Talk:Birdsong (radio channel)

Created the page. I have copied the section "Overview" verbatim from Digital One as I agree with the talk page of the "Digital One" article that the Birdsong channel should have its own article.

Next step will be to transclude the overview section from this page onto Digital One - leaving that page effectively unchanged, but this article should become the source of the "Birdsong" section. Benkid77 (talk) 16:55, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

The transclusion was done earlier. Whilst this article can undoubtedly be expanded and improved upon and it is still pretty-much "Start-Class", I think enough has now been done on it in order to justify removing the {underconstruction} tag (which I have just done). Benkid77 (talk) 21:41, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Possible Copyright Violation?

The Overview section (which I moved here from Digital One) may be a copyright violation from the following web page:- http://www.astra2d.com/dab.htm (Birdsong section near bottom). It appears to be a verbatim copy'n'paste from that website. I think to be safe, we'll have to re-write the paragraph. Benkid77 (talk) 18:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

That site uses a fair bit of stuff from Wikipedia without acknowledging it. I wrote the majority of the Digital radio in the United Kingdom article from scratch and parts of that article has appeared on their website, and I can verify that what I wrote in the Digital radio in the United Kingdom article certainly isn't copyright violation, having written it from scratch myself! --tgheretford (talk) 19:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, Thanks for the reply. I apologise, I obviously got that the wrong way round! I wrongly thought that the paragraph may have been put there as part of the birdsongradio.com spamlinks campaign. I'm still relatively new to Wikipedia, so still finding my bearings. I'm glad that you clarified that you wrote this yourself. That's great - no problems here then. (Glad we can keep it as is). I think I recognise your username from Digital Spy. I used to post there regularly a while back as user "digispec", but been very busy the last couple of years. I should really update my user page here though. Benkid77 (talk) 19:38, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Just to verify this (and for evidence), take an edit by myself from May 12 2007 and a snapshot from the Internet Archive of their webpage from August 25, 2007 compared to now. Clearly shows that my edits from the Digital radio in the United Kingdom and ultimately Wikipedia were added to their website (under the DAB Frequency Plan title), and that I am the original creator of that information which has since appeared on their website, which doesn't comply with the GFDL. May be worth raising this further. P.S. I am the same person who you are thinking of on Digital Spy. --tgheretford (talk) 19:45, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, that completely makes the issue indisputable. Clearly they have used your work without acknowledging it. Totally agree with you that this should be raised with the webmasters of that site at some point. Not only does the GFDL need to be complied with, but also it would avoid these unnecessary questions of original authorship being casually raised in the first place. Benkid77 (talk) 20:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Copyright Note inserted here by Quentin Howard: You have my permission to link to ay content on the www.radiobirdsong.com website and to quote any element thereof, also to this website http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/classic%20fm?page=20 which contains similar information. You also have permission to place a link to any of the legitimate recordings of radio birdsong on this Wikipedia page, including, for example, this soundcloud link https://soundcloud.com/radiobirdsong/the-original-radio-birdsong