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Ukrainian Melody

today: violin solo, yes, the Melody and you can listen Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:12, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I hope you are recovering well! DanCherek (talk) 14:26, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. File:Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, artwork.jpg is very very cool. DanCherek (talk) 18:35, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you, back to concert going! Yesterday unique concert - the 18th Thomaskantor after Bach conducting - and with some good luck caught him happy afterwards! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, and now his article has a good image. DanCherek (talk) 22:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! - ... and another concert 14 July: Voces8, pictured - I have a FAC open, in case of interest --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

today: birthday music for a friend, after hiking in the Swiss Alps and a funeral with flowers on a bench and a Rilke poem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:52, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for your loss. Glad you are back and thanks for the photos! DanCherek (talk) 22:33, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wildlife Conservation Network

Hi Dan, I was wondering if you might be able to tell me why you took down a lot of the content I added to the Wildlife Conservation Network article? There’s been a lot of changes at WCN in the past few years and I was trying to update it with more relevant information. 2600:1700:AF20:C970:E5B4:E35E:93EB:AD50 (talk) 02:15, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Some of the text I removed was copied from https://wildnet.org/celebrating-20-years-of-protecting-wildlife/. Wikipedia's copyright policy doesn't allow that because the text is protected by copyright, according to the terms of that website. In the future, please summarize information from sources in your own words. I removed some other text because it was not supported by any citations to reliable sources, which should ideally be the foundation of every article. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources for more information. Most of the content that you added is still available in the page history, but it shouldn't be restored without proper sourcing. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 02:33, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dan, I’m not so sure that I would say it’s plagiarized in any lengthy way. A lot of that info is info that’s just summarized from the website. 2600:1700:AF20:C970:8D46:106C:70E7:97D3 (talk) 00:03, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The text that I removed included multiple sentences that were copied verbatim from the website without any significant attempts at paraphrasing. That's not allowed. DanCherek (talk) 00:06, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Logan Sapphire

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Logan Sapphire you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of PCN02WPS -- PCN02WPS (talk) 15:40, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrights on Draft:The Houston Tidelanders

I've added "{{connected contributor}}" to the article as I'm the website administrator for the Houston Tidelanders. One reason I created this Wikipedia page is that I want to see the history of the Tidelanders preserved in more than one location. There are pieces of information on the Wikipedia page that aren't on the website and I did my best to condense, paraphrase, or present information differently. We own the copyright to the history listed on the website. I expect the differences to grow when our official historian has time to edit and add to the page. I can assure you that the information contained is historically accurate as far as I know as condensed from of our original historical documents. W.H. Anderson's observations is a direct quote from what I understand (I changed it to a quote".

The history of the BHS (aka SPEBSQSA) that I listed is a conglomeration of facts from multiple sources (the Tidelanders, the BHS, and another website that I found a tidbit of history from) but it's very condensed. From what I understand it's historically accurate but not nearly as detailed as as the history noted on the BHS website. Steve sings bass (talk) 01:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steve, welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for disclosing your connection with the group. The material was preemptively removed due to the copyright notice on the website, but check out Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on how to release material under a compatible license (note that doing so would allow anyone to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, even commercially). However, I will also point out that Wikipedia is primarily interested in what reliable, independent secondary sources have to say about a particular subject, not what it says about itself, and so basing most of an article on an group's website is generally not appropriate either and makes it harder to establish the topic's notability. DanCherek (talk) 01:34, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Logan Sapphire

The article Logan Sapphire you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Logan Sapphire for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of PCN02WPS -- PCN02WPS (talk) 16:40, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Logan Sapphire

The article Logan Sapphire you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Logan Sapphire for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of PCN02WPS -- PCN02WPS (talk) 00:42, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright: Drum

I am disappointed at what I consider the rather aggressive way you have handled this. The website I used as a source was evidently set up originally in part to encourage tourism and the contribution it could make to the local economy, and I carried out extensive edits to remove the florid elements and change the tone to a much simpler and more encyclopedic style. It seems to me that the result was not in violation of copyright rules, but this is naturally a matter of opinion.

