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Bhanumathy Narasimhan

Hi Diannaa, would you like to check the article now? This is now edited in a neutral point of view and by removing all duplication errors. Thank you Thammudu (talk) 07:55, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

The current version is okay from a copyright point of view. You're in the queue to have your draft assessed. They are experiencing backlogs, so please be patient. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:37, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Question

Dear Diannaa, that Alavaka article has wrote +combine with my own style... i have copied 3 sentence from website! So sorry for that 🙏 Why you can redirect! it should be u can be only removed copyvio! why for all removed? for it issue of Buddhim?? please don't see religious Discrimination view, i very sad for your big take action😢. I'm only write short article in wikipedia and i never do big copy writing. please compare to copied web. And copypatrol report showing 54% of edit (57word), is mean 54% are normal copyvio. How can i appeal for revert? So sorry for no understanding. Emily Khine (talk) 17:41, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Sorry but it's obvious you copied almost all the prose from elsewhere online. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia, or you will be blocked from editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:38, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for warning me! sometime, i make a little copied create..."little copied" will be blocked from editing? Now , I will noted and care for editing. And you make final warning to me...why final?? So sorry for my mistake and i don't think small copied writing will be blocking. I request you, please remove only copyvio from Alavaka, this article is fav of me! I don't want to create new article beacause i used many time for article creating! please you make remove copyvio in Alavaka article...and i will re-write be short article. (only 53word are same) it not big problem! 😢 ...please kind to short article editor😔. (i have 1000 over edit count in enwiki, I make small editing, So i don't want to lose editing access), Please you will tried a compromise solution for me! sry for my disturbing. Thanks Emily Khine (talk) 19:32, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
You make remove all paragraph of Alavaka#Legend, and restored other text. Emily Khine (talk) 19:58, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm not going to do that, because it's obvious from your English language skills that you copied almost all the remaining content from somewhere else online. The reason you have received a final warning is because you have already received three notifications about violations of our copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:24, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Ok, I want to create Alavaka without copy text. it Ok or not? Emily Khine (talk) 07:14, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Suzuki

Hi, as you are an administrator involved in anti-copyvio edits, can you check the Suzuki article? Especifically, the revision range [1] to [2]. I think the word-by-word copy of complete phrases makes it a blatant copyright violation from [3]. I added a revdel template in the article's talk page and now I realise it should have been included in the article itself (in any case, the revdel category seems backlogged). Thanks in advance. --Urbanoc (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Sorry about the backlog at Category:Requested RD1 redactions; I have done seventeen of these in the last three days but it hardly made a dent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:02, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

I apologize for the copyright issue; it will not happen again. I will try to paraphrase my sources more and use less of the actual content. I was simply trying to present a factual narrative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sierra Histrorian (talk • contribs) 22:59, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Hillel Abbe Shapiro

Hi, I am trying to send a new message, not sure how....

You pointed out that line 54 had copyright material that you deleted and I want to see what it is in case I can re-state it myself. Question is, how do I find a particular line, like line 54 easily? Is there a way of making line numbers show up? Many thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yororipas (talk • contribs) 13:51, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't understand the question. Wikipedia pages don't have numbered lines on my display? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:01, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Adding a ping to the user who asked the question: Yororipas. --CiaPan (talk) 08:14, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

RS review of certain articles

D - can you please review: Service record of Reinhard Heydrich, Service record of Karl Wolff and Karl Wolff for RS problems. I am not sure how to isolate the edits and sources, which need removed; if I was at work I could use my duel screens that would help for checking, but be slow; is there a tool for that? Thank you, Kierzek (talk) 16:31, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

These are sourced for the most part to books and documents that I am unable to access, so I am not going to be able to help with these three unfortunately :(. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:45, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Simply deleting all of my hard work was ... deflating...

USS Virgo (AKA-20)

If this message actually gets through ... The fact that you just deleted all my hard work because you felt that I did not do a good enough job on references was, frankly, offensive and deflating. I certainly felt like it was not against policy when I took the time to write it and I was using the best possible sources available - better to capture knowledge for humanity from first person accounts than to have it disappear forever. Furthermore, I read, and re-read, all the Wikipedia policy info on third-party citations and sources and with my layman's understanding of both the goals of Wikipedia and the policies, did not find anything in violation of policy. Next time, please consider asking for clarifications or making edits that specify the nature of 'un-certified' instead of throwing away someone's hard work. The 4,000 characters you simply deleted was the result of hours of research, editing, re-editing, learning how to post and learning how to reformat. If Wikipedia and the volunteers' goal is is to provide a place to capture human knowledge, it does not do well to delete it, nor to discourage first-time contributors - especially when they do in fact know their subject material.

KryptonKnowledge (talk) 16:54, 3 September 2018 (UTC)KK

Hi KryptonKnowledge. Sorry for causing such alarm. On Wikipedia, we have a rule that all content you add has to be verifiable. This means that all content you add has to be checkable by other editors and the general public, by only adding material that appears in previously published sources. Citing your source as "USS Virgo Association" does not meet this verifiability requirement, which is a core Wikipedia policy. Your edits remain in the page history, and can be re-added if and when you have citations to published checkable material that meets our sourcing requirements. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:02, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

ID

Hi, thank you for your delete in my draft! I am the Alexa Szlavics (user name: A. Szlavics) artist and the copyright of my biography is under CC on the other webpages, sites , lexicons, magazines, etc.A.szlavics (talk) 18:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Mr Ms Szlavics. The source webpage is marked as "2018 © Alexa Szlavics". I'm not seeing a CC license on it anywhere. What am I missing? — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:04, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Undoing an image deletion, cont

If it's a different image, there's no reason to restore the old image. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:49, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

There is every reason to restore the original entry and update instead of creating a duplicate entry. Explicit solve issue. Thanks. Flightsoffancy (talk) 20:15, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I've tagged File:Do17z 20mm.jpg for CSD. You can contest it on the file's talk page. - BilCat (talk) 20:38, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
No, different images should not be uploaded under the same name. See c:Commons:Overwriting existing files. — JJMC89 (T·C) 20:41, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I've added a F11 deletion nomination because I don't think F3 is the correct criterion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:10, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

jln mc ajmer

Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer

HELLO THIS IS REGARDING REVERSION OF JAWAHAR lAL NEHRU MEDICAL COLLEGE AJMER PAGE EDITED BY ME . FIRST PLEASE BOTHER TO ATLEAST READ THE WHOLE PAGE , YOU EVEN DIDN'T READ THE WHOLE PAGE AS NOT ALL MATERIAL WAS SOURCED FROM COLLEGE WEBSITE ABOUT HALF OF THE MATERIAL WAS HANDWRITTEN BY ME FOR THE REST I SOURCED IT FROM COLLEGE WEBSITE BECAUSE YOU CANNOT WRITE HISTORY YOURSELF , IT WILL REMAIN SAME , THEN I ALSO TRIED TO MAINTAIN AS MUCH NEUTRAL AS I CAN AND DIFFERENT FROM SOURCE. AND FINALLY BEFORE PROCEEDING HAVE YOU EVER BOTHERED WHAT ARE THE COPYRIGHT LAWS IN INDIA AND EVER BOTHERED TO RESEARCJH THE INSTITUTION WHICH YOU ARE ADVOCATING...DONT APPLY YOUR ALBERTA LAWS HERE , IT IS A PUBLIC INSTITUTION THEN READ COPYRIGHT LAWS OF INDIA THEN PLEASE PROCEED WITH DELETING ANYONES HARDWORK THOUGH SOME OF IT WAS SOURCED AND IN INDIA INFO ABOUT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ON THEIR OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR PUBLIC USE IS NOT COPYRIGHT VIOLATION AND BEFORE GIVING YOUR KIND VERY KIND INFO FIRST BE INFORMED THAT I LIVE IN THIS CITY and work in this SAME institution AND I MUST HAVE BEEN MORE BOTHERED ABOUT ITS COPYRIGHT VIOLATION IF THERE WERE ANY AND MUCH MORE INFORMED ABOUT IT THEN YOU WHO DELETED IT WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE FROM MILES AWAY JUST RAPPING ABOUT COPYRIGHT VIOLATION.

NOONE IS GOING TO CONTRIBUTE ON WIKIPEDIA WHEN SELF PROFESSED ADDMINISTRATORS ON EVERY TOPIC JUST THROW AWAY OTHERS' HARD WORK


and finally let me tell you this is what you do ...................... 

Copyright troll

READ OTHER USERS COMMENT : Diannaa, as several others have pointed out to you, many times, you don't seem to know what the hell you are doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.109.70.247 (talk) 10:02, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

YOU ARE JUST A COPYRIGHT BRASHER TROLL APPLYING YOUR ALBERTA RULES.

there is no claim of copyright on minsky's page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.109.70.247 (talk) 09:56, 29 August 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raj0789 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello Raj0789. It's not reasonable to expect me to spend several hours picking through 40,000 bytes of potentially copyright material to find the few bits that might be properly sourced, not copyvio, and salvageable. Since you work at the institution, you should not be editing the article at all, as you have a conflict of interest. I have placed some information about that topic on your user talk page. Regarding copyright in India, the source webpages are marked as "© Medical Education Department" so these pages are certainly copyright and we're not allowed to include them on Wikipedia without the written consent of the copyright holder and release under a compatible license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:17, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Climate restoration

Adumoul (talk) 21:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Dear Diannaa,

Did you remove the content of "Climate restoration " because of the publisher (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2016EF000410) or because of violation of the quoting rules? Please clarify when you mention copyrights violation. Is it due to the omission of quoting rules or due to the use of an article that (for a reason I ignore) should not have been quoted? ----- Adumoul (talk) 21:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

But it wasn't framed as a quotation. You copied a paragraph of the article into Wikipedia. That's a copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:00, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Cliimate restoration

Thank you for the clarification. Since I can't access the content which was erased, I can't discuss if it was copied or not, because this is a point of how different a rephrasing should be but... So, if I use quote and /or indentation, I can develop the content about refreezing the Arctic? That was - and still is - the point..

Kind regards Adumoul (talk) 17:18, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

We write Wikipedia articles using our own words. Quotations should be used sparingly if at all. Use your citations as a source of ideas and content, not as a source of prose. Avoid using any wording from the source material. One thing I find that works for me is to read over the source material and then pretend I am verbally describing the topic to a friend in my own words. Stuff should also be presented in a different order where possible. Summarize rather than paraphrase. This will typically result in your version being much shorter than the source document. There's some reading material on this topic at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing and/or have a look at the material at Purdue or study this module aimed at WikiEd students. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:03, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Need magic admin foo to move

Pinging Dawnleelynn, Nikkimaria, and Justlettersandnumbers. I think that Talk:American_Bucking_Bull/Temp can now be moved back to American Bucking Bull, overwriting the previous article. I believe all close paraphrasing issues have been resolved and the article has been substantially rewritten. But the talkpage of the main article needs to stay as is, so a regular move that overwrites it wouldn't work, I don't think, hence we need the magic admin wand. I did a little more rewriting and the article may yet need some tweaks, but I think it can move back into mainspace. Any help would be appreciated, and many thanks. Montanabw(talk) 21:45, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers: — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:48, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
It's a paraphrase of a paraphrase of a paraphrase, but the underlying violations are mostly no longer identifiable, so no objection at this point, Diannaa, if you'd be so kind? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:03, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Justlettersandnumbers and Montanabw for helping. I've moved the draft to mainspace and histmerged and done all the paperwork — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:02, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Justlettersandnumbers: I just saw this. My rewrite of ABB was undertaken completely from scratch except for one paragraph from Bodacious (bull) which came from the Fried Twinkies book and was completely rewritten by Nikkimaria in that article. I take exception to hearing my entire rewrite phrased as a "paraphrase of paraphrase of a paraphrase." That is so completely untrue. I did not copy any content or even paraphrase any content. I took this whole incident very seriously. When my rewrite was moved to be the mainstream article, all of the versions were struck out without even letting me see what the "copied text" was which was removed. Finally, calling the entire rewrite paraphrased 3 times over is a huge exaggeration. dawnleelynn(talk) 20:40, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

"Eagle of Sovereignty Pin"?

D - I was told there is some type of vague mention of this "award" of Hitler's in Speer's autobiography. I have never heard of it, but I don't claim to know it all, either. But, this does need checking. I recall you have Speer's book. If so, can you check this for me. Thanks, Kierzek (talk) 22:25, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

I can't find anything on first glance but I will look some more and will let you know. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:39, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, Kierzek (talk) 13:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

SDXX

Thanks. Saw the massive new paragraph and thought the worst. Although, I have to ask, are you everywhere? :Cheers: --intelati/talk 00:57, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Not everywhere - that would be my ninja sockpuppet — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:59, 7 @September 2018 (UTC)
Gasps'intelati/talk 01:02, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Although seriously though, I'm guessing you follow the transclutions of the COPY right templates?intelati/talk 01:06, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
I find them with this. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:17, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
well, that's quite a remarkable tool. Powerful, useful, and honestly a little terrifying. I always have had a fear of these sites, even though I never pressed the issue.intelati/talk 02:26, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

American Bucking Bull

I have been boggled with the entire procedure on my American Bucking Bull article and this rewrite to get it squared after JLAN found some close paraphrasing and some source in my early userspace draft. I worked my butt off to get a rewrite done only to have it go to the copyright problems page. No problem, he forgot the first few versions were not part of the rewrite. But now, he has done some editing of my rewrite and then had the prior version hidden with the rest of my rewrite. No copyright violations of my rewrite were ever shown to me, but again whatever. I would like to know what "violations" he supposedly removed from my rewrite at the very top of the version history though, so I can address it with new writing if necessary, etc. Can you unstrike it temporarily or some other method of letting me see what was in the version below the one he made? It's not really fair to edit my article and hide the one prior so I can't see what was removed. Thank you and please. I need to see version " 20:27, 5 September 2018‎" just below his, so I can compare the two. dawnleelynn(talk) 03:26, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Dawnleelynn. The reason I did revision deletion is because after I moved the temp version into mainspace, I did a history merge, which merges the editing history of the original article with the history of the temporary page. The reason so many of the recent edits were hidden is because JLAN found a minor thing to paraphrase when checking the new version (09:18, September 6, 2018: "rm a bit more of the remaining copied stuff". Hope this helps — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:45, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa Thanks for your answer. I took so long to reply because I forgot I wouldn't see your answer without manually checking your page. Silly me! I appreciate your time. I understand what occurred. I just wish I had been able to see what text had been removed. If important facts had been removed, I would want to include them, but by writing them in my own words, that is all. Just had hoped there would be a way to see the text briefly. I would have expected JLAN to inform me and let me see his edit before requesting the versions to be hidden. It's not typical that a rewrite has all its versions hidden but one, I'm thinking. Anyway, thank you for your consideration. dawnleelynn(talk) 20:40, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

File:Erin Fetherston in 2017.jpg

Hello Diannaa, I expect to have the permission required from the owner of the copyright in this image within a few days. When I have it I will forward to the email address indicated. Is there some way I should tag that email? Iceice99 (talk) 19:24, 7 September 2018 (UTC)Iceice99

P.S. The owner of this image, Ms. Fetherston, emailed permission to me, and I just forwarded that to permissions-en@wikimedia.org The ticket number is [Ticket#2018090710008886] . Thank you Iceice99 (talk) 21:47, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Iceice99. I have added the appropriate template to the file so it doesn't get deleted. Someone should be along shortly to add the OTRS ticket. Thanks for taking care of this. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:37, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Rural locality attribution

