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List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

I didn’t actually add information to Wikipedia. I took the link straight from Predictions and claims for the Second Coming of Christ. Take it up with them. That list was specific for the second coming, but all content should also be applicable for apocalyptic events since that would be the umbrella term. Janet1983 01:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the mistake. Please note though that while you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:47, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:21, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Message from Avoka Ayebilla

Thank you Dianna for your comment on the Nkonya-Alavanyo conflict, Ghana. I will review it altogether to make sure there is no such thing as bridge of copyright laws. I will reach out for help when i am not sure of something. Avoka Ayebilla (talk) 06:35, 26 April 2018 (UTC) Ayebilla Avoka

Bookish Worm

Hello diannaa. You placed an indefinte block for Books Nash on 12-26-2017 for repeated copyright violations. This editor seemed absolutely determined to copy information regarding military service from (most frequently) the site, veterantributes.org. This is a private, non official website run by one man. Each page honors a particular soldier with a history of service and a mock up of that person's award ribbons as determined by the webmaster’s personal research. Here is an example. Not only was Books Nash copying the prose, he was also copying the content derived from the ribbon images. He often made single edits adding huge lists of medals with very few edit summaries or sourcing. I don’t know if this would be considered a copyvio or not. He was not copying images, just information derived from them.

I am quite sure that Bookish Worm is the same person. The account was opened on 12-28-2017 and has continued right on adding large medal lists and other information in exactly the same manner. He has already been reverted and cautioned on his talk page by several editors including yourself. As you will see, this new editor is also adding huge blocks of ribbons to various pages such as this. He also uses the term ”accouterment spacing”, which is an unusual phrase also used by Books Nash. Compare the use of the terms in these two large edits. Books Nash vs Bookish Worm.

I have seen that Bookish Worm has recently been adding to Welborn Dolvin. This is a page you previously had to correct by deleting all edits made by Books Nash. It appears he/ she has decided to just add them in again. Bookish Worm has been making hundreds and hundreds of edits over the past few months. I don't doubt that some of the contributions by this editor are probably fine, but many more may not be. Can you take a look at this? I think it would be a good idea for an Admin to double check. Thanks. Roam41 (talk) 19:35, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello Roam41 and thanks for the report. The above evidence plus the similarity in the user pages has convinced me that you are correct. I have blocked Bookish Worm as an obvious sock. Please feel free to revert any inappropriate edits made by this sock, as they were made in violation of the block, and need not be retained. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I’m sure this editor believes they are doing a good thing by contributing to the pages of all these military service members. Their intent certainly couldn't be construed as vandalism. They are just going about it the wrong way and don’t seem open to altering any of their methods. Roam41 (talk) 00:11, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

I too saw them in CopyPatrol, and was here to see if anyone had checked all their recent edits for CVs? L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 00:46, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

That's not been done yet so I got it started: I've put a contribution surveyor up in my sandbox User:Diannaa/sandbox. The majority of edits are addition of infoboxes and medals tables, as well as quotations of military citations. However pretty much all of his prose additions are copyvio. I've done a few checks to get things started and marked the results. Items at the top of the list are more likely to have copyvio and at the bottom less likely. Red x (created with {{n}}) means no violations found; green check mark (created with {{y}}) means a violation was found. Please feel free to check some and mark the results; and let me know if you want any revision-deletion done. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:39, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Diannaa, you are amazing! I just saw all the cleanup you’ve managed to do on these edits. The thought of checking it all seemed overwhelming to me. I don’t want to add any more to your plate, but when you have time could you recheck James B. Linder? You have it crossed off as having no violations, but since this was a page Bookish Worm actually created, it seemed surpising there weren't any issues. I’m not very experienced using Earwig, but I tried two searches. The first used the search engine option for the current page. This came up fine. Then I ran an url comparison with the Linder page at veterantributes.org and came up with a 91.9% match. The citation quote is included in this, which I know is OK to use, but the rest? I’m curious. Why wouldn’t this finding come up on both searches? There may be some reason why it should be left alone, but I wanted to bring it to your attention. Roam41 (talk) 18:21, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Good catch, you are correct. I think what I did was a general Earwig search which is for some reason not detecting the veterantributes.org page. I will fix it now. The citation quote can stay for sure. Diannaa 19:54, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Same problem on Jeffrey Feinstein, now fixed. Diannaa 20:23, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

L3X1, Roam41: I have discovered and blocked a new sockpuppet: Lukey78. All edits (one of which was copyvio) have been removed. I am watch-listing a selection of articles in hopes of keeping on top of this issue. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:55, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

So glad you caught this. I will keep an eye out, too. Roam41 (talk) 18:05, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Kachwaha article copying

My changes were not directly copied from any website, they were taken from a previous version of the said article (on Wikipedia) which was copied by the website quoted, i.e. there was no copyright violation. The Kachwaha and Kushwaha article were re-written based on the POV of one (questionable) source, Pinch William R. (1996): Peasants and monks in British India. It is just plain misleading. It does not provide the majority view held in India or by members of the Kachwaha/Rajput community. What bothers me is that this is a article about a social group that still exists today, and many people in India find such caste-based assertions hurtful. Humblewikicontributor (talk) 19:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

I finally found the material, which was removed back in 2011 because it had no sources. The material should not be re-added unless accompanied by supporting citations. Diannaa 20:09, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

113th Operations Group

Looks like you removed a lot more than the information copied from the site you quoted as posing a sopyright problem. Wanna restore what is not problematial because of copyright? --Lineagegeek (talk) 22:36, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Lineagegeek. I'm not sure what you mean. All I removed was one sentence, copied from here, the sentence that starts with "In the end..." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:08, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Curiouser and curiouser. When I visited the article yesterday, essentially all content was gone. I don't know if it was a browser problem or what. So it looked like you'd removed a lot more. A visit a few minutes ago shows the article still exists. I've seen entire articles deleted in the past because of copyvio problems and was afraid it might have happened again. So, never mind -- sorry.--Lineagegeek (talk) 21:54, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Daiva Dasakam

Hi Diannaa,

The Diava Dasakam page was very incomplete, so I did additions to the page. But, now the added texts are removed. Can it be restored?

Thanks,

Shaj Kumar Bangalore — Preceding unsigned comment added by Getshaj (talk • contribs) 07:23, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

No it can't, because you copied it from another website, and that's not allowed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:20, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Oops

we were wrking on offshore trust at the same time. Not sure whether my edit messaed thngs up - I think not.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:53, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

No messes detected :). I have protected the page for a week as copyvio is rampant at the moment, from a coupla editors, perhaps a school project. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:56, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

"Amon Göth" edits

Diannaa,

I appreciate the edits with the citations and wording to my new material. It's great to have someone more experienced with Wikipedia and especially this article in particular to help me along. Feel free to let me know if you have any specific concerns regarding the new material I added. — Tbmiller3 (talk) 00:04, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

HiTbmiller3. There's some notes on your talk page. Sorry for the massive notes; you actually did a really good job for a new editor. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:30, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

St Norbert College Perth

Hi can you please remove your changes to the St Norbert College page? That text you removed is owned by the school and belongs on the Wikipedia page. I myself wrote it for those parts of the website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjvbiddle86 (talk • contribs) 04:35, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

We need to have documentation that shows the copyright holders have given permission for the material to be copied to this website. Wikipedia has procedures in place for this purpose. Please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Vegephobia

Hey, I think you've previously removed some history form the Vegaphobia page, I reverted it again because the same copyvio edit came back (I think) - would you mind having a look to see if more history should be removed? (also - I have zero idea if I reverted properly, so feedback welcome Joe (talk) 09:14, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Some similar but not identical to before, and some copied from another source. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:01, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

since you're the copyvio expert...

Quick Google search got "Chinese nobility | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks ... www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/Chinese_nobility Elevation and degradation of rank might occur posthumously, and posthumous elevation was sometimes a consideration; Guan Yu, was styled, during his lifetime, Marquis of Han Shou (漢壽亭侯) in the Han dynasty then posthumously in the later Song dynasty elevated to Duke Zhonghui (忠惠公) then in the Yuan dynasty ..."

which is an exact match of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aristocracy_(class)&diff=prev&oldid=838951495

--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Kintetsubuffalo. This Project Gutenberg is a Wikipedia mirror. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:03, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Attribution ?

Can't really find what was copied from University of Cambridge, wrong article? --Muhandes (talk) 14:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Oops, forget it, I found what you mean.  Self-trout --Muhandes (talk) 14:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Oberlin, Ohio

I think the history section might be largely copyvio.104.163.159.237 (talk) 19:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for your interest in copyvio clean-up. The current history page at http://www.cityofoberlin.com/for-visitors/history-of-oberlin/ appears to have been created in 2014 and we've had this content since 2002 so I can't prove it's copyvio. Old archived pages such as https://web.archive.org/web/20020917013652/http://www.cityofoberlin.com:80/city_history.html have completely different content. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:14, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Help with probable libel

This seems like a candidate for revdel. Can you help? 32.218.40.151 (talk) 22:03, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes. Thank you for reporting. I have contacted the oversight team as well. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:08, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. What's the oversight team? 32.218.40.151 (talk) 22:12, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

