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Mountain Province State Polytechnic College

Hello! I am currently in the process of fixing the article in preparation for a renaming per a few updates. However, the history section appears to be a full copyvio although Earwig is down for a moment. Inviting you to take the necessary steps to fix possible problems. Borgenland (talk) 15:59, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Borgenland, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. The content was present since 2011, so I am not going to perform revision deletion in this case. — Diannaa (talk) 18:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
I understand. Appreciate your help. Borgenland (talk) 01:21, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Modern history of the Negev

Hi! :)
You recently tagged my draft (now further drafted as History of the Negev during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods) with the Overquotation tag. First of all, thank you for that. You were absolutely right, and I have removed many unnecessary quotes from the footnotes. However, I am unsure about three of them. Could I ask for your opinion on these? It concerns footnotes 56, 57, and 81. In all cases, the wording could be omitted without significant loss. My reasoning was that these sources are written in Early New High German and Gothic script; nearly no reader will be able to check these sources. The translations of these sources were only intended as an "extra service." Would you still recommend removing them? Thanks and best regards, DaWalda (talk) 16:50, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello DaWalda. That's a good question. For translations I would suggest we are better off keeping them, as it adds to verifiability. — Diannaa (talk) 19:29, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit Homosexuality

Dear user,

thanks for your professional edit - the Tausch study. By the way, this Austrian political scientist was thrown out from Wikipedia (see the documentation available via wikipedia category „austrian political scientists“) about the time when Springer published the book „ development, globalization, global values, and security . Essays in honor of Arno Tausch.” edited by Glen Segell, Cambridge University and Univ of Haifa. What miserable comedy. please look at the reviews of the book available from the springer website and compare this please with the utterly unacceptable tone of the debate on the deletion of the Tausch article. there are by the way, quite interesting articles on this political scientist in other languages, including Spanish, Italian, and FrenchFrete unicolore (talk) 20:36, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

The content in question was added by someone else. My only reason for visiting the page was to add the attribution template, as part of copyright cleanup. It's up to the regular editors of the article to decide whether or not the addition belongs in the article. — Diannaa (talk) 22:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

List of journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war

  • FYI: Entry #12 (October 14, 2023) -- you deleted the journalist's name but nothing else. 50.75.202.186 (talk) 21:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
    • I did not delete any names. Some of the names were missing when I arrived at the article on May 25, 2024. — Diannaa (talk) 22:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
      My apologies. I assumed you had based on this edit, which deleted all the other previous edits due to copyright violations. If I was wrong, apologies. In any event, there is only one unnamed fatality now (entry #12 for the date of October 14, 2023). It appears to refer to a female but only one journalist was killed on that date and the profile matches the description: "Yousef Maher Dawas, a contributing writer for the Palestine Chronicle and a writer for We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian nonprofit project. He was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his family’s home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, according to WANN and Palestine Chronicle." (Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war - Committee to Protect Journalists (archive.org))
      The page is locked so can you update? Thanks, 50.75.202.186 (talk) 17:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
      Please request an edit on the article's talk page. Cite your source. Thanks — Diannaa (talk) 20:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

McKinsey & Company - WSJ Citation

Thank you for the heads up on a plagiarism for the WSJ citation on the McKinsey page. However, the WSJ article was cited and I believe it had a sentence quoted with quotation marks (the post has been removed and I can't go back and verify that). I guess I'm not understanding how it was plagiarism if it was cited and quoted? Thank you in advance for your help.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/diversity-was-supposed-to-make-us-rich-not-so-much-39da6a23 PerseusMeredith (talk) 12:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

