User talk: Diannaa

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Greetings,

You hid an edit to Nullification crisis. That's not an issue with me but the same IP editor made a long edit to Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language that I suspect has much of the same content. The edit has been reverted but it may bear a look.--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 21:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

It's public domain, from https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/Nullification%20Proclamation.pdf— Diannaa (talk) 22:34, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Question & rationale:

Greetings Miss Diannaa... First: Thank you for your recent comment(s) and guidance - regarding my content additions and editing - as they are greatly appreciated. Secondly; I must admit - they leave me mostly perplexed in a certain manner. To wit: I thought this was / is an online "encyclopedia" of (accumulated) knowledge... and as I run through wikipedia as a reference for many things quite frequently, and often see the (editorial) staff leaving notes in the content seeking "needs citation" unfortunately quite often. So I assumed my citations, and use of "exact" language from the works / sources I cited and books I have read would be "correct" in manner for an "encyclopedia". Additionally, since all the cited works were freely available online as well, I am therefore left slightly somehow perplexed as to why this should be less than desireable for an online encyclopedic reference work. Granted I am an "old fart", as I attended college with Noah, and even helped him build the Ark... but if you could elaborate further and help me to better comprehend the tenor of why using publically available books and references, and quoting them, is somehow deemed unacceptable these days It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again for all your time and patience in this matter. SCMG (talk) 17:40, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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 please always assume that all material you find online is copyright, erven if it is not marked as such. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia; it's not allowed under our copyright policy. Short quotations are allowed, but that's not what happened here.— Diannaa (talk) 19:18, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Removal of Eatontown Historic Info

I don't see the problem with using quoted information. This type of dictatorial deletion behavior has an overall negative and discourages people from editing wikipedia. If you think there is no issue if rewriting quoted material, why don't you do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfratini33 (talk • contribs) 23:43, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia is mostly written by Wikipedians, not as a collection of quotes. Short quotes are allowed, but only if necessary. — Diannaa (talk) 14:07, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Demon Slayer Movie's Vandaliliser

A random IP address user is repeatedly removing info of the film "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train" Which in turn has damage the article. I have sent a three revert policy notice. But the random user doesn't seem to care. Also he has been insulting me, for my frequent attempts to solve the diaster. I do not know what to do now. Please help me as soon as possible. いちか かすが (talk) 03:57, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

This appears to be a multi-day content dispute and edit war. Sorry I don't have time to get involved. If there's actual vandalism, please file a report at WP:AIV.— Diannaa (talk) 14:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

It's OK. Thank you for your suggestion. いちか かすが (talk) 14:18, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Copyright

In Dayanidhi Maran, IP is adding copyright violation. Now copied from https://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/in-telephone-exchange-case-setback-for-dayanidhi-maran-brother-2010626 & https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-refuses-to-quash-charges-against-dayanidhi-maran-others-in-telephone-exchange-case-119032001039_1.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4072:6308:B7BF:E213:51B0:6194:2073 (talk) 10:47, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Cleaned. Thanks for reporting. — Diannaa (talk) 11:57, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Physical Internet - ePIcenter

Regarding the ePIcenter section that you removed due to copyright concerns - could you elaborate on which part is a problem? I am the main author for the ePIcenter project proposal and leader of the Communication workpackage for the project so I am involved in the production of much of the information about the project. Ju12358 (talk) 16:21, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright issue and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view what the bot found. The material is a match for https://lcpa.bal.eu/BALLCPA_Webseite/ as well as other locations online. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

A second problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I have placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 19:26, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Bloodlands (TV series)

Dear Diannaa, I have another copy 'n' paste for you [1]. I have reverted the Synopsis and the four short plot summaries.
Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 17:11, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Gareth Griffith-Jones, I can't find a match for the removed content elsewhere online. Can you please provide me with the source urls? Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 19:28, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't. I was going by the style of writing and with the concluding questions for the reader. Rather like these [2]They are not original.
Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 19:55, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Sachal Wind Power Project

