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 – This no longer seems to be an active issue. If that changes, feel free to remove this status and comment on ongoing issues. Murph9000 (talk) 11:47, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

There has been some repeated undos for this article. Can someone take a look? There are some discussions on the talk page too. 2601:182:C904:998:D86F:1D86:41D8:102 (talk) 01:17, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

This style of link International Music Score Library Project (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) will make it a little easier to allow others to check on things. MarnetteD|Talk 01:24, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Plagiarized figure for PID controller

Answered

 – Murph9000 (talk) 11:48, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

I believe that my work has been plagiarized by User:Zerodamage. On 27 January 2013, I uploaded the below figure and on 22 June 2016, Zerodamage has substantially copied without alteration my work and has not given attribution in the description statement. Zerodamage then modified the PID controller page to use their image instead of mine. I believe that this usage falls under the Wikipedia:Plagiarism policy as the first case: copying from an unacknowledged source. Since this is considered the most egregious form of plagiarism, I have decided to request editor assistance. My work has been attributed correctly elsewhere (see [1] under the video information). Given that Zerodamage copied the figure without referencing my work, then modified the PID controller page to substitute for my work, I cannot make a case for good faith on the part of Zerodamage.

Zerodamage's archived image (dated 10 December 2011) which has a significant error in the diagram	[2]
My image (dated 27 January 2013), modified from the archived image and does give attribution to the original work in the description
Zerodamage's current image (dated 22 June 2016) which does not give attribution to my work in the description

TravTigerEE (talk) 14:30, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

@TravTigerEE: I offer this as an opinion from a non-lawyer who has significant experience and knowledge of intellectual property law.

1. This is not plagiarism. It is not wholesale copying without attribution because User:Zerodamage was already responsible for the majority of the work copied, and a quick application of WP:AGF says that it was an innocent action which at most requires clarification of the edit history. The portion of the earler work which Zerodamage did not hold the copyright for, was owned by the preceding author which was already acknowledged in Zerodamage's earlier upload.
2. Your action in uploading a minor change under a new name contributed to the issue. The better course of action would have been for you to upload your changed version under the original name, which automatically preserves the edit history for all to see. To me, it is roughly equivalent to the strongly discouraged WP:CUTPASTE.
3. In your image, the majority of the copyright, possibly all of the copyright is actually owned by the previous authors. The change in your derivative work was so small that it may not actually qualify for copyright protection, if it was simply to correct the "u(t)" label without any other changes (I didn't spot any other changes on a quick glance, but this analysis could be wrong if there are more extensive changes involved). A relatively trivial change to create a new derivative work, even where it is to correct an important mistake, does not necessarily create a new copyright interest, especially when the majority of the work is copied verbatim. Regardless of this, as a matter of basic courtesy and good practice, your correction of the "u(t)" label should normally be acknowledged and recorded in the edit history.
4. While I actually believe that you do not truly own any copyright due to the change being too small for protection, it is reasonable to acknowledge/record your contribution by simply editing the description on the original image name.

Others may have alternate opinions, but I believe that User:Zerodamage did not do anything significantly wrong here, that the action (on both sides) was most likely in good faith and innocent, and that it is all a quite minor issue which at most just needs a small tweak to the summary info under the original image name (and possibly deletion of the redundant "updated" image created by User:TravTigerEE).

Murph9000 (talk) 21:54, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

all

Answered

 – Referred to WP:PG. Murph9000 (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Please, make it policy to have valid proven trusted bibliography. I've seen 10,000 citations needed and bullcrap is everywhere. If it's a free for all then everybody knows nothing but what gethro without a ged had to say about life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.158.180.73 (talk) 01:11, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Not an issue for Editor assistance. Referred elsewhere

 – Your request is far too vague to be actionable here. It does not highlight specific problem instances. This is not an appropriate place for general (not specific to a particular article/edit) discussion of policies and guidelines, which largely already cover everything you said. Murph9000 (talk) 04:38, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Edwin Brown Firmage

Answered

 – Referred to WP:RA. Murph9000 (talk) 12:04, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Please create a biography of Edwin Brown Firmage - politician, Mormon, professor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.183.153 (talk) 23:46, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

This forum is for help on how to edit, not to request articles. Place your request at requested articles after reading the instructions there carefully. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 03:40, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

"Did You Know" content

While I am pleased to see Mexico featured in the "Did You Know" section of the homepage, I wonder if the selection of articles is biased: All of said articles refer to living Mexican politicians. Might there be some bias or an agenda involved? Thanks. Cuatito (talk) 20:44, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

• The selection is based on personal choice when it comes to article creation. DYK articles have to be new (nominated within 7 days of creation) or expanded 5 times or promoted to GA. It seems to be one or two editors who are prolific article creators. Since I don't know Mexican politics I could not tell you if they only represent one political view (I don't believe so myself). Not sure how to address this since all article work is on a voluntary basis and we cannot dictate what subjects are covered?  MPJ-DK  21:40, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

K. Kumar Ref Error

K. Kumar (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I've been working through Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and this is the only page I have left. I cannot seem to find where or what the ref error is on this specific page. Can anyone help? Silverseren^C 01:49, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

 Fixed -- John of Reading (talk) 06:16, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Our company Wikipedia article vanished...

The article on our company "Software MacKiev" seems to have been deleted sometime in the past few months. Any chance to restore it or we have to start from scratch? Any way to find out why it was deleted (to keep that from happening again in the future)? Thanks, Jack Minsky, President, Software MacKievJack Minsky (talk) 09:47, 13 September 2016 (UTC)