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Ben_Sorensen

Hi Diannaa this article also failed copyright, and also seems to be put on the mainspace by a new user. I also seems to be an article whos draft was deleted previously. How do we deal with these issues so I don't bother you? Geraldine Aino (talk) 12:21, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

The deleted version was about an Augstralian broadcaster, so that article is unrelated to the one that was recently created. Regarding "failed copyright", I assume that you found substantial overlap with material elsewhere online? Could you please be more specific? I am not seeing it.

For general advice on what to do when you discover copyright issues, see Wikipedia:Text copyright violations 101. — Diannaa (talk) 19:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa but we can disregard. Another admin apparently found the deleted draft and removed (or moved) the article out of the mainspace. Thanks again for your assistance! Geraldine Aino (talk) 11:52, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Help needed at CopyPatrol

Hello copyright patrollers, we currently have 73 reports at CopyPatrol that need to be assessed. Assistance would be much appreciated! Pinging some recent contributors as shown on the Leaderboard: DanCherek, GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, Isochrone, L3X1, and JJMC89. Any assistance you can offer would be perfect, even if you only have time to do a handful of cases. Thanks in advance, — Diannaa (talk) 00:35, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

thumbsup: ^Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 02:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

A big thank you to those who have stepped up to help clear the cases! You are awesome. — Diannaa (talk) 13:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Can you clean, please?

Hi Diannaa I started off dealing with this user as a COI on the Mark Leonard Winter article, doing a quick morning review of notifications on my tablet, before seeing that they had added similar waffly prose to Lotta Crabtree. I reverted both changes and put a note on the talk page, but then realised that the changes probably need hiding, as there's a fair bit of copyvio in them. Can you please do what needs to be done? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

I found the copyvio on Lotta Crabtree but Mark Leonard Winter does not seem to be copyvio. — Diannaa (talk) 01:07, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. What about this? (source) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:10, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you for the helpful link. — Diannaa (talk) 01:13, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for that. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:23, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Need some help

Hi, you were listed as someone who knows about copyright. If you have some spare time, would you please help us over at Talk:Horsemanship of Ulysses S. Grant. I am having the weirdest conversation ever. Thank you, Polygnotus (talk) 21:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

The first example (the cadet's anecdote): Grant was born in 1822 and would have been 17 in 1839, the year that he and is fellow cadets were at West Point. So the fellow who made the remark would be long dead in 1956, the year the article appeared in Sports Illustrated. So where did the author of the article get the quote? I think it needs to come out, regardless of the copyright issue, unless it can be confirmed in some way that the fellow actually made these remarks. It should definitely not be in the article as though it was verifiable fact; at this point it's just an anecdote from Sports Illustrated, written 117 years after the fact.

Examples 2 and 3 are sourced to web pages of the US National Park Service, US Dept of the Interior, and are therefore are public domain, so that prose is okay to use, as long as attribution is given. This is typically done by including the template {{source-attribution}} as part of the citation. — Diannaa (talk) 22:42, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Copy vio and predatory

Hi Diannaa, This article section appears to be a copy violation, copied directly from this predatory source. Regards CV9933 (talk) 16:12, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa (talk) 22:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)

Hi Diannaa. I don't believe we've crossed paths before, but I have a couple questions. You indefinitely semi-protected this article 12 years ago with no prior history of protection. The reason given says persistent vandalism. Okay, that's a valid protection reason, but indefinitely? I'm not an administrator so I only have so much input here, but isn't an immediate indef, you know, not protocol? Wikipedia is supposed to be a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, right? Isn't indefinite protection as the log's first entry a little overkill? I'm sorry if I smack of accusation, I don't mean to attack your actions, but I'm just trying to make things add up. mftp dan ^oops 23:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I am removing the protection. It was a long time ago and is likely no longer needed. Please visit RFPP if/when protection needs to be reinstated. — Diannaa (talk) 02:05, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Help me please!