Thank you for catching that. I'm normally in the habit of mentioning it in the edit summary for the first edit and I just utterly forgot to do it last night. Cheers :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:41, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hi Diannaa! Can you be so kind as to revdel some revisions of 'Parliamentary system', I requested a revdel yesterday at 21:27 (UTC), but so far no admin has noticed the request and as you work extensively in cleaning up copyvio throughout Wikipedia, I thought of asking you.
Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 20:37, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

I will try to get the backlog cleaned up tomorrow. Thank you for the reminder. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:47, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Paulina Rubio's song

Hi! From your last message on my talk page, I can use links as the sources but I have to write the content in my own words? Also, why was the Desire (Paulina Rubio song) page redirected? LoveAndArt (talk) 20:38, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Writing content in your own words and citing your sources is how Wikipedia is written. Don't copy things from elsewhere online; we're not allowed to do that. The page was redirected as the outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desire (Paulina Rubio song). The page you created was essentially the same, with no new claims of notability, so I restored the redirect. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:49, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I didn't created a new page, I just restored it somehow. Can I restore it back and write in my own style? I won't copy from other sites. LoveAndArt (talk) 21:07, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

No you can't because it was already the subject of a deletion discussion, and the decision was not to keep it. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:25, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

That's it for the page? It can't be. Maybe it was a subject of deletion because it had reasons to be so. If I restore the page and add sources and links to it and write content in my own words then don't you think things should be fine then? LoveAndArt (talk) 03:07, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

No it won't be fine. The page was deleted as the result of a deletion discussion, so if you re-create it, it is subject to WP:G4 speedy deletion, recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:16, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Then what can I do to get the page back? LoveAndArt (talk) 14:17, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Nothing. The page is not coming back. The subject is not notable enough for an article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:32, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

But it's a page about a single by an artist whose singles all have pages. All singles have pages why is that single specifically not notable enough for an article? I'm suggesting for the page to be back, to write it again and add sources and links to it. LoveAndArt (talk) 14:42, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

I have already given you my opinion four times and have nothing further to say. If you disagree with the decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desire (Paulina Rubio song), you should proceed to WP:deletion review. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:49, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Okay thank you. I already filed a review submission. LoveAndArt (talk) 17:51, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
thank you for your correction on AlterNIC, back in March 2017. this is a belated note. Much to learn from wikipedia and its VAST editorial team. Best LairdUnlimited 03:29, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

May I ask you for a question I had on Chinese wikipedia site? I spend a couple of hours editing this page [[ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/哥倫比亞大學諾貝爾獎得主列表 |Nobel Prize Winner from Columbia Univ]]. However, their editor told me that " images you added are fair-use ones, which can only be used in the corresponding person's article. So your edits had to be reverted. Thanks for understanding."

But my counter argument is that 「 而非自由圖像依據準則只能在對應人物的主條目中使用 」 "Fair Use" normally protects integrity of the whole. If _the_ 'lack' of CC-By photo of a few 'famous' persons is less than 10% of the total number of winners on _this_ list, I don't see I can't add 'thumb-size' photo unto that page, what would you say? Luckily, I exported a pdf file right after my own work on the page, so I have a private document ( without holes all over ...)

Best.

LairdUnlimited 03:35, 9 September 2018 (UTC)Allthingsgo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allthingsgo (talk • contribs)

Hello Allthingsgo. Thank you for the barnstar. I don't know what the rules are on the Chinese Wikipedia, but here we don't allow non-free images in list-type articles. Our fair use rules are actually stricter than those permitted by copyright law, and we don't use a 10% rule. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:21, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

La Disparition de Josef Mengele

I don't agree with your statement "doesn't seem relevant to the English-language version of the Mengele article" as the book has won a literary award and has been translated into German and Greek so far, which, to me, signifies that it is internationally relevant, not just in France. Olivier Guez, on a quick glance, seems notable as well, and does have articles on the German, Italian and French Wikipedia, where La Disparition de Josef Mengele [fr] also has one. While it is "only" a novel the source I used states that only the dialog is fiction, everything else in the book is apparently fact. Please consider two things: Just because something is not known in the English speaking world does not mean it is irrelevant to it and, secondly, a novel like this is much more likely to attract a wider audience than a "dry" history book and therefore may attract more people to learn about somebody as evil as Josef Mengele, and Wikipedia has influence there (I'm reading N. K. Jemisin right now because I found out about here on the main page, just as an example). La Disparition de Josef Mengele might get translated into English and you may consider it worthy of inclusion in the article then! Turismond (talk) 04:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Answered at the article talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:30, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Judicial system in the United Arab Emirates - copyvio

Hello Diannaa, could you revdel the latest additions from 2.50.6.206 into this article please, when you get some time? Unfortunately I wasn't able to locate the specific source, but the text's formatting and phrasing makes it an obvious copyvio directly copypasted from an external source (possibly from consumerrights.ae, although I couldn't find a specific match of this text for some reason). GermanJoe (talk) 08:57, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi GermanJoe. I can't find it either, and I don't want to do revision deletion for that reason. The prose may have been supplied by the organization but not copyvio per se. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:39, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
OK, no problem - I understand that lacking a clear source to verify the issue. Thank you for checking, Diannaa. GermanJoe (talk) 11:44, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Valley of the Sun (film)

I understand your issue. I will comply Savolya (talk) 11:23, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Potential COPYVIO Imperial College London

Hi Diannaa,

Earwig's Copyvio Dectector shows a high probability of copyright content in Imperial College London. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 13:43, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:16, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

UK Royal Academy of Engineering - election criteria

Hi, I will rewrite it in my own words and add a reference. Pls review later to see if you concur. Thanks. Fellow007 (talk) 16:49, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Also, you may not be aware that the link you were looking at: http://www.nae.org.ng/fellows.asp?pid=6 belongs to Nigeria National Academy of Engineering. That has nothing to do with UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

For your information, there is also a USA National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Canadian National Academy of Engineering (CNAE). Both are separate organizations from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (UK REng). Fellow007 (talk) 19:49, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

I do realize that one of the sites was from Nigeria, but oddly enough it had even more overlap than the UK website. I suspect the Nigerian website was copied from the UK one at some point in the past. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:17, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, the article had been a victim of vandalism before my edit. I added response from different parties to improve the neutrality of the article. In doing so, I had to add response from authorities in quote. However, you have reverted so many changes, that I don't even know how to find or fix the copyright issue in that long article. Could you be more patient and leave a message first and then do your reverts? Thanks. --Kaisernahid (talk) 20:59, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello Kaisernahid. There's been a chronic problem with copyright violations on the article. The revisions containing the copyright violation were hidden from view under under criterion RD1 of the revision deletion policy, and that's why you can't access them any more. Sorry but it's simply not practical to discuss each copyright violation on the article talk page. It took me six hours today to clear the daily copyvio reports, and leaving a message first would double or triple that workload. By the end of the week I would have hundreds of unresolved cases to clear up. Clear-cut violations are immediately removed, as is permitted by the policy.
The material you added was not a quotation; there were no quotation marks. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:27, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Kaisernahid, I would like to chime in with support for Diannaa's approach, partially because it mirrors my own. I try to help out with notices of possible copyright, but I only managed to do 100 or so week, while Diannaa typically does triple that number and she often takes on the more challenging situations. On occasion, someone has complained to me that I should contact the editor to announce a possible violation to give the editor a chance to clean it up. There are two reasons I don't follow that approach. First, as noted, it would be a substantial increase in workload. I spend a meaningful amount of time working on copyright issues, but I also help out at OTRS and in other areas and doubling or tripling the time it takes to handle a copyright issue would be giving up something. If there were substantial errors, it would of course be necessary to alter the process. There would be no excuse for taking a shortcut if it meant a substantial number of incorrect actions. While I haven't done a formal study, I believe I've had to correct my own error in under 1% of the cases I handle, and my guess is that Diana's record is even stronger. It would make no sense to double or triple the handling time if almost all cases I handle correctly. Second, I do make mistakes, and people have pointed them out on my talk page, but reverting that mistake is easy and I've done it every time it has been pointed out, so I think the approach makes sense. Not to mention the fact that if a discussion were opened with the editor first to give time for the editor to clean it up, we require that all edits in history be free of copyright violations, so we would still have to go back and do the revision deletion after an issue is resolved. While I cannot speak for all of the editors who work on copyright issues, I know that my practices are similar to Diaanna in many respects and I suspect this is true of many others.S Philbrick(Talk) 23:44, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Diannaa for the iThenticate bot link above. I was able to add that content again of course this time more carefully. Thanks User:Sphilbrick for the detailed clarification! --Kaisernahid (talk) 01:29, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Development communications

I edited this piece of junk in 2013 and it popped back up on the copyedit queue recently. It is now 5x larger than then. It is the most content-free major article I have encountered (in 10 years). I notice that you have repeatedly had to quash cr vios. Most of the major additions appear to be by folks with little other WP engagement. It got as big as 25k words before I started whittling! I will grind it down further, but mowing the lawn isn't my idea of a good time. Any thoughts? Thanks, as always. Lfstevens (talk) 04:51, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

When I see something like that I wonder whether people have been using it as a school project. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:47, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Femicide

Hi Diannaa, hi @Sphilbrick:! The source I've incorporated in the Femicide article has a CC BY 4.0 license. I think I did put an attribution in the reference, but probably I didn't do it correctly. I didn't used a specific template for that purpose, since {{Source-attribution}} and {{Citation-attribution}} are only for PD text and I thought (maybe I was wrong) that {{Free-content attribution}} is only for longer incorporated texts. --Niccolò Caranti (OBC) (talk) 07:10, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Niccolò Caranti (OBC), I typically jump to the bottom of an article to look for copyright status and there it is:
© 2018 EDJNet
But after seeing your note, I looked further and I do see the acceptable license elsewhere on the page, so I have restored your edit.S Philbrick(Talk) 12:53, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
(ec) Hi Niccolò Caranti (OBC). I have looked at the removed edit and I discovered that you did not include the required attribution. There's a couple of ways to do it. For a CC-by license, there's a template {{CC-notice}}, but I usually add a handmade attribution like in this example. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:57, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Well, it seems I thought of doing it and then I forgot :| Thanks for restoring it @Sphilbrick:, and thank you for the fix Diannaa! :) --Niccolò Caranti (OBC) (talk) 16:54, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Nelarine Cornelius

I'm looking at Nelarine Cornelius, which I'm guessing you will see shortly anyway, but I'd like your input. IMO, the initial edit was far too close a paraphrase of the source. The current version of the article has some additional material and a slight reworking of the initial three sentences, but I still feel it is too close to the sources. I'm inclined to propose it as CSD 12, but my recollection is that the main editor recently submitted an RFA. That doesn't mean they should get a pass—if anything it means we should expect more, but I wouldn't mind making sure that we are on the same page before proceeding.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Most of the remaining overlapping material is lists of degrees and publications. It still needs some more work though; in particular the sentence that starts "Her research relates to..." needs to be removed or re-worded. I think I would clean it and do revision deletion back to the first edit and warn the user with a hand written note. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:39, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
I was afraid you'd suggest that :)--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm starting with a slightly different approach. I left a note for the editor, asking them to take on the cleanup and I'll follow up with revision deletion if that happens and actually carry out some cleanup if they don't respond.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:53, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
They cleaned it up, so so I applied RD1 to old versions.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:33, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Deletion log

Hey :). Just to let you know that your latest deletions appear as [[ ([[WP:TW|TW]]). I think there's an issue with your script! -- Luk talk 21:34, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Not a script per se; a Twinkle batch delete. I've left a note at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle. Hopefully someone knows how to fix. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Venice Film Festival

I'll never modify a page again. It's impossible to write an history of the Festival without using the site of the Biennale. So probably it's better to leave the page on Wikipedia without informations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.116.59.59 (talk) 21:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

I recently edited the page on sensorineural hearing loss and it was deleted due to copyright violations. I have to admit it did very quickly and carelessly as I was demonstrating the mechanics on how to edit to a new contributor. I will be more careful. Still not sure that the best way to address is in your talk page or the talk page or the page I was working on. Please clarify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TMorata (talk • contribs) 12:48, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Best to leave a message here. New messages go at the bottom of the page, or click the tab that says "New section". — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:09, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!!!! TMorata (talk) 13:37, 11 September 2018 (UTC)TMorata

Thank you

File:Canadian Club.jpg

If you don't drink, feel free to re-gift. Cheers from 'Bob' at 2601 (computer running very poorly this morning). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:188:180:11F0:8099:3ABB:5815:430E (talk) 14:03, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This is, of course, for doing such a fantastic job detecting copyvios and dealing with them as necessary. Thank you for your work! SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 01:55, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Dear Diannaa, can you specify exactly what content was copied? If I am accused of something I would like to know of exactly what. I did use the source mentioned (that's why I included it as a reference), it is possible that 1 or 2 sentences corresponded to ones in the source text but that should be it. I happen to know a thing or two about copyright and that would be simply not enough to constitute a (legally relevant) copyright infringement in the jurisdictions I am familiar with, if properly referenced. All the same, I could change the wording to your liking in the spirit of cooperation. Unfortunately I seem not to be able to access the old text anymore so I cannot verify this myself, or adjust it. Probably because of some action that you took. This is unfortunate because I am not going to spend another evening re-writing this article.