I do not, of course, dispute the right of reviewers to police copyright rules, but I would like to see a more consensual approach. I can see that where there are flagrant issues such as potentially libellous statements about living persons then immediate action is needed, but in a case like this I think it would be more appropriate, rather than immediately to mutilate the work that contributors have done, to raise your issues with them and listen to their point of view. There are further background issues in this case, such as the fact that the original webpage was archived, and that its authorship was clearly by a voluntary community organisation concerned to encourage tourism, an objective which would only be advanced by the inclusion of further details on Wikipedia. I might mention that I have no personal connection or interest with the community involved; I simply stumbled across the article by accident and felt that the original authors had missed an obvious trick.

However, now that you have destroyed the work I did I am not going to waste time trying to make additional drafting changes to meet your objections. The community involved will have to make do without this little advertisement. Deipnosophista (talk) 11:04, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear that you feel that way. In some cases I rewrite the infringing material; in others I leave it up to the original contributor. The archiving of the source web page and that it was written by volunteers doesn't really affect the obligation to sufficiently paraphrase the material for Wikipedia, because we assert that anyone can share, distribute, transmit, and adapt the content we add to Wikipedia, even commercially. That's not something that the copyright holders have agreed to for the content that they've produced. I disagree that the removal of copyright violations from articles constitutes "mutilation". DanCherek (talk) 12:10, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of We Are Water Protectors

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article We Are Water Protectors you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of BennyOnTheLoose -- BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:41, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red in August 2022

Women in Red August 2022, Vol 8, Issue 8, Nos 214, 217, 236, 237, 238, 239

Online events:

New: Alphabet run: C and D | Indigenous women | Refugees | Comedians, Comics and other Performers
Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman

See also:

Interwiki Women Collaboration focus on UEFA Women's Euro 2022, August 8–21

Other ways to participate:

Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:57, 29 July 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Your GA nomination of We Are Water Protectors

The article We Are Water Protectors you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:We Are Water Protectors for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of BennyOnTheLoose -- BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 13:22, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Bhandarikushal (13:04, 31 July 2022)

Hello, I Joined wikipiedia because I want to make a page for a charity group I am involved with. I actually have no idea about the process on making a page. --Bhandarikushal (talk) 13:04, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bhandarikushal! You can read WP:YFA for a detailed guide on how to create your first article. It will take you through the steps to create a draft that can be submitted for review. Important things to keep in mind are that the article's topic should be notable. This generally means that it has already been covered in detail in good references from independent sources. Since you have a connection with the subject of your draft, you will need to provide a required disclosure – see the conflict of interest guideline for more information about that.

Writing an article from scratch can be really tough for new editors, so if you are finding it challenging, I would actually encourage you to edit existing articles for a while to get the hang of things. Let me know if you have additional questions or need more detailed guidance! DanCherek (talk) 15:06, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Help with copyright issues on possible copyright issue on Seán Scanlan

Hi DanCherek! I've seen how helpful you been in the past with copyright issues so I thought I would ask to see if you could help me how to address possible copyright issues on article Seán Scanlan, as copyright issues on Wikipedia are not my forte. I was patrolling recent changes and I noticed that there was a large amount of information removed in the edit here: [1]. When I was looking for sources to see if I could re-add any information with a refence, I noticed the article was very similar to this source[2], which Earwig's tool seems to confirm: [3]. I proceeded to rewrite some of the article and wanted to see if you could take a look at it and make sure my rewrite meets guidelines and then also advice on how address this possible copyright issue. Thanks for any help and advice! Wikipedialuva (talk) 03:12, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Wikipedialuva, hope you're doing well and thanks for the message! Good catch – the removed text, which has been present since the article was created in 2012, seems to have been lifted directly from the EUMWA source. Your rewrite looks pretty good; the remaining Earwig overlap was mostly proper nouns (like names of institutions), but I did a little more rewriting just in case. Since it has been removed, I think we're good to go here. I noted the copyvio removal in an edit summary as well as on the talk page (Talk:Seán Scanlan#Copyright problem removed) so that it will hopefully stay out of the article in the future. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 03:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all the help and advice! Wikipedialuva (talk) 03:39, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hello

why did you change my sex worker edit did ı do wrong? Volkan1881 (talk) 14:54, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]