There were no quotation marks. — Diannaa (talk) 12:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
My bad. Will the post comply if I properly include the quotation marks? Thank you for catching this. PerseusMeredith (talk) 23:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
It's an opinion of James Mackintosh from the Wall Street Journal. Someone added a "citation needed" tag, commenting "citation needed for studies showing no causality: later citation is about methodology, but that does not necessarily imply that causation is not proved in a rigorous study- burden is on claim to show that specific methodology *and therefore specific* results are not reliable. Currently only says there is *some* debate in methodology, but about what point specifically?" So no, I don't think it's a good addition, even if you change it to an attributed quote. If you want to get further input on this potential addition, please consider posting on the article's talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 00:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Diannaa, just a heads up that PerseusMeredith did something similar in the Diversity, equity, and inclusion article [1] where they copied exactly from the source (archival link in case you need it [2]). Again no quotation marks although it's not the sort of thing we should be quoting anyway. The copyvio has IMO been satisfactorily resolved with this edit [3] by another editor. So if you feel revdeleting in justified then I think deleting all edits between them [4] should be sufficient to fix it. To be clear, these happened at about the same time so it isn't a reoccurring problem per se, although I do wonder if it means they've done similar things elsewhere. Anyway I also mentioned this and you at this ANI thread Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#PerseusMeredith as I felt the copyvio problems were more significant than anything else mentioned in that thread. Nil Einne (talk) 04:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Just in case you've already looked at the ANI, I've added some more examples I found elsewhere which causes me some concern. Nil Einne (talk) 10:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Help needed at CopyPatrol

I had to do several RL things today and now we have 102 items in the queue to be assessed. I am gonna need some helpers please. Paging some recent participants: DanCherek, GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, Randomstaplers, Compassionate727, The4lines, and Win8x. Any interested talk page watchers could do a few cases as well! Please stop by and help, even if you only have time to clear a few cases. Thank you very much! — Diannaa (talk) 22:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Done like a dozen of them. Might as well ask you a question once you have the time and you're experienced; what do you do with errors 404? What's the action to take? win8x (talking | spying) 23:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Hi win8x and thanks for helping!
That's a good question. I will typically check for an archived copy using https://web.archive.org/. If I find nothing there, I will look at the iThenticate report to see what I can find out. Sometimes pasting part of the suspect text into a Google search locates the source document. If you are able to determine the title of the article you're looking for, you can sometimes locate it by googling that. I only rarely have to give up completely. If you can't solve a case, it's ok to leave it for others to give it a try. Thanks again! — Diannaa (talk) 23:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Paraphrasing

When you have a minute, I'd like a second opinion on whether edits like this are paraphrasing too closely. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 16:28, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I would say that one is okay. Scientific or medical information is not easily reworked into our own words. It would have to be more egregious than this for me to remove it. — Diannaa (talk) 20:22, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I dont understant what you want me to fix, please email me via jgodl @ protonmail . com

John Godl (talk) 13:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@John Godl: Prose you find online, in books, in magazines, and in newspapers 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) 13:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Inquiry

I want to create a page for this man https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86 this is his arabic page and when i was talking to my friend and asked her about him she replied to me with that she doesn't know him and then i asked her to look him up here on wikipedia but she told me that she couldn't find the page for him, and now I'm thinking about creating an English page for him since he's an economist who had developed the banking sector in saudi arabia. unfortunately i cannot do it since im not an admin, can you help me with it? 176.224.41.144 (talk) 11:37, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

You can get started in draft space. It's possible to do that even if you are not logged in. See Wikipedia:Drafts#Creating and editing drafts. — Diannaa (talk) 12:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

question

hi thanks for letting me know I will not make the mistake again I have 2 questions. So how would I expand an article like do I use general knowledge, or the internet but in my own words (for facts/info) also do I just sign talk sites with ~ or do I sign with edits to articles to? many thanks BoydSquirrel ~~~~

BoydSquirrel (talk) 15:25, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @BoydSquirrel. It looks like you are just starting out editing and have a lot of very basic questions, many of which can be answered by looking at some of our help pages that are set up to help people learn how to edit Wikipedia. Please see Help:Introduction for some guidance. There's people available at the Teahouse who are experienced in helping newcomers with specific questions.
That said, please don't add general knowledge; we have moved past that point in the development of the site. What we are looking for is material written in your own words that you've learned through available reliable sources. Cite your sources. Don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. Don't sign your name in articles. — Diannaa (talk) 18:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Help (again) needed at CopyPatrol

