You deleted my article. so I want to know how do I write an Article without Copyright Violation.
And Just for your Information "Nava Sudasana" is my village and it does exists.
So please let me know how to Write it.
Hi, and thanks for your help. My article-in-progress, 00:29, 31 January 2015 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted page User:Schradieck/sandbox (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.bargemusic.org/about.html) was not accepted because of copyright infringement. I want to recreate the article in my sandbox by replacing the citations to bargemusic.org. Can I go ahead and use my sandbox to do that without triggering some kind of automatic re-deletion process? The instructions say to contact you before trying to create a similar page.
Schradieck (talk) 16:11, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Schradieck. The draft was deleted because all the content was copied directly from http://www.bargemusic.org/about.html. It's not okay to copy source material directly, even if you provide footnotes. It's okay to start an article on the same topic, as long as you write the material in your own words and don't copy from your sources. Please see WP:copyrights and WP:notability for some basic information on writing content for Wikipedia. -- Diannaa (talk) 00:41, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rosa's a fringe writer whose article was deleted by afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manuel Rosa some years ago. The editor who created this version has a clear coi.[1] The reason I'm contacting you is that it looks very similar to Rosa's LinkIn bio.[2]
There's been a history of attempts to promote Rosa's work in various articles, possibly some socks as well. Could you please look at the possible copyvio and handle it? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 22:05, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Doug. I have paraphrased the material from linked-in and found a citation for the two awards. We still have notability and COI concerns, but it's enough to prevent immediate deletion. Best, -- Diannaa (talk) 01:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You recently deleted my page User:ThorneNature/Thorne Nature Experience for G12 copyright infringement. Although I have taken a majority of the text from Thornenature.org, I am a representative of Thorne and the words on the website have been written by me. Is there anyway I can create this article using information from Thornenature.org without being deleted for copyright infringement.
If you are the copyright holder, you can get an OTRS ticket in place by following the instructions at WP:Consent. Note the article must still meet our content guidelines for reliable sources, conflict of interest, and neutral point of view. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Deleted file
Hello Diannaa. A license has been received at OTRS for File:Craigmiles Hall in autumn.jpg, which you deleted in November 2014. I am going to upload it directly to Commons rather than ask for it to be restored here and then deleted again after transfer. However, I would be much obliged if you could tell me any of the details, such as uploader name, upload date, description etc so I can note it at Commons. Thanks in advance. Green Giant (talk)22:21, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. The author was shown as Rebecca Hiatt, license was cc-by-ca 3.0. The description: "Craigmiles Hall is located in downtown Cleveland, Tennessee. Built in 1878, the building was used as an opera house for several decades and renovated in 1993 by local businessman Allan Jones." Source: "Sent to me personally" -- Diannaa (talk) 23:11, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have created a page for Free and Fair Election Network earlier and submitted for review. Its non profit and most discussed organization in Pakistan after their comprehensive and impartial reports. This can be good topic for the general public to be made available on Wiki. I just wanted to know the reason for removing this page. I am new to wiki, your guidance will be much appreciated in this regards.
Hello, you deleted our article about Open Roberta because of copyright infringement. We are the owners of the mentioned website (http://www.open-roberta.org) and used some text from it as fundament for the Wikipedia article. As I read within your comment regarding the Thorne Nature Experience article, we have to get an OTRS ticket in this case. Nevertheless we put a certain amount of work into the article and now its completely gone. So is there any possiblity to restore it after that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.26.78.103 (talk) 10:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Kevin. I have restored the file, but will have to leave it up to you to add the ticket and verify that the license matches, as I am not an OTRS team member. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Deleted Page: WAL Underground
Hello.
