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Hi Diannaa You sent me this a few years ago and I can't figure it out Changed email

"I don't want to copy the material here." — Well, the email has been long deleted and I'm wondering what it is that got you so heated?Tumacama (talk) 22:30, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

I found a copy of the email and have re-sent it.— Diannaa (talk) 10:33, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

PKNOX2

Thank you for your attention to the page PKNOX2! Could you please look at it again!? --Maxim Masiutin (talk) 10:09, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

The new version is okay from a copyright point of view. Thank you,— Diannaa (talk) 10:37, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Not copied

No it wasn't copied, sentence structures were same. Please don't delete content. You can quote the sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maverick8017 (talk • contribs) 13:24, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Some of the content you added was identical to the blog https://www.zameen.com/blog/public-transport-lahore.html.— Diannaa (talk) 13:30, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

Hello Diannaa, could you take a look at these possible sockpuppets. These three editors – Hellowrd, Disalm and Csam122 – seem to be one and the same person. Note the similarity of their User pages. Also, note their similar edits: here, here, and here. Most of their edits appear to be subtle vandalism. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 13:37, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Woodlot. Could you please instead file a report at WP:SPI? I don't have time to help with this today, or likely tomorrow either. — Diannaa (talk) 13:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

OK, Thanks. Woodlot (talk) 14:07, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Clarification?

Hi Diannaa, Thanks for your note on my DL Sparks draft. I'm a newbie, so would appreciate any clarification you could provide. Gigiandd (talk) 14:26, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

It's not okay to take the biography from the University's website and paste it into Wikipedia. It's a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy to do so. Everything you add here needs to be written in your own words please.— Diannaa (talk) 11:34, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyvio at 2019 Sichuan earthquake

Hi Diannaa, I noticed that a section in 2019 Sichuan earthquake (introduced with this edit) was a near verbatim copy of the abstract of the cited source. I've deleted the text prior to doing a rewrite, could you do the necessary revdels, thanks. Mikenorton (talk) 20:11, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Hey Mike, since you do a fair amount of spotting copyvio's, it might be worth checking out Enterprisey's copyvio helper (User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel). He makes a handful of scripts that are really great. I have not used mine yet, but I'm sure it is going to really spiff up and simplify making those requests. Dawnseeker2000 20:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm not deliberately looking, just come across them, I'll take a look at the copyvio helper, thanks. Mikenorton (talk) 20:23, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Revision deletion is done. Thank you for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 11:37, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa. Mikenorton (talk) 16:26, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyright Act Maldives

Hello Dianna, would like to clarify something regarding copyright and appreciate if you could help me out in understanding this. In 2010, a copyright law was passed in the Maldives which was put into effect in October 2010. According to Clause 36 of the copyright law of Maldives any products such as photos published in websites before the copyright law was put into effect are not protected under the copyright law. This applies to photos copied from original sources and published in other websites too according to the law. See [1] for the translation of the Act. Would appreciate a feedback from you regarding this. ShappeAli (talk) 05:52, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Clause 36 contradicts clause 35, which states that:

Works that were produced before this Act came into force will be protected under the following circumstances.

(1) The duration for which the work was protected under any regulation, prior to this Act came into force, has not expired.

(2) The duration of such works protected by legislation of a signatory to which Maldives is party to has not expired.

International treaties that impact copyright status include the Berne Convention, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, and the TRIPS Agreement. Since Wikipedia's servers are located in the United States, material must be in the public domain in the United States as well as in the source country. In order to determine the copyright status, we need to know the publication date, and some information about the author (Is the author known or anonymous? If deceased, what year did they die?). Each source document or image needs to be assessed individually. Please refer to the Hirtle chart for more information.— Diannaa (talk) 12:07, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Diannaa for the response. There is one more thing I would like to clarify. In the official website of Government of Maldives, it is stated that materials produced by The Government of the Republic of Maldives appearing on that site are not copyright protected, except for third-party contents. When I clarified from them, they noted that any pictures or media content appearing on their site, if provided with a courtesy statement or give credits to an individual person or party, shall only be licensed for reuse "through the independent consent of the original content owner". However, the rest of the contents including the pictures, that is if no credit is given to anyone, it is to be understood that those pictures are captured by their own staff and produced by themselves and so no consent is required for reuse. Hence, can you check and confirm if I can upload an image provided in this link to Wikipedia or not. ShappeAli (talk) 15:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Their copyright policy indicates that content produced by the Government on that website is in the public domain, and that submitted content is released under a Attribution 4.0 International License. So I don't know what the license is, because it doesn't specify who took the pictures. You might consider asking this question at the Commons instead, at Commons:Village pump/Copyright— Diannaa (talk) 20:46, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Is it copyvio to have the full list of 100 most influential people from the book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History?

See this edit. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 17:40, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

For subjective lists, it's considered a copyright violation to reproduce the list in its entirety. Best to just show the top 10.— Diannaa (talk) 20:37, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Open license content

Hi Diannaa

Thanks very much for helping DanSD19 with the open license content from FAO, I've gone and fixed the template they were using and altered the text of the template slightly to make it clearer where the license is.

Best

John Cummings (talk) 10:32, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you.— Diannaa (talk) 10:50, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible copyvio on TFM (radio station)

Please see these edits [2] adding possible copyvios from [3]. Best wishes.SovalValtos (talk) 19:38, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

It was actually a merge from Radio Tees. The radioark page is a Wikipedia mirror.— Diannaa (talk) 21:29, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorry to have wasted your time.SovalValtos (talk) 21:52, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

The Planning Exchange Draft

Hi You very kindly reviewed my draft article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:The_Planning_Exchange. You say that it was copied from a Wikitia article https://wikitia.com/wiki/The_Planning_Exchange In fact the Wikitia article was copied from a draft I made in my sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Iandubya/sandbox2

From the revision history is clear that the Wikitia user has copied my article. In fact the foot of the Wikitia article states this fact " This article "The Planning Exchange" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. Articles taken from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be accessed on Wikipedia's Draft Namespace. "

My draft Planning Exchange article has also been altered to remove many of the edits I made following helpful suggestions from another Wikipedia editor User:Otr500

I would very much like to have my Planning Exchange Draft approved and published.

Many thanks § Iandubya (talk) 20:34, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello Iandubya. I have removed the mention of the Wikitia page from your draft. Sorry for the mistake. I don't assess drafts; please be patient and one of our reviewers will assess your draft soon.— Diannaa (talk) 21:23, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks Diannaa Much appreciated. --Iandubya (talk) 14:07, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

RE: September 2020

Hi Diannaa, Thank you for your feedback on the article I'm working on. I've made some changes in accordance with your suggestion. It'd be really helpful if you could take another look at the article and let me know if I'm moving in a right direction this time or not. Again, Thank you! - ♠ ÆCE | Talk | 01:44, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

The new version looks okat from a copyright point of view.— Diannaa (talk) 10:31, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo soundtrack.jpg

The file File:Teen Titans Trouble in Tokyo soundtrack.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-free album cover being used in a decorative manner in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo#Soundtrack. Non-free album cover art is generally allowed to be used for primary identification purposes in stand-alone articles about albums, but its use in other articles is generally only allowed when the cover art itself is the subject of sourced critical commentary as explained in WP:NFC#cite_note-3 and the context for non-free use required by WP:NFCC#8 is evident. There is no such commentary for this particular album cover anywhere in the article, and the use of soundtrack album cover art in articles about films or TV programs is generally not allowed for this reason as explained in WP:FILMSCORE and MOS:TVPRODUCTION. In addition, the file's non-free use also fails WP:NFCC#3a since it's essentially nothing more than a cropped version of the movie poster being used in the main infobox to identify the film.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated files}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the file's talk page.

Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:50, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Diannnaa. I've just added this as a courtesy notification since you seem to be the editor who added the WP:FUR for non-free use that's being challenged; however, I think you probably just did so as part of some rudimentary cleanup because the uploader forget to add the FUR themselves. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:52, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes that's what happened. FWIW there was no image in the main infobox at the time the soundtrack image was uploaded.— Diannaa (talk) 10:28, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Eurojet EJ200

Hi Diannaa, a copyvio tag has been on a section of the Eurojet EJ200 article. for several days. Is this something you can check out? Thanks. BilCat (talk) 19:52, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Articles are normally listed at WP:CP for a minimum of a week. I don't normally work that board as I am one of the only people working Copypatrol daily and have to restrict how much time I spend online in order to have a balanced life.— Diannaa (talk) 20:16, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

No problem. That's why I asked if this was something you can check out. I'm still learning how all the copyvio stuff is handled, and I appreciate the straight answer. Thanks as always. BilCat (talk) 20:37, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Tragedy of the Commons

I added two references and one section to the Tragedy of Commons article on September 5th. I think, I didn´t violate the copyright as I am myself the author of the article about Thuenens contributions on the efficient use of commons, published as a economic working paper of Rostock University in Germany. What has to be done now? Introducing the proposed text by something like this:

"Thuenen´s hidden contribution Johann Heinricht von Thuenen has to be seen as the first precursor of the econonomic analysis of the Commons (L. Nellinger, 2015). The following linesmay be set in quotation marks with referencees to Thuenens contributions and my "discovery" article.LNTHTH (talk) 21:25, 7 September 2020 (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) 23:58, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible Copyvio Desert horned lizard

Hello Diannaa, Earwig's Copyvio Detector shows a high probability of potential copyright content in the Desert horned lizard article. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 12:12, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

I did find one paragraph that was copied from elsewhere online. The page still shows a high % on Earwig's tool, but it's Wikipedia mirrors only. Thank you for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 12:31, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2020

Thanks for your work. Fair point. JCJC777 (talk) 15:41, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Support aspired

Hi bae profound greetings, This time I appeal for your support. Can you do so on [4]. I may nominate you as well if you wish.

