User talk:Beeheals
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Again, welcome! Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:18, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Moved
[edit]Have moved your addition here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_B_vaccine#Usage
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:18, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
WHO data in articles
[edit]Hi and thanks for the array of articles. One note on using data from WHO: According to the source given for this data, the data sets are fully copyrighted, (see [1]) and not allowed to be re-used or modified, which makes their use a copyright violation. As a result, the inclusion of the actual list content will probably need to be removed. I know this kind of puts a damper on your articles, but unfortunately, copyright is one area that must be rigorously enforced for legal reasons. I'll be happy to answer any questions about this, as it is admittedly a convoluted area. Thanks, CrowCaw 21:59, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- What about List of countries by life expectancy? Are we going to remove the entire WHO list for copyright reasons too? There are many lists in Wikipedia using WHO data so if copyright is an issue, we must remove all of them equally and not favor one over another. Beeheals (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- Actually, my apologies for an incomplete comment. When I wrote the above, I was mainly looking at List of countries by health emergency preparedness, where the ranking is based on some formula they used (the "13 scores"). Your other articles, and the one you linked to above, are based solely on raw factual data with no creative calculations involved. Those kinds of articles are fine, as raw data cannot be copyrighted. I've tried to research those 13 scores to see if they are also just a sum of some raw factual data, but as of yet have not been able to determine that. If you happen to know, that would answer that question straight away. The rule of thumb with list data is: can you determine any entities ranking given just raw data? If yes, then you're usually ok (as in List of countries by death rate from unintentional poisoning which is just a ranking of factual numbers). If there's some unknown formula involved (those usually present as "indexes"), then it is likely copyrighted.
- Again my apologies for the incompleteness, and most definitely so if I came across as accusatory, which was absolutely not my intention. Thanks! CrowCaw 22:43, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
- That's okay I was just finding it strange that there are so many lists in Wikipedia using WHO data with none of them being challenged for copyright violations. The 13 scores (despite their confusing name) are not scores or data themselves but more like rules and regulations that are part of the International Health Regulations. Beeheals (talk)
- What about List of countries by life expectancy? Are we going to remove the entire WHO list for copyright reasons too? There are many lists in Wikipedia using WHO data so if copyright is an issue, we must remove all of them equally and not favor one over another. Beeheals (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of List of countries by health emergency preparedness
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The article List of countries by health emergency preparedness has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Another lame article, made to show that "Korea is number fucking one"
Note: this article was made by a confirmed and indef blocked sock puppet. So should be deleted anyway. Add to that the nationalistic lameness of this article and it should be deleted, burned and cut into little pieces.
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