Another point: If you took the time to check the article and check the source text as well, why did you not simply adjust the article so that it is improved and is brought in a state that you think is right? Isn't that what Wikipedia is all about? In stead of deleting content and handing out all kinds of notices, why not spend the evening actually improving content? Vunzmstr (talk) 07:35, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. This report was one of many that I assessed yesterday. The task took seven hours spread out over two sessions. If I take the time to re-write each violation it would double or triple the time it takes to clear the day's copyright violations. That's not practical, nor is it required under the policy, which permits immediate removal of copyright violations. The revisions containing the copyright violation 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) 12:57, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Well that bot report is not very useful because it does not show me anything. All records have been erased. What's the point of that? The source is still there so if anyone had bad intentions they could still insert the contested text again. My point is this: if Wikipedia wants knowledgable and skilled people to edit Wikipedia, you cannot treat them like schoolkids. For example: when I have to write something at work I make a first draft, then other colleagues make changes, criticize it, you discuss it, you agree or disagree, and finally you get to something that works for everybody. No-one would accept the situation where somebody just comes and deletes half the text with the remark 'try again' while referring to some company guidelines on the intranet. Most people are just not prepared to work like that, especially in the case of voluntary work. There are plenty of places where their skills and knowledge are appreciated and they will just do something else. I don't know how you see this, but for me it is obvious that this is a bad thing for Wikipedia as there are still quite some areas where Wikipedia is underperforming and/or full of articles of mediocre or bad quality. Now the solution that Wikipedia seems to have found for this, I guess also as the result of the (as I understand) ever declining number of editors, is to just delete everything. I have come across the most absurd examples of pages nominated (or previously nominated) for deletion. I would say it is normal that in an encyclopedia only people who actually know something about a topic should write about it. With deletion it seems that this does not apply. I have seen so many cases where 1 minute of research would have saved hours of people's time arguing about whether something should be deleted according to what policy or guideline etc. I genuinely wonder if any of those people putting up these nominations for deletion and 'notability' notices ever really use Wikipedia themselves? If yes, then how is it possible that if I look up something on Wikipedia, I find so many articles (where I am not involved in whatsoever BTW) that have been nominated for deletion? If I looked for it, at least a few hundred others must have looked for it as well, meaning it fulfills a user demand which is what Wikipedia is ultimately for, regardless of whatever guideline says about this topic. I just cannot understand how people take deleting a page so lightly, something that by anyone who genuinely cares about Wikipedia and its goals should be seen like nothing but a nuclear option?
It makes me sad reading that you spend so much time working on Wikipedia and you are probably convinced (reconfirmed by your colleagues doing the same thing) that those hours are spent usefully. Unfortunately, I very much doubt that they (and those of many other admins) are. I am somehow not convinced that www.brickbrowser.co.uk (which is in the business of selling toys) would have filed a takedown request for Wikipedia (which as I understand Wikipedia practically never grants anyway) regarding Bilofix based on my two lines of (allegedly) copied text that was duly referenced. I get a gut feeling that the majority of the 'copyright violations' that you deal with are similar cases and therefore a complete waste of time and resources. In this context, I would recommend to read the article about Bureaucracy. Some useful quotes:
"Mill wrote that ultimately the bureaucracy stifles the mind, and that "a bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."" -Bureaucracy#John Stuart Mill
"Weber also saw bureaucracy, however, as a threat to individual freedoms, and the ongoing bureaucratization as leading to a "polar night of icy darkness", in which increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in a soulless "iron cage" of bureaucratic, rule-based, rational control." -Bureaucracy#Max Weber
"He believed that bureaucrats are more likely to defend their own entrenched interests than to act to benefit the organization as a whole but that pride in their craft makes them resistant to changes in established routines. -Bureaucracy#Robert K. Merton
"Merton stated that bureaucrats emphasize formality over interpersonal relationships, and have been trained to ignore the special circumstances of particular cases, causing them to come across as "arrogant" and "haughty". -Bureaucracy#Robert K. Merton
I do not know if all of these quotes apply to you based on my interaction with you thusfar (which I would not classify as arrogant for example) but unfortunately they do apply to too many admins that I (and many others) have come across. This is not good for Wikipedia, and therefore for all of us. Vunzmstr (talk) 13:51, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. My response: it's not very becoming of one of the most highly viewed websites in the world to host copyright violations based on the theory that we are unlikely to get caught. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:28, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
@Vunzmstr: > Well that bot report is not very useful because it does not show me anything.
Did you click on the iThenticate Report link? I just did and it shows me exactly what was copied.
I'll also urge you to look at the comments in the post below, as I don't think you have an appreciation for the challenges.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:59, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
As I stated already, in my opinion it was not a copyright violation. When I wrote that www.brickbrowser.co.uk was unlikely to file a takedown request, I meant that www.brickbrowser.co.uk was unlikely to have a different opinion and act on it. So the 'internal takedown request' as executed by you was therefore unnecessary.
OK thanks, now I read the report. My opinion is unchanged and BTW I am pretty sure that that report actually does not reflect the last version of the article when I saw it last. I can appreciate that there is a need for something like 'copyright patrol' and that it is not easy and takes a lot of time to do, but the only thing I saw was something that was not necessary so it seems to me that you guys could make things a lot easier on yourselves if you would not jump on every little thing that that bot throws at you. Vunzmstr (talk) 21:53, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
I hold a different opinion. Can we start by making sure we are on the same page? I trust you are not contending that you wrote those words yourself and they just happen to match words that are on the site copyrighted by the company, but that you copied material from the website and you think it is acceptable? To be sure, there are some situations where copying the exact material on a website is considered not a copyright violation (some noncreative lists for example). However, I'm not aware of any exception that would apply in this case. One way to avoid a copyright violation is to include the words in quotes, but that's not reelvant here and using quotes would be problematic for other reasons. Another thing that is my understanding is that we want to (in Wikipedia) steer clear of copying that might not rise to the level of a legal copyright claim, because a close call that ends up in court is a loss for Wikipedia. Therefore, if someone were to advise you that in a court of law the approximately three sentences you copied were sufficiently short that no legal action is likely they might be correct, but in Wikipedia we generally take the position that you should not copy anything, ever (subject to some rare exceptions). You should write it in your own words which might result in some three or four word phrases that exactly match, and that's okay but it is never okay to copy and paste two full sentences, without quotation marks or block quotation notation even if a reference is supplied. In other words, I've looked at it from the point of view of Wikipedia and I think it clearly qualifies as a violation of our copyright rules. Had I seen this, I would've reverted it as a copyright violation. Please take important note of the fact that I'm not asserting that it would fail and a legal challenge — I'm not a copyright lawyer, not even a lawyer, but I think I have a good sense of what is permitted in Wikipedia. You've expressed that you "know or thing or two about copyright" and I don't doubt that, but I suggest that what you know is relevant to copyright in the legal world, and not how copyright issues are handled within Wikipedia. If you'd like to make a case that Wikipedia ought to modify the way it handles copyright, you welcome to take that on but that's a major task.--S Philbrick(Talk) 23:13, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
First of all I have to say that I appreciate, maybe even admire the time and effort you are taking to reply to my comments, me being just a random guy from the internet with no significant contribution history in Wikipedia. You guys are doing this stuff on a voluntary basis and I applaud you for that. My remark about my knowledge of copyright was perhaps a bit cheap (although true) because I know you are not professionals and you don't have to be. Anyway, leaving aside the issue of copyright, I guess it is not totally outlandish (although debatable) for Wikipedia to adopt a policy that any content whatsoever that resembles outside sources should be removed. If I understand correctly, this policy means that even prior versions of an article are removed immediately (which would explain why the bot got triggered on an older version of the article) without a trace. If Wikipedia and its lawyers feel that that is necessary well that is their choice, but that approach comes with consequences. As said, I understand that a policy violation is addressed but my main problem is with the manner in which this is done. In this case the immediate permanent deletion of half an article because of a minor perceived copyright violation in an old version. From your answers I understand that this is the only way you guys are able to operate. OK well good luck, but I (and many others I am sure) am not prepared to work like that. Regarding 'copyvio' I would be more careful next time I guess knowing what I know now about Wikipedia policies, but what gets to you is the general approach in Wikipedia where in stead of collaborating you are all the time attacked with banners and deletions for often incomprehensible and frankly bogus reasons. Another example of that is 'notability'. I understand that my daughter's kindergarten should not have its own Wikipedia page (a hypothetical example) but if I start a page about a defunct toy-manufacturer that used to supply half of Europe founded by Lego, I think it is ridiculous that I have to discuss 'notability' under the threat of deletion. If that is because of some Wikipedia policy, fine but that comes with consequences. Anyway, you don't have to reply to that as it does not concern you. I guess editing Wikipedia is not for me and maybe that is alright as Wikipedia seems to be doing just fine. Maybe in 2 years the information that I am missing now or see as incorrect or outdated will have been added and/or corrected anyway by someone else with more patience and perseverance. I hope it does. Vunzmstr (talk) 09:04, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
@Vunzmstr: I appreciate that you are taking a measured response. I would like to make one small correction to an assumption you made. The distinction won't be important in your particular case but I don't want you to have a misunderstanding. When we detect a copyright issue in an edit, we typically click on a button that carries out something called "rollback". That action will not only undo the specific edit containing the copyright violation but all contiguous edits by the same editor. There's a good reason for this, which I'll be happy to explain if you are interested. In your specific case, your first edit created the article so undoing the specific edit under rollback necessarily meant removing all prior versions. In the case of an article with more of an editing history (which is most articles), the rollback will return the article to the state before the particular editor started editing, which will not remove all prior versions. I know that some editors take issue with this approach. In fact, and some cases I try to take a more "surgical" approach but that requires much more work and is rarely warranted. On the subject matter, I happen to think that one of the strengths of Wikipedia is carrying in-depth articles about products and companies that no longer exist. Depending on the timing, that can be difficult to do as a result of limited relevant sources but I think the subject matter is fine. I'm sorry to see that you seem to have decided to abandon this — I hope you will reconsider.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:00, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
I usually try to remove only the copyvio, and leave any harmless edits intact. However when performing revision deletion some harmless edits are sometimes hidden, though those edits still remain visible on the page as displayed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Style of editing

I have noticed a few of your edits recently and by the look of your talk page, quite a few people have the same sort of issue I do with them.

Please could you give some consideration to your edits and perhaps not arbitrarily wipe them out and delete the edit log too? Why not mark the text as requiring a specific improvement and then the rest of Wikipedia can do the rest? Your edits not only frustrate people (and make them less likely to return to edit), but also undo improvements that could still be kept but amended. It's very counter-productive and I really hope you use a more nuanced approach rather than the sledgehammer one you're using now. Apeholder (talk) 03:47, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. There's nothing arbitrary about my edits; copyright violations are a violation of the copyright policy of this website, a policy with legal considerations. The policy allows for the immediate removal of copyvio, so that's what I do. There's anywhere from 75 to 100 potential violations to be assessed each day. and there's a core group of only three people working on this task. I can only imagine the complexity of tracking hundreds of cases for follow-up if I contacted each violator and coached them and ensured they got the copyvio properly re-worded. I already spend four to seven hours per day on this task, and doing it your way would double or even triple that. I would put my own health and wellbeing at risk to spend that much time online. Sorry but as important as Wikipedia is, and as important as editor retention is, I cannot comply with your request. Just want to add, there's a template for marking copyvio and letting "the rest of Wikipedia do the rest", but there's 600 such tagged pages at Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections. Some of them have been tagged for over 4 years, so that's a solution that's not working all that well in real life. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:20, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
@Apeholder: I urge you to read my response to a very similar plea upthread.
User_talk:Diannaa#So_many_reverts_claiming_Copyright_issue_on_Forced_disappearance_in_Bangladesh
Speaking only for myself, I'd love To be able to take the time to do more handholding of new editors who are almost certainly trying to make a real contribution to Wikipedia, but dealing with the identified copyright issues is like drinking from a firehose. If someone has serious suggestions on a better approach that reflects the realities of the number of reports and the number of volunteers working on these reports, I'm all ears.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:38, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
@Apeholder: Let me restate, trying to put it in terms of your metaphor. Imagine you have the task of removing a small building standing in a field. One option is to use a sledgehammer and demolish it. Another option is to use more delicate tools, pulling nails, removing screws and carefully disassembling the building so that much of it could be reused. It's not hard to argue that the second approach is a preferred approach because it destroys less and re-purposes useful material. But before you pick up the more delicate tools and start work on disassembling that building, I point out that there's another one standing behind it, and another one standing behind that, and 97 more behind those three. They all have to be done today. Could you understand why the sledgehammer might be the tool of choice?--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:45, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
@Sphilbrick: @Diannaa: Sphilbrick - your analogy forgets one important thing, the sledgehammer approach not only takes the building out in one swift strike, but it the approach of Diannaa not only does this but also removed the remnants of the building entirely. This way you have no idea of what the building was before to rebuild it to spec. Can you see what I mean now? It's so unhelpful the way she does it. And if there's hundreds of articles that are tagged for attention, then that's unfortunate but if you're really into making the best, most useful encyclopedia possible, why would you not want to take the more nuanced approach?
Furthermore, lots of other editors tag stuff, but Diannaa is the exception to most editors. Her edits are no more or less important than anyone else's, so why is she acting like some sort of unaccountable Wikipedia God? The deletion of the changelog is the really issue here TBH.

Also, if you find editing Wikipedia is affecting your health and taking up so much of your day, then maybe that's life's little way of telling you that you are taking this too seriously and you might need to take a step back perhaps?

Finally, is there not some sort of system that allows a tag to be added that will make a change after a specified length of time if it's not done? Apeholder (talk) 03:51, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
There are many tags identifying issues that need to be addressed over some period of time. Those tags are perfectly appropriate in cases of issues indicating the article is substandard relative to our desired goals but should not be used in cases that require immediate attention. A copyright violation is something that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. While a missing reference or poorly worded article needs attention, is no provision in copyright law (as far as I'm aware) that says it's okay to violate copyright as long as you don't do it for too long a period of time.--S Philbrick(Talk) 11:54, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Hmm, Apeholder, Sphilbrick, perhaps a different analogy? If you park on a double yellow line, your car will be removed, while the street remains undamaged and essentially unchanged. The only discouragement is to people who choose to park illegally, people that society has chosen to discourage from that particular kind of antisocial behaviour. I have removed some content copied by Apeholder from a blog post into Gun laws in North Carolina; no lasting damage has been done to that page (though revdeletion is still needed). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:08, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Apeholder. I hope you have understood by now that we are not going to back down and tell you it's okay for you to add copyright material to this website, not even temporarily. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:31, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Many streets have a shortage of traffic wardens, let alone police officers and tow-trucks. But this doesn't make the activity any less unlawful. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:39, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Yes, @Sphilbrick: you did remove some copyrighted content on that page - but the issue is removing the deletion log. If it's not clear what has been deleted, then the article cannot be improved in that respect. Why do you all have to be so overzealous and do it this way. And no, as Diannaa claims, I am NOT saying we should allow copyright violations, but we should not be deleting the logs. Why not leave them up so we can see what was removed but later add the improvement back WITHOUT adding the copyrighted content? What's unreasonable about that? Apeholder (talk) 23:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Revision deletion is done to completely remove copyright content from the page history, which is visible to the public if they know where to look. I occasionally forward editors a copy of removed material via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:44, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
@Apeholder: I think some people are surprised that we care so much about hiding copyright violations in prior versions. This is partly for the technical reason that a copyright violation is a copyright violation if it is accessible by the general public which is true of our prior versions, but as an added reason, not everyone is familiar with permanent links, which are a built-in feature of media wiki. This allows people to create a link to an earlier version of an article. This feature is a useful feature for many reasons. One example is that if you are doing some research and want to refer to a Wikipedia article, you want to refer to it at the time of your research not the time a subsequent reader might come across it because it could change use of a permanent link ensures that the reader will see the article as it looked at that time. While that's a positive use of the feature it could be used in a less positive way. Someone could deliberately insert material in an article, and even though it might be removed by another editor, they could produce a permanent link which could make it look like the Wikipedia article contains that information. Revision deletion helps make sure that this improper use cannot be carried out.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:53, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Sledgehammer of Diligence

First Annual Sledgehammer of Diligence Award
For your tireless efforts at keeping Wikipedia legal. We who try hard to obey the law understand and genuinely appreciate your hard work. Thanks for keeping the copyright lawyers away from our own hard work. Without such efforts, Wikipedia would not survive the avalanche of legal suits for copyright infringement. Again, thank you very much. BilCat (talk) 04:56, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the positive feedback BilCat ~~! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:22, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

It's not really a laughing matter Apeholder (talk) 03:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Who's laughing? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:36, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm not laughing. As far as I know no one is laughing. Quite the opposite – people (especially Sphilbrick) are taking quite a bit of time and effort to respond to your concerns. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:39, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Diannaa for your hard work and this award is well deserved by you. Kierzek (talk) 13:44, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

There are definitely some legitimate issues. Speaking only for myself, I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who has never edited Wikipedia and finally decides to take the plunge. Perhaps they run across some interesting publication, and when they look at the related Wikipedia article they realize the article is missing some information that is in the publication. They take a deep breath, click on edit, and add some information to the Wikipedia article. To their amazement, when they now view the article they see that it has been supplemented by their addition, so the world can see a better article. They are no longer just a reader of Wikipedia, they are an actual contributor.

A couple hours later, they tell a friend that they've made a contribution to Wikipedia. The friend is doubtful and asks for proof, so they pull up the article and… it's all gone. Maybe they see some antiseptic message on the talk page saying something about copyright, maybe they see a cryptic note in an edit summary, maybe they see nothing because they don't know where to look. But thought they were making a real contribution, and now it's all gone.

