User talk:Raman Sonkhla

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Speedy deletion nomination of Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder

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A tag has been placed on Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder

Hello. Because you said that the talk page for this entry was important for your class project, I've moved it to User:Raman Sonkhla/Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder. It's not appropriate as a talk page, but there's nothing wrong with it being where it is now. As far as permission goes for the page from your course wiki — please go there and add this statement:

"The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 License."

Simply adding a copyleft symbol (which I can't see on the page, by the way) is not enough for the unambiguous permission statement that we need, but I can't imagine anyone objecting to the copyright status of the page if it has the statement that I suggested. Anything else that I can do? Leave a note at my talk page and I'll do my best to help. Alternatively, you could go to WP:AN and leave a request for help in the section entitled "Copyright Deletion" — someone's already asking for assistance in this very situation, so a comment you leave there is likely to be acted on. Nyttend (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two other quick notes: (1) I'm also on Eastern Time, so any time references you make won't confuse me. (2) Does your professor have a Wikipedia account? If so, please let me know, or mention it at WP:AN if you leave a note there; it will help if we can contact the professor directly without leaving Wikipedia. Nyttend (talk) 02:04, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I have added the required text "The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 License." to the web link "https://wiki.cse.buffalo.edu/cse545/content/parvaresh-vardy-codes-and-list-decoder". Can I use its content now?

thanks

Raman Sonkhla (talk) 02:13, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Because of the explicit "CC-by-sa-3.0" release statement that you added, there are now no copyright-related problems. Administrators (including me) can undelete pages, so I've undeleted the page and added a note telling others that you've posted a "CC-by-sa-3.0" release statement. PLEASE don't remove that statement from your SUNY Buffalo page, because removing it might lead to this page being deleted again and you having to jump through lots of hoops a second time. Right now, the page isn't suitable to be an article, but because the copyright issues are cleared up, I've not deleted it. Instead, I've moved it to User:Raman Sonkhla/Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder: it's now a userspace draft, and you can work at it at the rate that works best for you. I know very little about advanced math (I'm a graduate student in history, and I've not had math since high school), so the best things I can suggest are (1) Look at other articles on advanced mathematical topics and try to pattern the structure of this page after them, and (2) Ask for help by going to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics and to WP:RD/MA and using the "add topic" button to ask a new question. When the page is ready to be a Wikipedia article, feel free to move it to mainspace: you can do this by clicking the "move" button at the top of the page and writing in the box the new title for the article; make sure that the dropdown just left of the box says (Article) instead of User: or something else like that. Again: if you have questions, ask for help at my talk page and I'll do my best. Nyttend (talk) 03:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder

The article Parvaresh-Vardy codes and list decoder has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Original research

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Dac04 (talk) 06:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]