User talk:Coren/Archives/2009/February

Bot complaining about the split of Normalized frequency

Your bot complained with me because I had split the article Normalized frequency into Normalized frequency (digital signal processing) and Normalized frequency (fiber optics), but I did "acknowledg[e] the duplication of material in edit summary to preserve attribution history", as it requested. Could you make the bot not give such warning when the summary of the edit which copies material does link the source article? --A. di M. (talk) 18:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Kenneth Francis

Wrong. The source is the London Evening Standard article "BNP man out over Ecuador girlfriend, dated 30 April 2002. The article has been used as all editors do as a source for writing. It is not a copy of the copyright work, but a synthesis of the information contained within it. The source has been correctly referenced. Emeraude (talk) 11:26, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Unfair deletion of The Rocks, Inc.

I'm miffed at why you deleted The Rocks, Inc. from wikipedia.

All of the history text was original. (Feel free to contrast the http://www.rocksinc.org and my entry from The Rocks, Inc.

I uploaded the graphic from my own computer.

Please bring the page on line. Majorman3 (talk) 15:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Oisin CLG Manchester

The cited website belongs to me and has "Copyleft" displayed at the bottom of every page.

Is there anything more I should do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markhallen (talk • contribs) 14:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Please read the guide to donating your own copyrighted material to Wikipedia. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest. — Coren ^(talk) 17:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Little Theatre of Winston-Salem

Yes, the text I've put on Wikipedia is from our company's website http://www.littletheatreonline.com/history.html.

The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem grants permission to Wikipedia to copy this information. -alex- Alex M. Postpischil Technical Director Little Theatre of Winston-Salem Albabe63 (talk) 20:47, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Please read the guide to requesting and formalizing permission to use copyrighted works on Wikipedia. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest. — Coren ^(talk) 21:33, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Annappes copyright

(Tagging possible copyvio of http://www.speedylook.com/Annappes.html) CorenSearchBot suggested i leave a note here. apparantly, when i translated a french wiki, the bot flagged it for copyright violation of speedylook (which was a translation of the french wiki) [1]. i dunno if there is a solution to the circular problem (i notice that web sites are presumed to own copyright to posted material) i did link to the french wiki, maybe adding a logic branch for translation template). pohick (talk) 03:02, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Truth be told, those cases are rare enough and hard enough to fix in practice that just going ahead and removing the template when it gets slapped on is probably simplest. — Coren ^(talk) 03:19, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Review of Agricultural Economics

As the other users above noted, the text used was copied for our Web site, to describe our journal. I wrote both versions. However, I edited the text on the wikipedia page so that it draws from the original, but does not copy it entirely.

Please let me know if I need to do anything else.

Ademarie (talk) 15:07, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I have been sent a message stating that we are breeching copyright policy's by using text from the website, clubs.nuigalway.ie, in an article I am creating (NUI, Galway Mountaineering Club).

Please note: We are the owners of this website and are fully permitted to use any information from it. We created, designed, and continue to maintain this site. I hope this is OK.

Thank you, The NUI Galway Mountaineering Club. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NUIGMC (talk • contribs) 18:38, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Please read the guide to donating your own copyrighted material to Wikipedia. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest. — Coren ^(talk) 05:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Jess H. Dickinson

I moved Justice Dickinson's bio from Mississippi Supreme Court to his own page because of a request for split. I assumed that since the material was already on the Supreme Court page, it did not violate any copyright. Within seconds, the Jess H. Dickinson article was deleted. Now his bio is no longer on the supreme court page, nor does he have his own article. Help! --Rosiestep (talk) 01:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

It looks like you accidentally ferreted out a direct plagiarism from the MS supreme court site; I am unfamiliar with the licensing that state places its governmental material under, and it might have been allowable, but it was definitely a direct copy. If you can find under what conditions Mississippi allows use of material it creates, we could be able to restore the contents. — Coren ^(talk) 05:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot error

Hello, your bot got a little mixed up between two articles. One is called Daemisan (Chungcheongbuk-do/Gyeongsangbuk-do) and the other is Daemisan (Gangwon-do). These are two separate articles about identically named mountains in different parts of South Korea. Cheers! Waygugin (talk) 01:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid a bot cannot be smart enough to figure out that two articles are legitimately very much similar. Simply remove the tags, and a human reviewer will see what happened. — Coren ^(talk) 19:53, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Review board and rollback

I think your personal message would be more useful at the talk page, so have reposted and responded to it there. BTW, you appear not to understand WP:Rollback or to understand a version of it different from the one published. Am I missing something? Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 00:03, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

My mistake, I intended to use the Twinkle rollback which does ask for a descriptive reason instead of the bland non-message of the system rollback. I've addressed your primary point on that talk page. — Coren ^(talk) 00:09, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks! Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 00:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Arbcom proposed

Template:Arbcom proposed has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.

No hard feelings, debate is good, and this raises issues that need debated.