We currently have 92 items in the queue to be assessed at CopyPatrol. I have to go to physio now and will have limited availability today for that reason. Paging some recent participants: GreenLipstickLesbian, The4lines, Compassionate727, Ymblanter, Randomstaplers, and DanCherek. Any interested talk page watchers could do a few cases as well! Please stop by and help, every little bit helps. As always, thank you! — Diannaa (talk) 18:49, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

The queue is now under ten items. Thank you to everyone who helped! —Compassionate727 (T·C) 19:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you everybody! — Diannaa (talk) 22:51, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Copyrights involving Christian List's philosophy papers

Explanatory gap

Hello. I noticed that you removed some of my edits where I cited some articles by Christian List. I believe the articles I cited were this and this. Would you mind going into more detail on what the exact copyright violation was? ImmortalRationalist (talk) 17:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

I removed some material copied/too closely paraphrased from https://philarchive.org/s/Christian%20Borch. "He argues that the non-supervenience of the first-personal (and indexical) facts on the third-personal (and non-indexical) ones, together with the assumption that the physical facts (as conventionally understood) are third-personal, entails that some facts – namely, first-personal, phenomenal ones – do not supervene on the physical facts" and "List also believes there exists a "quadrilemma" for theories of consciousness, where no theory of consciousness can simultaneously respect four initially plausible metaphysical claims – namely, ‘first-person realism’, ‘non-solipsism’, ‘non-fragmentation’, and ‘one world’ – but that any three of the four claims are mutually consistent." This was in response to a report at CopyPatrol, here. — Diannaa (talk) 22:37, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Could you check Draft:Giovanni Timoteo Calosso please

Hi, hope you are well. I saw that you are an active administrator in the AfC field and wanted to request that you review the draft and give feedback and/or accept it. Thanks. Perast (talk) 21:31, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

So sorry, but I have never checked a draft, so I am not going to be able to help you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:36, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, could you rev/del the copyright violation at Certificate of analysis. Copied from [5] Edits [6]. Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 10:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Revdel complete. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa (talk) 13:16, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

I Know its a Error, I'm sorry for any missions. Malincharanan (talk) 09:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Thailand ‘s History

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:G(x)&diff=prev&oldid=1247723384

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Author_talk:Sukavich_Rangsitpol

I am asking for help to the wrong person because the user is using different name.There are 3 user kept deleting Thailand history about education reform and Thailand Reform by 1997 constitution . And also the beginning of the peaceful era between six countries. 49.228.195.132 (talk) 17:46, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Sukavich Rangsitpol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sukavich_Rangsitpol&diff=prev&oldid=1214838442 I think the article should be reversed to the version before it was deleted. 49.228.195.132 (talk) 18:05, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asia)&diff=prev&oldid=1214853466 It was the beginning of the peaceful era between six countries The same user kept deleting our important history. 49.228.195.132 (talk) 18:07, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Bang Na Expressway

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bang_Na_Expressway&diff=prev&oldid=1247676425 49.228.195.132 (talk) 18:14, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

1997 constitution of Thailand

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997_constitution_of_Thailand&diff=prev&oldid=1247676410 49.228.195.132 (talk) 18:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

I wonder why the same user kept deleting our history.

History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. 49.228.195.132 (talk) 18:19, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

You seem to have a problem with the edits of a specific user. You should ask them their reasons for removing your edits. That's the place to start. — Diannaa (talk) 18:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

FYI, see WP:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1151#Long-term abuse surrounding Sukavich Rangsitpol for context. --Paul_012 (talk) 06:54, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Help needed at CopyPatrol (2)