I noticed you deleted the WAL Underground page I made. I included the news articles to support the validity of the company. When you have a moment, will you please explain what I can do to get this page restored. Thank you! --Kaplanau (talk) 17:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Kaplanau. The draft was deleted because most of the content was copied from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-armwrestling-league-air-espn-190700065.html and possibly elsewhere online. Wikipedia articles have to be written in your own words, not copied from elsewhere, because prose you find online is protected under copyright law. If you have the copyright holder's permission to post the material here, please get an OTRS ticket in place using the instructions at WP:Consent. --Diannaa (talk) 19:41, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
D-- I was wondering if you might be able to find a fair use photo to use for this article since you have a much better understanding of Wikipedia policy guidelines as to same. Kierzek (talk) 14:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There's two images at http://spartacus-educational.com/Maria_Reiter.htm. The picture of her as an adult is the property of Getty Images and thus is not available for fair use. The one with Hitler may be misidentified, as Yad Vashem says it's Gudrun Himmler. The color photo at www.ww2incolor.com is likewise probably misidentified, as http://www.thirdreichruins.com/berghofvisitors.htm says it's actually Gertrude Deetz. Regardless, the color photo may be the property of LIFE Magazine and thus unavailable for fair use. So I've hit a dead end. If you could hunt around and send me links to any likely images i will have a look. Note: Mimi, Geli, and Eva were all far younger than Hitler. We need to include this somehow. I am hunting in Kershaw for a citation -- Diannaa (talk) 16:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Kierzek and Diannaa. I believe I saw a picture of Reiter in her youth in the same 1973 German-Austro film I found a picture of Rabatsch in her youth, which is now featured on her article. I will re-watch the documentary and let you know if I find one. I'm sure I saw a picture of her. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 20:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It turns out I mistaked Maria for Mitford ... sorry guys. However, I found another image though here. Also, I'm calling major bullshit on the little girl besides Hitler featured on Spartacus being Mitzi! You can clearly tell that particular photo was taken in the 1930s, where Mitzi would have been in her 20s—and that girl besides Hitler looks a 10-year-old. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 23:16, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Also Diannaa, Kershaw writes in Hitler 1889-1936 about Mitzi and Hitler's obsession with women younger than him: "Hitler was thirty-seven years of age; she was sixteen. Like his father, he preferred women much younger than himself—girls he could dominate, who would be obedient playthings but not get in the way. The two women with whom he would become most intimately associated, Geli Raubal (nineteen years younger than he was) and Eva Braun (twenty-three years younger), fitted the same model—until, that is, Geli became rebellious and wanted a level of freedom which Hitler was unwilling to permit". Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 23:30, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, she has added that bit to the article which was a good addition; thanks, to you both are the matter; and Jonas, the error you mention in "Spartacus" is an example of why I don't believe it should be used; it is the work of one man without any editorial oversite; but that is for another discussion. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 00:00, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
File permission problem with File:Picture of Jean Jacques Moreau.pdf
The picture has been given lont time ago by J.J. Moreau itself. It was one of his identity card pictures. He died in January2015 wihout any descendants. What should I do ?
If you have the copyright holder's permission to upload the image here, please arrange for them to send an email releasing the photo to us under license. There's instructions at WP:consent. If you are going to go to all this trouble, I suggest you find a higher quality image, as File:Picture of Jean Jacques Moreau.pdf is not of sufficient size or quality for inclusion in the encyclopedia. And PDF is an incorrect format for images; it should be jpg or png. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:44, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The AN discussion says you are indefinitely topic banned from reporting at WP:UAA. I don't think the intention was that you would be allowed to circumvent the ban by making requests to individual admins, so you need to stop doing that. Besides, the bot caught this particular name, and it's already listed at WP:UAA. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it seems a little ambiguous. Am I allowed to report usernames to individual admins? Mind you, I wouldn't burden you with all of them. - Bossanoven (talk) 20:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
User:Nyttend was the admin who instituted the ban, so my feeling is yes, it's okay to point admins at bad usernames, and for you to do so will help us evaluate your readiness to have the ban lifted at some point in the future. But please check the WP:UAA board first, and see if the name is already listed there for admin attention. -- Diannaa (talk) 20:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't remember any such ban, so in lieu of the AN discussion, I suppose I can say that I agree with what I said in the linked section; a ban from UAA shouldn't be construed as a ban from making private requests on admin talk pages, i.e. there shouldn't be any problem with the request that started this section. Of course, any admin can say "you've overwhelmed my talk page with bad requests; don't come here again with block requests", so please continue to be careful not to burden an admin with all of them. I hope this isn't construed as an objection against anything you've said or done here. Not sure how else to phrase it. Nyttend (talk) 03:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
They're not that recent (Oct-Nov-Dec of 2014) and none of them have edited whatsoever. It's a waste of admin time to report these. -- Diannaa (talk) 21:17, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Advice?
Me again. What, if anything, should I do next about this? Foreign-language wikitext copied here as hidden text, no talk-page attribution of the source, keeps triggering the bot. My attempts here, here and here to start a dialogue have borne no fruit. Prolific and productive editor, so I'm reluctant to go to noticeboards etc., but the lack of response bothers me. Thanks as always, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The odds of starting a dialogue are negligible, as the user has not responded to a user talk page post since 2011. Nevertheless I will post something on his talk page. -- Diannaa (talk) 00:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Dear editor Diannaa,
You deleted on 05.02.2014 the draft of my article titled "Tigran Maytesian" submitted to the Articles for Creation for G12 copyright infringement (your reference on 23:54, 5 February 2015 Diannaa (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:Tigran Maytesian (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.tigranmaytesian.com/en/bioen.htm)- see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Tigran_Maytesian&action=edit&redlink=1.