Regards,

SHISHIR DUA 17:57, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Berrigan, New South Wales

Hi Diannaa. The Berrigan, New South Wales article has a long verbatim quote, supposedly from a book. My questions are: does such long quote qualify as fair use? If not, did the author either give permission or his work is in the public domain for whatever reason? Sorry for bother you with this, but I can'f figure that out. --Urbanoc (talk) 03:06, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Short quotations are okay, but that one is not short. I have removed it.— Diannaa (talk) 09:33, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Help.

Hi Dianna, I need your help. I am running Earwig, repeatedly, on everything I do now, so I don't have anymore problems. As a result, now I am discovering I have a different kind of problem. I have been working on Biblical criticism that I wrote in 2018 and I found it now has a backwards copy vio--that I can prove wasn't me--and today, when I checked it again, a second one showed up. This website showed up today: [5]. It has no author, no copyright, no date. I have asked the computer gurus that I know here for help finding a date so I could prove they came after me, and they have been unable to find a date for it. I can prove when what they copied was written, but I can't prove when they posted their copy--so does that help me any? What do I need to do to clear this up Dianna? Is there anything? Jenhawk777 (talk) 22:59, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

I have asked both AlanM1 and PaleoNeonate for help as well because they are both computer programmers and really nice guys. They are attempting to track a date for [6] if possible but so far no luck. There is no author, no date, no home address, no contact info, and no other content similar to biblical criticism. I googled "tichanlorsmagboa" and the rest of their pages are vacation ads and dating sites and porn. PaleoNeonate's last comment here [[7]] was now that you mention Russian, in one of my searches I found claims of text translated to English from Serbian WP that had identical matching sentences to that page (difficult to know the origin of the page creator, but to complicate things, that particular site you linked seems registerd via freenom reseller (of tainted reputation, see related .cf and .tk), via an African TLD with text: "Centrafrique [...] Amsterdam, Netherlands", with DNS and hosting by Cloudflare (California, US). Cloudflare is also often used as a caching and proxying frontend to other servers that cannot be known without a formal/legal request). —PaleoNeonate – 7:51 pm, Today (UTC−5) All I want is to be able to show I did not copy anything from them. Is there anyway to do that? Jenhawk777 (talk) 04:16, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

@Jenhawk777: (Just to keep the discussion in one place) I am of the same opinion as PaleoNeonate – from what I could see without allowing scripts, it's a junk spam ad website that copies random text from anywhere to make it look legitimate to automated tools. The facts that it's at the top level of that subdomain (with no other pages under it), that there are a bunch of other subdomains that are similar with text that is copied from other (mostly junk) sites, the .cf domain being a well-known home of phishing sites, interspersed odd bullet lists that include the word "coupon" a lot, etc. all contribute to that. It was no surprise that I can't find an archive of the page. Unless someone has accused you of copying from that site (and that would be an inexperienced accusation), I wouldn't worry about it. I would delete a cite to that site if I saw it, and wouldn't even consider it as a copyvio hit. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 07:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC) Clarified (with apologies to Diannaa for doing this here. ) —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 09:18, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Thank you so very much for spending your time helping me with this. I trust your conclusion absolutely, and if Dianna is okay with it as well, I will just accept and move on. There is a comment section on the backwards copy vio template, is it alright if I copy paste your conclusion there? Either way, I'm grateful Alan. I was totally freaked!! Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Adding a backwardscopy template to the article talk page is a good idea.— Diannaa (talk) 16:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you both for your help and support. Jerm is my hero of the day. He just showed up on the Biblical criticism Talk page--without being asked--and found this: "Click here, next to the website link is a grey arrow, click it as it should say "Cached". That's the time and date I got." Clicking on cached yielded a date of Sept 4, 2020 which I believe is the first time it was published as that is the first time it showed up when I ran the copyvio detector. I have now put that date and these links in that comment section on the second backwards copy template on that page! Thank you guys. This has been very stressful for me! Jenhawk777 (talk) 17:00, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Help with entry without copyright violations

I had recently added information into the company history section of Roketsan. It was in my words, and I referenced three sources, one company page, tow were magazines. It was removed for violation. How can one say "Company A is established in year 19XX" without it being a copyright violation? How can one say "Company B produces toys" without a violation. I had a go at it twice. I could use some guidance. Not exactly a new editor, but not that experienced either. Thanks.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.247.165.26 (talk • contribs)

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 what the bot found. The remainder I found manually. You can see the overlap goes far beyond "Company A was established in year B"— Diannaa (talk) 18:33, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

If you want some guidance, here it is: Content has to be written in your own words and not include 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 Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words. Check out the links in the menu on the left for some exercises to try. Or study this module aimed at WikiEd students.— Diannaa (talk) 19:44, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyright violations

Hi Diannaa. Thank you for bringing to my attention the copyrightvio. In the future, is there any specific advice you would mind letting me know to avoid something like this happening again? Regards, Sapphironic (talk) 20:41, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Content has to be written in your own words and not include 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 Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words. Check out the links in the menu on the left for some exercises to try. Or study this module aimed at WikiEd students.— Diannaa (talk) 21:08, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Telangana

I don't know how could Telangana Government official website becomes copyrights issue. The data is for the public and is considered as open data. If really it makes a problem please remove the link reference provided unlike removing the data. Telanagana is considerably a new state, and lot of information is not available on Wikipedia like the main part of the culture is Arts, Festivals which no one had provided. Please make Wikipedia Knowledge source unlike removing data at one go. Hope you will consider the legitimate information. If you have any problem discuss with me regarding which parts need to be modified if required. Bsr465 (talk) 21:32, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Web pages of the Government of India as well as the individual states do enjoy copyright protection. We are not allowed to add copyright material to Wikipedia, regardless of how important or legitimate the information is. I can send you the removed material via email if you like, but you will have to activate your Wikipedia email first.— Diannaa (talk) 21:40, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Dear Dianna, I've contributed to Telangana from the open sources like articles of News paper. i hope atleast they won't fall under copyrights category. Apart from that I've modified data with my own words in some sections. My sincere intention is to contribute data for my state page. Please check my contribution and I hope there won't be objection now. Atleast i hope you won't delete my hours of hard work contributed at one click. I would happy to know about the proposal of activating the Email procedure you've just informed me. Bsr465 (talk) 23:19, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

This is almost identical to the material I already removed. It's copied from https://www.telangana.gov.in/about/language-culture and https://issuu.com/hc.hcisuva/docs/english. Both of these are copyright documents. Not everything that's publicly available is public domain; in fact the opposite is true. Under current copyright law, literary works are subject to copyright whether they are tagged as such or not. No registration is required, and no copyright notice is required. So please always assume that all material you find online is copyright. Adding it here is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy.— Diannaa (talk) 00:17, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Dianna, have gone through the data I've contributed again?? The Festival section is written my own words, I've rephrased and paraphrased it as youve said. Read it gain and compare...I think you are not interested in giving a read but just happy in deleting...Coming to Arts part the data from the government website is directly taken in to 3 different News papers...From where I've directly attached it...If you say that Arts arts part is also copy rights issue with Publicly available news articles, you should have removed only that part not touching the Festivals part!! Why did you deleted my festival part outrightly?? I've literally contributed 2 hours of time after youve edited it for first time...I think Wikipedia is losing its worth by the acts some editors...I'm not going to add anything now..Instead of motivating contributors Wiki editors are really discouraging sincere contributors... I'm really not happy with your decision of removing Festivals part as I've literally written in my own words...No one gonna write in entirely alien words...It depends on person what para phrasing means...If this is the case no one will ever contribute at Wiki..Thank you for your editing. Bsr465 (talk) 09:58, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

I have undone the revision deletion so you can have a better opportunity to review. Here is a link to the Copyvio Detector report that compares https://issuu.com/hc.hcisuva/docs/english to your addition. The overlapping content is highlighted. It's not been paraphrased at all. For https://www.telangana.gov.in/about/language-culture, I did a visual comparison. Your version presents the same ideas in the same order using almost identical wording. That's a copyright violation. Your addition:

Telanagana state has long been a melting point of diverse cultures as well as languages and is often called as "North of South and South of North". It forms a good example of the India's composite culture, inclusiveness and pluralism. Located on the south central stretch of the Deccan plateau. Telangana is a regarded as the link between North and South India. For this reason, this region is often called as Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and the capital city Hyderabad is regarded as Mini India.

