User talk:MLauba

MLauba My Talk Page My Contributions Text copyright issues Dashboard Group Count WP:CP entries 25 Copypastes with source 4 CSD#F9/G12 0 RD1 Requests 1 Welcome To leave a message for me, press the "new section" tab at the top of the page. Remember to sign your message with ~~~~. I will respond to all civil messages. I attempt to keep conversations in one location, as I find it easier to follow them that way when they are archived. If you open a new conversation here, I will respond to you here. Please watchlist this page or check back for my reply. If I have already left a message at your talk page, unless I've requested follow-up here or it is a standard template message, I am watching it. If you leave your reply here, I may respond at your talk page if it seems better for context. If you aren't sure if I'm watching your page, feel free to approach me here. Vous pouvez également communiquer en français Ihr könnt hier auch auf deutsch kommunizieren. Admins, if you see that I've made a mistake, please fix it. I will not consider it wheel-warring if you reverse my admin actions as long as you leave me a civil note telling me what you've done and why and as long as you're open to discussion with me should I disagree. When convenient And no rush whatsoever, would you mind looking over Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins? I've done a major overhaul to that today (used to look like this), and feedback would be welcome. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 03:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC) Good stuff, it's clearer and crisper now. MLauba (talk) 12:23, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Thanks. By the way, I've run that request of yours but am thinking we might want to poke a bit more to get a few more diffs to confirm before adding. It is a can of a mind boggling number of worms. Limiting it to major edits and no reverts, we're talking 10,840 articles. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:28, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Dear lord :( We'd need a stubify bot or a nuke bot, whichever is more convenient. MLauba (talk) 12:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Check out This compared to that. MLauba (talk) 12:39, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Oh, I know there's a problem. I'm not sure how extensive it is in relation to overall contribs. I've poked about a bit in some of those and have found mostly edits that have not added creative content, but there's no way to exclude those kinds of edits that I'm aware of without human review. Going back as far as they do, I don't think there'd be any way to easily extricate edits through bot, and I suspect that a lot of the articles out of that 10,000+ have copyrightable content contributed entirely by other editors, so stubifying wouldn't work. Hmmm. We don't have a bot that lists articles created, but we can get that list through Wikipedia itself I think (I'm unsure if there are technical limitations.) We might really do better in this case to narrow focus. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:45, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Oh, I can send you the raw data if you'd like. It's broken down into 5 pages, from biggest contribs down, and I can send you page one through e-mail if you'd like to look at it and see what I mean. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:46, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Actually, for articles created, there's a Soxbot tool on toolserver, just click anyone's Contribs link, scroll to the bottom, and you'll find a link to the tool. It will return 100 results by default but you can then expand these. I stopped at 1500 and picked the above entirely at random. For the e-mail, yes please. Note that I'm actually on business travels this week and probably will have only extremely limited Wiki-time :( MLauba (talk) 12:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC) I've sent you page 1. Articles created may be a better focus here. As to the limited Wiki-time, we've got open CCIs going back six months. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:02, 9 November 2009 (UTC) Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome. For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 08:27, 12 November 2009 (UTC) A helpful hint Hi. Evaluating Capital offences in the People's Republic of China, it occurred to me that you might find this useful: Wikisource:Help:Public domain. Certainly, I do. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:24, 12 November 2009 (UTC) More eyes Knowing that you are busy this week, I wanted to ask your opinion on Pells Pool. I believe this constitutes an abridgment (and hence a copyvio) of [1]. It contains syntax and language from the original. I wanted to know whether you thought this merited a {{close paraphrasing}} or a {{copyvio}} (and will not be offended if you use whichever of those may seem appropriate to you when you read it, if one does.) Thanks. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:46, 14 November 2009 (UTC) There's been more movement on this at User_talk:Lidos#Handling_text_copyright. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:28, 14 November 2009 (UTC) Sorry for the long absence, the hotel I was in had massive connectivity issues so I gave up doing anything online at all. For Pells Pool, technically, if I go back to the article's creation, what I see is both copy / pasting and close paraphrasing, making this in effect an unauthorized derivative. I'd stubify and start over. MLauba (talk) 10:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC) Hope you had a good trip. :) Thanks for the additional eyes. Sigh. :/ I've tagged it as a close paraphrase for now. If it isn't rewritten soon, I'll blank it for CP. If you think I'm being too generous with that, I will not be at all offended if you take additional or other action. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:06, 16 November 2009 (UTC) Spyros Vassiliou greetings MLauba, I've been looking over the [Spyros Vassiliou] page, which was flagged for speedy deletion and commented by you. I am related by marriage to this artist and recognize the username of the author of the page: he is the grandson of the artist and likely one of the authors of the original material. I've alerted him to the warnings on the page and expect him to respond. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for your concern. Carpentis (talk) 01:14, 19 November 2009 (UTC)