Hi Dianna,

You removed some of the portions on the wikipedia page, are you referring to the engineering history memory link under the sub-header of External Links? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NEOAMR21 (talk • contribs) 02:56, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

I removed text that was copied from elsewhere online. This took place on multiple articles, not just Sachal Wind Power Project. Copying text from elsewhere is not allowed - it's a violation of our copyright policy. Please see the edit history of each article for the specific urls where I found matching text.— Diannaa (talk) 12:23, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Mbaitoli

Hi Dianna,

Thank you for the corrections on my edit on Mbaitoli Local Government Area. I seem to understand now why the things I added were removed. I will be careful next time. But I want to ask, if I wish to add more information to that article, am I allowed to go ahead??? Please leave me a message on my talk page ([[Sommy kemdi (talk) 09:49, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Changing − to –

Pleas don't automatically change − to – as you did here. Doing it changes the blue linked UTC−05:00 to UTC– 05:00. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 12:43, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the tip.— Diannaa (talk) 12:46, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

On Bible-Presbyterian churches (Singapore)

Hi Diannaa, can you take a look at this edit Special:Diff/1013039252? I am not sure if this is a reinsertion of the probable copyright stuff you had revdel earlier. Thanks! – robertsky (talk) 19:40, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Difficult to say what all was copied, as the quotations interfere with any investigation. Regardless, some was copied from this copyright webpage, so that's enough to warrant revision deletion. Thanks for reporting.— Diannaa (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Reverted text from public domain government website

The text you reverted on Saeima was from a government website and in public domain as it is stated here:

https://www.saeima.lv/en/copyright

>All photographs, audio-visual materials, infographics, animations, etc. (hereinafter – the Content) published with a reference to the Saeima are the property of the Saeima.

>The Saeima’s Content can be republished or otherwise used for information purposes without express consent of the Saeima or the authors of the Content. It is prohibited to use the Content in a manner that discredits the Saeima and the individuals depicted in the Content, or misleads about the circumstances in which the Content was created. When republishing the Content, it is mandatory to make a reference to the Saeima and the authors of the Content (if they are listed).

--YitzhakNat (talk) 13:22, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry but that's not a liberal enough license, because we can't guarantee that the content will not be used "in a manner that discredits the Saeima" or in a misleading way.— Diannaa (talk) 16:44, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Reverted edit

Another text you reverted on History_of_the_Jews_in_Latvia was from a government website https://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/ in public domain, it was published with a government officials' speech in the beginning.--YitzhakNat (talk) 13:32, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

The source webpage is marked as "Copyright © 2021 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia" which means that it is copyright - not in the public domain, and we can't host it here. Sorry,— Diannaa (talk) 16:46, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Integral Yoga

Hi Diannaa, i have paraphased the content and is not a word to word copy of the content and does not come under copyrights if you are summarising or paraphasing the content, let me know specific content which you see as copyright infringement.

also under following terms the content does not come under copyrighted material both in USA and Authors origin country, kindly let me know if you need clarification

Licensing

{{PD-India-URAA}} {{PD-India}}

--Shrikanthv (talk) 16:08, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Please have a look at the Hirtle chart. See the section "Works Published Abroad Before 1978" as the text was copied from The Life Divine (ISBN 0-941524-61-2) which according to Worldcat was first published in 1939. The only instance where the book is no longer protected by copyright is if it was "published without compliance with US formalities, and in the public domain in its source country as of URAA date". You will have to prove that this is so - I can't take your word for it.

Regardless, when copying from public domain works, our copyright rules require that you provide attribution so that readers and patrollers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. This is done by including the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation.— Diannaa (talk) 17:03, 21 March 2021 (UTC)--Shrikanthv (talk) 08:21, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

I agree and will take care regarding {{PD-notice}} my intention definitly is not to copy word by word nor claim others work to be own or also in direct or indirect way, also do not understand the proving required ?if you go through India PD-India its clear and the work is in public domain, and will include "PD-notice" in future Shrikanthv (talk) 08:17, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

It is not proven that the content is in the public domain, because you have not proven that the book was not properly registered as copyright when it was originally published and the copyright was renewed. Almost all books are copyright. We can't assume that it was not. If it was properly registered as copyright and the copyright was properly renewed, it still enjoys copyright protection until 2022. Please don't guess or assume that it was not. — Diannaa (talk) 11:16, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

How to ...