Crushing.

Schools don't seem to be teaching people the plagiarism and copyright violations are wrong. Or perhaps the delivering the lessons but the students are not paying attention. It's hardly the most exciting subject of the day. So not only has their contribution been removed they might not know exactly why. In at least nine times out of 10, that may be the last we heard of this potential new contributor.

That bothers me.

A lot.

Someone is sure to ask "so why don't you take a different approach"?

If someone has better practices that are not meaningful increases in time, please share. Leaving a warning template and giving the editor time to fix it has been proposed but is a nonstarter for legal reasons.

It used to be my practice to drop a note on the talk page of every editor whose edits I revert. (Let me emphasize that Diannaa is much better about communicating than I am.) My guess is that I left several hundred templates on the talk page of unregistered editors. If I had a 10% response rate, I'd continue, even if the response were to be critical of my action. I had a 2% response rate I'd continue. However, to the best of my recollection, not a single IP has ever acknowledged my note on the talk page, so I've stopped.

I do make a point of leaving a welcome message on brand-new registered editors. My guess is I have a less than 2% response rate, with that editor acknowledging in any way the message sent to them. Despite that low rate, I'll continue.

My point about response rates is that it is difficult to justify spending a lot of time crafting a personal message when in almost all cases, the messages appear to be falling on deaf ears. If someone engages with me, I'll take the time to explain what's going on, how our Wikipedia copyright policy differs from the legal definition, how one should edit or any other relevant advice.

Again, if someone has useful advice, I'm interested to discuss how these issues can be better handled.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:14, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Don't want to ignore Sphilbrick's thought-provoking comments, but right now seems to be the right time to add my huge "thank you" to Diannaa for the hours she spends at the coal-face, dealing with the workload of a dozen ordinary editors. And a big thank you to Sphilbrick for all his work there too. However thankless it may all seem at times, there are plenty of people who value and appreciate what you do. Thanks, guys! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:06, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Justlettersandnumbers for your supportive comments. Thank you to Sphilbrick for helping with copyvio clean-up and his tireless work here on this page, answering questions and offering analysis. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:09, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Part of the problem with copyvios is that Wikipedia allows anyone to post anything, and it's immediately viewable. Perhaps if we had a different system, copyvios could be handled with more care towards the contributors. But as long as lawyers are going to enforce copyright violations, as they should, we don't have any choice but to remove copyvios ruthlessly. Perhaps that sentence above the edit box that says "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted" needs to be much larger and in a bold font. - BilCat (talk) 23:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

BilCat and Sphilbrick, maybe this is useful: I think that one reason for problems is the focus on 'copyright violations' and the use of that term. It seems like Wikipedia has a very clear idea of what is and what isn't a copyright violation, although in reality it is often debatable and in the end only for a judge to decide. I don't think that the main problem is that people do not know or do not know enough about copyright. I think that the main problem is that not everybody agrees (which is completely normal in the case of legal subjects) on what is or isn't a 'copyright violation' and on what risks are involved. I know that it is exactly for that reason that Wikipedia has a copyright policy and herein lies the solution IMHO. Instead of mentioning 'copyright violations' you should only mention your copyright POLICY violations. So for instance instead of writing "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted." it should mention for instance "Content that violates our copyright POLICY will be deleted". Perhaps accompanied by the mention that "content copied from third party sources which violates our copyright POLICY will be deleted immediately". In this way you could preempt a lot of misinterpretations and discussions, and create clarity on what contributors can expect if they do not follow the policy.
It also makes more sense from a legal point of view. If I am correct, every time that someone on "copyright patrol" deletes something that they deem to be a copyright violation they refer to it as such. This basically means that by its own words, Wikipedia is admitting that Wikipedia is violating copyright on a grand scale. This could be very helpful for anyone trying to attack Wikipedia on this issue. If you instead focus on your copyright POLICY (which is there to prevent possible copyright violations) though, you avoid this problem. Vunzmstr (talk) 10:54, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Whenever I leave an edit summary, it refers to a copyright issue rather than calling it a violation, for exactly that reason.
See, for example this edit. where the edit summary is:
(Reverted good faith edits by Efuwape (talk): Copyright issue re http://www.nigerianbar.org.ng/index.php/aboutus. (TW))--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:37, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
My go-to edit summary is "remove copyright content copied from..." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:48, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
@Vunzmstr: Having said that, there is definitely some merit to the observations of Vunzmstr. I try to avoid reference to copyright violations because I do understand that the Wikipedia copyright policy is deliberately more conservative, but I'll make two observations. First, I won't be surprised if I slip on occasion, so I'll use this as a reminder to be careful. More importantly, the term is occasionally used in places where it ought to be changed. For example, Wikipedia:Revision_deletion#1 specifically refers to "Blatant copyright violations" and it might be better to say "Blatant violations of Wikipedia copyright policy" or some other wording to be worked out. I also note that the tool used to hide revisions uses the phrase "copyright violations" and we ought to discuss better wording.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:25, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thanks for the reminder and the post editing! --Ziounclesi (talk) 13:10, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Noticing users accusing people of contributing to their pages

Hi Diannaa,

I have stumbled unto two talk pages where users were accusing the person who' BLP it is of contributing to page.

It is accusing the person of trying to get attention here. I believe these allegation should be purged as these individual have done nothing amoral, illiberal, or illegal in their personal lives as far as the world is concerned.

Is it something you can do or pass it on to someone?

Topic called: Irrelevant - need to be deleted! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:A.W._Peet


This one I deleted, but is still in history and a person resurrected it once. Topic Called: writing style https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Michael_Dudikoff&diff=827875047&oldid=824162234

thanks!Filmman3000 (talk) 23:04, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Filmman3000. There's nothing here that rises to the level of qualifying for revision deletion, if that's what you mean. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:16, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Well two individuals have been accused of seeking attention here. Honestly it makes them look like attention seekers. Since they seem like law abiding citizen, it's uncalled.
Someone who'd look these people for professional or any other reasons it could weaken their case, with the presumption that they are attention seekers.That's why in my opinion they need to go. Thanks.Filmman3000 (talk) 01:45, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
I probably wouldn't mind if it was a successful and divisive person. One of them just happen to debate Jordan Peterson and the other just a simple action film actor, so it's not fair they are just as vulnerable as you and I.
The writing in the actor' bio that was criticized for the right reasons, i don't mind. Even if it was romanticized in the writing style none of it was false, and gave people something to work with. To the least if these users assumptions were true, he didn't troll the Wikipedia afterwards and wasn't overly hyperbolic about him.
The professor it was rebutted and proven false since a wiki user named @Fae who has a long history of making LGBTQ related article created it and replies to the Ip. So we allow fake completely fake statement about one?
How would you feel if someone was accusing you online of attention seeking? Also it looks bad on Wiki user to allow uncalled lambasting on someone who isn't in successful and controversial position of power.
I do not pretend I know anything about law so take my final statement with a grain of salt, but I can imagine a scenario were someone is accused of seeking attention and sues Wiki for not purging it.ThanksFilmman3000 (talk) 05:43, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Contribution for Alain Simard (businessman)

Hello Diannaa, I'm content editor for the Équipe Spectra, and i had to modify the Alain Simard (businessman) on 11 09 2018. It's a request from Alain Simard himself and the informations given come from his team. So everything is exact and verified. I understand the policy of wikipedia, but if you can remove the modifications i did, it would be perfect. Have a good day, Thanks for your understanding Pascal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.119.126.236 (talk)13:13, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on wikipedia. There are a couple of problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder or have their permission, 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.
The second problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about yourself or 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) 13:25, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello again, Thanks for your quick answer. However, after reading your point, i can assure you there's no COI or retribution asked from my part. Alain Simard just asked me to refresh his bio and add the Honours section. All the informations are right, verified and no oriented. There's just real facts about Alain Simard. So if we can find a solution to udapte his page, i'll be glad to involve to. Thanks for your understanding — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.119.126.236 (talk) 20:22, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

If you have been instructed by the subject of the article to update his page, you have a conflict of interest, and should not be editing the page at all. Regardless of that issue, we can't accept content copied from elsewhere online unless it's released under a compatible license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:01, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

A new editor with a gadget

Hi Diannaa: It looks like we have both met User:IP0W3RSH3LLi. He nominated my page creation for speedy deletion, John M. Allen (soldier), based on WP:BLPPROD. I reverted the edit. This editor is using Twinkle to nominate several articles for speedy deletion. I am new to Twinkle myself and don't use much of its functionality, but this editor is very disruptive. Is there any way to take away his access to Twinkle? Thanks, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 00:52, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Twinkle is available to any autoconfirmed user (10 edits, 4 days). If the disruption is intense, please consider filing a report at WP:ANI — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:56, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Nazi Germany

Hi Diannaa, as you were one of, if not *the* reason Nazi Germany made it to GA-status a few years ago, I wanted to reach out to you. I’m currently in the process of working on the article and I envision taking it to FA-status eventually. It’s not there yet but I think it’s definitely possible.

With that in mind, I wanted to ask if you’d be interested in working with me to see that through? I can’t think of anyone I’d like to work with more on this topic than the person who got it to GA-status in the first place.—White Shadows Let’s Talk 07:42, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi White Shadows. That's a great idea. My main commitment right now is copyvio cleanup but I will do what I can to help. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:36, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Thanks. I appreciate the recent edits too! I’ll work on it a bit more this weekend and compare what we have right now to the FAC criteria that exists. I may ask for a Peer Review too to get input on what may be missing before trying to take it to FAC. When I think it’s ready I’ll message you again so you can share any thoughts you have. When you’re in between your copyvio cleanup, feel free to join in!—White Shadows Let’s Talk 16:19, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
There was a peer review done as part of the Core Contest prep in 2013: Wikipedia:Peer review/Nazi Germany/archive1. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:27, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
So I've found a few things I could use help with. Braun 1992 needs a page number (and the ref itself probably needs more info, like links, where it was published, and other info present in most journal citations. Page numbers are also needed for Zeitlin, Panayi, Hagemann, Flint, Dussel, Hanauske-Abel, Biddiscombe, and Hagemann. I only have limited access to JSTOR, but your userpage suggests you may be able to get those page numbers for these citations. These are the only citations I can see that still have issues at this point. If those are fixed, it'll go a long way towards getting this article set up for an FAC.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 21:28, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Braun 1992: was not available. I was able to look at Zeitlin but that paper does not support the material in the preceding sentences; it contradicts it on pretty much all points, stating that German aircraft manufacturers preferred skilled laborers and opposed rationalization. It does not mention rail lines or the location of factories, and it's not a general article, it only covers aircraft manufacturing. If the related content stays in it will have to be re-sourced. More to follow after supper. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:28, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the help!--White Shadows Let’s Talk 22:46, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
We could probably find a cite for that stuff using Speer, but he would say that, wouldn't he? - so an independent source would be best. If we can't source it, it will have to come out.
Panayi - source checks out fine; page numbers added. Hagemann - unable to access. Flint - I was able to access, but it does not support the content. Dussel - checks out fine and I added a bit more from that source. Hanauske-Abel - checks out fine; page number added. Biddiscombe - I was able to access; tweeked the content a bit to remove a minor copyvio and better reflect what the source has to say. Hagemann is on your list twice, so that's it for now. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:21, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
Good point with Speer. Thank you for the rest!—White Shadows Let’s Talk 00:53, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
I have resolved these citation issues in the following manner: I replaced content sourced to Braun and Zeitlin with material from Fest and Speer; removed content sourced to Flint (general statements like this are difficult to source; if something turns up we can add it back); and replaced content sourced to Hagemann with material from Evans and the USHMM. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:34, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Hey Diannaa, I've got the exact wording for this snipped you recently removed. "On this wintry morning of January 30, 1933, the tragedy of the Wiemar Republic, of the bungling attempt for fourteen frustrating years of the Germans to make democracy work, had come to an end." (It can be found on page 183) If the wording I used doesn't fit, do you think there's some other way we can convey what I was trying to get across there regarding the generally-accepted date of the establishment of Nazi Germany and the end of the Wiemar Republic?--White Shadows Let’s Talk 01:50, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
You can't extrapolate that into a general statement about what all historians think. Attribute it to Shirer: "Historian and war correspondent William L. Shirer describes this event as marking the end of the Wiemar Republic and the beginning of Nazi Germany." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:54, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
My mistake, I should have done that from the beginning. I'd like to pull at least one or two more historians who cite the date as the beginning of Nazi Germany however. I'll look around to see if I can pull any other names before I add that bit back in.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 01:59, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
I would like to help out too colleagues :) Oh, and by the way Diannaa, you do an awesome job in the frightening world of copyright. I just didn't want to pile on to the accolades above, so I will say it here. Huge respect for your work and attitude, especially in the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Good to meet you, user:White Shadows! We haven't met. Hope to do good work with you and our other colleagues. Regards, Simon Adler (talk) 03:01, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
The more the merrier I say. This is the sort of article where it wouldn't be surprising to see several editors working to get it to FA-status.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 03:11, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
I don't have the time I used to have, but will be glad to help when I can. Kierzek (talk) 13:04, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
Race is such a cornerstone of Nazism and the Nazi policies, I believe the "Racial policy" title should remain. Also, White Shadows, some interesting additional information added, but I am concerned about the growing length of the article; byte size, so to speak. It is a common problem, as you may know, with articles such as this. Diannaa and I have faced this before in articles herein, and so I would respectfully request that you keep that in mind and look for places where edits for concision can be made. I would have cut some more this morning, but wanted to mention it here first. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 13:56, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I agree we have to be cautious about adding any further material to the article. I haven't reviewed since I last visited the article, but in general, I would like to point out that the suggested article size is still 10,000 words, and this article should be an overview, and not overly detailed. I am still thinking about the suggested change to the section header, and am leaning towards leaving it alone. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:08, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
  • I had a feeling we were reaching critical mass with respect to article length. There were a few sections however that were so incredibly short, I had to ask myself why they even existed. The Romani section before I lengthened it comes to mind. At this point, I think we've packed quite a lot of info in the article and I agree it shouldn't get much larger. Kierzek, if you want to cut anything else that I've added over the past few days, don't hesitate to do so. I'd love to see what edits you can come up with.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 16:30, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Thought of an idea: "Impact of racial policy". Or leave it alone — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:29, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I like that suggestion a lot.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 18:47, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Okay with me or "leave it alone". Kierzek (talk) 18:53, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I would suggest we leave it as it is. Simon Adler (talk) 19:17, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Maybe it's just the optimist in me speaking, but I really think we're close to being comfortable (at least from my perspective) to nominating this article for FAC. We do however need alt-text for each of the images we have up I believe. I think it would also be wise for us to nominate the article for an A-class Review first, which can led to some additional input from others who edit regularly on topics related to this, before we go to FAC. Obviously we all know about how this stuff works, and I'm pretty sure all of us have conducted an ACR or an FAC before, but I'm just sharing my thoughts because this is such a large article, and it deals with such an important topic in history. I can't think of anything else I've worked on with the intention of bringing to a higher grading standard before other than World War II itself...and even then I only took it to GA-status.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 00:10, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
I thing we are close too, but will continue to trim for length. A-Class review is a good idea — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:46, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
I agree with your idea White Shadows as to starting with class-A review. And nice work on trimming guys. I had held off on doing the "World War II" section last night as Diannaa you said you were going to pick up there at that time. Its all good. Kierzek (talk) 18:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
BTW - in checking the cites, I see Encyclopædia Britannica was used of a point. That should be replaced with a better RS cite. I am at work right now or I would do it. Kierzek (talk) 18:10, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Encl. Britannica replaced by Shirer. I will resume copy edits and trimming later - I don't wan to go too fast, so that people have time to review and check my work. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:57, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
  • That makes sense, once one of us feels like it's ready to be taken to ACR we can just post a message here and seek some last minute input from the others. I do have a suggestion for everyone. Under the Nazification of Germany" section, it seems the last paragraph is very short and could use lengthening. I suggest trimming the bits I added about the take over of the labor union across Germany to compensate for article length. I made an edit to that effect just now to get your take on it. If there's a consensus that the last paragraph's length is sufficient, I can revert my change and bring the section back to what I had originally written.--White Shadows Let’s Talk 00:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
I don't think it's a good idea to add things to improve the visual appearance of sections. We're still 4000 words over the suggested page size. Please stop adding. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps we can remove some section headers to fix the tiny-section problem. I'll look at that option later. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:58, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Have a look at "Further reading" section, that is a place we can trim words; there are enough good RS books used and cited in the article for general readers benefit. Update - I took a crack at it. Kierzek (talk) 13:42, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
That's a great idea, though I am pretty sure that material is not included in the word count. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:59, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
I think it's very close to ready and we could list it now. I will continue trimming and copy editing though, and I think we still need some alt-text on images. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:17, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
I should have some time to work on the lead, paras 3 and 4, tonight (late) after work, per Peacemaker67's comments. Kierzek (talk) 20:53, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Update, I took a break from work and had a go at it. See what you guys think. Kierzek (talk) 00:23, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
I am working on the Legacy section now, and will tackle the attitudes toward the regime suggestion next. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:03, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Guys, I have been kept very busy of late by real life matters, but will try to help out more this coming week. Kierzek (talk) 19:08, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm not up to reviewing articles but this phrase strikes me as confusing "In alliance with Italy and smaller Axis powers, Germany conquered most of Europe by 1940". Do you mean Western Europe as the Balkans and European Russia were only conquered in 1941 but if you do mean Western Europe then the minor axis powers were not involved (most only joining the Axis in 1941} Lyndaship (talk) 18:50, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
That's a good observation; fixed. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright and new page Patrol

