Talk:Sywell Aviation Museum

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Justlettersandnumbers in topic Copyright problem removed

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Although the creator of this article has made efforts to rephrase the content here after copy-pasting it from here, I've tagged it for speedy deletion as belonging to the SCV category of "Blatant copyright infringements where no permission or ownership is asserted and no untainted version exists". The bot notice makes it quite clear that "... simply modifying copyrighted text is not sufficient to avoid copyright infringement— it is best to write the article from scratch", and that hasn't been done here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:43, 14 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Contested deletion

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This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... The page was started as a lift-out from the Sywell Aerodrome page as it seemed worth preserving. This was a copy-vio as per the bot-alert. The article has since been rewritten and should no longer be a violation. --Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} (Whisper...) 14:15, 14 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

OK, I see the picture a bit more clearly now. I was surprised to see such blatant copying from an editor who never seems to have done anything of the sort before, and that is now explained. That content was added there by editor Sywell Aviation Museum, who very probably had the rights to it but had not released them to us.
Please, if you ever happen to split or copy content from one Wikipedia page to another again, could you make sure you provide attribution for the source?
I don't know what it's best to do about this page; unfortunately it can't stay in its present state, as there is still copyvio remaining and the previous infringing content was rewritten in place instead of being removed and replaced with something new. The options I see are: delete and start again; redirect back to the parent article; or clear the page and then re-add only original content. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.airscene.co.uk/aviation_museums/UK/sywell_aviation_museum.php. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:23, 14 July 2014 (UTC)Reply