Hi,

Regarding the content about mandate in the article Department of Science and Technology (India) which you have deleted mentioning it is form Government site, But Diannaa it is mandate of the Government department which can not be changed by any body and it is declare by Government Department. We can not even write it in different words or represent it in different way. The article needs this information as it is a sprite of the subject.

Suggest how to bring it back in article. - Shraddhajadhav (talk) 18:22, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry but the content is copyright, and you can't copy it here. If it's not possible for you to put it in your own words, you will have to leave it out.— Diannaa (talk) 11:18, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Diannaa, There are few things in public domain which you have to put it as it is for eg. National anthem, Laws, Slogans, constitutions like wise the mandate is to be quoted as it is.

Because it is mention on one site does not mean it can not be mention at other places, rather it should be same on all the places wherever it is mentioned. It is for public by Government.

Think on this and update me.... I will wait for your guidance. - Shraddhajadhav (talk) 17:05, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Song lyrics (even national anthems) are copyright, and we're not allowed to include them. In India, even legislation is copyright for 60 years from publication date. In addition to the copyright issue, we don't normally include mandates, mission statements, or organizational goals. — Diannaa (talk) 19:30, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

RevDel assistance

Hello, could you help with a possible case of revdel? I removed a long standing copyvio from Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. It is mostly a trimmed down copy and paste (translated from Spanish) of a report ([3] (pp. 136-40)) that isn't in the public domain (as far as I can tell). I moved it and the source to the talk page. Thank you. TJMSmith (talk) 04:32, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

I have looked at some of the points and run them through Google translate, and while the Wikipedia version presents the same points in the same order, the material seems adequately paraphrased to me. Just a suggestion: If you suspect something is a copyright violation, please don't paste it to additional places that will have to subsequently have to be cleaned up. Thanks,— Diannaa (talk) 11:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Diannaa, This was helpful, thanks for looking! TJMSmith (talk) 12:52, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Original contributor

Thank you for your notification. As the original contributor to the affected prose sections (with references) in both source article and destination article, I believe I complied with the sourcing requirement. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 12:32, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

I am reminded of my edits to Time in physics which got copied to Time by others without attribution a long time ago (I looked; it's been 15 years). That was before this explicit sourcing policy came into effect, perhaps? --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 12:43, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

We've had the same license since the very beginning— Diannaa (talk) 12:49, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

23 March 2021

Hello @Diannaa thank you for your notice at the Malay article page, I am glad that you inform me about the copyright policy on Wikipedia. But somehow my current edit on that page is basically not just a "copy and paste" content, because some information is already provided before and I just want to give my contribution by expanding the article and give related images based on citation sources that eventually share the similar citation sources as Malay (ethnic), because basically Malay (as in ethnicity) related to the Malay (as in kingdom), the Malays called as "Malay" because it bear their identity which is the descendant of the Malay Kingdom. Can you give me some alternative on how I can contribute to expand the page but still preserves the Wikipedia policies so I will not accused as a "copy-paste" editor? Thank you in advance for your good faith cooperation. Eiskrahablo (talk) 15:12, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Regarding your message on my Talk Page

Hi, you left a message on my talk page that my edits on article "Presidency of Ram Nath Kovind" is removed. I even got a e-mail notification for an edit on the page, but the page edit history doesn't shows any edit history. Secondly, I have not completely copy-pasted the information from the source, there is change in sentence in the article than that same sentence of the source. My previous edit in this article had some "copy-paste" issues, which had been informed to my by an user here, and I improved my article. If you still have any improvements for the article, please let me know on my Talk Page instead of reverting my edits (if possible). Thanks!!
Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 01:26, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright issue and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view what the bot found. The revisions containing the copyright material were hidden from view under under criterion RD1 of the revision deletion policy, and that's why you can't access them any more.— Diannaa (talk) 02:10, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

So can I edit the article and try to reduce the similarly index. Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 02:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be written in your own words.— Diannaa (talk) 11:01, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Copyvio removed

Hi Diannaa. I have just removed what I noticed looked like a serious copyvio here, which was apparently added by an IP editor way back here in 2015. I don't think I can delete the content myself, so I thought I'd pass this on to you to make it invisible. Is this the right way to do this, or is there an easier alternative? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:45, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I have done the revision deletion. Thanks for reporting,— Diannaa (talk) 11:00, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Little Help

Hello Diannaa, I would appreciate your help if you would help to remove the deletion tag from Lysa TerKeurst @bursubba (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry that's not allowed at this point. Please feel free to add a comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lysa TerKeurst— Diannaa (talk) 12:46, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

James Larkin

I am unsure as to why your edits on the James Larkin article (and then on my talk page) appear to refer to me, as the section added to the article from https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/the-union-cult-of-larkin-is-built-on-factually-baseless-myths-29079014.html was not added by me, and the small section from Irish history live that was added by me was short (amounting to about 8 lines), re written and properly referenced. However now the edit history page on the article gives the impression of dozens of major edits made by myself having been reversed by way of a line having been put through them (including many lines of text that still remain and are referenced). The replacement text you added did not make sense, as important context had been removed and included spelling mistakes, which I have not corrected as I thought it best to leave the article alone for now. An explanation would be appreciated. Best Regards, Grosseteste (talk) 13:55, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

The content that was added by you that had to be removed was about 250 words that is a match for an article I found here. The section from The Independent was actually added by someone else long ago, and I discovered it by chance while checking the article. — Diannaa (talk) 14:16, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

There are now 36 edits made by myself on the edit history page that now have lines through them. Only 4 of them relate to the section on the Dublin lock-out, which was the subject matter of the source you have mentioned. Having checked again the number of words removed that related to edits by myself were around 160 and mainly related to the facts of the situation (numbers of people involved and dates). Admittedly some language remained very similar which was an oversight, although the source matter was referenced to. If you note the edit history to the article over the time I have been adding to it, the number of words I have added are in the 1000s and are all referenced and in original prose. Many images have been added including those taken from primary sources which have been used as references. However the implication given by the edit history now is that huge sections added by myself have been removed, which is untrue. Regards, Grosseteste (talk) 14:35, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

In order to completely remove the material from the page history, all the intervening edits have to be hidden, from the time of insertion of the copyright material to its removal. This means that in many instances, harmless edits have to be hidden.— Diannaa (talk) 19:04, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

CV-revdel question

Hi! Hope you are well! I just noticed that WP:REVDEL says " If redacting a revision would remove any contributor's attribution, this criterion cannot be used". Could you tell me what that means? Does it mean that if there's an edit of one other editor among the offending revisions, it can not be revdelled? That doesn't sound right, coz isn't that almost always the case? But then, what if not that?

Also, could you take a look at the history of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elsa D'Silva? I believe there's copyvio there and redacted but I was partially reverted while I was busy pondering the above, so I am seeking 3O. Thanks in advance! Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:14, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

My position is that the attribution still exists in revision-deleted material, but the content is visible only to admins. If we took the stricter reading of the policy, revision deletion would be extremely rare - it would only be permitted if there were no intervening edits whatsoever, and that rarely happens. That's not the way that most of us active in this area interpret the policy.

The legal code states that all contributing authors must be credited. ("The credit required by this Section 4(c) may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, however, that in the case of a Adaptation or Collection, at a minimum such credit will appear, if a credit for all contributing authors of the Adaptation or Collection appears, then as part of these credits and in a manner at least as prominent as the credits for the other contributing authors.") It does not state that each sentence and phrase in the document must be credited to an individual author. Therefore in my opinion providing a list of contributors via the article history is adequate attribution, even if the edits themselves are no longer visible. I think the policy wording is a holdover from the auld days where the only method of removing edits was to do a delete-and-partial-restore, whereby if there were any intervening edits by other contributors, the task could not be completed because contributor's names would be removed from the history.— Diannaa (talk) 19:07, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