I had to do some RL things today and now we have 119 items in the queue at CopyPatrol. I need some helpers please. Pinging some recent participants: The4lines, GreenLipstickLesbian, Compassionate727, DanCherek, Ymblanter, L3X1, and Win8x. Any interested talk page watchers could do a few cases as well! Please stop by and help, even if you only have time to clear a few cases. Thank you very much! — Diannaa (talk) 22:07, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

thank you for your note. could you please specify what text you objected to and what was the source of copyright, that it violated? It seems, that these two pieces of infor should be provided for any deletion. Otherwise, I can delete anything on wikipedia claiming , that it violatyed some non-existing copyright. please be considerate of my request and try to put yourself in my position. I am really puzzled by your deletion. Walter Tau (talk) 12:26, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, you canview the overlapping content using Earwig's tool. Source document is marked as "copyrighted, © 2005, by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved." — Diannaa (talk) 12:32, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Dear Diannaa, thank you for your numerous copyright patrol contributions. Since, this is a second time you and I run in a dispute over limitations of copyright, I wonder if you are familiar now with the concept of Fair use. You mentioned in our conversation over a year ago, that Wikipedia follows US case law (I would like to see an evidence of it), however you always ignore the concept of fair use, which by the way is much broader in the USA than equivalent concepts in other countries.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Walter Tau (talk • contribs)
Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use 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. — Diannaa (talk) 21:52, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

You removed some edit history on Baháʼí Faith in India from three different editors, including me. Mine was a table formatting cleanup, and most likely not the source of the copyright violation you were trying to clean up. Can you restore my edits or do I need to repeat the formatting? Cuñado ☼ - Talk 21:12, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry never mind. I see that my edits did make it onto the page. The history made it look like they were erased. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 21:14, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, this happens sometimes, where intervening harmless edits get hidden, so that copyvio material is completely removed from the page history. Sorry about that. — Diannaa (talk) 21:19, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I saw you deleted content from one of my students in the article Blood–brain barrier - Wikipedia because of copyright issues. Would it make sense for you to also intervene in the edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lymphatic_system&diff=prev&oldid=1247322775 obtaining material from the article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-024-00728-0 or do you consider the editing of the original text sufficient? Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 09:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Olle Terenius (UU), I can't view the soure article because it's behind a paywall. I will have to leave it up to you as to whether or not it's adequately rewritten. — Diannaa (talk) 14:37, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shawn_Brant&action=history

Please explain. 67.193.233.211 (talk) 14:43, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

In Canada, government works are protected by copyright for 50 years from publication date. — Diannaa (talk) 14:51, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
5.1 May I establish a hypertext link to a CanLII Website page?
Yes, you may establish hypertext links to any page of the CanLII Website. However, under our terms of use, it is prohibited to do so in such a way as to create confusion or make it appear that the hyperlinked document does not come from the CanLII Website. 67.193.233.211 (talk) 14:52, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
If they are publishing material in violation of someone else's copyright, you should not link to it or use it as a citation. WP:ELNEVER — Diannaa (talk) 14:58, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
so the 50 year rule doesn't apply now but it is someone else's content posted on Canlii that you are flagging. A Superior Court Decision. What about citation [3] in the article that points to a dead .pdf file on a defunct OCAP.CA site, why would you reinstate that bad link.
please direct me to wiki complaint talk link 67.193.233.211 (talk) 15:06, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
I didn't reinstate a bad link. That link was there when I arrived, and it's still there. If you wish to complain about my work, you might try filing a report at Wikipedia:Administrative action review or at WP:AN. — Diannaa (talk) 15:11, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Lets see how this plays out Diannaa. I have removed Citation 3 because it was not verifiable. Ocap.ca .pdf. - The specific Shawn Brant Wiki article indicated help for improvement and citation updates. Not being able to provide Case Law information seems unjust to this article. Just trying to be helpful. 67.193.233.211 (talk) 15:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

COPYRIGHTED SOURCE VIOLATION

hello Dianna, I have violated a wikipedia rule by mistake and I am unsure what to do to fix it, please let me know what to do next because I am scared it is very serious. Clausewitez (talk) 21:31, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Which article? I already fixed one on Numidian cavalry — Diannaa (talk) 22:42, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Yes thankyou for that, but also now everytime I wanna make an edit I have a message talking about my violation of copyright. how do I fix that message pop up ? Clausewitez (talk) 18:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
It's okay to remove the message from your talk page if you want to. — Diannaa (talk) 20:30, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Could you please help me out

