ArnoldChiari

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ArnoldChiari Good luck, and have fun. --Countincr ^{( t@lk )} 08:59, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Esophageal pH monitoring

A tag has been placed on Esophageal pH monitoring, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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File copyright problem with File:Bravo pH Monitoring.jpg

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Esophageal pH Monitoring

Hi Amalthea,

You have deleted the figure that I had uploaded in the page: "Esophageal pH Monitoring". I am kind of new in this Wikipedia business, so I don't know know what was the reason for this deletion. I made that figure myself sothere should not be any issue with copyright. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by ArnoldChiari (talk • contribs) 15:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Arnold.
Can you give me some more details about this? I deleted a couple of images, most were redundant copies of lower or equal quality though. You are probably referring to the drawing you uploaded as File:Esophageal ph monitoring.jpg. If you say you made that figure yourself, I assume you mean that you modified the picture yourself, by inserting the labels and the white tube? I've found the background image published in numerous places on the web (e.g. [1]), which led me to believe that you do not own copyright to it. Thus, you can't release the derived image into the public domain either.
I'm also unsure about the DeMeester images you uploaded, again in multiple, partially redundant versions: File:Demeester.jpg, File:TRDeMeester.jpg, File:TRDeMeester.JPG (and one other was deleted, I believe): I've found parts of that same image published previously on the web as well. I'm guessing that the person depicted commissioned and paid for the image and probably owns copyright, which means you'd have to be him, which looks unlikely from your username.
Regards, Amalthea 08:08, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi
Can you give me an update on the origin of that photo? Otherwise I'll have to list it among the "possibly unfree files", which can eventually lead to its deletion if its status isn't clear.
Amalthea 22:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I've also had to delete both text and image of Donald Castell, since it was in large parts a verbatim copy of http://www.ddc.musc.edu/ddrc/facultyStaff/investigators.aspx – please take greater care when adding content to Wikipedia, we cannot accept copyrighted material that hasn't been released under a free license. Text, in particular, must also have been released under CC-BY-SA, just as the notice right beneath the edit textbox says. You can take information from other websites, but not sentences – say it in your own words!
Amalthea 23:02, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: Donald Castell and pH monitoring pages

Hi Amantha, Thank you for your message regarding Donald Castell and pH monitoring pages. You are right in regards of Castell page, part of it was copy and paste from that website, I planned to revised it later to keep the concept but changing the sentences. Anyway I will rewrite that page using my own word. Regarding the DeMeester picture, there is no copyright issue with it, where did you see a copy of that picture, nobody should have it, unless they took it from this Wikipedia page, Regards, Arnold
—Preceding unsigned comment added by ArnoldChiari (talk • contribs) 22:13, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello Arnold
Just rewrite it offline first and upload it then, next time. And please also have a look at WP:PLAGIARISM, just restructuring the sentences might not have been enough. Ideally, you should extract only the facts and write it from scratch.
Regarding the image, I found a crop of it at doctorsofusc.com. I seems to have been displayed there longer than it was at Wikipedia.
As I said, I'm guessing that the person depicted commissioned and paid for the image and probably owns copyright, which means you'd have to be him, which looks unlikely from your username.
Amalthea 08:37, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:TRDeMeester.jpg

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