The passages are now clearly marked as being excerpts/quotations and therefore I will not be doing revision deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elsa D'Silva.— Diannaa (talk) 19:15, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your helpful teaching on copyright! I think I have made copyright mistakes in a few places so I'll double back and make the necessary fixes to my edits. By the way it was wonderful and humbling to explore your user page and some of your many projects, thanks for your extraordinary work! :) Hephestus-1964 (talk) 19:04, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Hephestus-1964!— Diannaa (talk) 19:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Copake, New York

Hi Diannaa, if you get a chance, could you take a look at the Copake, New York article. I just came across an addition to a notable people list that really seemed out of place in the article. It was more like a tribute, and when I searched on google, I seen it was copied from this website, which states at the bottom that it is copyrighted. Since you have a great knowledge of anything to do with copyrighted material, I was wondering if you could check and see if I was right. I already removed the text from the article, because even if it wasn't copyrighted, it doesn't appear to be appropriate for the town page, but if copyrighted, you might want to remove it all together from the article history. Thanks in advance. Cmr08 (talk) 00:31, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Revision deletion done. Thanks for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 12:11, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Requesting revdel on Ainan Celeste Cawley

Hi, would like to request RD2 revdel from 1013876180 to 1013877055. – robertsky (talk) 06:20, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

This is ordinary vandalism in my opinion, not qualifying for revision deletion. Please contact the oversight team if you wish to get a second opinion.— Diannaa (talk) 12:16, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Problem at Yamato people

A new user includes large amounts of unrelated topics/content into the article Yamato people. Could you please take a look and take action. He now started to accuse me of being another user which he reverted as well. Thank you in advance and a nice day 46.125.250.70 (talk) 07:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

He's trying to talk here and there using IP, because he was caught trying to manipulate the article using sock puppets. "I don't like your edit" doesn't mean unrelated. He is my fellow countryman, but it seems he's too addicted to Wikipedia. (talk) 07:13, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Well, it seems we have reached a consensus. Thank you.46.125.250.70 (talk) 08:15, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Blocking 2603:9000:FF00:A7:1927:4C3A:3389:CF0B

Hi, well 2603:9000:FF00:A7:1927:4C3A:3389:CF0B had sparked so many edit wars on pages such as Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna, Template:Al-Qaeda with so many users. He also removes so many content from pages. Kiro Bassem (talk) 13:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Someone has already reported at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism— Diannaa (talk) 13:32, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Lemass

Hello, and thanks for getting in touch. I did not use any copyrighted material in the Lemass era. I found the stub on the WikiProject Ireland page and tried to improve it with relevant citations and material on other relevant wiki pages.

Did my updates set off an alarm? Taibhseoir (talk) 15:24, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Well yeah. A lot of the content you added appears to have been copied from here.— Diannaa (talk) 15:26, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Interference (band)

hi this is marcmackdee, you have removed a considerable portion of my page claiming copyright infringement, please explain.

I am the author of every word typed on this page except for qoutations highlighted in parenthesis. I also own the image used as it is created from a photograph taken of the dog winston in 1987 and manipulated by me on my computer in 2017 for use ultimately on a tshirt also made by me.Marcmackdee (talk) 01:21, 26 March 2021 (UTC)marcmackdee

Marcmackdee: Since the text has previously been published elsewhere online, 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. For images at the Commons, there's full instructions at Commons:OTRS. 12:00, 26 March 2021 (UTC)— Diannaa (talk)

Diannaa (talk), I created this page in 2009, all text on it is mine , if it appears elsewhere online it has been copied and pasted from here , this is my writings, look at the edit history. please give me examples of where I am alledgely plagerising other peoples text. Marcmackdee (talk) 09:31, 27 March 2021 (UTC)Marcmackdee

