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Hi JBVaughan! With regard to the Boris Johnson ancestry chart, I would recommend initiating an RfC before reintroducing a chart into the article. As you may have noticed, such ancestry charts are not a normal feature of FAs and GAs, and I think it would be best to gain some clear support from other, uninvolved editors, before proceeding. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 21:25, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Lost artworks

I noticed you worked on this article alot, could you please see my split proposal at Talk:Lost artworks#Splitter up? I think it would be easier to manage this if we organize the artwork by how it was lost. You can easily do timelines on these split out articles. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 05:00, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. It is not enough to merely put content in quotation marks. You must, as far as you are able, summarize all content. That quote was unnecessary. Thank you. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 13:05, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your decision to remove on the grounds of copyright violation was incorrect for the following reasons. The material is both in the public domain and the form of use was appropriate for quotation anyway, for the following reasons:

1. It was less than a paragraph of a multi-page article from 1925 and all non-relevant text was elided.

2. Additionally, the text constitutes evidence by way of witness description and therefor should not be paraphrased

3. The author and copyright holder died in 1817 and the source I used was from 1925 (in which the author quoted the witness text from 1799), written by a UK author who died in 1951 (note this is before 1957 which would have granted a 70 year extension, which even so has expired at this point).

To be fair I will re-source to the 1799 source just so there is no doubt.

Thank you. JBVaughan (talk) 13:30, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems I wasn't paying close enough attention. You definitely could have paraphrased the quotation, but you are correct the material is public domain and you didn't need to. My apologies.

As a stylistic matter, I would suggest that you attribute the quote in-line, especially since it seems to be somewhat historically significant, given the reprinting. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 13:35, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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