Source webpage:

South of North and North of South, Telangana State has long been a meeting place for diverse languages and cultures. It is easily the best example for India’s composite culture, pluralism and inclusiveness. Located on the uplands of Deccan plateau, Telangana is the link between the North and South of India. It is thus no surprise that the region on the whole came to be known for its Ganga-Jamuna Tehzeeb and the capital Hyderabad as a ‘miniature India!’.

— Diannaa (talk) 11:39, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

7 Seals nonsense

Is all from Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Brad Watson, Miami. Doug Weller talk 17:59, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the info.— Diannaa (talk) 11:42, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello sir

Hello sir i am from india i would like to talk to you here for my urgent questions Warmlove Army (talk) 19:38, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Please consider visiting the WP:Teahouse — Diannaa (talk) 11:30, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Can you help me?

Hi Diannaa I am wondering if I can call upon your good services to expedite the acceptance of 2 articles that have been in draft form for nearly 3 months. Draft:NNEdPro and Draft:Sumantra Ray were submitted on 27 June 2020. You removed parts of both as there was copyrighted content that had not been released by their owners under a copyright agreement. Due to these content deletions the two submissions were declined on 29 June 2020. Declarations of Consent were made, [Ticket#2020070710004923] Wikipedia: Declaration of consent - Sumantra Ray and [Ticket#2020070710004932] Wikipedia: Declaration of consent - NNEdPro Global Centre. Due to no response from ‘Items pending OTRS confirmation of permission’, I decided to revise the original content so that there were no copyright issues and I resubmitted the two articles on 2 September 2020. I have had no response. Can you please help me? PuedaHacer (talk) 00:09, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorry but I don't have access to the OTRS queue as I am not an OTRS volunteer. And I have no experience assessing drafts. So I won't be helping.— Diannaa (talk) 11:28, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

article reject

Could you please specify the reason my draft for Professor Michael Koutsilieris was rejected so that I can proceed with the appropriate changes and resubmit ? Thank you in advance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kkmk mani (talk • contribs)

It's a copy of his CV, not an encyclopedia article. It's a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy to copy text here that has been previously published online.— Diannaa (talk) 11:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyvio help

Hi. There's a website I've been coming across frequently of late, here's an example. Since I do quite a bit of my review work with the oldest entries on the queue, copyvio checks can be problematic at times, due to mirror concerns. I can't tell when this site publishes their data, and I cannot find any info regarding copyright on the site. I've been of the belief that this site simply copies stuff from WP, but is there any way to be definite about my assumption? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 17:21, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Forgot to mention why I believe that site is a mirror, and it's due to articles like Bernard Zimmern, which show a 90% on copyvio, but the article is clearly well sourced.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 17:24, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

It looks like the site is scraping Wikipedia, looking for bios of people that have recently died. Stanley Crouch died Sept 16, the article is a pretty obvious Wikipedia mirror, with a table of contents and external links section etc. Their home page uses our photo of Ahmed Ben Salah (he also died on the 16th). There's a whitelist for Earwig's tool at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot/Copyvios/Exclusions. I can add this to the list when I get back from the gym if you like.— Diannaa (talk) 21:09, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

That's what I thought. Thanks for your time. Yes, please add it to the whitelist.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 21:30, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Done.— Diannaa (talk) 22:52, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Need your help!

Hello Diannaa,

I feel on wikipedia everybody is pointing me only. I don't know why. Whenever I'm contributing on any page people are delete those things & gave me warning/notice.

Today, I did my research on Law Firm Singapore and found Family law of Singapore page here. I did research to contribute valuable & helpful information on that page. In my research, found another company which offers same thing. Before I published on live website, I wrote my research on talk page of Family law of Singapore. Websites which are already mentioned on the reference links are similar with my research as well. Therefore, I added my reference websites too.

After sometime, I'm SHOCKED one person sent me notice to BAN my account. This was very very disappointing for me. I did my research & already shared on talk page as well. Still people are sending me this type of notice.

Kindly help me to solve this issue.

What you did was add a link to a particular law firm on the Family law of Singapore ‎ article. It looks more like an advertisement than an encyclopedic resource for people to research the topic of family law. That's why it's inappropriate and that's why it was removed: Wikipedia is not a place to advertise. — Diannaa (talk) 11:30, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Rene Marcil

Hello Diannaa,

I made some corrections on the Marcil wikipedia... trying to solve the issue.

Kindly let me know if the edits I made, mostly deletion, are satisfactory to Wikipedia policy.

With thanks

Robert

The current version is okay from a copyright point of view.— Diannaa (talk) 14:05, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

List of massacres in Ireland

Hi Diannaa, not sure how to make replies on "Talk" on this. With regards to a few entries I recently made to "Massacres of Ireland Page", the book I quoted from was written over 170 years ago and has zero copyright attached. I understand, the need for not quoting from books that may have copyright, but what about very old books? Thanking you in advance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by MacCormaic (talk • contribs)

@MacCormaic: I found a copy of the book online and have removed the revision deletion. But I am not re-adding the content. I am not sure about the reliability of the source. When copying verbatim from public domain material, add the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 20:37, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Midyat rebellion

If I understood correctly, I can recreate the page as long as I rewrite the text instead of simply copying it from the source? --Sargon Gallu (talk) 10:54, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes. In fact that's how Wikipedia articles are created.— Diannaa (talk) 10:55, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Can I access the content of the deleted page? Sargon Gallu (talk) 10:46, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I have sent a copy to you via email.— Diannaa (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Question re permission statement

I just reverted an edit here.

The source material has ©2020 Migrant Rights and no explicit cc license or notice that it is public domain, but it does include the following comment:

We encourage you to share this content widely

It's my understanding that we generally require an explicit acceptable CC license on the source, or an explicit licensing via OTRS. I know sometimes editors claim the owner of the material wants it to be widely distributed (e.g. press releases) but I don't think we've accepted that implicit agreement. This one is as explicit as I've ever seen. Thoughts from you or TPS?--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:32, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't think they mean that it's okay to copy-paste their copyright content. It's more likely their intention is for people to share a link to it on social media.— Diannaa (talk) 14:40, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Lyrics question

Hi, I've removed the lyrics from Kosovo (song) for violating copyright, but they've been in the article for six years. There have been other edits in that time. Should I tag all of them for CV revdel? Schazjmd (talk) 21:13, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Opinions differ on this. I personally would not do it.— Diannaa (talk) 10:30, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyright issues with newbies during edit-a-thon

Hi User:Diannaa, thanks for putting those reminders onto the talk pages of some of the new editors who have joined for our SDG edit-a-thon this week. I am continually drumming it into them about the copyright but it's so easy for newbies to get it wrong. I am sorry about that and try to continue to train them better. We are using a collaborative workspace this week (using Workplace by Facebook). Just in case you are interested and have some time, you'd be very welcome to join into the group and post some comments about the copyright issue. If you are interested, the link is available under Registration here. We have about 260 trainees in the group, mostly newbies and mostly from developing countries. Lots of females which is great to see. EMsmile (talk) 13:39, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for trying to educate the participants about our copyright policy. This is a common issue during edit-a-thons.— Diannaa (talk) 13:44, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Draft: Pyrotornado

Hello.

This text was from the National Weather Service website and is not copyrighted. Could you kindly clarify the removal of the draft?

Kind regards. 2605:6000:151C:1DA8:641D:5FA:873A:E962 (talk) 05:02, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

The text is from https://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/nauslar/Lareau_et_al-2018-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf which surprisingly enough is marked as "©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved." in the lower left corner of the first page.— Diannaa (talk) 11:16, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

RevDel request

Hi Dianna. I want to request revdel of 2 revisions of East Bengal Ground- [8] and [9]. Offensive words and slangs in Bangla and English used there. ❯❯❯   S A H A 07:55, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

This has been done. Thanks for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 13:08, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Diannaa, thank you ❯❯❯   S A H A 16:06, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Helene Lapierre

Hi Diannaa you commented my Helene Lapierre page has copyright issues. If I work on rewording it will it be ok and not taken down? (talk)

The page is okay, because I removed/re-worded the copyright content.— Diannaa (talk) 13:06, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Turnitin on earwig

Just curious, has it ever worked for you? It never seems to find anything when I use it, even when there are obvious violations. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 16:39, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

It used to show any reports that had been filed at Copypatrol, but it hasn't worked for a long time. Maybe the bot operator can help.— Diannaa (talk) 20:26, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:COPY you may be interested in

You may be interested in this discussion at WT:COPY about attribution in a case of cross-wiki translation, where the source article in the foreign wikipedia has been deleted.