Actually, it was by no means a copyright violation from my side as a contributor to this article. I am the web content manager of www.tigranmaytesian.com. The copyright holder, Mr. Tigran Maytesian has entitled me to use information from his website www.tigranmaytesian.com, including his biography and CV in full, i.e. close to the text, without paraphrasing it. I officially have the copyright holder's permission to post the material as well as direct access to all materials and information contained at his website. I sent a request to the OTRS team to get a ticket and I am waiting for their confirmation. Nevertheless I put a a great amount of work into the article and now its completely gone. Could you please restore it in full? I would appreciate if you could undelete my submission of the article and give me a possibility to edit it with your sound advice and recommendations.
Should you need any proof of that you can contact Mr.Tigran Maytesian directly (contacts are at the above mentioned website.
Thank you in advance for your soonest response.
Best wishes,
95.67.102.245 (talk) 21:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)Tatiana Antonchenko, web-content manager of www.tigranmaytesian.com[reply]
I had a look, and it is not, as it stands, sufficient to confirm permission; I've replied explaining why not. This might be a good time to remind Ms Antonchenko that if she is personally or professionally connected to the subject of the article then she has a conflict of interest, and is strongly discouraged from making any edit to the page about him, though of course welcome to suggest changes on the talk page at any time. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have restored the draft and added the ticket to the talk page. The template shows a default of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, so if the email shows a different license, you will have to amend the ticket please. -- Diannaa (talk) 14:55, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I placed a neutral, reliably sourced information in the article about Tigran Maytesian. My aim was not to promote my own interests, neither business or financial, or those of Mr. Tigran Maytesian. He is one of prominent contemporary violinists, musical pedagogues and outstanding scientists really worthy to be mentioned in Wikipedia. I have got a request from OTRS team to confirm authorization of the copyright owner from the address listed in the contact page on your website. The copyright owner has already sent this authorization from the required contact e-mail address. Actually, my contributing of this article is by no means a paid advocacy as I receive no financial compensation from Mr. Tigran Maytesiam to use Wikipedia to promote his interests. I am a freelancer on no-paid basis to contribute but not his paid employee or a family member / friend. I asked him for the requested authorization as the editor Diannaa deleted my contributed article marking it as “Unambiguous copyright infringement of Tigran Maytesian's website”.
Dear Justlettersandnumbers, in Importance of civility conflict of interest it goes that disparaging comments made about the subject of the article/author and about the author's motives should be avoided, since they may be seen as forbidden personal attacks, and may discourage the article's creator from making future valuable contributions. Remember not to bite the newcomers, please.
I am a volunteer with no financial interest or personal bias to the topic. In fact, from my side it was an attempt to advance the aims of Wikipedia and to supplement the current Wikipedia list of contemporary living violinists with another internationally recognized and prominent person really worth to be placed there.
Please tell me if it is really possible to share knowledge about such prominent person for encyclopaedic purposes of Wikipedia without hiding under any pseudonimic names of the so-called "unbiased" editors? I don't want to sound offended or to be misunderstood but it seems that for such volunteering, non-paid contributors as me the Wikipedia community is not friendly but rather a Chinese Wall, a barrier.
I would really appreciate if you could give me your sound advice and recommendations on how it is possible to create an article about this notable person (Tigran Maytesian) and not to be accused of advancing his interests.
I am sorry your experience here has not been more positive. The draft has now been restored, as the OTRS ticket has been processed. The article was also declined for reasons other than copyright violations: it reads like a resumé, and does not have any inline citations. Did you know that all of us here on Wikipedia are volunteers, just like yourself? It takes a while to learn how to become an effective contributor. Please feel free to ask questions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk or Wikipedia:Teahouse regarding how to write an article that will meet the Wikipedia guidelines for content and sourcing. -- Diannaa (talk) 15:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your response and support. I will read Wikipedia guidelines for content and online citation to make the necessary improvements to the draft of the article. Should I have any questions I will use your kind advice to contact the Wikipedia help desk and Teahouse.
I don't understand why you think I violated a copyright. I read the article you referenced in "the Avenue News" and it contains information about her that I got from other sources. Psantry (talk) 14:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The article is here. The Career section and the Awards section are identical. I have restored the article to your sandbox, and removed these two sections. Please be sure to re-write them in your own words. -- Diannaa (talk) 14:49, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
sheila frazier file
Hi Diannaa...appreciate the help on this article and the admonishment...I actually recently got in contact with Sheila...(we use to work together back in the 70's in New York)... I told her I had worked on her wiki article... Although she is very lo key and does not like to flaunt her life...she was ok with what I did... Do I need the "written" permission from her...
Thanks...
Poekneegurl (talk) 20:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)poekneegurl[reply]
Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay; needs official Coat-of-arms file.