It's a step beyond revision-deletion in that it hides the edit from admins as well. Please see WP:Oversight for further information. You can email them yourself at oversight-en-wp@wikipedia.org — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Help please

A (short) while ago (21 April 2018) I spotted what I thought was likely to be a copyvio on Rodney Brooks, but I couldn't identify what it was a copy of. In what felt to me was almost no time at all, (it was actually 20 hours), you'd identified the source. Could I bother you to tell me what tool(s) you used to identify the source? With thanks in advance, Pdfpdf (talk) 07:28, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Pdfpdf and thank you for your interest. I was led to the Rodney Brooks article when another article Baxter (robot) was listed at CopyPatrol and I checked that editor's contribs. Here is a link to the Copypatrol report, which lists that url as a potential source. Another way is to do a search using Earwig's tool, or sometimes I check sources listed as references in the article, or sometimes I copy snippets of likely-looking prose and do a Google search and see what turns up. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:57, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Pdfpdf (talk) 23:39, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Same Article

Hello!.I have now understand and I think Soon Valley and Soan Sakaser Valley are both same article.Please check it.If these are same, then Delete one of them.Thanks.--PakEditor (talk) 14:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi PakEditor. I don't know if they are on two different topics or not, but all the content is completely different. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Moonlighting Film Production Services, Philip Key (film producer) and Genevieve Hofmeyr (film producer)

Hello Diannaa

Recently, you requested that my articles be speedily deleted. I have rewritten them extensively in my own words and made them much shorter. Could you please revisit them and accept? I'm sorry for the original mistake - I am new to Wikipedia and still learning. Thank you very much.

Kind regards, Mockby 123 (talk) 14:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Mockby 123, Diannaa is not a draft reviewer, and is thus unlikely to review your drafts for suitability on Wikipedia. I see you have asked the original reviewer for assistance, but there is also the AFC help desk where you can ask for advice. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 17:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)Template:Z163

Content on Utah Valley University Page

Thanks for your attention to the UVU Wikipedia page. As noted in the comment with the edit, the content reverted is a required disclosure that UVU must include with any statement regarding its accreditation under the standards of the accreditor and US federal law. That text must be used verbatim and in its entirety under the NWCCU Institutional Advertising, Student Recruitment, and Representation of Accredited Status Policy any time the university discloses its accreditation status, and the address and telephone number must be included under 34 CFR 602.23(d). As an act of legal compliance by the university official editing the page, it is not meaningfully subject to copyright. 161.28.198.47 (talk) 19:35, 3 May 2018 (UTC)Jeff Johnson

I am not the person who removed the content. The source webpage is marked as Copyright © 2018 UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY so I will not be undoing the revision deletion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:35, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Academic Tenure copyright review

Hi Diannaa , thank you for pointing out my mistakes concerning use of copyrighted material in the Academic tenure article .I have adjusted the United Kingdom section using material from the Lecturer article , and adding new material .

Thank you . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loneather (talk • contribs) 20:25, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Could you check if World Conference on Science was from an open license source

Hi Diannaa

I just notice that World Conference on Science was deleted because of a copyright infringement, see User talk:Susan Schneegans#Speedy deletion nomination of World Conference on Science. I think that the text actually came from an open license source and was deleted incorrectly. Would you be able to check and see if there is an open license source given for the text? And if so reinstate it?

Thanks

John Cummings (talk) 17:03, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi John Cummings. There's no indication on the source webpage or the UNESCO home page that any of their material is released under a compatible license. "Open access" means that we don't have to pay to read the material; some open access articles are released under license, but many are not. Under current copyright law, literary works are subject to copyright whether they are tagged as such or not. No registration is required, and no copyright notice is required. So unless the source material specifically shows a compatible license, we have to assume it's copyright. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:16, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

OK, thanks very much for your help, I'll try to sort out the licensing notification. John Cummings (talk) 18:04, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Help

Hello , I received your message in my talk page in few minutes ago, I need help (Mr.Mani Raj Paul (talk) 17:04, 5 May 2018 (UTC))

Hi Mr.Mani Raj Paul. I already added the required attribution. If there's some other assistance required, please let me know what it is and I will try to help or direct you to people who can. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:17, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks and More

Cachorro de Bichon Maltes	A bit of Puppy Love
	Thanks for your help last year, I still appreciate it. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 17:47, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the puppy! so cute ;) — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:03, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

A heads-up, should you wish to get involved in a discussion

• User talk:Church of Britain#Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution (your post)
• Talk:Parable of the Mustard Seed assorted recent contributions by various editors
• See also the recent revision history of Parable of the Mustard Seed

Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 01:41, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

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