User talk:Mgreason/Archive 1

WikiProject Jacksonville

Hello! I've noticed your recent contributions to various articles about the Jacksonville area, and I was wondering if you were interested in joining WikiProject Jacksonville?. If you are, feel free to come by and add your name to our list of members. Thanks! - Jaxfl (talk) 04:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Boldt (talk) 02:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of parks in Midland

I'm considering putting this up for WP:AFD, as I think it would fit into List of municipal parks in the United States. I wanted to get your opinion. Cheers, Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 00:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. I thought it was just going to sit there, being all independent-like. Nevermind then. Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 01:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of places in Florida: C

I reverted your change of 'Columbia, Florida' to 'Columbia City, Florida'. The USGS GNIS lists 'Columbia' as the designated name, with 'Columbia City' as a variant.[1] If you know of a reliable source that indicates that 'Columbia City' has priority, please cite it. -- Donald Albury 20:47, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Invite

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!

Gary Pajcic

Hey Mark, do you plan to start an article on Gary Pajcic? If not, then might I suggest removing the wikilinks that you placed on there? Frankly, I don't think that a) there's enough material on him to create a stand-alone article, and b) I don't think he'd pass muster per WP:NOTE. (In fact, you wouldn't believe it, but I had to fight a small battle because some editors thought that Steve Pajcic didn't meet WP:NOTE!) Anyway, it's up to you, but if it's just going to remain a redlink, I'd remove it. Happy New Year! Unschool (talk) 16:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, congratulations! I told you that it would get contested, but hey, it survived! Good job. I didn't think you'd be able to get enough to get that to survive. Thanks for writing it. Unschool (talk) 03:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jacksonville Port Authority

Hey, just FYI, I mostly just wikified your references, took out one dead link, made minor "edit for flow" changes. Good article, btw! Sallicio (talk) 19:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)Sallicio[reply]

Barnstar

Gator Bowl Venue

Will please stop changing the succesion box of the Gator Bowl venue! In 1994 the game was held at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium because the Gator Bowl stadium was being reconstructed as JMS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.84.121.39 (talk) 12:48, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article may be about the stadium but the succession box is about the game. Specifically about the fact which stadium played host to the Gator Bowl which in 1994 was BHG Stadium. 83.84.121.39 (talk) 16:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Info

Hey! Just FYI, you might want to take off some of your more personal information (e.g., Mark Greason, born 3/24/1955). Look yourself up with just the information you put out here on zabasearch.com. It's really scary what is "public information." Anyway, just trying to help. Sallicio (talk) 04:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)Sallicio[reply]

Karpeles Museum

Hi Mgreason, it is nice to see your article on the Karpeles museum in the Wikipedia, since my great grand parents were called Karpeles (and in fact, I am related to Dave Karpeles). Apparently the system is unhappy about your article because of the lack of reliable sources. Could you maybe add the museum section of Jacksonville, Florida as a source? HPaul (talk) 21:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mark, I think the addition of true sources has made the article much better. Thank you for acting so fast! I read your reference 7 with pleasure. I think it contains much about Karpeles' method and background that would go well into the article (not verbally, of course). The list of examples being shown should be much improved, I think. Where did you get it from? Jokingly, I asked Dave Karpeles whether he really had the stone originals of the Ten Commandments, and he explained what he does have. Similarly, the Star of Bethlehem seems like a joke. I think such very inaccurate statements make the whole thing look phony. Best regards, HPaul (talk) 21:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mark, Dave Karpeles writes: If you are in contact with Mgreason, who submitted the entry to Wikipedia, can you tell him that the following sentence is out of date as that section of the museum (Sprinkle's) is closed:

The Sprinkles' When I Grow Up Museum is oriented to children under 8 years and offers interactive play in career-related theme areas, such as medical, athletics and performing arts.[5] The children's museum has a $3 admission. [6]

Thanks, Dave

It's amusing that two Americans get into contact via Austria (that's where I am). Thanks, HPaul (talk) 20:47, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Goodbread-Black Farm Historic District

Hey, thanks much for adding info to the stub. By any chance, might you know where it's located, exactly? I'm trying to get pics of all the Florida NHRPs, and couldn't find this place for the life of me. Found Falling Creek Methodist Church, which is close, but not the farm. :( -Ebyabe (talk) 20:47, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

good job

just noticed your pages on hayden burns library and friendship park. the architect of both T. Hardwick, was the partial subject of my undergrad thesis and i was anticipating adding a page about his firm and work. i did a page about the skinner dairy's in Nov, and just added a link to it on your hayden burns lib page. Anyway, good job adding the pages, please let me know if i can help with any of your pertinent topics. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sickertus (talk • contribs) 05:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 31 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Berlin Rules on Water Resources, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 21:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sullivan Award winners template

Hey, I have a question to ask you. I noticed that you created a navigational template, Template:Sullivan Award winners. But that template isn't the list of Sullivan Award winners seen on this list, James E. Sullivan Award. So I was wondering why the list was a list of people who had won the Maxwell Award? Thanks Hatmatbbat10 Talk to me 23:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, I was just a little confused their. Hatmatbbat10 Talk to me 20:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:DYK Nomination

Hi. I've nominated Otis Smith Kids Foundation, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on May 12, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 01:15, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The University of Florida Barnstar
		For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about the University of Florida.