I was mulling how to write a proposal to have copy patrolled directly contact editors. I'm not sure whether it is a good idea or not, so I wanted to batted around with you before even considering a formal proposal. However, while thinking about it I stumbled across: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EranBot/2#Discussion, Which appears to be an initiative to have the editors working on new pages feed address copyright issues. I had seen some discussions of this in the past but it seems to be reaching fruition. Are you involved in this initiative?--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

(ec) Discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/AfC Process Improvement May 2018 and the project page is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/AfC Process Improvement May 2018. The idea is to have a notice on the new pages feed for items that are listed at CopyPatrol. Items from CopyPatrol that are over a certain percentage on the Compare score will get flagged so new page patrollers will be cued to examine that aspect.
I'm not sure having the bot contact editors is a good idea, as we have circa 25% false positives, and probably around 25% or so of the remainder are not copyvio per se but unattributed copying from compatibly licensed material. So they need a different kind of note. Plus there's many occasions where people who are whitelisted appear on CopyPatrol anyway, and I don't want to annoy them! And sometimes I want to send a short personal note, especially when their talk page is already a sea of templated warnings and messages. So my opinion is no, CopyPatrol should not notify users. The CopyPatrol list serves as a substitute for listing at WP:SCV or WP:CP, where CorenBot's reports were posted for assessment. @ Sphilbrick, @ Crow, please check your email, I just sent each of you a note on a related topic. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:59, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
You make some excellent points, but before I abandon this idea let me try talking through some possibilities. I have noted that some white listed people to show up in the report. Frankly, this doesn't bother me a lot, because when I recognize the name my reaction is "oh good, this one will be easy". For the record, I don't automatically accept it. In most cases, it's text from a public domain or acceptably licensed source so I checked to make sure that's what's going on. My initial thought was that we could tell it but doing a response to skip those in the white list, but if it hasn't figured out how not to do the report, it's likely that the same problem will persist in the notification and they will get notified which will be annoying. One option is that we push the developers to sort out why the white list isn't working properly. I wouldn't push for hundred percent perfection but is a report from an article edited by Rosiestep several times a week. If they could sort out what's wrong, it might keep it out of the report which would obviously remove the need to contact them.
I agree that sometimes a personal note is appropriate. This may not be the ideal practice, but in many cases I send a template response (because it contains lots of useful links), and follow up with a short personal note to make it clear that a human is willing to discuss the issues. I think that could still be done. Even if the bot automatically notified them of the potential issue, would still have it in our report and have the ability to follow up with a personal note. I won't be surprised if you prefer to replace the entire templated response with a completely personal note, and if that's the case this won't work well for you.
I agree the false positives are relatively high. Let me see if I can turn that into a positive. I'll follow this up with more detail.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:06, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm imagining that a well worded message, even though a template, might be helpful. It could start out by noting that the edit has been detected by software as a possible copyright issue, follow up with an explanation that a significant proportion of such reports are false positives and go through some of the examples of potential false positives, so the editor could participate in the discussion.
For example, one of the false positives that bedevils me is copying within Wikipedia. If they follow the protocol as outlined at Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia, I know I'll catch it, and we could tell them that if they follow that protocol, some human will be along to accept it, and they can ignore the message. If, however, they copied within Wikipedia and did not note that in the edit summary, they still have a chance to fix it with a dummy edit and that might occur before we get around to reviewing it which would be a net positive.
Other examples of false positives are copies of appropriately licensed material, and the template could mentioned that if that is noted in the edit summary the reviewer will see it, and the reviewer may notice it as part of the review, but it's always easier if it's explicitly noted in the edit summary. It could also mention if they plan to do a lot of work with public domain or properly licensed sources, they could let us know so we could add them to a white list.
I won't be surprised if this isn't persuasive, but I think it's worth discussing to keep working on improving our procedures.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:56, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
Just a note to let you know I haven't read this yet and will get to it later. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
No rush, you are busy doing good work.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:41, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Before you spend too much time thinking about this I want to withdraw my suggestion. I just happened to review five reports. One was a copy within Wikipedia, the other four were all restoration of inexplicably or inappropriately removed material. Contacting those editors would constitute an annoyance, because the edit summaries generally explained the situation. (These examples do support my request for the tool to check to see if the added material also matches an existing Wikipedia article but that request seems to be not getting any traction.) Too many false positives to justify contacting editors.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
OK in that case I will get through my watch-list and get to the gym (I will still read this later though). CopyPatrol reports from yesterday are done :) — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:15, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Potential COPYVIO Corana and Hygeia

Hello Diannaa, Earwig's Copyvio Detector shows a high probability of copyright content in the Corana and Hygeia article, but the source may be in the Public Domain. Woodlot (talk) 15:47, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

There's an even bigger overlap with this page, which is marked as being available under a compatible CC-by-4.0 international license. I see the article creator (who does this all the time) has already provided the required attribution at the bottom of the page and in the edit summary when they created the page, so there's nothing to do here. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:10, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Robert Fowler (surgeon, soldier) speedy deletion

Hi @Diannaa:. Thanks for your time in looking at this, but I'm a bit confused and although I'm loath to impose on your time I do have a couple of questions if that's OK. By way of background, I created the Robert Fowler page because his name is on a To Do list on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/To-do portal (in fact in researching him I discovered there are 2 Dr Robert Fowlers so I am researching the second one also).

I certainly did copy material from directly from http://adb.online.anu.edu.au/biography/fowler-robert-10231 as you note but I pasted that into my sandbox to use it as a basis for the new page I created, which I understood was an appropriate workflow, but maybe it isn't??? I'm a bit confused because the final page that I published was in my view significantly different form the original content and included fresh source material, so I thought I had created a legitimate page... Unfortunately I can't tell now if the speedy deletion was for the sandbox, the actual page or both, as both are now gone. Obviously I'm pretty new here so I do very much appreciate the guidance of experienced editors and I absolutely am wanting to contribute legitimate, appropriate content, so even just a brief response would be very helpful. Finally, is there a way to resurrect the old content so I can use it as the basis for a revised article?? Sincerely, Cabrils (talk) 06:24, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Cabrils. On double checking, I find that the sandbox version and the version in mainspace are identical. Some of the content was properly paraphrased at the beginning of the article, but the bulk of it was a direct copy. It's not okay to add copyright material to Wikipedia, not even temporarily, and not even in sandboxes or drafts. The version that was flagged by the bot was the one in mainspace. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. I can send you a copy of the deleted material via email, but you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:42, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa. I can't believe I did that! I must have mistakenly left that source material at the bottom of the page. Thank you for clarifying that the sandbox cannot contain copyrighted material-- I will prepare any new content offline from now on. If you could please send me a copy of the deleted material that would be great-- I have activated my email. I'll clean up the page and then what is the best way forward—- to publish it and alert you to check it if you wouldn't mind??
Also, will my account have been flagged because of the copyvio?? If so, is there some way this can be removed--it was a genuine (ignorant) mistake?? Much appreciated, Cabrils (talk) 22:57, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Don't worry - lots of people make mistakes. It's okay for you to remove warnings (or any other material) from your talk page. Eventually you might create an archive once your talk page gets long! The page's history serves as a record of all the posts made. I can check the new version of the article for you when you get it re-added; just let me know. Email has been sent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:34, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! Really appreciated Cabrils (talk) 23:41, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
New page up live at Robert Fowler (surgeon, soldier) for whenever you get a moment. [UPDATE: User:Seacactus 13 has just reviewed it and seems to be content-- at least they didn't appear to do anything nor message me. Cabrils (talk) 03:22, 18 September 2018 (UTC)] Thanks very much Diannna! Cabrils (talk) 00:09, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
The new page is okay from a copyright point of view. Thanks, and happy editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:44, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! Cabrils (talk) 06:33, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your guidance. I am a product manager for FICO, who is the copyright owner for this content. I was just adding it to this page to ensure that accurate information was available to user. I will adjust my added content to remove the potential for any cxopyright concerns. Thank you FICO-NCrossley (talk) 09:39, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

The new version is okay from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:45, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out the copyright problem for Road racing. I have removed the links and will seek new inline citations that don't violate copyright rules.Orsoni (talk) 15:53, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

@Orsoni: Removing the links is not a solution. Removing the copyright-violating prose is what needs to be done. The copyvio detector is still showing a 73.6% overlap, so there's still a lot of clean-up needed. Please let me know if you still don't understand what the problem is or how to fix it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:35, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your assistance. I thought I had changed the violating prose but, maybe I rushed. I have tried re-editing and have found new cited sources. Please let me know if I still need to clean it up.Orsoni (talk) 21:20, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
There's still quite a bit of overlap: Use the copyvio detector— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:01, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I apologize for the delay. I have tried to clean up the copyright violations however, some words like the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile are impossible to write in any other form. The copyvio detector shows 25% overlap. I'm not sure what the allowable threshold is. Thanks again for your assistance.Orsoni (talk) 17:55, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Names of oganizations, book titles, and the like do not need to be re-worded. There's no set threshold - all unique phrases have to be edited out by putting the material into your own words. I have finished the clean-up for you, including the required paraphrasing of the content copied from the New York Times and Motorsport Magazine. All done. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Message from Tim Bates

Stereotype threat

re stereotype deletion, I had a quick look, but still not sure what the problem is: There's a paraphrase of the abstract, and a block quote, marked as such, which is well within fair use. Am I missing something?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim bates (talk • contribs)

The content is almost identical to the abstract. That's a copyright violation. I removed the block quote as it doesn't make sense to leave it in without the preceding paragraph. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:32, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Hi Diannaa, for when there's nothing else on your plate. Persistent copyright violation, promotional content. Lots of rev/deletion, it appears. Cheers, 2601:188:180:1481:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:01, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

These will have to wait. Super busy today. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:10, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Heads up

Since you primarily block the IPBlanker, I've moved it in my userspace in an effort to clean up the obscene amount of pages I have. It's here now: User:Chrissymad/Sock drawer/IPBlanker. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 19:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

OK cool, I will amend my bookmark. I have a related page at User:Diannaa/IP blanker — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:07, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Time for a short break

To everyone except Diannaa - I need a bit of a Wiki-break, hopefully not long. I hope tps will step up and help out at CopyPatrol.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Enjoy your break! You deserve it — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:47, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
It's a good day to take a break!! because it appears to be National Edit Wikipedia Day in India!! lol — Diannaa 🍁 (talk)

Help requested

Hi Diannaa! Hope all is well. I haven't bothered you in a while, soooooooo, here I am to bother you. May I please trouble you to consider a block on Eivinas Maziliauskas? This is an unresponsive editor who has basically taken ownership of List of Oggy and the Cockroaches episodes. I haven't materially edited this article since about 2015, but took a look at it recently and found a ton of MOS violations, incoherent section headings, and other stuff that I corrected here. Eivinas Maziliauskas systematically reverted all those changes silently. I opened multiple discussions detailing all of my changes, I also pinged and urged the user to participate in discussion, but they wouldn't.

He and anonymous IPs (who I assume to be him logged out) started adding unsourced air dates, which I've been reverting. Here he adds unsourced airdates but also plot summaries he copied from other places, like here. I warned him for this. He then added this plot summary, which I found here, which I gave him a final warning about. He then added these plot summaries he did not write, which can be found here and here at the official Oggy YouTube presence. That's three copyvios, and I would have blocked him for that if I hadn't gotten involved as though this were a content dispute. Anyway, if you could look at the matter, I'd be appreciative. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:06, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Cyphoidbomb. Another admin has blocked for a week for the copyvios and disruption. The remaining plot descriptions are copied all over the Internet, which makes it difficult to ascertain whether or not there's additional copyvios remaining on the page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

The Broken Key

Hi Dianna. Copyright rules were broken at The Broken Key (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Whenever you have the time. Take care. Dr. K. 23:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for reporting, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:50, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you as always Dianna. By the way, the very first edit still has the copyvio plot. Can that be nuked? Dr. K. 01:00, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
All fixed. Good catch — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:19, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Nice. :) Thanks again. Take care. Dr. K. 17:35, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I'm wondering about your intervention to the visibility of an anon-edit to Henri Poincaré. Did you accidentally stumble upon my revert, and decided to change the visibility of the edit, or were you somehow triggered by my message on the ip's talk page? - DVdm (talk) 17:11, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi DVdm. The copyvio was reported by a bot, https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:16, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
OK. Good to know. Thx. - DVdm (talk) 17:59, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Possible copyvio

I know that copy/paste from the web is a no, no, but I'm not sure where the cutoff point of blatant and paraphrase/quote, so if you could have a look at this c/p, quote ? it would be appreciated. Could you ping me with your opinion, I'd be interested. Thanx, - FlightTime (open channel) 01:57, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

@FlightTime: Quotes are permitted, but most of this is general remarks and historical info that we don't have to present via quotation and is already covered elsewhere in the article. I think I would trim it down and keep only the very last bit, something like this: "In 2016, Rolling Stone described them as 'one of the most accomplished and absorbing bands rock ever birthed'." — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:14, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your expertize, too many fine lines with text copyrights, I think I'll stick with files :P. Thanx again. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 14:21, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

File:2018 EBSL Superfinal Arena Alghero.jpg

Greetings Dianna,

On September 14 you nominated my image for deletion as I had attributed the copyright to Brian Murgatroyd but at the time had not supplied evidence of permission. That same day I forwarded the evidence that I gained permission from him to upload the photo to permissions-en@wikimedia.org & received a confirmation receipt. It has now been a week since the nomination and the image has now been deleted. I was just wondering if you know how long it takes the permissions volunteers to sift through the emails. Since this is the first time I've encountered this situation, I've no idea if a week is normal or not to wait for a response.

