User talk:Callanmurphy

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Vic One moved to draftspace[edit]

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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

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Hi @Diannaa, the content added to Niagara Purchase was not written by me. The Treaty of Fort Niagara page had convoluted content, stating that it was referring to the 1764 Treaty, but then having subsections on the 1781 and 1787 Treaties (seen here). The 1781 Treaty already had its own page: Niagara Purchase, but it was a stub, so I merged the content from the 1781 Treaty section of Treaty of Fort Niagara with the Niagara Purchase page and linked to it. I left a bullet point referencing the 1787 Treaty on Treaty of Fort Niagara, however a page for this does not yet exist.

To summarize, the content in question was added to Treaty of Fort Niagara by another Wikipedian. I merged this content with the existing Niagara Purchase page, copying the text over and removing it from Treaty of Fort Niagara. I am not aware of the source or potential copyright for this section, I only merged it with another page. Please let me know if there are any remaining concerns. Thank you. Callanmurphy (talk) 19:13, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I see it now. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 20:56, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thanks for understanding. Callanmurphy (talk) 21:27, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 2023[edit]

Hello, I'm Wikipelli. I noticed that you made a change to an article, List of University of Toronto buildings, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Wikipelli ^Talk 17:18, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Wikipelli, this is incorrect. I added several new citations for the added buildings, linked in the first column of the table. There are two or three single cell modifications without citations—for these I can add one as needed. However, I do not feel that this warrants reverting a substantial amount of changes for which citations were provided. Callanmurphy (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Thank you. The edit that I saw (lunatic asylum) did not have a reference associated with it so I reverted it. Unfortunately, your other additions were reverted as well and shouldn't have been. My apologies. Thank you for your edits and your message. Cheers.. Wikipelli ^Talk 19:03, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thanks for understanding! Callanmurphy (talk) 13:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

April 2023[edit]

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This was an old edit, but you have since been pointed to copyvio and should have been aware that this edit was a problem. Are there any other previous edits of yours where you violated copyright? If so, please go back and remove that material. Meters (talk) 20:29, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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