I award you this Barnstar for you editing of University of Florida articles. Jccort (talk) 13:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Otis Smith Kids Foundation

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Replaceable fair use Image:SITimShaw.PNG

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DCSB page

There is probably no one more supportive of expanded information about Jacksonville than yourself. But how far should we go? Specifically, do you support the creation of tables on schools that has begun over on Duval County Public Schools, an article that you started? Personally, I think the information fails to meet WP:NOTE. (I mean, do we really need to list every single school in the United States on their respective school district pages?) Anyway, I have a high level of respect for the contributions that you have made, and accordingly, seek your counsel. Cheers, Unschool (talk) 23:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Original picture is in my photo album and was taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera in the summer of 1969 in Jacksonville, immediately before a Three Dog Night concert at the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum. I scanned the image and cropped the sky and pavement before posting it. Mgreason (talk) 01:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry if it looks like I assumed bad faith there, it's just that, in the vast majority of these cases, the uploader has stolen it from somewhere. J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Great Floridians

Hey, cool, I didn't know this had been created in Wikipedia! Might you want to add a column as to the location of the plaques? I actually have pictures of some of them, which I've acquired in my Florida NRHP roadtrips. Keep up the good work! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 23:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New articles for Florida Education

Thanks for creating the new articles for this topic, which has been underdeveloped for quite some time. Horologium (talk) 14:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup

Wikipedia:Meetup/Gainesville, Florida - in the planning stages, if you're interested. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 17:01, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Crawford Ker

Just to let you know, I have responded to your question at Talk:Crawford Ker. Johnelwayrules (talk) 01:34, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto after your recent edits.Johnelwayrules (talk) 14:25, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are one remarkable guy

(that is, if you ARE a guy.) I see that your 4444th edit was done at exactly 4:00. That is just amazing, and if there's a secret to how you did it, I'd like to know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.234.34.67 (talk) 04:54, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of List of Great Floridians

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Malls

Hey, Mg, that was a great piece of documentation (about there being only one mall built since 2006) to add to the article. I'd seen the trend—I'm sure we all have—but it was neat to see it documented. Maybe you should add it somewhere in shopping mall? Un school 21:14, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Boselli Foundation image

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I think it would probably be more appropriate to tag with {{Non-free logo}} and only use it in places (as it is now, I think) where it can be justified under our non-free content criteria. (ESkog)^(Talk) 13:47, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Old Dupont Bridge

Would you happen to have any old photos of the old Dupont Bridge in Parker, FL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.73.205.26 (talk) 23:16, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have a scan of a postcard titled, DUPONT BRIDGE OVER EAST ST. ANDREW'S BAY, PANAMA CITY, FLA. The postcard is undated, but from the 1920's.Mgreason (talk) 14:48, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: Hospice care in the United States

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Update

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I will be continuing to evaluate your older material, although as your contributions are extensive I'm afraid I may need to ask the assistance of other administrators in doing so. Meanwhile, I have removed your hospice material from your notepad, User:Mgreason/Notepad. We can't duplicate copyrighted information without permission in any space in Wikipedia, including user space, as this remains problematic under US law. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem removed

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DYK for Brenton Butler case

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Infringement concerns, this article

I am concerned about your paraphrasing. This article contains infringement as well. Some passages follow closely enough on the original to constitute copyright infringement. Others may be plagiarism.

For instance, we have this:

Source: "The book includes new details about the beatings inflicted on Butler, his time in jail and other injustices in the investigation, his father Andre said. "
Your article: "The book includes details about the beatings delivered by detectives, his six months in jail and other injustices in the investigation."

Source: "Taped confessions are the policy in many police forces around the country and are required in Alaska and Minnesota."
Your article: "Taped confessions are the policy in many police forces around the country and are required in Alaska and Minnesota."