Greetings, On Template:Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay the COA was deleted. Thanks! On Talk:Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay during October 2014 I had asked for a COA image to be uploaded. Since then, I did email the GB Diocese office and they have emailed me 2 official COA files. Because I'm fairly new here at WP, and these copyright restrictions, I have not been able to upload either image file, so I've moved on. I have successfully uploaded 3 or 4 of my personal pictures to commons so I do understand the process and the need for proper copyright classifications, etc.
On a few other Template Navbox pages, I have added a temporary blank COA File:Heraldic shield shape 600x660.svg as a visual indication that a COA is needed. So far there have been no objections so after a while I plan to include the blank COA on the GB template.
The coat of arms can remain on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay article, because the file description page includes a rationale for its inclusion there, and using it there meets our non-free content requirements, which you can find here as related to images. Since our non-free content rules call for minimal use of non-free content, non-free images are not allowed in templates, which might be transcluded onto large numbers of pages. You might consider getting OTRS permission in place for the coat of arms, if you have the copyright holder's permission to display it here. There's instructions as to how to do this at WP:Consent. Sorry it's all so complicated, -- Diannaa (talk) 15:06, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining the different requirements. I do see at
[3] there are over 150 CoA images uploaded. At this time, I'm going to pass on this permissions attempt so that I can stay focused on other updates. I will keep a note on my To-do list for a future possible update. Thanks again, :-) JoeHebda (talk)
D--here is one of those nagging little queries you may be able to help out on (cue the "Mission: Impossible" music). I have not been able to find out when she died. I assume she has by now given she was born in 1915. After the war, I know she married her British interrogator, Leslie James. After his death in 1995, I have read that she returned to Germany. I cannot find an WP:RS source stating anything after that and when she died. I checked and German Wikipedia does not have an article on her. Obenritter also tried to help and find out the answer but was not able to do so. Anyway, if you can find the answer, it would be good for that article. Kierzek (talk) 21:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Kierzek, according to the Swedish Wikipedia, there should be some general information about her in Joachimsthaler, Anton (2000). The Last Days of Hitler: Legend, Evidence and Truth. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-1-4072-2133-5, page 291. But I suppose this would only be useful if she died after the book was released. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 13:11, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jonas, I have that book (as does Diannaa) which was first released in Germany in 1995 and then the English edition in 1999. At that time, she was still living. So, she would have had to pass away since then. It is just one of those "loose ends" I wanted to tie up. Kierzek (talk) 13:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Look, I appreciate your efforts! Please stay away from files you have nothing to do with. o one has asked you to clean up after me. I use Internet Explorer 7.1. I find no loading issues with my files whatsoever. Also, If you want to continue deleting my uploads, please try to not inform me. Thank you. Regards MaRAno FAN14:24, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Marano Fan. I guess that you do not realise that I am one of the few administrators who works with files, deleteing images and maintaining the image collection in other ways. By unnecessarily uploading files to replace images that are already okay, and in most cases are in fact better (because your png files take way longer to load), you are creating extra and unnecessary work. I realise that I don't have to clean up after you, but if it's not me, it's going to be someone else. You have also generated a lot of extra work for the person (that's right - usually it's just the one guy) who locates and tags unused non-free files for deletion. That's how I discovered there was a problem; there's 334 untagged orphaned non-free images listed right now, and many of them are images you removed from articles and did not tag for deletion like you should have done. Now at the risk of annoying you further, I will be going through your recent album covers and removing from articles the worst of them, and tagging them for deletion. Twinkle has an option to not notify the uploader, so consider this your only notice regarding these pending deletions, as you have banned me from your talk page. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:46, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well they put it back up with newer refs but it still has the problem it was put up as a AFD for not being notable. So yeah, not sure what to say. Wgolf (talk) 01:16, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
G4 is not a good criteria, because the only reason the deletion discussion was closed early is because the article was deleted for copy vio. A7 (not notable) is the appropriate criterion at this point. Please stop laying templates on the poor fellow's talk page. It makes communication difficult -- Diannaa (talk) 01:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah sorry about the templates part it came when I tagged it at the same time when I used twinkle. I do feel sorry for him I will admit. Wgolf (talk) 01:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your help with the article on Soft Robotics. In order to avoid the deletion of the article, I was wondering if it is possible to delete the two pictures File:Soft octopus arm project OCTOPUS.png and File:Fish robot by FILOSE.jpg so that the article itself can be published (it seems there are no other issues with it). In the meantime I can contact the people they have sent me the pictures (then ones that I have mentioned in the copyright statement) . So they can provide me and Wikipedia with an official copyright statement. I would then, after having all the correct copyright information, add the pictures later.
So my questions is how can we do that? Is it sufficient to delete the pictures from my account? It seems Anthony Bradbury "talk" (who reviewed the draft) is not responsive. We have been waiting for weeks for his response and I am afraid all the work of so many people for the article might be lost.