User talk:Dawelker1861

The First Battle Of Petersburg was on June 9th, not June 15th. The Assault of Petersburg (Second Battle of Petersburg) began on June 15th.

John Bahl

January 2024

Your edit to Black Dispatches has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Nobody (talk) 18:25, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The material I tried to post was an article that I wrote. However, I don't want to run afoul of the journal that published it. Would it still be a copy write violation if I instead insert my own text correcting this entry? What I wish to fix is that the term "Black Dispatches" is not--despite what the original creator of this page claims--a term used during the Civil War. As my research shows, it never appears in writings of the time and in any case, the using term "black" to describe covert actions and operations dates to Britian in the 1920s - not the 1860s. As this article exists, it misleads the public and I would like to correct that. Dawelker1861 (talk) 20:24, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, I understand your situation. There are basically 2 ways to do this: The harder way would be to contact the Volunteer Response Team using info-enwikimedia.org in order to get your identity proven, but that still might get into conflict with the journal. The easier way would be if you summarize the article in your own words and add the article as a reference. Nobody (talk) 06:14, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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14 novembre (talk) 🇮🇹 20:48, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem on Black Dispatches

Hi Mr Welker. I have removed your changes to the above article, because it was copied from https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2023.2288007 without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. We need to have documentation that shows the copyright holders have given permission for the material to be copied to this website, and have released the material under a compatible license. 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. Diannaa (talk) 14:38, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am the author of the material posted and the original source, published in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Although some of the text appears similar, it's because I wrote it for the journal article, but drew that from an earlier draft. In that case, would it not be sufficient to properly cite the original article? If necessary< I could slightly alter each sentence so that nothing used is exactly like what was published. Would that be sufficient? Dawelker1861 (talk) 17:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]