There's a related question at that discussion, concerning the {{copied}} and {{translated page}} templates, and why the former contains boilerplate about not deleting the source article, but the latter does not. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 00:51, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Asquith Xavier

Asquith Xavier A little advice please. This is on my patch - how do I tackle it. I can get a image- next time I go shopping.Chatham Waiting Room. I can do the Euston shot any Wednesday. How do I tackle it? --ClemRutter (talk) 08:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

The place to start is freedom of panorama. See Freedom of panorama for the UK. My opinion is that both the plaque and the photograph which they modeled it on enjoy copyright protection and therefore your photo can only be displayed on Wikipedia as fair use. You will have to upload it locally, not at the Commons. Since you as photographer hold the copyright to the photo, place two templates on your photo: a {{Non-free use rationale}} describing how the image meets our fair-use requirements, and a template for the license of your choice for the photograph. See File:Smintmark1908indianhead.jpg as an example of how to lay out the license templates.— Diannaa (talk) 13:41, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for that- we will see how far we can take that-get one right and see if we can unlock a few more. --ClemRutter (talk) 16:33, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Certified_Professional_Coder

Hello, I have updated the text in my own words, can you please remove/update your comments.

Also I need help with on what to do to make it reviewed by someone as it's sitting there for months.

Thanks

Jamesinhere (talk) 09:43, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

The templates will be removed if/when the draft is accepted for publication. Please wait for a reviewer, there are 3,654 drafts in the backlog, so please be patient.— Diannaa (talk) 14:08, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your help and advice. Jamesinhere (talk) 10:20, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Mansfield Rule again, please

There looks to be a complex set of revdels to perform. Another editior has removed material but I think it needs expert attention prior to review. Fiddle Faddle 19:28, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

It looks clean now.— Diannaa (talk) 13:52, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

As usual you are a star. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 12:38, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up

Diannaa, thanks for the heads up about Copying within Wikipedia. I will be sure to follow this edit summary practice going forward. Thanks again, Dcattell (talk) 15:46, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

possible copyvio: Ezra Vogel

The section Ezra_Vogel#Career in our article about respected Japan buff Ezra Vogel cites [ https://scholar.harvard.edu/ezravogel/biocv ], but also contains some text from that page verbatim. ("Drawing on his original field work ..." etc.)

Copyvio problem? - 2804:14D:5C59:8833:AC08:169C:F5BA:102E (talk) 02:16, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Cleaned. Thank you for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 11:53, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail

Hello, Diannaa. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Isabelle ^🔔 19:14, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Replied! Thanks— Diannaa (talk) 19:18, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Message from Jpkent

Dear Diannaa,

Thanks for your message about the photos uploaded for the articles on the Romanian pianists Silvia and Liana Șerbescu. Unfortunately they have been removed, without leaving me time to react. For a correct choice of the correct attribution code, I feel lost, and I request your help.

Liana Serbescu has inherited her parents' archive, and she is the one who gives authorization to publish images to whoever is publishing information on her mother's activities, biography or artistic achievements. Examples of such publications are:

• Iosif Sava and Florian Șerbescu: Silvia Șerbescu: ghid biografic, Editura Muzicală, București, 1976.
• Lavinia Coman: Silvia Șerbescu, Prima noastră pianistă, Editura Muzicală Grafoart, București, 2019

In Sava is to be found, between p. 64 and 65:

• File:Silvia Serbescu at age 25.jpg
• File:Silvia Serbescu and Ioan Bunescu.jpg

As for the following picture:

• File:Liana Serbescu in 1968.jpg

it was taken by her father, and has been used on all CD covers of piano recordings by Liana Serbescu herself.

So the publication world is full of copies of these pictures, and Liana Șerbescu is the only person entitled to authorise their use. If I understand your message correctly, she is the person who should issue a statement proving she authorises me to publish them. There is no one else in the world to be found that could do this but her. But I need help to understand which authorisation code to use and where to send it.

Looking forward to your helping solution,

Jpkent (talk) 15:46, 4 October 2020 (UTC)Jpkent

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. WP:Requesting copyright permission for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa (talk) 10:22, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

African military systems

sorry I didn't know about attributing contributors. However, I didn't copy and paste. I actually wrote the whole thing under sources from African military systems. Does that mean that, if you use sources from a page for your work, are you supposed to attribute the page from which you got your source?(Kwesi Yema (talk) 14:22, 5 October 2020 (UTC))

Replied on your talk page.— Diannaa (talk) 14:37, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Colour fastness

Hi! Greetings of the day! Please spare some time and comment on the improvements I tried. Best regardsRAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 10:36, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Some edits I made to this page were flagged as copyright violations. I dispute this. Firstly the source that was flagged was David McLellan's Karl Marx: his Life and Thought, when my source was one of McLellan's other books Marx Before Marxism (which contains a lot of the same information). Secondly, my edits were referenced paraphrases from a chapter in this book. The chapter I used is a quote-heavy exposition of the notebooks by Karl Marx that the article deals with. The sentences flagged are a series of paraphrases from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts. I have merely done for McLellan's book what he does for Marx's notebooks. -- Hanshans23 (talk) 14:31, 7 October 2020 (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 what the bot found. I found the remainder by using Google searches. The content might be duplicated in multiple books by the same author. — Diannaa (talk) 19:23, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Removal of copyright material from Hard clam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_clam

Hi Diannaa,

My name is Mike, I am new to Wikipedia. Recently I have made changes to a page for a grad assignment.

You removed a section of the Hard clams Page titled "biology and life cycle" that was taken directly from an FAO publication. You normally don’t need a special authorization to use FAO material with their CC BY license policy. I do however have permission for this publication to reproduce FAO copyright material granted at no charge, which includes the right to publish, reproduce, publicly display and distribute the whole or any part of the material in this and all revisions and any subsequent editions of my work; in any ancillary aids that may be prepared to accompany my work, including promotion and publicity uses; and in all forms of media now known or later developed. I was granted this specifically for its use on Wikipedia.

I am new to the ways of the wiki so I'm unaware of the process for submitting copyright material. Although I made few edits to the work before posting to the hard clam page, this is well within the copyright usage policy for the organization whose mission is to freely distribute information relevant to global food and agriculture needs.

I would like to request your help in properly reinstating the material that was removed from the page.

Thank you,

Mpshawn2 (talk) 16:04, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Mpshawn2: The FAO licensing information can be found at http://www.fao.org/3/I9461EN/I9461en.pdf. It says that "The default licence that will apply to FAO information products is: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO)." Sorry but that's not a compatible license, because it does not allow commercial use of the content and Wikipedia's license (CC-by-SA 3.0) allows all uses, including commercial use.— Diannaa (talk) 19:31, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:MCQ § Copying between Wikipedias

 You are invited to join the discussion at WP:MCQ § Copying between Wikipedias. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:37, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa. Perhaps you can figure out what this editor is asking? He seems to be involved in a discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 October 3#Template:High-use/num (as well as at Template talk:High-use/num#Usage in Other Wikimedia Projects that has to do with WP:CWW. I think they're trying to argue that the template being discussed at TfD shouldn't not be deleted because doing so will create a red link and break the chain of attribution for incubator:Template talk:Wp/nod/high-use/num. I'm not sure whether that's really an issue even if the local English Wikipedia template is deleted, but perhaps there's something to what they're saying. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:46, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

I didn't even know that the incubator existed until a few minutes ago, so I can't comment on that aspect, but I have added some remarks. — Diannaa (talk) 13:09, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Diannaa. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:28, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Diannaa. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Megan☺️ Talk to the monster 07:04, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!— Diannaa (talk) 13:08, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Thank you!— Diannaa (talk) 21:00, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Help with linking pages

Dear Dianna I am having trouble linking two Wikipedia articles I have written. I wrote one in English and another one in Portuguese but I cannot seem to link them :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continentals_(gang) https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continentais_(gangue)

May you please help me? Privatesteverogers (talk) 03:22, 22 April 2020 (UTC) Privatesteverogers (talk) 02:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

The two Wikidata items need to be merged. I don't know how to do that. See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Merge — Diannaa (talk) 11:28, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

@Privatesteverogers Wikidata items now merged. TSventon (talk) 23:05, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Could use your attention

Hi, if you could spare the time, there is a matter that on ANI here where I could use some input. Normally I would just wait for a response, but I've posted this twice now and for some reason nobody has really engaged with the reports. Eik Corell (talk) 11:40, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Sorry but I don't have time to help with this.— Diannaa (talk) 12:27, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

SpaceX CRS-21

Beatgr changes the references to quotes, is it okay to do that? Cordially CRS-20 (talk) 04:22, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

