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Dear user ALoopingIcon, you removed a reference of mine. I agree that wikipedia is not a place for self-promotion. But this reference has not been added for this reason. It is not just a conference paper but a complete book which is published worldwide (see amazon, etc.), and it is the result of many years of intense research on the application of different 3D scanning technologies for industrial measuring and quality assurance tasks. It gives a comprehensive overview on up-to-date techniques and refers to standard literature in this area as well. Unless you have not read it (you can find a pdf version as well) you should not remove it! Thanks for your patience. (comment written by Cteutsch).

It is not something personal, i have looked at your thesis and I have nothing against it. Let's continue the discussion on the Talk:3D scanner page. ALoopingIcon (talk) 17:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear user ALoopinglcon, you have removed part of a sentence I have written about 3d scanner triangulation. I know that wikipedia is not for advertising and i respect that, but I was giving an example because my company (3D digital corp.) makes laser triangulation scanners(Otix 400 series and Escan). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.11.175 (talk) 00:31, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I really like your image of the caffeine molecule. I followed your link to QuteMol, but I couldn't find the program that you used. Any chance you can give me a pointer on where I can find it? Mrestko 04:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the appreciation! The Qutemol tool used for doing the caffeine images is now available. First alpha release of QuteMol can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/qutemol. If you are interested i will add more details on the creation of the above images. ALoopingIcon 14:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Scanning method

Hi! I was wondering, what type of 3D scanner did you use in reference to File:3D scanning and printing.jpg?

Was it a commercial product, or some structured light setup maybe? Meekohi (talk) 12:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Michael, for that gargoyle, if I well remember, we used a Minolta Vivid 910. I am not quite sure because we have a few scanners in the lab, and we did it a few years ago. For the processing as usual we used our internal tools (MeshLab or some of its predecessors...).
BTW kudos for your siggraph paper! ALoopingIcon (talk) 08:31, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I think that this speedy deletion was a mistake. I did not copied any complete sentence, I reworded and paraphrased all the contributions from that paper (that was cited in the references), but given that they were definitions they were not very different. Could you check it? Thanks. ALoopingIcon (talk) 14:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that the paper was cited (along with the book). The intro sentence included the definition clearly copied from the paper since it used an incorrect tense compared to how you started the sentence. While you did not copy any complete sentence, you did copy phrases from various points in the paper and then strung them together using some of your own words. Even if it were not verbatim, we can't use close paraphrases of copyrighted material. Everything (except for brief quotations, if necessary) needs to be written from scratch in your own words in a summary/encyclopedia style. Does that make sense for why it was deleted? VernoWhitney (talk) 14:49, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I get that there's some language barrier involved, and I certainly don't believe you intended any problems, but writing an article from basically a single source is always going to be hard to do without mirroring that source too closely. From a quick Google search I see that there are tons of websites and news articles about the term, so it should be possible to find more than just the one reliable source and be able to come up with a summary of what all of the articles are saying (including more than one source would also make it more obvious that the subject is notable). VernoWhitney (talk) 14:58, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. I understand that when dealing with copyright, it is always safer to stay on the safe side about the (quite elastic) concept of the 'close paraphrase', but I still think that this speedy deletion was definitely a wrong choice. I agree that just two sources could be not enough but probably adding a template indicating the problem would have been a much wiser choice. While justified, this kind of behaviour IMHO is one of the reasons why editors leave. ALoopingIcon (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I do understand your reasoning. If you'd like, I can reinstate the page with {{copyvio}} covering most of it; that tag provides a link to a temporary workspace where you could rewrite the article clean of copyright issues. The article would be listed at WP:CP for a week at which time the rewrite would be reviewed by a clerk or admin and accepted/trimmed/rewritten/deleted as appropriate. Alternatively, the article could be rewritten from scratch and simply reposted. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:36, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes thanks. I really would appreciate if you could reinstate the page (just to avoid to re-type it again). I will jumble more the text and add more sources to make more difficult to automated plagiarism checker tools to track the sources... (I was going to do it in any case, just did not expect a speedy deletion...) ALoopingIcon (talk) 17:04, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. It's been blanked, but all of the text and citations can still be seen in history, of course, so you can copy it from there to start your rewrite. Cheers. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:28, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, after 4 months, seeing a rejection that just says "Please find more sources that devote significant coverage(not just namedrops)" is indeed disappointing. The page refers at least three scientific papers that describe the use of the software. What is exactly needed? A longer description of how the software is used? Please elaborate, because that comment does not help to understand how to improve the page. Thanks ALoopingIcon (talk) 10:20, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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