Source: "Frank Mackesy, chief of detectives at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, said police bought equipment and planned to start taping all confessions before the Butler case, but were told by the State Attorney's Office to hold off. "
Your article: "Frank Mackesy, chief of detectives at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, said the department had purchased video equipment and planned to start taping all confessions before the Butler case, but were told by the State Attorney's Office to ”hold off”"

Source: "Prosecutors worry that videotaping confessions will capture police interrogation tactics that, while legal, might appear unsavory to jurors."
Your article: "Prosecutors are concerned that videotaping confessions will capture police interrogation tactics that, while legal, might disturb jurors."

Source:"The Butler case was a huge embarrassment for Jacksonville’s sheriff’s department."
Your article: "The case was a huge embarrassment for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office."

Source: "The French film company that came to Jacksonville in 2000 to do a documentary on the American court system was incredibly lucky."
Your article: "The French film company came to Jacksonville in 2000 to do a story on the American court system. They were extremely fortunate...."

Source: "...did not result in any criminal charges against the detectives involved in Butler's arrest and questioning, but did recommend several..."
"...did not result in any criminal charges against those involved in Butler's arrest and questioning, but did recommend several...."

You have also, of course, not provided a citation for the block quote, although you have marked it.

Given my concerns, I'd like to talk with you about the use of external sources, as you are occasionally copying sentences wholesale without attribution and often evidently copying phrases, in this and the other articles noted above. This represents both a legal concern and an ethical one for Wikipedia. You are obviously a dedicated content contributor, and I hope that we can work through this situation so that future articles do not represent a concern, but it will likely to be necessary to look at some of your older material to see if there is problematic material in those as well that needs to be addressed. I'm watchlisting your page and hope that you will respond. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. You indicate that File:SeaBreeze.JPG is licensed under CC 3.0. Can you please identify your source for that license? (Note that if you don't have such a source, but you simply don't know how to write a fair use rationale, we should address this. If the image is not licensed under CC 3.0, we can't claim that it is. If it is, we should identify the source that demonstrates that.) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:49, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, Moonriddengirl. Thank you for taking the time to address some of my shortcomings. Regarding the SeaBreeze image: I admit that I need to learn more about attributing images that don't fit the simple categories (pictures I took, published before 1923, etc.). What I would typically do is find another image with the same characteristics and use the same summary and licensing. In this case, I was somewhat baffled, because the company that owned the image was merged with another company, which subsequently dissolved through bankruptcy. Mgreason (talk) 19:04, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I can see that this would make it tough. Personally, I find it something of a nightmare working with images that don't fit simple categories. I do a lot of work with text, particularly as a volunteer at the copyright problems board (which is, as you probably have surmised, how I came to be at your talk page in the first place, when one of the above articles was listed there), but I do little with images. Ordinarily, what I would do is ask at WP:MCQ for assistance in crafting a proper fair use rationale. In this case, if there's not a CC 3.0 license, I'll see if I can get assistance from an administrator I know who is familiar with image work. He is also an administrator on commons, and he has been kind enough to assist me with images before. Maybe he can clarify how best to claim fair use for such an image. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:03, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have invited his input, and I hope that he'll be able to clarify. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:12, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your efforts on the image. Regarding the Thomas H. Friedkin article: thank you for the cleanup. I am in your debt. I rewrote the passages in the Brenton Butler case that you pointed out, and I'm taking a hiatus on new articles while I review some of my prior submissions for problems and omissions. Mgreason (talk) 20:21, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your revision; I saw that you had, and removed the tag from the article. I'm happy to help with any cleanup that may be necessary. As I said above, it's obvious that you're a good content contributor, and I can assist with paraphrasing if necessary. I have a small section on my userpage here which includes some links that I think are very valuable to help with that.

Do you plan to assist on a revision of the Hospice care in the United States article? That one comes due for closure around February 3rd or so, and it will need to be revised. It would be great to get your input with that. The linked temporary space is where this is usually done, and it's a simple matter afterwards to move the new version of the article back into article space. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:37, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to help whenever I can. Mgreason (talk) 21:00, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you're interested in working on it, you can start on that whenever you want. We don't have to wait until the end of the 7 day period. I generally find the best approach is to do a major overhaul if you're not entirely sure where some phrases may have come from. Sometimes rewriting is a little bit like reaching behind your back to scratch your elbow, but you've got a pretty good situation going there in that there are already many different sources. Probably the biggest challenge will be the "Hospice Team" section since as far I can tell it's all drawn from one, copyrighted source. Sometimes we do have to sacrifice detail to avoid infringement. It might be best with that section just to omit it for now, maybe as an external link, unless we can find additional sources to help draw more diverse material. Otherwise, it could be hard to separate sufficiently. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mgreason, Moonriddengirl recruited me to help out with your fair use rationale for this image. I'd like you to start out the rationale so you can learn about the process and I'll help clean it up and expand it if necessary. I reverted to the old fair use tag, which was a great choice, and added back the "no fair use rationale" tag, which we'll leave there until we're done with it.