If you mean this edit, yes, that is a good edit.— Diannaa (talk) 13:09, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

No, see Soyuz MS-17, Soyuz MS-18, and Soyuz MS-19 now, references section. Cordially. CRS-20 (talk) 00:08, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Your question is too vague. I don't know what you are asking.— Diannaa (talk) 00:18, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

You have the references section with a series of refs in the form of quotes. When you have to modify a ref in the text you have to open edit source from the whole page and not from a particular section because the ref is not found, only the.. He puts curved quotes all over the place and sometimes a straight quotation mark and a curved quotation mark, it's discouraging. See Soyuz MS-17, Soyuz MS-18, and Soyuz MS-19 now, references section. CRS-20 (talk) 00:37, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

And Soyuz MS-20. CRS-20 (talk) 00:40, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

The ones that are quotes are tweets. The tweets are in Russian. He offers an English translation of each tweet. I am unable to access any of these tweets. I do not have a Twitter account; perhaps that's why. I try not to get stressed about curly quotation marks - life is too short to get upset about curly quotes. Not sure why you have a problem with opening these tiny articles to edit the refs? It doesn't look unusual or difficult. — Diannaa (talk) 00:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Not just the tweets but all the references, references section from Soyuz MS-17 to Soyuz MS-20. If I want to modify a ref, not open it, I cannot open the section corresponding to this ref because it is only there in the form </ref> CRS-20 (talk) 00:59, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Just open the whole article. It shouldn't be that difficult to locate and access what you need - it's not like it's Barack Obama with its 549 citations.— Diannaa (talk) 02:14, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Quotes in citations

Hi Diannaa,

May I ask why you removed quotations from citations in this edit? My understanding is that these are not a copyright concern, based on this quote from Jimbo. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:18, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

The non-free content policy is located at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. The material is not controversial, so the quotations from the sources are unnecessary and excessive non-free content in my opinion. The quotes are still accessible in the page history as well as in the original source documents if anyone needs to check them. — Diannaa (talk) 13:39, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Message from DescartesResearch about Draft:Self-Aware_Computing

Diannaa, Thanks for your message about the editing rules. In fact, I had tried to summarize the content about "Levels of Self-Awareness" from several sources in my own words and structure. I understand that it is still considered too close to the sources I was trying to summarize, so we can leave it out. Thanks, User:DescartesResearch 18:28, 11 Oct 2020 (UTC)

Message about Raia,_Goa

Ma'am @Diannaa, thank you for your changes on the page, and appreciate the help in working to a good page. We are members of the Wikimedians of Goa User Group, who are attempting to build local interest in the Wikipedia, and also building more content from Goa on the Wp. Like in any small, Asian society, we have a problem in sometimes getting print or digitised sources on the issues here -- simply because we are traditional, mainly-oral societies. We assure you that the information is being closely checked by people who know, and discussed through the WGUG WhatsApp group to ensure accuracy. fredericknoronha (talk) 16:03, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

WP:PATT and full URLs

Hi Diannaa! I thought that the best way to attribute when copying within Wikipedia was to include a full permalink URL in the edit summary, e.g. this edit summary. But WP:PATT doesn't say anything about full URLs at all, just wikilinks. Which made me think: have I been doing it wrong all along? So I thought I'd ask an expert. :-) When copying within Wikipedia, what's the best way to attribute in the edit summary? Lev!vich 04:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I have never used a full url - WP:CWW recommends an edit summary with a wikilink to the source page. Use of Template:Copied on the talk page is recommended when the copying is extensive - it does require specific diff IDs.— Diannaa (talk) 11:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

About this image, which is refused to use on an article because of copyright

@Diannaa: I'm trying to add that image to the article, however it's refused because of probability of fair reuse. Anyway, I think that's not a subject to fair reuse, because:

• It's used several times. When I go to the internet, I can find a lot of image same with it. (but not with CC-BY-SA, that's the problem for me.)
• It's identifying a unique event. Because of there's not an alternative source, I must use with copyright.
• It's relevant with the article. You can see my edits on the article.
• It has already used widely. Because it's about to a event in the article, it's widely used.

Could you also investigate this image for me? Thanks. Ahmetlii (talk) 05:56, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

The image is up for deletion because there's been no rationale provided as to why this non-free image meets our non-free content criteria. All ten criteria must be met for an image to be eligible for inclusion. What you've got here is a photo of some damaged/destroyed buildings. Is there something in this image that cannot be described in words alone? If not, the image fails NFCC #1. A second criterion that is relevant is NFCC #8, Contextual significance. How does this image significantly increase our understanding of the topic of the article (more so than describing the damage using prose)? Don't answer the questions here - if you wish to pursue this further, place a completed Template:Non-free use rationale on the file description page, paying close attention to the instructions under "Purpose" and "Replaceability".— Diannaa (talk) 11:32, 13 October 2020 (UTC) PS: Please leave the deletion template in place until an admin has had a chance to review. — Diannaa (talk) 12:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

92.40.188.1

Can user:92.40.188.1 please be blocked ASAP. CLCStudent (talk) 13:35, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

They've not edited since the Cluebot warning. Please report at AIV if the problem continues.— Diannaa (talk) 13:53, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

update: This IP is now blocked as part of a rangeblock implemented shortly after this report.— Diannaa (talk) 14:18, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Midyat rebellion

I've recreated the page and have rewritten the text as best I could, feel free to review it and help me to improve it Sargon Gallu (talk) 16:57, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

There is still a lot of overlap with one of the sources. Please see this report. Please fix this immediately or I will have to remove the overlapping passages. — Diannaa (talk) 00:30, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll work on it Sargon Gallu (talk) 12:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and cleaned it as it's been nearly a full day.— Diannaa (talk) 20:54, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, much appreciated Sargon Gallu (talk) 14:10, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

pirated materials in reference

Hi, would you have a look at my concerns at Patriarchy and List of anarchist children's literature ? The issue on hand is rogue links to unauthorized scans of copyrighted books slipped in as citation link. Hopefully I created the request correctly. I left out the link from the template in the latest version and left instructions so that the links wouldn't remain after all is over. Graywalls (talk) 21:07, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I have never revision-deleted to remove an external link or citation to a copyvio copy of a book. I can't find anything in the policy that says we do that.— Diannaa (talk) 00:35, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I asked about it before and this was your response. At that point, I haven't come across a ripoff quite as bad as this time though. Thanks much Graywalls (talk) 01:41, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I kinda remembered that but I couldn't find it :/ — Diannaa (talk) 02:12, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

So, when there are links posted where pirated contents can be downloaded directly(rather than just view online) books against WP:COPYVIOEL, you'd suggest that we just edit out the offending link, but let it remain in the rev history? I don't mean things that could be in the gray area like several scanned pages posted on a university course website, but rather blatant rip off of books marked © and hosted on sites like google drive, scribd, Indymedia, Libcom and such Graywalls (talk) 15:49, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

It would be up to the individual admin as to whether or not to do it. I personally would not do it.— Diannaa (talk) 19:14, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Sneaky copyvio

Some (or all?) of the text from Publisher's Weekly that you removed from The Man's Guide to Women is on User:Moscowdreams. Earwig link for your convenience. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 16:50, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

I have deleted the user page. Thank you for the report.— Diannaa (talk) 19:18, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

I have not taken any fee from Gaurav Taneja

	I have not taken any fee from Gaurav Taneja
	Hello Dianna, You are alleging me in a wrong case. I have not charged any thing to Gaurav Taneja for editing. Sayampradhan (talk) 02:30, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

You have sent this message to the wrong person.— Diannaa (talk) 02:33, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

WP:NFCC

Thank you for your response on PamD's talkpage. That was my understanding as well, even if I couldn't remember where the actual policy was located. However, in WP:NFCCE, it doesn't really give direction on how to proceed when an example like The Baby-Sitters Club Club comes up. In all my edits, I can't actually remember an article which basically was a copy-and-paste from sources, but actually used quotation marks. I run into articles frequently which do the cut-and-paste thing, but without the quotations, which is clearly a copyvio. But based on your comment on PamD's page, I am technically incorrect for tagging the page as G12. What would you suggest? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:20, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and cleaned it — Diannaa (talk) 12:40, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Diannaa, Thanks. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:08, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocking or unblocking User:Cnyirahabihirwe123

Hi, User:Diannaa and also @User:Yamla. You recently blocked User:Cnyirahabihirwe123 and declined her request for unblocking. I think it was correct of you to block her. Nevertheless, I'd like to give a little bit of background. I've recently established e-mail contact and Whatsapp contact with her. My plan is to guide and mentor her and help her with the unblocking process and then with much better editing. I am baffled how she could have made those kinds of mistakes and how she could have ignored her talk page for so long (a common problem with newbies is that they don't have their own talk page on their watchlist or the e-mail notifications not turned on). However, I am convinced that she is doing her work in good faith and that she really wants to become a good Wikipedian. She actually made great contributions during our SDG edit-a-thon in September where she even won a prize. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_SDGs_September_2020#Prize_winners . When you assess her work please do keep two things in mind: she lives in a part of Rwanda with very poor internet access which slows down her response time. She wrote to me: "Where I Stay at Bugusera 'Nyamata sector' we often don't have sufficient connection, it is an area which has more problem of connection at all level, so it is to difficult to me to find a on time some messages, and this cause me to delay to give feedback. Once I find the connection I find more and more messages, sometime I go to Kigali or any other location where there connection easly. " Also, she doesn't have English as her first language. But she's passionate about Wikipedia editing and she wants to contribute content from a Rwandan perspective. I hope we can set her on a straight path and that she'll become a good reliable Wikipedian in future. I'll work with her now to ensure she understands those questions that you have asked her about copyright. Please give her another chance when she re-issues her unblocking request soon. Thanks. I do think we need more female editors from African countries and would be happy to be her mentor and keep a close eye on her in future. EMsmile (talk) 13:01, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Cnyirahabihirwe123 needs to answer the questions posed by Yamla in the recent unblock template. It's up to her to take the initiative to get unblocked by demonstrating that she understands how copyright applies to Wikipedia editing. Please go to User talk:Cnyirahabihirwe123 and add a note about your offer to mentor so that patrolling admins will see it. — Diannaa (talk) 13:10, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

I have no objection to the block being lifted if she provides reasonable answers to the questions posed. Of course, I'm not the blocking admin, but I've seen many successful unblocks for copyright reasons, once the user has demonstrated a clear understanding! --Yamla (talk) 13:12, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

That is very true! We've had many successful unblocks. — Diannaa (talk) 13:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

New England

Fully a third of the "New England" copy I would delete. "Brother Jonathan"? Come on now... I am from New England I haven't heard of him. Otherwise excellent, factual information you wont let on. Makes for boring tool. Besides, this page is so poorly edited it makes me weep for Wikipedia. Deepest harbor? Percentage forested? Mount Katahdin? Boston Pops? And yes, the Pine tree shilling are things most people would like know more about.

Diannaa, your controls are unnecessary. The color is slowly being drained out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theonomad (talk • contribs) 17:00, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Bucharest Symphony Orchestra

Dear Diana, I got your message and I am writing on behalf the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra with the simple request to undo your removal of our completion to the page that was removed by you due to a suspected copyright issue. Since the official page of Bucharest Music Institute represent our educational website, we shared here the same information. Also, you erased all content that was published before.. I am kindly asking for undo your deletion. All information is accurate and needs to be shared with the world. Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alxndrul (talk • contribs) 13:06, 20 October 2020 (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 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) 13:09, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

I understand, but there is nothing in my contribution to promote or advertise, I just have completed the content that was already published, content that you erased with no explanation. I have updated the biography and activity, nothing to advertise, I have not promoted events or something else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alxndrul (talk • contribs) 13:14, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

The content was removed because it was previously published elsewhere online. This is a violation of our copyright policy. 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.

If you are being paid to edit Wikipedia, our terms of use require you to post a notice to that effect on your user page or user talk page. Please see WP:PAID for more information on this topic.— Diannaa (talk) 13:19, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

If pure information, biography and historical facts are now considered copyrighted materials, I will proceed to fill the consent content. I clearly state that I am not a paid editor and do not intend to make money from this contribution. Where should I send the consent? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alxndrul (talk • contribs) 13:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

permissions-enwikimedia.org— Diannaa (talk) 13:48, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Lloyd Library and Museum

Hi Diannaa, I am a librarian at the Lloyd Library and Museum tasked to update and improve the LLM Wikipedia Page. I have been working with another librarian to do this. I am unsure as to what may have been plagiarized or how to best update the page without any trouble. I'm afraid the concern is that we are plagiarizing our own website. We have been working to add citations. We own all of the images we usedand have added and have since been deleted and understand that uploading them makes them available in an irreversable way. We're new at this and want to do it the right way. Thanks in advance for your time.Ecampbell917Plum (talk) 23:51, 20 October 2020 (UTC)Ecampbell917Plum

Okay, okay. I just read the post above mine and your explanation of their misteps help. It seems that the LLoyd has to grant permission to use their images on Wikipedia -even if it is the Lloyd using them. I should also add something on my talk page indicating that I am an employee of the library so it's clear that the content coukd be biased. Have I got the gist of it? Do I need to do the same with the text? It stinks because it is not the same but is written by the same person so may sound similar. Any tips would be great. We're just a non-profit trying to improve our page. We don't have any want to distort or sell anything. Thanks again (UTC)Ecampbell917Plum

I have corrected the licenses on the photos. The Lloyd Library does not own the copyright on images such as File:Plate 9, Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1730).tif, which is from 1705, and thus in the public domain. I have corrected licenses and source information on your uploads at the Commons, except for File:309 Court Street next to 917 Plum Street.jpg, which is too recent to be in the public domain. As to the prose, I removed material copied from the library's website, which is protected by copyright. If the copyright holder wishes to release this material under a compatible license, please see WP:Requesting copyright permission for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. You and any other employees of the library that edit here must according to our terms of use place a declaration on your user page or talk page indicating that you are a paid editor. Please see WP:PAID for more information on this requirement.— Diannaa (talk) 13:07, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Irina Kolesnikova

Dear Diannaa,

You have recently removed a lot of information from Irina Kolesnikova's page. All the information provided is available on official websites as sources. For instance, you have deleted a paragraph regarding Ambassador of Russia in France, the information is available on official website of Irina. Also, the interviews of Irina in Belgrade, once again the information is available on official website.

Explain to me why so much information was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikita.Tachkin (talk • contribs) 15:46, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Prose you find online is almost always copyright, and cannot be copied here; it's against the copyright policy of this website to do so. All prose must be written in your own words. — Diannaa (talk) 17:18, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

The text regarding the visit of Russian Ambassador was written in official London Season '15 booklet of St Petersburg Ballet Theatre and also the text is available via official website, does this work for you if as source we will link the official website? The text was written by press of the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre. Also, why was photo deleted with Russian Ambassador? Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikita.Tachkin (talk • contribs) 07:09, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

It's okay to cite the Season '15 booklet as a source, but don't copy the text! it's copyright. The photo was not deleted - File:Irina Kolesnikova with the Russian Federation Ambassador.jpg still exists. There's not room in this small article for 6 photos, so I removed it when I removed the unsourced text.— Diannaa (talk) 20:26, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Diannaa! The new text will be changed and uploaded, hopefully this time it will not be a problem. Please explain why you have removed a quote from the section "Paris Theater des Champs-Elysees"? I got the point regarding the copyright for text but what's an issue with a direct quote? and provided link to a source (website)? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikita.Tachkin (talk • contribs) 06:53, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Short quotations are okay but each needs to have a source. Please don't use the artist's website as a source. Please place your citation after the quote. For the quotations in the citations you provided did not contain the quotations they were supposed to support.— Diannaa (talk) 11:23, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Flagicon

Can I put the Soviet flag icon in front of the name of the cosmonaut(s) in the table on the left in the articles Soyuz 1, Soyuz 2, etc.? Cordially. CRS-20 (talk) 01:15, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hi CRS-20. You seem to already engaged in a discussion about this with another editor at Talk:Soyuz 1#Use of flag icons on early Soyuz flights; so, that's probaly the best place to try and resolve things. If you feel you've reached a stand-off, try following the suggestions given in Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:31, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm waiting for the response from Dianna, expert in edit. CRS-20 (talk) 11:32, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

This question is already being discussed at Talk:Soyuz 1#Use of flag icons on early Soyuz flights. Normally we don't include such flags unless there is a very good reason to do so. — Diannaa (talk) 11:40, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Flags are visually striking, and placing a national flag NEXT to something can make its nationality seem to be of greater significance than other things. Here it is BEFORE cosmonaut name. CRS-20 (talk) 11:53, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

I already gave my opinion. — Diannaa (talk) 12:17, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Sindh Police#Message of IGP Sindh

Hi Diannaa. I was just going to remove this section, but figured I run it by someone else first. Seems like an clear copyvio to me and might even require some revision deleting. Am I missing something about it? -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:58, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Just going to add that all of the images or organization charts uploaded to Commons also seem to be copyvios as well. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:59, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

The organizational charts all seem to be screen shots from the organization's website. Some might qualify for deletion as copyright violations but some of them are screen shots of lists. Whether or not they contain enough creative content to qulaify for copyright protection will be a question for the Commons to decide. They are not very useful for the article either, because they can't be edited and will soon be out of date. Besides, we don't normally offer lists of non-notable employees. The large section with the message is not a copyvio per se as it is obviously a quotation, but it should be removed too, as it's not the sort of thing we include in our articles and it's excessive non-free content.— Diannaa (talk) 10:57, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at this Dianna. I’ve started a discussion about the files at c:COM:AN#Uploads by Cop3043 just to see what some others might think as well. FWIW, I came across this article via WP:THQ#Requesting volunteering in clean up support. — Marchjuly (talk) 23:01, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Is this 1946 article still in copyright?