The article was created in August 2009, but it's a match for this article, which has existed longer than that, and says "from the band's website". There's a comment at the bottom of the article dated Febraury 2007, and there's a copy at the Wayback Machine dated February 2008.— Diannaa (talk) 12:25, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Diannaa (talk) I wrote this text on 19th february 2003, I have the word document with date stamp on it, how can I send it to you ? I am also the author of all the text on the band website which you can confirm by contacting the site creator and administrator Andrew Lawless, I can provide you with his contact details. the examples you've provided are copy and paste of my original draft taken from the band website or from wiki , the same text was used for both. The reason I began updating and editing the wiki article is because Fergus O'Farrell died on 2nd february 2016 and the content was written while he was alive, obviously it needed to be changed, if you go to www.interference.ie you will see the content there in the 'about' section has also been updated, and is pretty much the same text I was using here on Wiki. kind regards Marcmackdee (talk) 00:03, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Marcmackdee (talk) 01:21, 26 March 2021 (UTC)marcmackdee

What you have to do is contact the OTRS team using the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials so that the proofs will be on file. I am not a member of the OTRS team so I can't set this up for you. — Diannaa (talk) 01:02, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

{{OTRS pending}}

Question

Have you ever considered standing for administrator on Commons? No surprise to anyone that you're well versed in copyright. You have sustained activity there over many years. You certainly know how the tools work. If you're ever interested and looking for a nom or a co-nom, feel free to drop me a line. GMG^talk 13:24, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion! I don't actually want to expand the amount of time I spend online though :) — Diannaa (talk) 13:26, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

No worries. Balance can be a hard thing to come by, especially recently. Just a note in case you ever change your mind. GMG^talk 13:35, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

OSAC

Hi Dianna, thanks for providing some clarity on editing and creating the OSAC page. I had a question and a comment: 1) would this be an appropriate use of the AfC process after I disclose COI in my profile? and 2) You note in the reversion that although the information is in the public domain (see copyright comments here https://www.osac.gov/About/Disclaimer), OSAC is "not independently notable as an organisation" to merit a separate Wiki page. I would note that our domestic counterpart, Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), has their own Wiki page and they are a newer, smaller, and arguably less-well-known organization in the security sphere. Happy to discuss further what determines notability (and whether I can provide additional statistics to substantiate that claim)! Thanks again Falor1921 (talk) 19:17, 26 March 2021 (UTC).

Please see Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) for the criteria for how we determine notability for organizations. In general, we require multiple in-depth coverages of the organization in sources independent of the subject. We like to see a minimum of three independent sources that give detailed coverage (not just brief mentions). While the article Domestic Security Alliance Council does have such sources, Overseas Security Advisory Council did not; it consisted mostly of copy-pastes from the organization's own website, which does nothing to support the contention that it is notable enough at this time to meet our notability requirements.— Diannaa (talk) 19:26, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for specifying! I have submitted the article thru to the AfC process and will add 3+ references to independent sources that give detailed coverage of OSAC. Falor1921 (talk) 20:25, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Falor1921 , If you do copy anything from public domain sources, please include the template {{PD-notice}} as part of your citation. Here is an example— Diannaa (talk) 20:29, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Will do, thanks. Falor1921 (talk) 20:35, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Copyright on Gabriel Bethlen

I have received approval from the author of the Hungarian Spectrum to use her material for the page on Gabriel Bethlen. Could you please restore my edits? Azure94 (talk) 07:43, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

If the copyright holder wishes to release this material under a compatible license, please see WP:Requesting copyright permission for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa (talk) 10:26, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

I can't remember

...what tag to use on an article's talk page when it has some or most of its content copied from another article. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 07:46, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Template:Copied— Diannaa (talk) 10:24, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Mushki

Hi Diannaa, thought I let you know that there is some copyvio in the diffs of a IP [4] --HistoryofIran (talk) 23:54, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Revision deletion done. Thank you for reporting— Diannaa (talk) 12:01, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Marsh Christian Trust

Hi Diannaa,

I'm completely unsure as to how Wikipedia works and need some help. I recently tried to update the page Marsh Christian Trust (the company I work for) as it is very out of date and we are unsure who published it in the first place. Unfortunately I have been told it was unconstructive, a conflict of interest and now copywrite. I declared my COI on the page. All of the information on there has been written by a staff member and there was links to each organisation I mentions and referenced them through their website. I am not sure what to do next as I have very little knowledge on how to edit the page and I am struggling. If there is any more help you can give me to resolve these issues that would be great as I am unsure what sections of the text are raising these issues.