Hi. I'm posting here what I posted on FormalDude's page. Please forgive me for not being super Wiki-literate yet. I was just looking for some help and noticed that FormalDude isn't an admin so I found your page, Diannaa:

Hi FormalDude. Could you take a look at the NYU Law Review's page? This user "Randykitty" for some reason feels the need to erroneously remove our logo from our page. You reversed him once already last year but he just removed the logo again (for the same reason you'd reversed him) claiming the logo isn't being used by the Law Review. Here is evidence of the Law Review using the logo that's on the Wiki page (that Randykitty will for some reason try to remove again): https://www.instagram.com/nyulawreview/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/nyulr/ https://twitter.com/nyulawreview Nyulrlogo (talk) 22:06, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Why do you say "our logo"? do you work for the NYU Law Review? — Diannaa (talk) 22:08, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Dr.Mahmood Sariolghalam

Hi, I had a discussion with Dr. Mahmood Sariolghalam, and he asked me to modify his page by adding the content he specified and also revising or removing the previous content.

All changes were made with his approval. Moein29 (talk) 12:28, 5 October 2024 (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 documentation is 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) 13:32, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Pablo Escobar

Dear Diannaa: After reading the apparent plagiarism, let me clarify, and looking at the situation carefully, that the plagiarism is committed by the page you sent me because it is [badly] translated from the same article of Wikipedia in spanish. I try to follow the same pattern but placing the respective sources and suitable for Wikipedia in english. JeanMercier90 (talk) 14:53, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

It's okay to do that, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance, as well as the optional talk page template. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. Please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia projects for how to include the required attribution via an edit summary. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 17:35, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
It's OK. It is human to make mistakes. And thank you for reversing what you did. Regardless, I still have work to do. Thanks and best regards. JeanMercier90 (talk) 20:23, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

I see you tagged the Army Men article I did as a copyright issue. May I ask why and what gave you that conclusion? Krisfrosz133 (talk) 02:04, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Some of the content you added is a match for material at https://www.giantbomb.com/army-men/3025-36/, which is not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 14:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Thank you! -- Diannaa (talk) 01:57, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Diannaa/Archive 96,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

— The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Congratulations! - Did you know that I always thought you were here much longer than I was? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

You were actually here before me, by a couple months!-- Diannaa (talk) 12:50, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Rutka Laskier

Hey, Dianaa...trying to fix a broken ref at this article, and it looks like it occurred at this edit, but I'm not sure what you were trying to do? Valereee (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

The ref I removed was a link to a photograph, which is not a useful citation. Looks like I accidentally left behind some stray code. I will remove it now. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Uainstituteldn

Why did you block them for having a -bot suffix? They do violate the username policy but I think you confused them with the bot suffix template. Just wondering your thoughts :), Thanks, Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 16:17, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

I will fix this. Thanks for pointing this mistake out. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:26, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Free-content attribution template

Hi Diannaa. Good to see you still steaming along. We had an exchange some years ago about how to attribute the use of free-content text. Related to this is a further issue about the attribution template, which arose from this thread.

The Wikipedia explanatory essay on copyright violations and plagiarism now states:

It is acceptable to copy text from public domain sources or those that are explicitly licensed under a compatible licensing scheme. However, if you decide to do so, a dedicated attribution template must be used, and it's simply not enough to only mention the references and use inline citations.

If you look, for example, at the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, it states:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

But the attribution template does not seem to make any provision for when copied text is changed. Even if the text was not changed by the editor who initially inserted it, it is liable to subsequent modification by other editors. It seems to me that this fact should be accommodated from the outset by the template. This means that, unless the text is quoted, instead of saying "This article incorporates text from this source..." the template should say "This article incorporates modified text from this source...". — Epipelagic (talk) 21:46, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello Epipelagic! good to see you too. I have been aware of that clause in the license for a while but I think the modification clause would be difficult/impossible to enforce, because our articles are constantly being modified. (The previous version CC-by-3.0 required reporting of dervative works; I'm not sure we have always been doing that properly either, even for images.)
If you know from the outset that the text you are inserting is modified, you could use a manual attribution instead of a template. Something like this:
[[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text was copied/modified from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)] license.
Advantages to using the templates: (1) it places the articles into Category:Articles with imported Creative Commons licensed text; (2) Earwig's tool can see these templates and alerts patrollers to the fact that a template is present.
If you wish to suggest a modification to the template, the template talk page would be a better place to discuss it. -- Diannaa (talk) 22:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Bogus copyright removal from drafts not helpful -- please stop

