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Help needed at CopyPatrol (2)

I had to do some RL things today and now we have 119 items in the queue at CopyPatrol. I need some helpers please. Pinging some recent participants: The4lines, GreenLipstickLesbian, Compassionate727, DanCherek, Ymblanter, L3X1, and Win8x. Any interested talk page watchers could do a few cases as well! Please stop by and help, even if you only have time to clear a few cases. Thank you very much! — Diannaa (talk) 22:07, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Copyright problem on American exceptionalism

thank you for your note. could you please specify what text you objected to and what was the source of copyright, that it violated? It seems, that these two pieces of infor should be provided for any deletion. Otherwise, I can delete anything on wikipedia claiming , that it violatyed some non-existing copyright. please be considerate of my request and try to put yourself in my position. I am really puzzled by your deletion. Walter Tau (talk) 12:26, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, you canview the overlapping content using Earwig's tool. Source document is marked as "copyrighted, © 2005, by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved." — Diannaa (talk) 12:32, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Dear Diannaa, thank you for your numerous copyright patrol contributions. Since, this is a second time you and I run in a dispute over limitations of copyright, I wonder if you are familiar now with the concept of Fair use. You mentioned in our conversation over a year ago, that Wikipedia follows US case law (I would like to see an evidence of it), however you always ignore the concept of fair use, which by the way is much broader in the USA than equivalent concepts in other countries.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Walter Tau (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use policy does not allow us to copy material from copyright sources when there's a freely licensed alternative available. In this case the freely licensed material is prose that we write ourselves. — Diannaa (talk) 21:52, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Baháʼí Faith in India copyright violation

You removed some edit history on Baháʼí Faith in India from three different editors, including me. Mine was a table formatting cleanup, and most likely not the source of the copyright violation you were trying to clean up. Can you restore my edits or do I need to repeat the formatting? Cuñado ☼ - Talk 21:12, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry never mind. I see that my edits did make it onto the page. The history made it look like they were erased. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 21:14, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, this happens sometimes, where intervening harmless edits get hidden, so that copyvio material is completely removed from the page history. Sorry about that. — Diannaa (talk) 21:19, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Lymphatic system copyright

Hello, I saw you deleted content from one of my students in the article Blood–brain barrier - Wikipedia because of copyright issues. Would it make sense for you to also intervene in the edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lymphatic_system&diff=prev&oldid=1247322775 obtaining material from the article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-024-00728-0 or do you consider the editing of the original text sufficient? Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 09:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Olle Terenius (UU), I can't view the soure article because it's behind a paywall. I will have to leave it up to you as to whether or not it's adequately rewritten. — Diannaa (talk) 14:37, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Canlii law as copyright content?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shawn_Brant&action=history

Please explain. 67.193.233.211 (talk) 14:43, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

In Canada, government works are protected by copyright for 50 years from publication date. — Diannaa (talk) 14:51, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

5.1 May I establish a hypertext link to a CanLII Website page?

Yes, you may establish hypertext links to any page of the CanLII Website. However, under our terms of use, it is prohibited to do so in such a way as to create confusion or make it appear that the hyperlinked document does not come from the CanLII Website. 67.193.233.211 (talk) 14:52, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

If they are publishing material in violation of someone else's copyright, you should not link to it or use it as a citation. WP:ELNEVER — Diannaa (talk) 14:58, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

so the 50 year rule doesn't apply now but it is someone else's content posted on Canlii that you are flagging. A Superior Court Decision. What about citation [3] in the article that points to a dead .pdf file on a defunct OCAP.CA site, why would you reinstate that bad link.

please direct me to wiki complaint talk link 67.193.233.211 (talk) 15:06, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

I didn't reinstate a bad link. That link was there when I arrived, and it's still there. If you wish to complain about my work, you might try filing a report at Wikipedia:Administrative action review or at WP:AN. — Diannaa (talk) 15:11, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Lets see how this plays out Diannaa. I have removed Citation 3 because it was not verifiable. Ocap.ca .pdf. - The specific Shawn Brant Wiki article indicated help for improvement and citation updates. Not being able to provide Case Law information seems unjust to this article. Just trying to be helpful. 67.193.233.211 (talk) 15:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