Thank you,

Heather — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heathercrombie2296 (talk • contribs) 14:45, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on Wikipedia. The addition was copied from this document, which is copyright. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent.— Diannaa (talk) 18:45, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

dcw2003 responds to Diannaa

Dcw2003 (talk)I believe I was indeed the sole author for the text I moved into PT-109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy. Check the history of the PT-109 article, (not the book) and you will see pages and pages of edits from dcw2003. Actually the text I copied was from the PT-109 article I wrote most of, not the John F. Kennedy article, although I wrote much of the section on PT-109 in the John Kennedy article as well. I greatly appreciate your advice and information. I will indeed try to follow your advice in the future.

What I really need to know is how to easily access the voluminous rules on wiki of this nature. I am too often informed after the fact of my oversights. Can you help me with this? Thank-you so much either way.

As a secondary issue, I was wondering if you knew the tag to use if you are making extensive edits on a page, particularly one you have just begun and moved to article space and need time to complete your edits before you are deluged with warning tags for missing categories or references or other essential information. I usually keep my new articles in Draft: mode, but sometimes I upload them and don't have time to complete them before getting deluged with comments while I am trying to complete the article. Thanks!!!! I would love to learn more from you Diannaa. Thanks again.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dcw2003 (talk • contribs) 21:54, March 30, 2021‎ (UTC)

Re: finding the different rules: When I was starting, I found that I could usually find the rules/guidelines I was looking for by typing WP: and then the topic of interest and it would get me where I wanted to go or close to it. For example WP:copyright will get the search results for copyright, but if you type WP:copy into the search box it will suggest links to a whole bunch of related topics. Many people don't know about the rule regarding copying within Wikipedia, and it's easy to forget about it when editing. It's not a big deal, because the attribution can be added in a later edit summary. Of course if you are the sole author of the content you're copying, attribution is not required, but it does help patrollers if you do it anyway.

Regarding your second question, we do have an {{In use}} template you can paste at the top of the page if you are actively editing.— Diannaa (talk) 22:03, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Bhupinder Singh Mahal

Hi Diannaa. Would you mind taking a peek at Draft:Bhupinder Singh Mahal when you have a spare moment? You revdeleted a version of it at the end of February, but lots of content has been added since then. Before I add {{AfC submission/draft}} to it and explain to the creator about WP:AFC, I thought it might be a good idea to make sure the latest version is also not a copyvio. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:26, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

The material I removed that was copied from Amazon was re-added at some point. I found some other things too.— Diannaa (talk) 22:46, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Diannaa. I added some information about this to a post I left for the editor on my user talk page. Perhaps now they will have a better idea about WP:C-P. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:45, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

SpaceX Dragon 2 and SpaceX Inspiration4

Copyright violation content added to both articles, soon after your warning to the user. Cheers, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 23:23, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Revision deletion done. Thanks. I gave them an attribution warning, not a copyvio warning per se— Diannaa (talk) 23:29, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 23:30, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Political views of Tucker Carlson

Hi. Can you take a look at this? The article was created on March 6, 2021. The source was published on November 20, 2020. It's from what I thought was a reputable online paper, The Oregon Herald. But I wonder if those folks simply copied from the existing Tucker Carlson article, from which I think a bunch of this was copied without attribution. If this had been some blog, I would have thought this was a mirror. Thoughts? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:06, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

It's a Wikipedia mirror. No credit to Wikipedians, but at least Gage Skidmore got credit for his pic. I clicked on "Next" and got a copy of our article Nipsey Hussle - again no credit/attribution for the text, but the photographer got credit.— Diannaa (talk) 21:27, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Diannaa, wow. Thanks. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 02:40, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Question (2)