[10] which mentions [11] The article is Anti-Marcionite Prologues and for some reason the editor's references 1 and 3 are to two sources for the same material which is copied into the article. Ref 2 is useless, and the 1946 article is used for the last sentence that starts "But recently". I'm not surprised I've had a complaint about the editor on my talk page. Doug Weller talk 11:52, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, material from 1946 still enjoys copyright protection unless proven otherwise.— Diannaa (talk) 12:20, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I've no idea how to rewrite it so I've taken the coward's way out and listed it. Doug Weller talk 15:49, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Hmmmm I went through something similar several months back. The discussion was over whether linking to third party hosting(such as Scribd and railfanning sites) of scanned manuals, journals and such published between 1925 to 1975 without expressly being marked copyrighted would be considered WP:COPYVIOEL which prohibits linking to infringing contents like bootleg copies. Such as wikia.nocookie.net source in the EL section of EMD SDP40F. https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain this source just for reference. Graywalls (talk) 16:01, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and Copyright

Hi Diannaa,

I am new to Wikipedia and in the recent past started contributions to Wikipedia. Thanks for your guidance on how to contribute to Wikipedia by avoiding copyright issues. I will follow the guidelines strictly. This is regarding content removal on Confederation of Indian Industry page. I have tried to mention maximum references from authentic sources. However, paraphrasing and original writing is an issue which I will correct in future contributions. A large part of content from the Introduction and History section which are extremely important from an organizational point of view has been removed. Grateful if those can be restored by rephrasing the text/content. Thanks. Amanjha1 (talk) 15:29, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have time to re-write the content for you.— Diannaa (talk) 21:28, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Objection to change

Hello Diannaa

A recent change I made on the 'openQRM' page was reverted due to copyright infringement. This is understandable, but I wanted to correct this.

I am an employee of OPENQRM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD and we own openQRM, thus the website content belongs to us. I understand proving this to you and readers is not easy, ao, is there a way I can disclose the ownership of the copyrighted material?BenSteain (talk) 03:35, 23 October 2020 (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. Another editor has placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 19:59, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Appeal from Copyright Problem

I am asking at WP:AN where to discuss an appeal that has been filed at DRN of a copyright issue. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:38, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

<del}By the way, the clock at the top of your talk page is completely wrong. It doesn't appear to displaying any North American timezone. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:38, 23 October 2020 (UTC) Posting of this request purged the page. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:39, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

There's a bit of discussion about this case at Talk:Aboriginal land title in Canada. One way for AvThomson to get the case reviewed is to have another copyright specialist have a look. MoneyTrees indicates he has already done this and confirms my assessment. There's additional experienced admins listed at Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to investigate copyright matters that perhaps could look at the case too. Sorry about the useless clock.— Diannaa (talk) 20:06, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Okay. I am finished with that dispute, which was never for DRN. The clock simply is only updated when the viewer purges the page. Not useless, just a trick. Thank you. I'm finished with that. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:45, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Content deleted on Vijayadurga page

Hi Diannaa, why did you just delete all the information from the vijayadurga page?

Those were relevant and researched details. I edited the grammar and included genuine facts and all you did was just delete information. Did you even know these were from the Portuguese records stacked in Goa's government archives? Please think before you randomly delete data. Po9090 (talk) 21:26, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Please change the information on the vijayadurga temple

I demand you to return the actual facts mentioned on that page. Why do you tamper with information, when you guys don't know the reality? You have mispelt the name of a goddess on that page. This is truly appalling of you. Po9090 (talk) 21:31, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

CC by-sa 3.0 not sufficient?

I was surprised by the removal of source code at International Obfuscated C Code Contest. All material on ioccc.org is published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Is that not sufficient to allow republication here? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:54, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Here is a link to the bot report from September. There's no indication that the code the user posted in that edit actually came from the compatibly licensed website. I have undone the revision deletion.— Diannaa (talk) 03:29, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Gallery A

Dear Diannaa, Without reverting, I cannot be sure that what you have removed from Gallery A is actually copied from https://nga.gov.au/research/pdf/ms7_findingaid.pdf. I cited the document. It provides useful information on Gallery A not found elsewhere. It cites papers held in NGA that I cannot access (from which the writer of the finding aid may have copied) and I am not aware of having copied and pasted anything from it. Can you show me please what that material was that you removed or paraphrased, or show how to find it without reverting please? Sorry to put you to this trouble, but I am puzzled to find myself accused of copyright violation but most importantly concerned that information has been lost in this process. Regards, Jamesmcardle^(talk) 22:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

I have temporarily undone the revision deletion so you can view. Please see this report which shows the overlapping material.— Diannaa (talk) 23:10, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for replying and fr your diligence.That reassures me that no exhibitions have been removed. The copyvio check of course turns up so much because the overlaps are names of artists, galleries etc and really my copying is minimal and something I'd have changed since the article is by no means finished. However you did delete mention of Meadmore's directorship - a fact we'll known for which suppose I can find other reference and which I shall reinsert in different paraphrasing, and it is important that they showed Australian and American art (also removed) given the Blue Poles controversy. I will keep using the Finding Aid list judiciously though its summary in several cases is inaccurate according to other sources. Perhaps in future you could just send me a note rather than just reverting please? Will save us both time Jamesmcardle^(talk) 00:09, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

I did re-word most of the content for you - if there's something important that I removed accidentally please go ahead and re-add it as long as it's properly paraphrased it's not a problem.— Diannaa (talk) 00:40, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Draft:P.D. Shah deleted

Diannaa, you deleted my P.D. Shah article because it violated the copyrignt of http://www.rudraveena.org/PDShah.html, which is my website. I wanted to get an article about P.D. Shah, into wikipedia. If it is not ok to copy my own website in the wikipedia article (by the way, it was not an exact copy... on my page it is written by P.D. Shah's daughter and she talks first person... I took the first person aspect out in the draft article), can you restore the draft so that I can totally change the wikipedia text? By the way, I also submitted an undelete request. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtranz (talk • contribs) 23:22, 24 October 2020 (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. I can't restore the draft without this permission in writing via the OTRS system.— Diannaa (talk) 00:34, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

I have added a note at the bottom of http://www.rudraveena.org/PDShah.html stating< "The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License" Is that sufficient? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtranz (talk • contribs) 12:05, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

I have restored the draft. Note you will have to do something about the photo as well, as your not only mentions text, and the license on the photo is not the same as that you used for the text.— Diannaa (talk) 12:22, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I have revised the note to read: "All material on this page (text, photos, and videos) is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License". I have also contacted another administrator, who declined the article for lack of notability. This is a very rare instrument, used to play very rare music. It has been an obscure part of Indian classical music, for centuries. Hopefully, we can move past that obstacle as well. I have replied to the administrator, Tatupiplu. This knowledge should be made available to the world. The photos and videos were given to me, to use on my website, by P.D. Shah's daughter, Vijaya Rajkotia, who owns them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtranz (talk • contribs) 17:24, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Possession of the images does not transfer the copyright to you. Whoever took the photos is the copyright holder of those photos.— Diannaa (talk) 18:26, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Removal of material from the page for Paul Spoonley

Hi there, I can see some value in what you have removed on the page, but perhaps you could explain how this related to the non-free criteria? I will have a better look later at the criteria. I will keep a watch on the slight reformatting you did on the Reflist bit....as long as we can add the name instead of the full reference in the source, that is fine. I am sure you know about that. Let's have a constructive discussion as I would like to keep working on this page. Regards Greg Realitylink (talk) 19:38, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

That little change you made to the Reflist formatting doesn't seem to be affecting how just a "name" for a reference can be used in source editing. That's good! I am still wondering about why all of the stuff removed was non-free material? I did have a lot of quoted material, but it was all from references. Is that not allowed? I guess copying from a commercial site for books could be dubious...With Spoonley, I would like to get his key ideas into some sort of social /issues context. So, just noting the publications and research can be a little limiting. As long as what I add has references, not sure what the issue is? Anyway, we continue the conversation. I will carry on adding stuff and keep it simple at the this stage - your feedback would be welcome. Greg Realitylink (talk) 20:47, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Word count was reduced from 2876 words to 869 words. In other words, before my removal, 70% of the articles was quotations. Short quotations are okay, but Wikipedia articles are for the most part written by Wikipedians in their own words, not by stringing together quotations. The non-free content guideline is Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria.— Diannaa (talk) 22:09, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for that Diannaa and I fully understand the importance of not including too many quotations. I am looking closely now at the copyright on all documents that can be possibly be used, so appreciate your expertise and feedback. Greg Realitylink (talk) 21:36, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Requesting some advice as you are in Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to investigate copyright matters

Hello; I have some suspicion that a particular editor may regularly perform their editing by cutting and pasting from sources and making only minor changes, and hence may be introducing copyright infringement at least at the level of long segment fragments into Wikipedia. But before I get into what I assume might be a really tedious investigation to prove definitively that this is the case, I'm having trouble determining whether anyone would actually care; although the header of the WP:CCI describes copyright infringement as a "serious allegation", some admin reactions I've seen lead me to think the kind of copyvio I'm talking about may get a very mild response.