Cheers! TurboGUY (talk) 02:16, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi TurboGUY. Apparently they only have about a 2-week backlog right now so it shouldn't be too long to wait. Next time, please place an {{OTRS pending}} template on the file to avoid deletion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:07, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, Diannaa. Hopefully it's resolved soon. TurboGUY (talk) 16:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi again, Diannaa. It's now been 18 days since I submitted the evidence but I've still heard nothing back from the permissions team. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to reupload the photo now, and this time add the {{OTRS pending}} tag to the description page? Thanks. TurboGUY (talk) 18:22, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
I have restored the file and added the required OTRS pending template. If you have a ticket number, please add it to the file. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:55, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology

Hello Diannaa, could you revdel the latest in-between versions of this article once more please? Unfortunately the content was restored after your last revdel on 27 March (and I missed the update somehow). Thank you in advance. GermanJoe (talk) 15:55, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Done - thanks for the update. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:16, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Kangeelu

I didn't copy any new material at all, as you would know if you read the piece. I just edited it for clarity and moved stuff around. Why remove what I did and accuse me, when the problem, if there is one, is with the original? Why wasn't it picked up when it was posted? Why should anyone waste their time trying to make articles better when you can't do your job and see that an article requiring copy edit is OK to edit first? You need to look at your own procedures and stop wasting other people's time.--Shim shabim (talk) 05:48, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

The person who created the page did receive a warning but somehow I placed one on your talk page as well. That was a mistake, because you didn't add any copyvio material. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:09, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Potential COPYVIO Biloxi, Mississippi

Hi Diannaa, there appears to be a copy/paste section (Fire Department) recently added to the Biloxi, Mississippi article. The source of the potential copyright violation is shown here. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 11:48, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:17, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Deschooling

Hi Diannaa, the article has a fairly large chunk copied. Here is the report: here. Much obliged!. scope_creep (talk) 12:29, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Scope Creep. That is a Wikipedia mirror. As are most of the other articles on their website. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:27, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

NVIDIA RTX

Hi Diannaa. Just saw your message about removing the NVIDIA RTX page. Totally confused as to why you feel this was "copied" from other posts. This page started out as [[[RTX: (ray tracing technology]], company decided that this was a platform rather than a technology, but community changed this to NVIDIA RTX to align to other NVIDIA product naming conventions on wikpedia. I work at NVIDIA (and yes this is disclosed on my profile page) and can assure you that we have the permissions to use the content. I'll set out sending the required email from my corporate email. Popoki 🐱🐱 chat 18:25, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Copyvio ahoy!

This diff is full of all the problems: [4] Fortunately, it's just one diff! Could you kindly erase it from existence? Thanks as always for everything you do... - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:40, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Julietdeltalima: I've revdel'd the diff and warned the user about copyright violations. clpo13(talk) 19:20, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

HMAS Nepal (G25)

Just reverted a copyvio on this article - can you do the revdel please? Lyndaship (talk) 16:57, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Done, and warned the user. Thank you for the report. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:24, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

"Warned"? Really? It read like courteous advice which is always welcome. A 'warning' is a little over the top don't you think? You appear to like warning contributors which is probably unlikely to be welcomed or appreciated. (Limhey (talk) 21:08, 5 October 2018 (UTC))

Luis Ernesto Michel

I briefly mulled writing a proposal to have copy patrol add a feature to allow a user to watch a particular report (does a similar functionality in OTRS). However, after thinking about it a bit I think 90% of the usage would be me watching a report to see how you handle it so I decided to cut out the middleman.

The report involving Luis Ernesto Michel Look like it should be straightforward based on the URL of the matched site. However, the edit and a site which is in Japanese and even when translated seems to have nothing to do with the subject. I wondered if there was some matching material at the site until recently and the site was abandoned and picked up by someone else but the way back machine didn't support that, so I'm curious to know what you think, assuming the very likely possibility that you are the person who will review it.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:16, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

There's a subtle clue in the edit summary: "Citations needed template exists". Sure enough, when I hunt back in the edit history I see that the content was removed as unsourced in May 2017. iThenticate shows a crawl date of 12 December 2010 for http://luismichel.com/index.html. The content is no longer there and the page was never archived by the Wayback Machine. Checking back at old revisions I see for example special:diff/400269330 that we already had the content on that date. Some of the material has been here since 2006: Special:diff/94183398. The page is a Wikipedia mirror - it's a false positive. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:18, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Huh. I sort of noticed the edit summary, but it didn't sink into me that it was a clue. Thanks.--S Philbrick(Talk) 00:19, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Need some help with revision deletion of personal info

Hi Diannaa, I found you listed as "willing" to handle rev/delete requests. I would really appreciate it if you could delete/hide some revision history entry info that shows my old username and university, which could be used to identify me personally. Here are three entries I have found that I would like deleted or amended to remove my old username and my university and class:

User:Yurrp: Revision history:

1. 14:14, 19 September 2018 Euphydras: References my old, personal username as part of change/move to new username “Yurrp”.

2. 18:08, 4 June 2018 Yurrp: References my university and class

User:Yurrp/sandbox: Revision history:

3. 14:14, 19 September 2018 Euphydryas: References my old, personal username as part of change/move to new username “Yurrp”. Thank you for your help!Yurrp (talk) 19:51, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:30, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! That was super fast! Best, Yurrp (talk) 05:07, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Global Cultural Districts Network

Hi Diannaa, another cache of copyright violation, when you have a chance. Thank you, 2601:188:180:1481:F1D3:A992:41FB:F56 (talk) 21:33, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:37, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Much appreciated. 2601:188:180:1481:F1D3:A992:41FB:F56 (talk) 21:38, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Jonathan Hay (publicist)

I hope I'm posting this right on the talk page lol. Please forgive me if I'm not. Thank you for ALL that information you gave me. Huge help. I fixed the introduction I think on the article. OnlyPlayJazz (talk) 21:54, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

The new version is ok from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:37, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Pioneer Springs Community School

The usual--blatant copyright violation of promotional content from school website. Thank you, Diannaa. 2601:188:180:1481:F1D3:A992:41FB:F56 (talk) 01:51, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:43, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Draft:Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum

Well, this is not nice. I am working for this museum and hence also the texts from the museum's website are written by me and my colleagues. I had not even the chance to contest this speedy deletion or to copy my written wiki in which I put a lot of effort. If the wiki I created is not appropriate, could you at least bring my content back to me, so that I can work on it offline? Or is it now totally lost? Unfortunately I had no backup for that... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefan3345 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in working on Wikipedia. There are a couple of problems with your submission. 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.
The 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) 12:46, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
I considered sending you a copy of the deleted draft via email, but decided against it, as all the content is copied from elsewhere, and we therefore can't accept it for publication or host it anywhere on our site. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads

Hi, You deleted something I wrote about Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads. I think it was a mistake. I never visited the page you think I plagiarized. Of course, now I can't see what I wrote to compare it exactly. It's possible that I copied something from Oyez accidentally. Pelirojopajaro (talk) 15:20, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Many of these summaries appear in multiple locations online. Justia, Caselaw, etc. The bot found extremely similar content to your edit at Caselaw. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:40, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Copyrighted material without evidence of permission

Hi Diannaa, you wrote to tell me that in some of my addition(s) to "Draft:Manuel García Velarde" there are copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. I have not found it, I only have cited a list of published contributions but nothing more. Could you give me more information in order to know how should I correct? Thanks a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manuelbedia (talk • contribs) 15:27, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright violation and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:43, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I understand, but it's obviously the same because it's the same person's website. Professor García Velarde asked me to publish his profile on wikipedia and he sent me that text. What do I need to be able to publish it? It is the author himself who has written this text! Does he have to authorize that his curriculum can be published? Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manuelbedia (talk • contribs) 16:57, 30 September 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) 10:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Viet comics

In your edit of 13:08, 25 May 2018 of Viet comics, you introduced the word "Rigt", which I don't believe is a word in either English or Vietnamese. Please fix. —Anomalocaris (talk) 16:23, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

The word was added in this hidden edit and I restored it during the copyright cleanup process. The person who added it originally is user:HeroHesman, who is blocked as a sockpuppet. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:15, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
I found the correct term using vi:Nguyễn Gia Trí — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:20, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Stefan Schaal

When you have a moment, could you please look at a possible copyright infringement in this article. You should be somewhat familiar with the article because you took various actions in the past. An editor is claiming that some portion of the article infringes the material at the subject's website. I tried to figure out which came first, the website material or the Wikipedia article. I failed. What do you think? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC) (talk) 17:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

The page was never archived by the Wayback Machine. This webpage shows the website was created on July 30 and updated on September 14. On August 7 I stated that a similar version (minus the Der Spiegel material) was okay from a copyright point of view. It's all circumstantial, but my opinion is that the webpage is a Wikipedia mirror. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:39, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Wow, I actually did all the steps (except the August 7 part) you did. I must be learning. Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 21:27, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:25, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

2022 Ryder Cup / Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thanks for your message; however, I have not seen anything like this either in the page for the 2020 Ryder Cup itself, and my base was rather the generic Ryder Cup structure used in 2018, which is the same as in basically every previous page; none of them seems to have attributed anything... — Preceding unsigned comment added by MagRudolfMayer (talk • contribs) 20:25, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

That's no reason for you to not do it properly. Then I would know exactly where you copied it from instead of having to guess. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:41, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
If I would see this pattern used when copying the *structure* of this page (but not really content!), then yes, I would also do that. I do not see this done however, not for any of these pages, so it is unclear to me why it should be done at all. Anyhow, to end this, we can leave your attribution to a wrong page, unless anyone else has time to waste. MagRudolfMayer (talk) 20:51, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Structure of the page is also copyrightable, and the entire "format" section is identical. Attribution is required under the terms of our license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

People's Mujahedin of Iran

Is there anythings to be concerned about in this article, given this link? --Mhhossein talk 14:11, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Most of the overlap with the Rand Corporation document is list-like content in the timeline section. There's also several quotations. I also checked some of the others, and removed some copyright content copied from the New York Times. Thank you for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:43, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Putting a published article back in draft

Hello. Is it possible to move a published article back into draft? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monica Mitchell (talk • contribs) 17:55, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Articles are not moved while they are listed at Articles for Deletion. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:41, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Improper use of EDITORS NOTES

Hi Diannaa.

I need your assistance. Lieutcoluseng regularly edits civil war related articles, and does a great deal of good work standardizing formats and improving layouts, but he often becomes very protective of the articles he is working on by leaving "EDITORS NOTES" which are intended to discourage anyone from altering his work. For example, look at his more recent edits to Battle of Bayou Fourche where he added an Editors Note to each section to discourage others from editing. Again, he does some great and useful work on many articles, but he eventually becomes obsessive. He has no user page, so it is impossible to engage him on these issues. Can you help? Aleutian06 (talk) 13:36, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

His user talk page is located at User talk:Lieutcoluseng. I suggest you start there. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Boys Life

Hi Dianna, I edited the Boys Life page to eliminate direct copying from the cited source. I also entered a Contested Deletion section on the Talk page, per the instructions. I just wanted to give you a heads up that I've tried to fix the problem. Thanks! Nick (talk) 14:54, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

The current version is okay from a copyright point of view. Thanks for fixing, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:57, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Sabotaging edits

Please, do not refer to nonsensic Wikipedia rules. Which national copyright law or international copyright conventions justify this claim? 

Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.

US? British? French? German? Chinese? Russian? Some international convention? --109.92.64.214 (talk) 16:54, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia's copyright policy, we're not allowed to copy material directly from sources. You need to re-write the material in your own words. Please see WP:copyright policy for more information on this topic. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:00, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
That Wikipedia policy is not superimposed to any law or international convention. Just contrary Wikipedia must adhere strictly to the laws and conventions. Please, answer my question.--109.92.64.214 (talk) 17:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia is a private website, which means we can create our own policies and rules. Wikipedia's copyright policy is actually stricter than that required by copyright law. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:10, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a private website, a private website is your blog, for example. Wikipedia is a public edition and a subject od the US laws and international conventions.--109.92.64.214 (talk) 17:23, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
It is a private website owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. You can contribute here, provided you follow the site's policies and guidelines. Editing here is not a right, and you can't post whatever you like. You are free to re-add the material provided you re-write it in original language using your own words. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:01, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

The Mayflower

Hi Dianna,

You wrote me regarding the use of copyright material regrding the edition to Mayflower Pilgrim Susanna White Winslow.I hold the copyright to the material added as I am Sue Allan the historian mentioned in the article and whose researh, with my collaborator Caleb Johnson, discovered the roots of this Pilgrim which has been verified by The American Genealogist. The words quoted from the Mayflower History .com website were prodiced in part my me and so I hold copyright. So I am dismayed that you choose to ignore/delete my edits in favour of leaving these mis truths and misinformation on your site.Please Google the subject and check this out for yourself. Kind regards Sue Allan Mayflower Maid — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayflowermaid (talk • contribs) 14:22, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Mayflowermaid: 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) 17:00, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

22nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Ignoring the obvious formatting issues, this article has a significant portion copied from this book.

1. As the book was published in 1908 is it safe to assume it's in the public domain? 2. I remember from years back a template that is a warning to other articles that it uses material from public domain within the article.

