Talk:Abdul Razak Ahmad

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Malaysian leftist in topic Contested deletion

Contested deletion edit

This page should not be speedily deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because Both the cited blog and the Bar Council article that I have referenced are reproductions of the same obituary article by a leading newspaper called the News Straits Times. The Obituary article was published in 2007 and the original is no longer available. --Malaysian leftist (talk) 15:21, 19 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Would the News Straits Times article not be protected under copyright if it was published in 2007? @Malaysian leftist RoanokeVirginia (talk) 17:40, 19 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Well - the version that I prematurely published first is in note form and hence some sentences are identical to the article. It would of course be re-written to some extent. But given that it's an obituary from the only known source and a certain degree of verification is also expected, I still do think that would be some similarities once I am done. I am looking for other sources but basically only have two articles thus far as his peak of 'notablity' was in the 1970s when he was a political prisoner and the 1980s when he ran for parliament and narrowly lost twice. All of this is pre-internet of course. Malaysian leftist (talk) 16:52, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply