User talk:Margaret Ferguson Burns

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Your link to Queen Margaret College is to a disambiguation page. There are three Queen Margaret Colleges. Please change the link to the proper college? Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 08:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Women's rugby

Thanks for the clear update. FruitMonkey (talk) 22:48, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014

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Ways to improve Great Tapestry of Scotland: People's Panel

Hi, I'm Roches. Margaret Ferguson Burns, thanks for creating Great Tapestry of Scotland: People's Panel!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please summarize the most important facts in an introductory section.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Helen Acquroff

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A tag has been placed on Helen Acquroff requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.womenofscotland.org.uk/women/helen-acquroff. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Helen Acquroff

Hello,

I realize this is probably a frustrating situation for you, and I know you are up against all kinds of Wikipedia bureaucracy, bizarre processes, and approximately fourteen million acronyms :) I'm not sure to what extent you are familiar with copyright issues on Wikipedia. But I am a human being, and if you like, I will be happy to help you through what needs to happen next.

I have removed the "speedy deletion" tag you were previously notified of from this article, and instead flagged it for copyright investigation. This gives you a window of a few days to follow the instructions at WP:DONATETEXT, which involves sending an email to [permissions-en@wikimedia.org] identifying yourself, the article, stating that you are the copyright holder, and stating that you intend to release the text under one of the Wikipedia-compatible free licenses, of which by far the simplest is the Creative Commons Zero Waiver.

Once that is done, we can arrange to restore the text of the article and add the {{OTRS pending}} tag to it. This will protect it from deletion until the volunteers who deal with those emails processes your submission, which can take several weeks.

The only real sticking point is that the womenofscotland.org website doesn't have a clear terms and conditions link that I can find, so it's not obvious whether they would claim to own the copyright on your article or not. If the website doesn't say *anything* about it, you would probably have licensed the text to them, rather than donating the copyright in the text to them, in which case you should be fine to license it to the rest of the world under a free license.

Please do get back to me if I can help clarify anything or assist with dealing with the procedures.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 11:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this @Thparkth. I had contacted the Glasgow Women's Library who run the Women of Scotland (Memorials to Women) site after I could find no obvious statement about copyright on their site. I am waiting for a response - they don't check their emails every day, and it may take time for someone to be able to answer my query re. copyright. I'll then hopefully have a clearer idea of which way to proceed. In the meantime I'm pleased it's not going to be speedily deleted. Margaret Ferguson Burns (talk) 17:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Thparkth - I heard back from the Glasgow Women's Library and, although they are confirming this, their view is that they encourage people to put entries into Wikipedia and other sites "...we positively encourage people to put info onto wiki as well as the WoS site. Our whole purpose is to encourage wider knowledge of Scottish women..." Anyway, I have suggested that they could put a copyright statement on the site so that this situation will not arise again if/when myself or someone else shares some common information. It may take a little time for them to check and to think about adding copyright information to the Women of Scotland site, especially since places are closing of the holiday season. Margaret Ferguson Burns (talk) 20:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Barbour

Hi, I'm Flourbomb. I see that you recently improved the Mary Barbour page by adding in some details. If you're in the Glasgow area on 9th January there is an editathon in Fairfields in Govan to improve it further. Be good if you could make it along. Flourbomb (talk) 09:47, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Auld Lang Syne - Burns' "Authorship"

Like a great many of Burns' works, he is probably not, in one sense, the originator or the "onlie begetter" of Auld Lang Syne - so that a note that almost anything of his is "attributed" to him is not inaccurate. On the other hand we do go into this (in the "history" section) a little further down. Long standing consensus has the first sentence of the lead as it is - since the article is primarily about Burns' version, and not the (lost) folk song he (may have) derived it from. Of course you are welcome to bring up this question on the talk page for ALS if you don't agree. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 20:36, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lilian Lindsay page Gaddes or Geddes?

Should Gaddes be Geddes in the fourth paragraph of the Biography Section? I can't find reference to a Gaddes in relation to dentistry to confirm. Margaret Ferguson Burns (talk) 11:12, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your message - I searched for a citation to corroborate this knowledge - and that was the only one I could find so far. It is not a personal opinion, of promotional or extremist or rumour - however I take your point about the source citations which can be accepted. 2A00:23C8:7520:F801:4A5:C804:87D9:F1B9 (talk) 17:49, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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