Thanks for helping out with the copyright issues on here.--intelatitalk 19:18, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

A book published in the USA in 1908 is in the public domain. The template you're looking for is {{PD-notice}}. But for Dyer, we have a special template: {{CWR}}. I will add one of these at the bottom of the article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:43, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanksintelatitalk 19:48, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed edit

I'd like to draw your attention (as well as those of any TPW) to my proposed edit here:MediaWiki_talk:Revdelete-reason-dropdown#Proposed_edit

(In a nutshell, I want to change the text in the revision deletion drop-down for RD1 from "copyright violation" to "violation of copyright policy")--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:04, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

I made the change--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:00, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
OK good. Thank you. I have made corresponding changes at official pages Wikipedia:Revision deletion and Template:Uw-copyright as well as my custom blurbs User:Diannaa/Copyright and User:Ninja Diannaa/sandbox. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:27, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Contoversial article and accusations of antisemitism for submitting fully sourced data / historical facts

Hi Diannaa! Lately I have a problem with editing the article named Żydokomuna. After adding some crucial information about the term, like the real origin and reason why it gained popularity among Polish people, I became the target of accusations of antisemitism, and those who accused me, revert my submission without even investigating the sources. Some of the sources given by me are official, like eg. the statements of the Institute of National Remembrance. I am Polish myself, and I love history, so I have the best first-hand knowledge about my country's history, however on Wikipedia I try to use only knowledge based on reliable sources. This is the submission which is being reverted: [5] The article in its earlier form was harshly biased against Polish people and there was no real reason for this term coming into being. Can you somehow help me in that, or tell me what do you? Thanks! Yatzhek (talk) 14:09, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

(ec) Step one is to visit the talk page and make a case for why the content should be included. If you make the once or twice and it keeps getting removed, that has to be your next step. The talk page hasn't been used since July. If I can't gain a consensus that way I typically open a request for comment to attract other interested editors to the page. There's also other dispute resolution venues as listed at WP:DR but I find a WP:RFC usually resolves the issue one way or the other. If multiple people are reverting you (like in this case), it's probably best to drop it and find some other way to contribute before you find yourself blocked for edit warring. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:20, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Good advice. Puzzling that this editor has accused me of editing the page (I never heard of the subject until the accusation) and is blanking sourced material in Racism in the United States saying it's unsourced (and also accusing me of deleting his edit in that article although my only edits there since 2014 were to restore twice his removal of text. Doug Weller talk 14:41, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa. I will do just that. Yatzhek (talk) 19:00, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

And so, I made a new topic on the article's talk page: [6]. I invite you to read it. Once again thanks for the suggestion. Yatzhek (talk) 20:06, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Stargate School

Hi Diannaa, I removed content from this article for several reasons--in the edit summary I forgot to mention that some of the content had been copied directly from its source. When you have time can you take a look and rev/delete as needed? Thanks, 2601:188:180:1481:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:32, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

We also need to protect the identity of the minor whose parent is named in the unsourced post so I will contact the oversight team for the necessary redaction. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:42, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes. Thank you. 2601:188:180:1481:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:45, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Copying without attribution

@E-960: copied a whole bunch of text from Blue Army (Poland) (pre-blanking) to the newly created Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Galicia involving soldiers of the Blue Army, without attribution, which I am fairly sure is against copyright/licensing policy. Fair notice I am involved in a content dispute with E-960 on Blue Army (Poland). Could you please weigh in on how to rectify the attribution issue ? Icewhiz (talk) 19:21, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

My apologies, I did not realize that moving content across Wikipedia article needs to include an attribution. I can go ahead and make the proper reference to correct the discrepancy. --E-960 (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
I have added the required attribution: here. As you probably know, the source article is currently full-protected by another admin. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:15, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

HMCS Hunter

Hello Dianna, thanks for helping edit the HMCS Hunter page. How can I see the previous page before you edited it so that I can make adjustments and not use what was verbatim? I put it there as a placeholder until I could go in and edit it fully. Right now I have to go back and do all the research and it took quite a bit of time. I'm new to the Wikipedia game. Also, the authour of the CROSSBOW sent me an email saying it was ok to use the photo he took of CROSSBOW off Scarborough Bluffs. HamOnt (talk)

I've sent you a copy via email.
Please don't add copyright content to Wikipedia, not even temporarily for editing. Please do your amendments before you save the page, or use an external editor. You will have to sort out your problems with images on the Commons, which is a separate wiki. However I can tell you that there's procedures in place for exstablishing that you have permission to use other people's photos. On the Commons, this is done by sending a declaration of consent to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. There's full instructions at Commons:OTRS. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:06, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Inquiries

Hello Dianaa I received an email from you. The draft I created for Dora Decca was an original article in French that was already inline. I simply translated it to English. I don’t understand why you write the comments on copyright from sources. Please clarify. This is because i followed the original French article and just translated it to English. Waiting for your reply . Thanks I am so worried because since I started contributing to Wikipedia all my drafts have been declined. This is the third already 😢 Awah Nadege (talk) 15:44, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry you are off to a rough start. Much of the content you added was the same as in this page, which was created in 2012. The corresponding article on the French Wikipedia was not created until 2016, so it too is likely a copyright violation. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:59, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Nazi Germany article redux

D - are you still going to obtain and check the Tooze book for info.? I do not have that book and cannot easily obtain it for review. Kierzek (talk) 17:51, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes; the book has been shipped from the sending library and it should arrive at my home library soon. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:55, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Carol Howe

Hello, Diannaa.

First off, I want to apologize if I have violated Wikipedia's copyright laws with some of the images I have uploaded.

This was unintentional, and a mistake on my part for filling out the copyright status of the image which I had thought was correct.


But I wanted to give you, and Wikipedia, an explanation for some of this missing or incorrect copyright information which pertain to the said images. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the backstory to the articles in which these were used, so I thought I would provide you with a short background.

Basically, the photos are not only difficult to find, but not many of them exist of the subject. Due to this obstacle, I had no choice but to work with what I was given. The (very few) sources I had accessed weren't clear as to the information of the image(s).

Please understand that I had no intention of violating copyright and avoiding to abide by the guidelines of Wikipedia. I am relatively new to the site.

Will I be punished or blocked from editing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wonderland ave (talk • contribs) 00:04, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello Wonderland ave. Please follow our copyright rules in the future to avoid being blocked. Write the prose yourself, and don't upload photos unless you yourself took the picture, and you'll be fine. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:00, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Conflit de modification

Dear Dianna you have just modified the page I intend to create. I sometimes copy and paste into my draft materials which I then work on and fully reference if used. Modifying someone's else UNSUBMITED DRAFT for a NEW PAGE concerning a topic that is FOREIGN to you is beyond COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE and truly discourages users to contribute when they spend hours on a page. Please only alter the work of someone that is DONE writing, referencing and has submitted his/her work and not mess with pages that are not even created yet! I would be intrinsically grateful if you could let me write this page without further disturbance. If a configuration stopping users interfering until submission exists, please tell me about it. Thank you ever so much in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4HcxdV9x (talk • contribs) 12:19, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Please don't add copyright content to Wikipedia, not even temporarily for editing, not even in sandboxes or drafts. Please do your amendments before you save the page, or use an external editor. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:22, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Dear Dianna, I understand thank you, I will not do it anymore but then it should not be called a DRAFT a it isn't at all. Could you please put back on what you deleted for few minutes in order for me to save it in an external editor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4HcxdV9x (talk • contribs) 12:19, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I can send you the material via email, but you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:09, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Nationalism Dispute

Hi Diannaa,

After you reversed my edits on the nationalism page, I was wondering how best to go about not repeating the same mistake twice. I did not copy/paste word for word from the source, but used some of their material/phrasing as I feel it accurately described the ideological strand that I was adding to the page. If you desire, I can add quotation marks around the offending material, but I will need to be able to view the paragraph that I submitted. Could you please allow me to view my edits/submissions so I can correct the offending material and not start from scratch.

Prawnpringles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prawnpringles (talk • contribs) 13:33, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Some of the material was identical to the sources and some was almost identical, being only superficially paraphrased. I can send you the removed material via email, but you'll have to activate your Wikipedia email first. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:45, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Prawnpringles, (talk page watcher) it is a common misconception that you can start with copyrighted material and change some of the words so that it is not an exact copy to avoid the copyright problem. However this is called close paraphrasing, and, as a link explains, is still a violation of our copyright policy. Best practices include identifying multiple sources (if possible), reading the sources, putting them aside, then summarizing in your own words the relevant material. S Philbrick(Talk) 14:16, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Soundcloud query

I've dealt with copyright issues involving soundcloud before, but I'm missing something in the following cases:

Typically, when I go to the site, I look in the upper right and there is some material, typically collapsed but if I open it there is usually a block of text which has been copied. I don't see it in this case. Am I missing something?--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:11, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I always have trouble with that site :(. It's possible the content was taken down. However a copy of the bio is present here — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:16, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Diannaa, Thanks S Philbrick(Talk) 15:12, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
@Sphilbrick: forgot to say, if all else fails, remove the content regardless of the fact that the content is no longer actively online and was never archived. The prose still enjoys copyright protection. I just use an edit summary that mentions the corresponding iThenticate report, so as to leave a checkable audit trail as it were. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:02, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Discography and track listings

I've generally tried to steer clear of debates about discography or track listings, because they are inherently lists, and copyright status of lists can be tricky. I learned everything I know about lists from Moonriddengirl, who happened to hate them, so maybe my reaction is homage to her.I think I know that completely unoriginal lists, such as a list of US states, cannot be subject to copyright, while fully original lists, such as the top songs of all time according to some publication are fully subject to copyright. I think discography and track listings are closer to unoriginal but I'd be interested in your reaction as well as that of any (talk page watcher).--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:46, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

My opinion is that discography and track listings don't meet the threshold of originality to enjoy copyright protection. If I recall correctly there's been some debate over "selected" discography listings or biography listings, but (in my opinion) unless there's a value judgement of some kind attached to the selection (e.g., "these are the artist's best works"), partial lists don't enjoy copyright protection either. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:46, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, that sounds reasonable, and your caveat makes sense.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:50, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Attribution

Can you explain more to me about attribution. I may have forgotten how it works. Thanks! The Optimistic One (talk) 22:35, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Sure. The idea of attribution is to credit the original authors of the material when copying from public domain works or compatibly licensed works. For public domain works, we don't want the reader to think they're reading prose written by Wikipedians, and we want to properly credit the actual authors. For copying within Wikipedia, we are required under the terms of our CC-by license to provide attribution (it's the "attribution" part of the Creative Commons Attribution license).
How is attribution provided? For public domain material, you can use the {{PD-notice}} template. Include it as part of your citation, like I did here. For copying within Wikipedia, mention in your edit summary at the time you add the content what the source article was, like I did here. If you copy material from Wikia or UK government websites or journal articles released under a compatible license, include the licensing data as part of your citation, like I did here, or use the {{CC-notice}} if you can figure out how to use it. I prefer the hand-made version. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:58, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Liverpool Salvage Corps

Hi Dianna. My Grandfather was Cheif of Liverpool Salvage corp 1952-63. He was also seconded to Bombay following the Bombay explosion 1945 and in the Salvage headquarters during the May blitz when the building was hit by a 1000kg bomb. The text that I wrote yesterday did not infringe copyright but was from his own hand. Please can you help me? Can I put this back on? This is my first effort and it is to remember my Grandfather. Thank you for reading this. Stephen Steyvecatt (talk) 16:45, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

The content you added was identical to that found on this website. 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) 16:51, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Vivienne Goonewardena

Hi Diannaa- Thanks for that knowledge, I didn't know that before, Does it still count if you've recieved permission from the published? If so, I'll take a couple of days, but will rewrite the offending paragraph, also, how come all of the text is not visible if it was only some that had the issue? Another quick question- the family photo of Vivienne Goonewardena was deleted for not being licensed, but it was originally a family photo which was authourised to be used by this website- Could you pls help me get it back? Thanks!- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamsandwitch (talk • contribs) 20:26, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry but almost all of the prose was copied from that website, except for the part that is still exposed. The article will have to be completely re-written. If the copyright holder (B. Skanthakumar) wishes to release the material to Wikipedia under a compatible license, they need to contact us using the instructions at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. The photo (which was hosted on the Commons, which is a separate wiki) was found to have been previously published in the Daily News in 2015, and was deleted for that reason. If the copyright holder of the photo wants to release it to us under license, they need to send a permission email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. There's full instructions at Commons:OTRS. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:37, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi again Diannaa- the article has been completely rewritten and I have added multiple sources (the new page is visible at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vivienne_Goonewardena/Temp)- How should I go to add this back to the main page? Should I remove the copyright badge and add in all of the new text or can that only be done by an administrator? What steps should I take? Thanks sooooo much for your help- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamsandwitch (talk • contribs) 23:21, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Please don't remove the copyright badge or do anything to the article; an administrator or clerk will assess your draft soon.The WP:CP page is backlogged right now, so please be patient. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:05, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
I will try to make time for this tomorrow. I am sorry but I am very tired and can't make any guarantees. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:28, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamsandwitch (talk • contribs) 08:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Sengunthar

Hi, another copy/paste job at Sengunthar, as noted in this request for page protection. - Sitush (talk) 08:14, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Sitush. The content appears to be copied from a 1905 document by Edgar Thurston. A copy is available here. So it's plagiarism, but not copyvio per se, as the material is PD. Some of the previous copypasting was from this source but some was not, so I am going to leave the previous revision deletion alone and not undo any of it. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:18, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Re: David Dafinone

Hi Diannaa Hope you are well, You informed me that some of my contributions were cited from copyright sources, which was made without the copyright holders consent, I do agree that permission was not sought, however I would like to draw you attention to the fact that the source I cited has already been used on this page namely

Ndujihe, Clifford (3 January 2016). "Dafinone: The accomplished accountant, politician, administrator".

I just did not know how to link the quotes to the same reference Regards H — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hezikiahbartholomew (talk • contribs) 08:56, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Hezikiahbartholomew. The problem is that some of the prose was copied directly from that source, which is a violation of our copyright policy. Everything you add here needs to be written in your own words please. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:04, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

HMS Dartmouth (1655)

Could you do the revdel please Diannaa. I've put the sources in the restore previous version. Lyndaship (talk) 18:14, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:45, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

User talk:Diannaa

Dishayen article plot is copied from http://www.nettv4u.com/about/Hindi/tv-serials/dishayen.please take care.its copyright content.i think this article has no development.

  • please delete this article. there is no contribution .
  • bcoz any body see this they will blame that this article is copied from other website.
  • so take care nettv4u.com was the first site to deliver this information.copying leads to additional problem.
  • its what teachers practise kids to stay away from copying,then if we strictly only follow that what has been cultivated before,that alone will be good.why we should copy ????no thats bad.
  • please fix the problem.. thankyou--Padmakalki (talk) 07:37, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
@Padmakalki: You've brought no actual evidence that the content was copied from nettv4u.com. Nettv4u is a content scraper. They don't generate content of their own, they merely copy it from other sources. Thus, it is far more likely that they copied the content from Wikipedia.
  • Note that nettv4u link has no publication date.
  • Note that 2015 archive of the nettv4u link you provided has no plot summary.
  • Note that the next archive from May 2017 has a plot summary.
  • Note also that the content in the link is formatted similarly to Wikipedia, with wikilinks generated off the names of the actors.
  • Note this July 2010 version of Dishayen, where we have a basic, incomplete version of the plot.
  • Note here where it is expanded in November 2010.
  • And here where it is further expanded and reworded.
  • And here where it evolves some more
  • And here where ampersands are replaced with "and". If this were copied from nettv4u.com, you'd expect to see ampersands in their prose, which we do not.
  • Note also that the plot summary was severely truncated and heavily reworded by me, and I do not copy.
Anyway, short story: The plot doesn't appear to have been copied from nettv4u.com.
Diannaa, for background, this article is about a 2001 Hindi-language TV series. For a while it appeared that Padmakalki was improving it, until he started doing weird stuff like turning it into a disambiguation page, then shifting the focus entirely to a web series on career development. Assuming good faith, I tried to offer help, tried to clarify my offer of help, but the obvious language barrier, and perhaps his focused agenda to change that article devolved into confusion and accusations that I must work for the show. Lol. Enjoy the drama! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:54, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Apparently Padmakalki didn't like being disproven. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:15, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Newspaper article

Hi Diannaa. I thought maybe I should bring this to your notice. I asked a Japanese editor to quote me a sentence from a Wall Street Journal article. He misunderstood me and reproduced the entire article. I deleted it, but I thought it might need more than that. Thanks. Scolaire (talk) 14:09, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

I have done some revision deletion. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:31, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

El Evangelio Cambia Draft

Hi Diannaa, I need to see the previous revision of this page to continue with the editing. Could you please enable it again? Thanks--Edugraph (talk) 15:36, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, sorry for copy paste. I understand that what I did is a copyright infringement, I really thought that being Draft was not a problem. I was in touch with Edugraph to change it later. I really apologize and it will not happen again. - Abrahamigs27 (talk) 19:04, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Edugraph: I have sent you a copy via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:37, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Diannaa: I'm sorry to bother, but I need more the history logs code. I made some editing that I will like to recover too. Thanks,--Edugraph (talk) 09:47, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa you don't need to send me anything else, I figured out how to get the parts that I needed. Somehow what you did, did not delete what I did. Be well. --Edugraph (talk) 10:19, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Aquinas College, Southport

Hi Dianna,

You left a message for me about the editing I did on the Aquinas College page. Everything I included was not copyright as I am the son of the Principal and had College approval to use the information in the article - it is all written from my dad and on their website. Are you able to add it all back?