When someone intending to contribute a new article to Wikipedia assembles materials on a draft-stage page, it is not helpful for misguided copyright material checking/removal to interrupt composition of the draft by modifying (reducing) the draft. The assumption must be that the draft page author intends to properly handle all raw materials assembled on the draft page (including content snips being referenced), before the draft page completes preparation into proper form and is submitted. Copyright material scanning, with flagging and/or text removal, must be reserved for review stage articles and for published articles (not draft stage articles). So please stop! 63.231.131.222 (talk) 20:07, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, but our copyright policy applies to all parts of the encyclopedia, including sandboxes, drafts, talk pages, and user talk pages. If you must collect and copypaste prose from your sources, please do it offline in a Word document or in Google Docs or the like. You can't do it here. Thanks. -- Diannaa (talk) 20:12, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Schindler's List

Good evening madam, given that the historical novel link goes to an article called historical fiction which is a genre, would it not be correct to write it that way on the article itself? Even if somewhat clunky, you know — “historical fiction novel” as I had written it. Or better yet historical fiction novel.

Best, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 23:38, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

All novels are fiction; there's no need to add the word "fiction" when you've aready called it a novel. To put it another way, "historical fiction novel" is clunky and duplicative, and has no place in a Good Article in my opinion. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:48, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Fair point, I just believed that if a link went by exact wording then perhaps so should the above article. Though it seems that was I wrong which is more than fair enough.

Regards, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 01:28, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

RD2 Request

Hello, Special:Permalink/1252840350 seems like something eligible for WP:RD2. The edit itself may be fine, but the edit summary needs to go. Thanks, 2pou (talk) 07:16, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the report. -- Diannaa (talk) 12:59, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

New Order (Nazism)

My PC keeps timing out because of size... I can't investigate New Order (Nazism) if you have time pls see. Moxy🍁 16:55, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

It took forever to load. Several large quotations skew the results. I was able to locate and remove some copyvio. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:42, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Thank you Moxy🍁 23:07, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Ada and abaren

The Wikipedia page on Ada and abaren is a fake history written by yoruba revisionists. The Ada and Eben swords are academically proven to be the swords of authority of the Oba of Benin.

The Oni of ife copied those swords and rather than acknowledging the original owner, he created a fake story in which the sword originates from an imaginary ife empire and was given to Benin and others by ife. This story is being propped up on Wikipedia by yoruba supremacists.

Please could you take African history more seriously and stop publishing biased claims and fairytales as history ?

Please remove this story, you are helping to rewrite African history with these fake stories. 2A04:CEC0:1926:E62C:0:31:8BE6:EE01 (talk) 19:44, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know anything about this topic, so I won't be able to help. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:45, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy (Di)annaaversary

Sdkb talk 04:03, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!-- -- Diannaa (talk) 04:04, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Biographies of Griggs, Paskell, and Smith

These biographies were deleted for "copyright" issues. I am the copyright holder of this material. Please see the footer of this sight: https://whitemountainart.com. You threaten to block me for using my own material. What can I do to remedy this situation? JJ (talk) 18:11, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder or have their permission, unless special documentation is 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.-- -- Diannaa (talk) 18:36, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Thank you!-- -- Diannaa (talk) 21:21, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy Admin Anniversary!

Happy anniversary! I have added your talk page to my watch list because I get so much info from it that I hope will preclude me from making violations in my work on articles. Always informative, occasionally amusing, your page has helped me. Thank you! Boo Boo (talk) 23:20, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! -- Diannaa (talk) 00:52, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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