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Message from 102.176.94.113

That contribution was extracted from a co-publication (Anufɔ-English Codeswitching in Informal Settings) of which I am a part. But I perfectly understand now. Much appreciated!

Joseph Yaw-kan

(102.176.94.113 (talk) 10:06, 2 June 2025 (UTC))

Copyvio at The Creature Cases

Hi, the episode summaries may be copyvio but i'm not certain which site it's from as earwig tool is giving three possible websites, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

I see this frequently. The stuff often is copied from one place to another and might appear in multiple places. I typically list one of the sources and say "or elsewhere" in my edit summary. see this one for example. I have done the revision deletion. Thanks for reporting. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:45, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

For talk page watchers, Copypatrol appears to currently be down

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T395976
Resolved

This is just a note that Copypatrol appears to be currently down; I get 500 errors when trying to access it. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 22:25, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

I have opened a ticket.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:37, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Fixed.--— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:08, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

ManfredHugh

Hi Diannaa if you have a moment, could you give me hand please at Talk:Squatting_in_England_and_Wales#Recent_edits? I'm asking ManfredHugh to stop adding coopyvio and unsourced statements. I'm asking here because you have previously engaged with them about copyvio per User_talk:ManfredHugh#April_2023. Thanks! Mujinga (talk) 21:01, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

It looks to me like he has been working on the page as recently as 90 minutes ago and some or all of the suspect prose that you mentioned on the talk page has now been removed. I am unable to check the article against the PDF, it just keeps timing out, which makes this is a more complicated case than I have time to deal with right now. A good option if you are not satisfied with his work is to list the article at WP:CP. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:31, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, I'm also a bit short on time at the mo' but I suspect I will be heading to WP:CP soon. Wishing you a fine weekend! Mujinga (talk) 13:05, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Normandy landings

story · music · places

"Into the Jaws of Death"

Good to see the Normandy landings on the main page again on their anniversary! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda! It was a very worthwhile project.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:19, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

I can imagine! I'm busy making Bach's chorale cantatas a good topic, - there are 40, but most of them are at least nominated for GA by now. One tough nut was cracked, BWV 80, for which I had done almost nothing, and another tough one is BWV 8, written by the two Bach experts who were later banned, - it will need a lot of trimming. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Copyvio Myrmica laevinodis

Hello Diannaa, Earwig's Copyvio Detector shows an 89% probability of copyright content that was added 19 years ago. So, this article might have been previously assessed. If so, is there some way to label these articles so that they are not re-evaluated over & over again; or maybe there is, and I don't know where to look. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 19:30, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

This is a copyvio, as the Wayback Machine shows archived copies of the source webpage that predeates the addition to Wikipedia. I have removed the pverlapping content but won't be doing revision deletion. There'sno way to check and see if someone assessed for copyvio at some time in the past. CorenSearchBot did not exist until 2007. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:26, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Adjusting My Work

Hi Diannaa, I'm unsure if I'm doing this right, but could you recheck my page on Antonio de Salazar (composer)? I'm still getting used to using wikipedia and following the writing expectations. Many thanks!

AbbyLovesMusic (talk) 23:10, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi! The new version looks okay from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:41, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

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Whirlwind (pinball)

Hello Diannaa, as you have made 2 edits to this page I'm looking at each of them in turn. For the Whirlwind: Total Chaos section as all the information in there was verifiable I assume I followed the source too closely and should have rewritten it more than I did - is there a way to see what was there so I can make sure to do that differently?

The other one is the quote that is on https://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2765. How much of that is OK to use as a quote attributed to John Youssi (the artist for that game)? or should it be entirely written with different words using the facts on there?

Also, as a more general question to uploading an image for an infobox, am I doing it correctly by uploading the size image I have and let the DatBot reduce the size afterwards, or should I be trying to edit it to a smaller size first? Wilbers (talk) 15:10, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

The edit was flagged by the CopyPatrol system. It might help you to view what was found by the detection service for the flagged edit. The report is here. You can check the results from Turnitin by viewing the iThenticate report. In order to review the iThenticate report you will have to first log in to the CopyPatrol system (upper right corner of the page). You will be asked to provide authorization at Meta for access to your account.

Next, click on the link to the iThenticate report, so that you can see what was found by the detection service. I think it is at this point you are asked to agree to the terms of use of the Turnitin people, who have kindly donated the use of this tool to Wikipedia. The overlapping content will be highlighted (the iThenticate report may take a while to load).

The content you add should not include any wording from the source material. Summarize rather than paraphrase, and don't try to include every single detail. This will typically result in the new version being much shorter than the source document. It also helps to have more than one source to draw from.

The material I removed from https://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2765 was not a quotation. There were no quotation marks. Regarding the use of quotations: Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our non-free content 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. Quoting a passage that could easily be re-written into copyright-compliant prose is not a good alternative to writing our own content.

For non-free images such as logos, posters, etc: I prefer letting the bot re-size the images. Just tag the image with {{non-free reduce}} at the time of upload. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:07, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, that is very helpful. I'm still in the learning phase for Wikipedia, although know a lot more than I did in January when the first article I wrote much of was published. Makes sense that there is a CopyPatrol system, just the first time I've heard of it. I've had another go at the Whirlwind: Total Chaos section that I think should be OK now. One sentence wasn't highlighted in turnitin so I assume its fine for me to add that one specifically back in. Wilbers (talk) 22:01, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Now that you've got the newversion in place you can compare using Earwig's tool. Looks ok! Thanks for taking the time to do that. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:10, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

I've put something better that covers the 2 versions of the translite. Should I update Talk:Whirlwind_(pinball) from stub to start or should I leave it to others to decide what class the revised article should be? I might go back if I find out anything else in future, but its in a much better state than it was a few days ago. Wilbers (talk) 23:17, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

You can use the chart at Wikipedia:Content_assessment to determine how to rate the article. Independent review is not required at this point. Have look at the examples in the right-hand column. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:50, 11 June 2025 (UTC)