COPYRIGHTED SOURCE VIOLATION

hello Dianna, I have violated a wikipedia rule by mistake and I am unsure what to do to fix it, please let me know what to do next because I am scared it is very serious. Clausewitez (talk) 21:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Which article? I already fixed one on Numidian cavalry — Diannaa (talk) 22:42, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes thankyou for that, but also now everytime I wanna make an edit I have a message talking about my violation of copyright. how do I fix that message pop up ? Clausewitez (talk) 18:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

It's okay to remove the message from your talk page if you want to. — Diannaa (talk) 20:30, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Could you please help me out

Hi. I'm posting here what I posted on FormalDude's page. Please forgive me for not being super Wiki-literate yet. I was just looking for some help and noticed that FormalDude isn't an admin so I found your page, Diannaa:

Hi FormalDude. Could you take a look at the NYU Law Review's page? This user "Randykitty" for some reason feels the need to erroneously remove our logo from our page. You reversed him once already last year but he just removed the logo again (for the same reason you'd reversed him) claiming the logo isn't being used by the Law Review. Here is evidence of the Law Review using the logo that's on the Wiki page (that Randykitty will for some reason try to remove again): https://www.instagram.com/nyulawreview/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/nyulr/ https://twitter.com/nyulawreview Nyulrlogo (talk) 22:06, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Why do you say "our logo"? do you work for the NYU Law Review? — Diannaa (talk) 22:08, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Dr.Mahmood Sariolghalam

Hi, I had a discussion with Dr. Mahmood Sariolghalam, and he asked me to modify his page by adding the content he specified and also revising or removing the previous content.

All changes were made with his approval. Moein29 (talk) 12:28, 5 October 2024 (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 documentation is 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) 13:32, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Pablo Escobar

Dear Diannaa: After reading the apparent plagiarism, let me clarify, and looking at the situation carefully, that the plagiarism is committed by the page you sent me because it is [badly] translated from the same article of Wikipedia in spanish. I try to follow the same pattern but placing the respective sources and suitable for Wikipedia in english. JeanMercier90 (talk) 14:53, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

It's okay to do that, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance, as well as the optional talk page template. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. Please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia projects for how to include the required attribution via an edit summary. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 17:35, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

It's OK. It is human to make mistakes. And thank you for reversing what you did. Regardless, I still have work to do. Thanks and best regards. JeanMercier90 (talk) 20:23, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Army Men Copyright Enquiry

Hello,

I see you tagged the Army Men article I did as a copyright issue. May I ask why and what gave you that conclusion? Krisfrosz133 (talk) 02:04, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Some of the content you added is a match for material at https://www.giantbomb.com/army-men/3025-36/, which is not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 14:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Thank you! -- Diannaa (talk) 01:57, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Diannaa,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

— The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Congratulations! - Did you know that I always thought you were here much longer than I was? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

You were actually here before me, by a couple months!-- Diannaa (talk) 12:50, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Rutka Laskier

Hey, Dianaa...trying to fix a broken ref at this article, and it looks like it occurred at this edit, but I'm not sure what you were trying to do? Valereee (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

The ref I removed was a link to a photograph, which is not a useful citation. Looks like I accidentally left behind some stray code. I will remove it now. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Uainstituteldn

Why did you block them for having a -bot suffix? They do violate the username policy but I think you confused them with the bot suffix template. Just wondering your thoughts :), Thanks, Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 16:17, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

I will fix this. Thanks for pointing this mistake out. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:26, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Free-content attribution template

Hi Diannaa. Good to see you still steaming along. We had an exchange some years ago about how to attribute the use of free-content text. Related to this is a further issue about the attribution template, which arose from this thread.

The Wikipedia explanatory essay on copyright violations and plagiarism now states:

It is acceptable to copy text from public domain sources or those that are explicitly licensed under a compatible licensing scheme. However, if you decide to do so, a dedicated attribution template must be used, and it's simply not enough to only mention the references and use inline citations.

If you look, for example, at the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, it states:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

But the attribution template does not seem to make any provision for when copied text is changed. Even if the text was not changed by the editor who initially inserted it, it is liable to subsequent modification by other editors. It seems to me that this fact should be accommodated from the outset by the template. This means that, unless the text is quoted, instead of saying "This article incorporates text from this source..." the template should say "This article incorporates modified text from this source...". — Epipelagic (talk) 21:46, 17 October 2024 (UTC)