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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?

[1] which mentions [2] 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)

Göbekli Tepe section paragraph - copyright infringement?

Hi Diannaa - please could you specify the exact instance of my alleged copyright infringement you are referring to?InfoSaw (talk) 17:51, 28 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) 19:01, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

I've reviewed the report. It links to a web blog that I've never seen or read before. The relevant blog post is one that cites the abstract to the article that I cited to in my (attempted) addition to the wiki page in question. It shows that 71% of the words I typed corresponds to the abstract. I don't see how the content of what I wrote constitutes copyright infringement. The article is common access, and I cited to it as best that I could. In no place do I fail to attribute my work as someone else's. Following Wiki editor Joe Roe's suggestions to revise my initial post, I revised my initial post according to his views to read as follows:

"In a 2017 peer-reviewed archaeology journal, Martin Sweatman and Dimitrios Tsikritsis interpreted much of the symbolism of Göbekli Tepe in terms of astronomical events. Working from the evidence known to date, Sweatman and Tsikristis posited that Göbekli Tepe likely operated as an observatory. Some call Sweatman and Tsikritsis' interpretation a fringe theory, though it has not been discredited in any other peer-reviewed journal article."

For comparison purposes, I have quoted the entire article's abstract as follows:

"We have interpreted much of the symbolism of Göbekli Tepe in terms of astronomical events. By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms we findcompelling evidencethat the famous ‘Vulture Stone’ is adate stamp for 10950 BC ± 250 yrs, which corresponds closely to the proposed Younger Dryas event, estimated at 10890 BC. We also find evidence that a key function of Göbekli Tepe was to observe meteor showers and record cometary encounters. Indeed, the people of Göbekli Tepe appear to have had a special interest in the Taurid meteor stream, the same meteor stream that is proposed as responsible for the Younger-Dryas event. Is Göbekli Tepe the ‘smoking gun’ for the Younger-Dryas cometary encounter, and hence for coherent catastrophism?"

In your professional opinion, does what I have written constitute copyright violation?

To be clear, I have not attempted to infringe upon copyrighted material, nor attempted to plagiarize another person's work and pass it off as my own. I am surprised by this allegation and, to be honest, taken aback - this is a very serious allegation. I accordingly take this allegation seriously. Accordingly, I would also like to know who flagged what I wrote as copyright infringement.InfoSaw (talk) 13:32, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

It frequently happens that material is often copied to multiple places online such as blogs. The log entry shows I found the content at http://maajournal.com/Issues/2017/Vol17-1/Sweatman%20and%20Tsikritsis%2017%281%29.pdf, which is a match for the paper you cited. I did not actually remove the content - that was done by someone else. I did revision deletion of your edit at 14:29, October 27, 2020, which was very close to an exact duplicate of the abstract. I did not touch the other two times you added text, because they were both okay from a copyright point of view. Those two edits were however removed by other people for reasons other than copyright. Comparison is as follows (overlapping material is shown in bold):

Martin Sweatman and Dimitrios Tsikritsis have interpreted much of the symbolism of Göbekli Tepe in terms of astronomical events. By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms, they found evidence that the 'Vulture Stone' is a date stamp for 10950 BCE ± 250 years, which corresponds closely to the Younger-Dryas event, estimated to have occurred around 10890 BCE. Sweatman and Tsikristis also found evidence that a key function of Göbekli Tepe was to act as an observatory. The authors reason from the evidence available to date that the people of Göbekli Tepe were interested in the Taurid meteor stream, the same meteor stream that is proposed as resonsible for the Younger-Dryas event.

Source paper says:

We have interpreted much of the symbolism of Göbekli Tepe in terms of astronomical events. By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms we find compelling evidence that the famous ‘Vulture Stone’ is a date stamp for 10950 BC ± 250 yrs, which corresponds closely to the proposed Younger Dryas event, estimated at 10890 BC. We also find evidence that a key function of Göbekli Tepe was to observe meteor showers and record cometary encounters. Indeed, the people of Göbekli Tepe appear to have had a special interest in the Taurid meteor stream, the same meteor stream that is proposed as responsible for the Younger-Dryas event. Is Göbekli Tepe the ‘smoking gun’ for the Younger-Dryas cometary encounter, and hence for coherent catastrophism?

— Diannaa (talk) 14:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

References

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: [3]. 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)

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)