To get started, visit File:SeaBreeze.JPG and check which articles it's used in. For each article it's used in, add a section called "Fair use rationale for use in Article name". You can read all about how to write one at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, and the {{Non-free use rationale}} template will help you remember what facts to include. I'll take a look when you've done this. Good luck! Dcoetzee 23:51, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Following up on this: it's also important to specify the source where you found this image, even if you just found it on some random website. This will help others to track down the copyright holder if they need to do so. Dcoetzee 05:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mgreason, you did a great job with the fair use rationale, I only had to clean up a couple things and add a reason why the image was not replaceable. The image should be good to stay now. Dcoetzee 02:09, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

←I'm afraid that I've found that Mayo Clinic Hospital contains extensive material copied directly from their website [2]. I have listed this one at WP:CP as it is too extensive to easily clean and will probably have to be rewritten like the Hospice article above. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:24, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:TooSoon.jpg)

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Basketball at Lake City Community College

Unfortunately, there seem to be some problems with Basketball at Lake City Community College. It's only superficially paraphrased from the source, so I've tagged it as a copyvio. You need to put as much as possible into your own words. It's not good enough to change a word here or there.

If you have any questions, let me know. Zagalejo^^^ 02:41, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are also some problems with Christ's Church and Joe B. Fields. Zagalejo^^^ 20:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If a topic seems notable, I'll generally try to clean up what I can, or at least turn the article into a stub. However, the articles listed above don't seem like they'd have a chance at AFD, based on my experience there. I'm just sending those straight to WP:CP.

If you disagree with any of my decisions, please let me know. Zagalejo^^^ 08:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How to duplicate material from one Wikipedia article to another

Related to copyright concerns, I just needed to explain that when you utilize text from other Wikipedia articles, as you did in Class rating when you copied material from Type rating, you need to make a note of that for GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) compliance. This is required because Wikipedia's contributors do not relinquish copyright to the material they author here, but license it very liberally for reuse. They retain the right to receive credit for their work under GFDL.

We handle this on Wikipedia by providing a direct link in the edit summary to the source article. I've done this at Class rating here. We also make a note at the source article, because that source article must not be deleted so long as text from it is used in another article. I've done that as well and left a note at the source article's talk. If you duplicate material in the future from one Wikipedia article to another, please make note of that duplication in the edit summaries. A note at the talk page of the source article is also a good idea, though it isn't necessary to use a template as I have done. We don't have a specific guide for copying text from one article to another, but you can read more about moving text from place to place here and here.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this process. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for your note. Wikipedia's contributors do not "own" articles in the sense that they can control the development of content, and they do not own the contributions of other contributors. However, they retain copyright ownership of the text that they themselves have contributed. From our copyright policy, "Permission to reproduce content under the license and technical conditions applicable to Wikipedia (see below and Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks) has already been granted to everyone without request by the authors of individual articles and images, at least unless they violated Wikipedia rules by uploading copyrighted material without authorization or under incorrect licensing terms. For permission to use it outside these terms, one must contact all the volunteer authors of the text or illustration in question"(emphasis added; there's more detail on this within the body at WP:C). This is why Wikipedia does not send takedown letters when Wikipedia articles are used without proper credit; only contributors who "hold a significant copyright interest" in an article can do so (Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter; emphasis original). The purpose of linking to the article is to reference all of the significant contributors, who are visible in the edit history. That way, we don't have to determine who owns copyright to which particular bit of text. The attribution history is complete, and the information on who added the bits of text we have copied, split or merged can be located by scanning through it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:55, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Listed at copyright problems board

Florida Commissioner of Education is more extensive and will probably need to be replaced unless permission can be verified. It has been listed at CP to allow time for that rewriting or permission request. Please use the temporary space linked from the article's face if you would like to assist with creating a new version. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have also listed Byron Herbert Reese. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And Advanced International Certificate of Education. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Episcopal Diocese of Florida

I recently removed the "History" and "Camp Weed" sections of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida article, since they were too close to the sources. You're free to restore those sections, with proper paraphrasing. Zagalejo^^^ 06:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've also found problems with Jacksonville Film Festival. I've listed that one at WP:CP. Zagalejo^^^ 21:11, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've also listed H. Terry Parker at WP:CP. Zagalejo^^^ 04:27, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And Florida Sports Hall of Fame. Zagalejo^^^ 07:29, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

For repeated copyright violations I have blocked you indefinite. Despite being warned by Moonriddengirl you still continued adding copyright violations. Garion96 (talk) 23:36, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:JaxLandingLogo.PNG)

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