I asked TonyBallioni about this on his talk page a couple of weeks ago and he hasn't responded to me but it may be because I was too long-winded as I am wont to be (many more details there if you're curious) or, I've noticed now that a message at the top says he's very busy IRL these days.

So, do you think this sort of thing would be important? Thank you, ‿Ꞅtruthious 𝔹andersnatch ͡ |℡| 00:57, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

If you review the header at WP:CCI you'll see that if you have five examples of violations the case can be listed. Go ahead and list it if you think the case meets the criterion, and the regulars at that board (mostly Moneytrees and MER-C these days) will look into it. — Diannaa (talk) 11:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC) PS: If the five examples could be recent examples, that would be ideal.— Diannaa (talk) 11:31, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! --‿Ꞅtruthious 𝔹andersnatch ͡ |℡| 19:35, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Re: Copyright problem on Schweppes

I can't tell what copyrighted work you're referring to, but I never visited that particular website. The history doesn't allow me to compare my revision with yours. I did copy the list of countries from another website, but I don't know how to re-word an accurate list. Please advise. Stu (talk) 11:43, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

I didn't remove the list. I removed "Schweppes International Limited, a company of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd, is proprietor of the Schweppes® trademark and its associated business in the following countries" and changed it to read "Schweppes International Limited owns the trademark in..." Please include a citation with each of your edits in the future so we know what your source was.— Diannaa (talk) 11:54, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hi. I have a revdel request as per RD2. This one. See the edit summary.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  14:40, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

I have hidden the edit summary. I will contact the oversight team - the material may qualify for oversight. Thank you for reporting,— Diannaa (talk) 14:44, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Screen capture

Hi Diannaa, quick question about this image on Commons, which I came across it when looking at this new article. The description on Commons says that it's a screen capture from NASA WorldWind software (homepage), which describes itself as 'an open source virtual globe API'. Are images produced like this OK from a copyright perspective? GirthSummit _(blether) 15:11, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Everything from NASA should be PD. It should be tagged as {{PD-WorldWind}} I will add that. Cheers,— Diannaa (talk) 16:20, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Diannaa, brilliant, thanks GirthSummit _(blether) 11:17, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Possible copy vio

Hi Diannaa, I don't know if you are able to help. I have a suspicion that Vivienne Goonewardene, currently at GAN, may have chunks of copy vio in it, and, separately, chunks of unattributed copying from within Wikipedia. (Eg from Sirimavo Bandaranaike.) I may well be entirely wrong. Is there someone or somewhere where I could refer it for a more rigorous check than Earwig? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:49, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

The article is extremely difficult to check because of the huge number of citations and the large amount of content added since August. I have checked the sources that were repeatedly copied from in the past and removed some content. — Diannaa (talk) 13:14, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

This is the sixth time this article has been cleaned of copyright violations originating from the same person.— Diannaa (talk) 13:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:00, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Q

Hi Diannaa--a little bird suggested to me that File:HeleenMees2019.jpg is copyrighted. I don't know enough to judge that, but maybe you do? The Flickr page says "some rights reserved"... Thank you so much, Drmies (talk) 16:48, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

When visiting the Flickr page, click on "some rights reserved" as it's a clickable link to the license. Also, for this particular image, it's extracted from File:Heleen Mees FD 2019.jpg, which was checked by the Flickr Review Bot as being ok. I have added the Flickr review template to the cropped image (even though I am not a Flickr reviewer and technically don't have permission to do so). — Diannaa (talk) 16:56, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I have checked around using Google search and the image does not appear to have been copied from elsewhere online. Reviewing the Flickr-user's uploads reveals the photo was part of a series taken by them at an event. See this album— Diannaa (talk) 17:09, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Thank you!— Diannaa (talk) 11:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Copypatrol down?

My cursory review suggests there hasn't been anything new in six hours which I think is unlikely. I know you usually make these reports in a forgotten where they go, so happy to make a report but thought I'd check with you first.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:06, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

The system has been behaving erratically for the last day or so with long gaps where no reports are filed. (Outages from 2020-10-27 16:36 to 2020-10-27 20:43; from 2020-10-28 00:23 to 2020-10-28 04:03; from 2020-10-28 04:03 to 2020-10-28 08:33; and from 2020-10-28 09:50 to present. All of these gaps are approximately 4 hours long except for the current outage, which is around 6 hours so far.) User:MusikAnimal has now set up an automated system whereby the tool maintainers are notified automatically via email when there's no reports filed for 4 hours. So presumably they got an email for each outage, including the current one.

Normally what I have done in the past (before the new notification system went live) is post at User talk:ערן (pinging MusikAnimal in my post) as well as re-opening ticket phab:T256501. I will do those things now, since it's been well in excess of four hours. Another thing that can be checked is to verify that Turnitin is not experiencing downtime - this I do by looking at https://turnitin.statuspage.io/ as well as https://twitter.com/turnitinstatus. — Diannaa (talk) 16:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Revdel needed on Kambojas article

User:Adsmohali apparently copied a cited source directly into Kambojas. I've removed the copyvio from the article, but it still exists in the history. Thanks--Quisqualis (talk) 19:03, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Quisqualis. The material you removed was copied from Shudra, not from an external website. Revision deletion is not needed. Thanks,— Diannaa (talk) 21:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

You said a page I created was gotten from http://aceondo.edu.ng/History but I Don't know the site just seeing it for the first, please do something. Chigozie mbam (talk) 19:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

The material exists at several locations online, not just the one I mentioned. Here is another one. — Diannaa (talk) 21:49, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Poets Roundtable of Arkansas

Hi, what was the problem with this? Pkeets (talk) 13:06, 29 October 2020 (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 what the bot found.— Diannaa (talk) 13:10, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

SMAUG article copyright issue

Hello Diannaa, I did cite the original source as a reference (not the same one you quoted), please see: [12]. I can modify the text if needed, but it is used with permission. --Thoric (talk) 18:06, 30 October 2020 (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:Requesting copyright permission for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent.— Diannaa (talk) 19:25, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

October harvest

thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:04, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the lovely photo. :) — Diannaa (talk) 12:00, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Ref formats

Hi. Just have a question about ref formats. At Larung Gar, the most recent ref formats remove info from refs when displayed in the pop-ups. Dates and/or authors and/or publication names aren't displaying. Wondering if instead of refill2 there's another formatting option which doesn't delete ref info. And, if it's not a problem, I'd like to revert the changes, but don't fully understand why just some were formatted. Thanks. Pasdecomplot (talk) 23:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

I am not sure why you are having issues with popups - they are all working nicely for me. If you can tell me some specific popups that are not working, I will have a look. A few dates were removed because they did not appear on the source webpage. I have gone back and made a few more manual changes and additions. It's better if you don't undo the formatting, since the citations are now correctly formatted. For example the titles of articles do not get italics, they get quotation marks. And bare urls should not be visible in your finished product. Using citation templates has other advantages. For example because they are machine readable, certain maintenance tasks such as fixing dead links can be done automatically using scripts. Of course you are free to undo these improvements if you wish, but I don't recommend it.— Diannaa (talk) 11:54, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Henry S. White

I figured it out, and did it adding the public domain to the place where I got most of the stuff from. Just curious do you know how to link to the middle of a Wikipedia page for his medical school I want to go to the history of Colombia medical school when it was called college of physicians and surgeons Thanks Bigmike2346 (talk) 16:03, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Bigmike2346, where exactly did you copy-paste the material from? I found it in Memorial Cyclopedia of New Jersey Volume 4. This book is not listed in your bibliography. The link shows a publication date of 1927 but this scan shows it was actually published in 1921. (The current cut-off is 1925.) So I will fix this up in a minute here. Sorry for the mistake.

Regarding your linking question, it's possible to link to a section of an article. But I think White may have attended Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons? If you want to link to a section of an article, it's done line this: [[Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons#Merger with the College of Physicians and Surgeons]] or [[Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons#Merger with the College of Physicians and Surgeons|College of Physicians and Surgeons]]— Diannaa (talk) 16:24, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

The New Jersey Coast in Three Centuries: History of the New Jersey Coast with Genealogical and Historic-biographical Appendix, Volume 2. 1902. That is where I got it all from

Cool cool cool. That one is also PD.— Diannaa (talk) 16:57, 31 October 2020 (UTC)