Hi, I’m a Canadian recording artist in Alberta. I need your assistance regarding my rights as an artist being taken advantage of by my label and I am in a situation that is extremely unfair and violates important rights that I have. ZombieGirlOnline (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

It sounds like you need a lawyer. I am not a lawyer. — Diannaa (talk) 20:19, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Help needed at CopyPatrol (2)

Hello copyright patrollers, we currently have 125 reports at CopyPatrol that need to be assessed. Assistance would be much appreciated! Pinging some recent contributors as shown on the Leaderboard: DanCherek, GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, 1AmNobody24, L3X1, and JJMC89. Please stop by and help, even if you only have time to do a few cases. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 19:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Saw this but a little busy tonight, will have more time to clear out what's left by tomorrow (5/8) evening! DanCherek (talk) 00:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey Diannaa, this summer I'm really going to be working towards improving Copypatrol and the way we deal with copyright violations on Wikipedia, so you won't have to make these types of posts anymore. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 00:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for helping. Because you know I have to make time to watch the Stanley Cup playoffs, or I risk losing my Canadian citizenship! </joke> Good news @Moneytrees, improvements welcome — Diannaa (talk) 01:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I still hope that with T334264 something like {{AfC information}} will be possible, since I'd check that more often than CopyPatrol itself. Nobody (talk) 05:07, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

New alert: We presently have 118 reports at CopyPatrol to assess. Any assistance appreciated. — Diannaa (talk) 19:19, 13 May 2024 (UTC) Pinging some patrollers: DanCherek, GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, ARandomName123, Moneytrees! — Diannaa (talk) 19:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think the ping worked. Trying again, DanCherek, GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, ARandomName123, Moneytrees — Diannaa (talk) 19:30, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Help

Hello, Diannaa! Could you please take a look at Talk:Jinn#Pre-RfC, and tell us if there any copyright infringement issues? Please comment there. Thank you!--TheEagle107 (talk) 17:18, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't think I'll have time to do this. — Diannaa (talk) 13:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

No problem, thanks anyway.TheEagle107 (talk) 12:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Paul Morrissey

I work for the Paul Morrissey Estate and started editing Paul's Wikipedia page since it was filled with factual innacurracies. I wrote the text for the Roxy Cinema retrospective which you have since deleted. I was also in the process of adding citations for all the quotes. Can you please restore the page to how I had it? XmchaikenX (talk) 22:52, 17 May 2024 (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) 23:02, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Diannaa,

I work as a freelance writer and researcher. Nothing I added to Paul Morrissey's page is unveriafiable. Nothing was added to promote or advetise myself or Morrissey. The original entry on Wikipedia was inaccurate and I worked to fix that. You've reduced the page to a paragraph which does nothing for either Morrissey or Wikipedia. I'm glad to work together to properly annotate and ammend what I submitted. XmchaikenX (talk) 00:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

The reason I removed some of the material is because it has been previously published online. Don't copy anything from the Roxy Cinema website unless and until the content has been released under a compatible license and notification of same has been sent to the Volunteer Response team via email as per the instructions already given to you.

It's okay to add content to the article as long as you add citations at the same time and don't copy any prose that is not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 12:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Understood. Sorry about all of this. I authored the text for the Roxy Cinema site and could have them take it down. Otherwise, I'm glad to amend the Morrissey entry, with full citations, and submit it to you for approval before publishing. Would it be possible to get a copy of what you removed so I can amend accordingly? XmchaikenX (talk) 13:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Taking down the webpage does not change its copyright status. Once it's published, it enjoys copyright protection.

The material I removed was the four paragraphs starting with the one that begins "For nearly a decade, Warhol and Morrissey functioned something like twin-brains" as well as from the prior paragraph starting with "...acting as the de facto publicity and film manager" and going to the end of that paragraph. There were also some smaller bits that I removed or paraphrased. — Diannaa (talk) 13:24, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Please don't use your own article at the Roxy Cinema website as one of your citations. That would be considered original research, which we don't allow. Your own recollections are not considered to be a good source either. — Diannaa (talk) 13:27, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Understood. I'll only pull from verifiable, outside sources and include citations for all quotes. Many of the quotes and sources are from old articles and interviews not currently online. Is that acceptable? XmchaikenX (talk) 13:34, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

What do you mean by interviews? Are they published somewhere? If so, they are ok to use. If unpublished, we can't use them.

Old newspaper or magazine articles are ok to use. Please give as much detail as possible (author name, name of the publication, publication date, etc). Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources for full details. — Diannaa (talk) 14:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, published interviews from old newspapers and journals not found online. Ok, thanks for the citing link. Got it. XmchaikenX (talk) 14:50, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Please reconsider whether this is a copyright violation.

Nikolayevsk incident

User talk:Fysjsj2517

Hello, thank you for reviewing the edit, but your claim is not true. There was no copyright violation in the sentence you removed.

I had a learning disorder as a child, so my writing skills can be very awkward. I think you may have mistaken awkward writing for plagiarism.

We also checked for plagiarism using Grammarly, which is included in 'Category:Plagiarism detectors', cited from Wikipedia:Plagiarism.

We used the “Plagiarism Checker by Grammarly” to check for plagiarism. [[1]] The plagiarism check results read “We didn't find any plagiarism, but we found 5 writing issues.”, “No plagiarism found”. In other words, it's not plagiarized. However, it only showed that there were issues with “Spelling” and “Conciseness”. In other words, I did write my sentences awkwardly. But it's not plagiarism, according to the check.

Do you have any reason to believe I've violated copyright? Fysjsj2517 (talk) 09:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

You can view the source article here. Your plagiarism tool has given you an inaccurate result. Here is a comparison between the source document and your addition. Overlapping content is shown in bold:

Source article:

A clash between Japanese troops and Russian, Chinese, and Korean guerillas under the anarchist Iakov Ivanovich Triapitsyn in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in March 1920 also affected Ōi’s decision. Yet according to the Bolshevik Petr Mikhailovich Nikiforov, who controlled the economic sector of the coalitional Vladivostok government, the Japanese attack was triggered by the opponents of the buffer state in Vladivostok. Moisei Gubel΄man and Maria Mikhailovna Sakh΄ianova, a Buryat Bolshevik, initiated the reestablishment of the Vladivostok Soviet on April 3, 1920, despite a recent Japanese declaration not to permit Soviet rule. Furthermore, the Japanese command had orders from Tokyo to put an end to the Korean guerilla movement and during the attack arrested numerous Korean politicians and fighters.

Your addition:

The clash between Japanese troops and Russian, Chinese, and Korean guerrillas under Iakov Ivanovich Triapitsyn at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in March 1920 influenced General Ōi Shigemoto's decision. However, according to Bolshevik Petr Mikhailovich Nikiforov, who controlled the economic sector of the coalition government in Vladivostok, the Japanese attack was prompted by forces opposed to the buffer state in Vladivostok. Moisei Gubel΄man and Maria Mikhailovna Sakh΄ianova, a Buryat Bolshevik, attempted to restore the Vladivostok Soviet on April 3, 1920. The Japanese command also received orders from Tokyo to put an end to the Korean guerrilla movement.

— Diannaa (talk) 12:23, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I acknowledge that I have violated copyright law, and I apologize to you if I have offended you. I've given it a lot of thought and rewritten the article. Fysjsj2517 (talk) 11:14, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Richard Wyatt Jr. Wikipedia Page

Good afternoon Diannaa,

Thank you so much for your message. The prose below is straight from Richard Wyatt Jr.'s BIO page on his website. Is there a way to reinstate this copyrighted content onto his Wikipedia page?

[REDACTED COPYRIGHT MATERAIL]

HollywoodJazz (talk) 21:05, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

@HollywoodJazz (talk page watcher) Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyright materials. This was explicitly in the message you were left, so you have the answer already.

Far better to use your own words to summarise the essence of what is said in reliable secondary sources about Wyatt. The prose in the first paragraph is a paean of praise (advertorial) and the second paragraph is a list of stuff. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:45, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

@Diannaa Please see @User talk:HollywoodJazz#May 2024 where an administrator well versed in breach of copyright behaviour may agree with the 0.95 probability of this editor receiving sanctions. I find their behaviour to be naive at best. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:58, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

New category and template for Unattributed translations

Hi, Diannaa. This is just a heads up that we now have a category and an article maintenance template for unattributed translations. The template is {{unattributed translation}}, and it categorizes articles into Category:Wikipedia articles with possible unattributed translations. As the template is new, there are only two articles in it, and as those two articles and other articles are added and fixed, the category is likely be empty much of the time, at least until it catches on. Am thinking of expanding the template to accept lang code or lang name, which would allow subcategorization by language name, as it may be easier for a bilingual editor to add RIA if the original creator editor does not. Please feel free to add enhancement requests or other comments on the template talk page. (Related template {{uw-translation}} is designed for user talk pages and has been around forever.) Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 11:58, 20 May 2024 (UTC)