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antipop91 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 18 October 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) 00:37, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Good news

DEEPAK KUMAR Diennee (talk) 00:40, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

I've reported this one to WP:UAA D. MarnetteD|Talk 00:54, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Dianna, Most of my edits were removed by you because of copyright violations. I have no issues with, however; in order to add content back in the proper paraphrased version and correct way of citing work, I need my previous content to be available. There is no previous version that is viewable on the View History tab. It took me several days of work to put this content together that's why it was very disappointing and aggravating to lose is in a single wipe. I would appreciate if you would make sure you either retain the older versions or make sure you have it available for authors so that they just don't lose all their work. So - can you please send me my previous version so I can then follow all your rules for copyright, and learn in the process for future, but I need the previous content. Please.

Also, in one edit comment you have written, "remove copyright content copied from http://www.pakistanartreview.net/52th_Issue/52th_Page_6.html ; see the iThenticate report", I did NOT add this link as a citation, it existed before my edit, and more importantly IT DOESN'T EXIST. Therefore it's a dead link, so how do you know that the contents from this website were copied? Interesting.

Anyway, please send me my version prior to your deletion. Appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinita pande (talk • contribs) 04:42, 20 October 2018 (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 the overlap. This tool can detect copying from web pages that no longer exist, even if they were never archived by the Wayback machine. I have sent you a copy of the removed material via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:10, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
The content is also very close to this web page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:14, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

More violations in MEK

Hey, following your warning, could you please address edits [7] and [8] ? --Mhhossein talk 17:13, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Mhhossein - Fixed the first one, the second one I don't think needs fixing. If you have any further copy-right concerns feel free to ping me or address them on the article's Talk page. Also, having a look at WP:GF may be helpful. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 18:06, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
You were expected to be more careful after the warning. Additionally, my copyvio realted activities is not restricted to MEK and I address the issues of other articles whenever I can. By the way, Don't link to WP:AGF. --Mhhossein talk 18:39, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
Stefka Bulgaria, please ensure all content you add is written in your own words in the future. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:55, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Jack Letts

Hi,

I tried to compare my version with your revision, but my edit on the History page has been crossed out (something I've never seen before). The text of your edit runs essentially as I remember my text running, and of course in any case the great majority of it is direct quotes from Scheer and from John Letts' letter. Can you explain what exactly you thought plagiaristic? Mikalra (talk) 21:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

CBC says:

In his letter, Letts claims the family has evidence about his son's activities in Syria — information that would exonerate him — that they wanted to present to Canadian security officials last spring.

He and his lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, tried for a meeting with the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, but were rebuffed.

Your edit says:

Letts went on to say that his family has exonerating evidence about his son's activities in Syria, which he had attempted to present to the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) the previous spring, but that they had been rebuffed

Overlapping content is marked in bold. My version: "The letter states that the family tried to present proof of their son's innocence to the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), but their attempts to arrange a meeting were declined.". — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:48, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
Hm. OK, fair cop. Thanks for reworking it.Mikalra (talk) 22:10, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Octavia and Cicero's Epistilae ad Familiae_

What is this about? I've been writing on Wikipedia for more than ten years and I have always fully complied with matters concerning copyright and plagiarism, and I've never copied anything which isn't demonstrably in the public domain - I've created literally hundreds of articles using these sources. Further, all of the pre-War Loeb editions of the Greek and Latin writer are out-of-copyright, there is no copyright violation involved at all here. And yet instead of asking me about this you've accused me of outright copyright violation on this 1927 text on (currently still in the external links on Epistulae ad Familiares), and then told me that another 110-year-old text I used on Octavia (play) is "plagiarism". I am genuinely very confused by this now. Pasicles (talk) 23:42, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Pasicles. A book published in 1927 still enjoys copyright protection unless proven otherwise. The cutoff is 1923. Regarding Octavia, if you copy material from a public domain source, you need to state that it's been copied; otherwise the reader will assume that you wrote it yourself, which you did not. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:02, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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Software Diversity

Hi Diannaa, I'm writing to answer to User_talk:Martin.monperrus#Wikipedia_and_copyright_(22_October_2018). I am aware of the copyright rules, and I hold the copyright for this text. How to proceed to declare it and get Software Diversity online? Thanks! Martin.monperrus (talk) 15:21, 22 October 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) 18:50, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Asian Sailing Federation

Hi Diannaa, this needs some rev/deletion for persistent copyright violations. Also, given the promotional intent by several accounts, this could be block evasion. Thanks, 2601:188:180:1481:E08B:61B7:5650:EA7E (talk) 15:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

User named "Asiansailing" was soft-blocked and told to create a new account. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:53, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
The new account has continued with the copyright violations: [9]. Thanks, 2601:188:180:1481:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 08:42, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
No new activity since your warning. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:00, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Vivienne Goonewardena

Hi Diannaa- the author (B. Skanthakumar) is willing to have his copyrighted work used in my piece, who should I have him send the email to, or should I send the email to? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamsandwitch (talk • contribs) 18:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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) 18:51, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Thank you for tipping me off to the need for proper photo permissions. As a rookie editor, I need guidance. It's appreciated. HJHphilly (talk) 21:20, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Shangri-La Hotel Singapore

Hi Diannaa, a lot of spam in this, which I've deleted, and at least some content copied from the website. Looks like a rev/deletion party. And than you in advance. 2601:188:180:1481:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 01:57, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Revision deletion done. Thanks for the report, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:03, 27 October 2018 (UTC)


User talk:NostalgiaBuff97501#Non-free logos and crests

Hi Diannaa. I'm currently involved in a FFD discussion about some different files with this editor, so I was wondering if you wouldn't mind reminding him/her about {{Non-free reduce}}. Pretty much every file he/she has recently uploaded has been tagged by either a bot or by an editor for being too big. I realize your first attempt at this was more than three years ago. Maybe they did try to be more careful for awhile, but they aren't really currenty doing so as indicated by File:West Virginia Roughriders.png, File:Bismarck Bucks Helmet 2019.png and File:TSS FC Rovers.png to just name a few examples of what I'm talking about. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Done. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for helping fix the Florida page!!

I just want to say thank you for helping cleanup the Florida page from the copyrighted material that that particular user made. I do have one worry. What's to stop that user from flooding that page with his edits again? I've tried to tell him to use the preview button before on his talk page and he doesn't listen. He floods the page with edit after edit so it makes it extremely hard to revert back to an older version. He been at it on this page for months now to no end.--SeminoleNation (talk) 16:22, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

He continued to violate the copyright policy in spite of receiving a final warning and in spite of me saying on his talk page that I would be monitoring all his contribs. So I had to block him. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:02, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
I hate to see people get banned with sort of good intentions but he had to go. He didn't listen to anyone. Thank you once again!--SeminoleNation (talk) 03:02, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

NUCCA

Hi, you removed my edits to NUCCA because they were allegedly copyright violations from this page. http://marketinchoices.blogspot.com/2017/09/chiropractic-personal-injury-marketing.html

If you review their source citation for their controversy section, they cite Wikipedia as their source. "Source of the article : Wikipedia" They took Wikipedia content and put it on their blog, not the other way around. Would you be able to revert the deletion? Thanks!

Dochodgesmd (talk) 15:20, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I see you actually copied the material from the Wikipedia article Chiropractic controversy and criticism. What you need to do when copying from one article to another is to mention in your edit summary where you got the prose from. In fact such attribution is required under the terms of our license. Please see WP:copying within Wikipedia for more information on this topic. I've re-added the material and provided the required attribution in the edit summary. Another thing you need to do when copying from one article to another is copy the supporting citations as well as the prose you wish to import. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:36, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Dianaa! Will do!

Dochodgesmd (talk) 16:13, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I didn't look ...

... at the history before I did this – sorry, didn't mean to question your call. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:42, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

No problem, I was on the fence as to what to do. WP:CP is prolly the better option :) — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:49, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Richard E. Cole

Diannaa, could you check if this diff is sufficiently copyvio-free to remain? If not, I can reword it so we have at least a stub article. I'm sure some more-reliable sources can be found if needed. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 19:14, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I've looked at previous versions of the article, and can pull out some reliable sources. Since the 2012 AFD, all other Doolittle Raid survivors have died, so he is the last remaining Raider. As such, he's probably gotten enough media attention to survive another AFD. Once you've replied concerning my original question, I'll put together a stub, along with some PD photos from Commons. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 20:21, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Bilcat you are awesome. The revision you mention (#858315495) is clean and is okay to use as your starting point. There's some images at Category:Richard E. Cole - even those uploaded by socks check out ok. Here's the citations from the hidden revisions:
<ref name="Auto37-1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.doolittleraider.com/raiders/cole.htm |title=Cole |website=www.doolittleraider.com |access-date=2018-09-06}}</ref>

<ref name="wearethemighty.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.wearethemighty.com/news/last-surviving-doolittle-raider-celebrates-102nd-birthday |title=Last surviving Doolittle Raider turns 102 |date=8 September 2017 |publisher=}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-2">{{cite web |url=http://sbcsentinel.com/2018/04/col-richard-cole-doolittles-co-pilot-on-tokyo-raid-main-draw-at-chino-air-show/ |title=Col. Richard Cole, Doolittle’s Co-Pilot On  Tokyo Raid, Main Draw At Chino Air Show - SBCSentinel |website=sbcsentinel.com}}</ref>

<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.rockdalenewtoncitizen.com/news/local/rockdale/a-veteran-s-story-interview-with-the-last-raider/article_b5a41493-8c69-5266-9ace-c160f12e9515.html |title=A VETERAN’S STORY: Interview with The Last Raider |first=By Pete Mecca |last=news@rockdalecitizen.com |publisher=}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-3">{{cite web |url=http://www.historynet.com/dick-cole-last-of-the-doolittle-raiders.htm |title=Dick Cole — Last of the Doolittle Raiders - HistoryNet |website=www.historynet.com}}</ref>

<ref name="dodlive.mil">{{cite web |url=http://airman.dodlive.mil/2016/10/03/solo-mission/ |title=solo mission |publisher=}}</ref>

<ref name=DR>{{cite web |url=https://texoso66.com/2017/06/08/col-richard-cole-doolittle-raider/ |title=Col. Richard E. Cole, Doolittle Raider |date=8 June 2017 |publisher=}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-4">{{cite web |url=http://sbcsentinel.com/2018/04/col-richard-cole-doolittles-co-pilot-on-tokyo-raid-main-draw-at-chino-air-show/ |title=Col. Richard Cole, Doolittle’s Co-Pilot On  Tokyo Raid, Main Draw At Chino Air Show - SBCSentinel |website=sbcsentinel.com}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-5">{{cite web |url=https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2016/09/19/it-s-the-raider-air-force-unveils-name-of-new-b-21-bomber/ |title=It's the Raider: Air Force unveils name of new B-21 bomber |first= |last= |publisher=AirForce Times}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-6">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/3/donald-trump-speaks-ret-lt-col-dick-cole-last-surv/ |title=Donald Trump speaks with Ret. Lt. Col. Dick Cole, last surviving member of ‘Doolittle Raiders’ |first= |last= |publisher=The Washington Times}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-7">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/us/david-thatcher-part-of-42-doolittle-raid-on-japan-dies-at-94.html |title=David Thatcher, Part of ’42 Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies at 94 |publisher=}}</ref>

<ref name="Auto37-8">{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/30/us/doolittle-raid-japan-us-bomber-attack-b-25-mitchell-dick-cole/index.html |title=Last Doolittle survivor recalls US revenge attack |first=Thom Patterson |last=CNN |publisher=}}</ref>
Ok, thanks much, especially for the cites. I just created that category on Commons today, and I don't think any of those photos were uploaded by socks. All seem to be genuine USAF photos or personal photos. Thanks again. - BilCat (talk) 20:44, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Do you know how to create a Wikidata file for a biography? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 20:58, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
I found the existing file at https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23696691, but I don't know how to connect them. Thanks again. - BilCat (talk) 21:00, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
It looks to me like they are automagically connected. I clicked on the wikidata link in the menu on the left and it took me right there. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:04, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Input required

Hello Diannaa,

I would like your input regarding plagiarism on this edit: [10]

The user involved initially copy-pasted the sub headers directly from this news tabloid [11]] in the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi#Saudi reaction subsection. However, after multiple edits and reverts from InedibleHulk and an admin Jonathunder on removing and explaining the plaigrism the user has closely paraphrased the headings and continues to revert any edits, even after discussing it extensively here. Talk:Killing_of_Jamal_Khashoggi#Saudi_Reaction_Sub-sections.

He is adamant on involving it in the article even after the last edit from the admin with the following instructions: (Do not undo the removal of plagiarism. See talk.) He claims it is sufficient close paraphrasing and has addedd multiple other sub headers which closely mimic his initial copy paste in attempt to reduce plagiarism.

The current article sub headers are as follows:

  • Walked out from the consulate
  • Allegations of killing were false
  • Killed in a fist fight
  • Killing was a mistake


The BBC article headers are:

  • "He left the consulate alive"
  • "Reports of death false and baseless"
  • "A brawl and a fist fight"
  • "Murder was a mistake"

Current section also has mutliple loosely based sub-headers to conceal the initial plagiarism. I am not sure if the current headers are appropriate for close paraphrasing, as honestly they look very similar to the first copy-pasted headers the user has used. I would love your input on this issue. Does this constitute copy vio or plagiarism? Please advise. Wikiemirati (talk) 00:50, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

just noting, that reading this entire section of the article is important for context. The hradings are based on the official statements issued by saudis. Saudis have changed their statements 6 times as noted by media around the world https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSOybl8pn7I&feature=youtu.be , another video here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4P1I3Y58g&feature=youtu.be.
the article neeeds to reflect that but this user is WP:Stonewalling any efforts with such frivolous reasons . --DBigXrayᗙ 01:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
some more of context https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/10/25/18/fact-check-saudi-arabias-changing-narrative-over-journalists-murder --DBigXrayᗙ 01:18, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
you are welcome to write titles that are not plagiarized. You've disagreed with three users attempting to change the plagiarism and accused me of censoring, stonewalling, and threatening so far. I may be wrong as I don't know or claim I know everything about Wikipedia's policies. I will accept any changes or edits or lack thereof from someone who's more experienced in these things such as Diannaa, hence why I am asking her for advice. Wikiemirati (talk) 02:34, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
I have removed the section headers, as they were copied from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45937448, and thus a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please do not restore. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 04:04, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Eight years of adminship

Wishing Diannaa a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 17:34, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you ! — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:35, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Regarding the Issue on the Oppo phones page

I did not notice that and i have carefully read your messages and i apologize for the said copyrighted material. And thank you for informing me. I'll keep that message as an advice. VictorTorres2002 (talk) 20:41, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

N-OFDM

Dear Diannaa, I'm the copyright holder and author of this publication. Please help me to return this text to Wiki.--Swadim (talk) 18:17, 30 October 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) 18:21, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Homomorphic filtering

I have updated the "neural encoding" section on Homomorphic filtering. I wrote it from scratch. Please, check if it is OK now. Orcioni (talk) 14:24, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

The new version looks okay from a copyright point of view. Thank you, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:38, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
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