in battle reports, read aloud to regiments, and published in newspapers across the Confederacy). While the edit where you added the content was larger than that, that was the only content was removed. I have collapsed my initial notice so that patrollers will realise this was a false positive on your part. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:38, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your diligence! Mobi Ditch (talk) 01:43, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Mobi Ditc

Hi, is the image on your user page intentionally labelled as 'Mobi Ditc'? JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 08:37, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

No, it was a typo. Thanks for catching that! Attention to detail is a good trait in an encyclopedia editor. Mobi Ditch (talk) 18:51, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

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I know that "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". So maybe when you're using an anti-vandalism tool, everything looks like vandalism? I'm trying to understand why you reverted my edit to J. Clator Arrants, calling it "non-constructive".[1] The article failed to indicate the outcome of an election so I added the fact that the bio subject lost, which is covered in the already cited source. Can you explain your decision to me? Mobi Ditch (talk) 09:27, 12 July 2020 (UTC) (Originally posted to User talk:CommanderWaterford[5])

Sure I can explain it to you - you added "unsuccessfully" and "attacking" without giving any sources or references for these additions. Thats all. Have a nice day. CommanderWaterford (talk) 09:31, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt reply, but, actually, no. The word "attacked" was already there, I simply changed its tense. As I just wrote to you, and as you could have seen if you'd looked, the existing source for the sentence already has the information so no additional cite was necessary or possible. Did you check the source before reverting my edit? I know you're going fast with your anti-vandalism tool, but you're still responsible for all your edits. Mobi Ditch (talk) 09:38, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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