Hello again. I asked you this earlier, but I want to double check that what I am doing is correct. On the page for Georgia Marsh at the Smithsonian, it says that she received a "B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1972". I have copied that more or less directly into Georgia Marsh as "Marsh received a BFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1972." It's just a factual statement, so not copyrightable, correct?--- Possibly (talk) 19:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, you can leave stuff like that unaltered (names of schools, names of degrees, job postings, etc), as things like that are impossible to re-word. You might trigger a bot report if there's enough of it in any given edit, but savvy reviewers will mark it as a false positive. — Diannaa (talk) 21:36, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

thank you!--- Possibly (talk) 02:03, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton

Copyright violation in the plot summaries at the page history of Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton, introduced at Special:Diff/1015127339 and removed at Special:Diff/1015324964, if you don't mind doing some revision deletion. Copied from the BBC, here, with "attribution" given (but it's copyrighted content). Already explained this to the user who did this in good faith here (feel free to correct me if I got any of the copyright information wrong). — Bilorv (talk) 20:49, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Rev-del done. I see this so often that I made myself a custom Twinkle template. I've added one of those to the user's talk page, so it becomes more apparent to patrollers that the user has already been told once, in case we need that info later. Thank you for reporting and for your explanation at the wikiproject post.— Diannaa (talk) 21:45, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Wow, and I thought I had seen this around a lot. Thanks for the speedy and thorough response. — Bilorv (talk) 21:52, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Deleting Page For Thomas Henry Moray

Thank you for your message about deleting the page Thomas Henry Moray, I am not supporting that page and do not object to the deletion.

The page is mainly historical, not scientific, but has been continually reviewed for scientific content, causing the citations to be deleted as not reliable. It should have been reviewed by historians.

Moray was a famous person with books written about him and more than two million references on the internet, none of which seem to be acceptable in Wikipedia.

He is in the same category with Thomas_Townsend_Brown another failed inventor with an invention now understood much differently than the original claims.

Scientifically Moray was not notable. Historically he is, but maybe not for Wikipedia. Astrojed (talk) 04:32, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Help with editing

Can you send in my talk page the colors with the bg codes?--General electric p30ch (talk) 09:39, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry I don't understand the question.— Diannaa (talk) 13:29, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Minoxidil

I see you revdeleted the content I reverted on Minoxidil. However, the editor did make another revert that XLinkBot reverted. I was wondering if that content was copyrighted too. Scorpions13256 (talk) 17:27, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Yes it's the same. Good catch – thank you.— Diannaa (talk) 17:34, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Copyvios

Hi Diannaa, see here for a copyvio of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 08:01, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 14:00, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

And thanks for fixing it. Your tireless efforts are much appreciated. BilCat (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Kashmir shawl

Hi Diannaa, can you run a copyright check on this newly added content? I have already spotted several bits taken from other web sites. But a more thorough check would be useful. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:02, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

I found material copied from one place. If you find other things please let me know. Thanks,— Diannaa (talk) 14:19, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

how do you know there is a copyvio?

hi Diannaa! I am curious as to how you know there is a copyvio. I review thesis and use Turnitin for official reports. Otherwise I randomly copy-paste paragraphs into a search engine to see if there are hits. But the wiki space is large. Are there any automated tools to search for copy-paste? Vikram Vincent 16:34, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

The most useful tool is https://copyvios.toolforge.org/. There's also https://dupdet.toolforge.org/ but it's quite primitive by comparison. For instances where Earwig's tool cannot view a source, https://copyleaks.com/text-compare comes in handy (I typically paste in the text I want to compare rather than comparing urls). Use that one judiciously though – you only get a limited number of free looks per day. — Diannaa (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Copyvio - RAF Stenigot

Diannaa, thanks for the heads up on the WP:CV for the RAF Stenigot article. I was editing at work and had to log out unexpectedly in the midst of paraphrasing and rewriting copied info. In hindsight, I should have copied my edits into my sandbox for a later time, and returned the article to its original state. It won't happen again. Doghouse09 (talk) 20:56, 4 April 2021 (UTC)