Scott Mac (Doc) 17:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

You're aware you havn't actually created the entry?--Tznkai (talk) 17:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, but he has. Risker (talk) 17:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, needed to purge the page apparently.--Tznkai (talk) 17:55, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Images

• Montreal, 1902
• 
  Before restoration
• 
  After restoration

400MB of manuscript maps two and a half centuries old can't be restored overnight, but this could be. Do let me know if Montcalm's battle plans can be found in the Quebec archives. It would be amazing to have that material from both sides. Best wishes, Durova^Charge! 19:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

The most impressive thing for me is that this is unmistakably Montreal; in fact, most of the buildings there are still visible from that vantage point.  :-) — Coren ^(talk) 21:00, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Concerns at MickMacNee

Coren, can you address my concerns at User talk:MickMacNee. I'm concerned mostly because I think the comment in the block-log is not warranted (i.e. WP:NPA and WP:HARASSMENT violations), and will be especially damning admin-socially because you have recently become an arbitrator. If there are reasons why I shouldn't be so concerned, you can let me know. Thanks. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 20:30, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

As I've stated on his talk page, I had not noticed that the drop-down default message for NPA block conflates with WP:HARASSMENT (even though it uses a disjunctive or, it's rather less than clear). I'm entirely open to making an annotation in the block log if MMN feels it appropriate to clarify the block reason (but I wouldn't otherwise add to his block log if he feels in unwarranted). — Coren ^(talk) 22:55, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I noticed at the time that Tango reinserted the material you blocked me for adding to Giles Hattersley, but didn't think anything more of it, distracted as I was dealing with my own blocking. Now I've just seen elsewhere that you blocked him aswell. Subsequently reading the opinions at his talk page where he is unblocked after one hour, especially from other admins over what constitutes a personal attack, I am less than happy at how I got shafted over this incident, in which you have still failed to show I was intentionally attacking Giano - you seem to have absolutely no shame in levelling the same theory at Tango, an editor registered since Dec 2002, that you did to me, that the simple fact we are experienced editors that would have never seen a user's name linked in an article (I am still entirely unconvinced this is even true, especially for Wikipedia related text, but I have not researched it), we 'just should have known' it was considered a personal attack, blockable after no warning after making one edit/revert. Like I said, I would be willing to take it as 'ignorance is no defence' if this appeared in any policy text that I had just missed. And judging by his unblock request, he was not mistaken about what he was re-adding. So, quite clearly, you are attributing some malicious motive to me, that you aren't to Tango. Had I known of that discussion at the time, I have a good idea that things might have gone differently for me. It's not like I can do sod all about it now. MickMacNee (talk) 01:43, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

It would not have, to be honest. Tango has made an argument that the reason he reverted the change was because the motive invoked to remove it in the first place was incorrect, which it arguably was, and did not intend to endorse or agree with the contents of the edit; this you could not possibly claim. — Coren ^(talk) 03:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

His comment was about the entire paragraph, not just that line. It just suits your motives to interpret it that way. And ignoring this, I would still get blocked if I reinserted a blatant BLP{ violation, even if I said in the edit summary I had no opinion on whether it was a violation. If this was as clear a violation of NPA as you claim it is, there is no difference, his unblock request makes it absolutely clear. And yet still you attribute the worst motives to me without any proof. I could do the same as Tango and say anything about my motives, clearly that would be a waste of time. MickMacNee (talk) 13:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot editing logged out

It looks like CorenSearchBot is now editing as an IP, either that or it is being impersonated (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations&action=history) - I don't know if you are already aware of this. —Snigbrook 16:20, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. "Amusing". This is the first time CSBot has run for so long without being reconfigured, so the login cookie timed out— and that possibility never occured to me. Fix't. — Coren ^(talk) 19:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Apparent copyright of Warchild (Star Trek)

I've just had a message from your bot telling me that I have just "copied" the blurb from the book Warchild (Star Trek) directly onto Wikipedia. This isn't true - I wrote it directly from the back cover of the book, which is in front of me, and it is the same on Memory Alpha, as shown here. I certainly didn't intend to break copyright rules, but the blurb is the only thing I can think of to put down, as I haven't read the book in a while. Dave (talk) 16:36, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

It's the same with Station Rage and Objective: Bajor. Dave (talk) 17:03, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Creating a new page

I've tried to create a new page for the film Mike's Murder and I think the bot thought this page already existed - but the already existing page is about the soundtrack. I am not sure how to make the distinction clear, how to disambiguate and would appreciate help in a way. For example, on the wikipedia page for 'Hooked' , a book of Pauline Kael film reviews , when I click on Mike's Murder , I want it to go to the new film page and it goes to the soundtrack page.Sayerslle (talk) 21:24, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Giffnock Curling Club

Hi

The text on the Giffnock Curling Club is taken from our website. I am the author and webmaster for this site and grant Wikipedia leave to use the text in its entirety.

Kind regards

Stephen Malloy - aka Mearnsman - Giffnock Curling Club —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mearnsman (talk • contribs) 15:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Heather Neff copyright issues

I received a notification regarding copyright infringements for Heather Neff. An infringement was not my intent. I know Heather personally, wanted to ensure she received props in the Eastern Michigan University - Notable Faculty article. She referred me to her official website heatherneffbooks.com to draw in the history of her life to present. In building her wiki article, I copied the information from her website to the wikipedia article to begin whittling down to core information about her. It was during that process of whittling that I received the copyright notification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Morlet63 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot error

Hi

The text on the František Brikcius is taken from website. The author and webmaster agreed (GFDL) to use this text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wkped (talk • contribs) 17:37, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

I´ve created a redirect page but and removed the tag of the bot on the new page. The bot seems to be faster than I am doing redirects :) Please reffer to me in case of doubt.

Ralph Bakshi filmography

I'm just letting you know that your bot mistakenly tagged the article Ralph Bakshi filmography as a copy of Ralph Bakshi. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 06:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC))

Violation of Wikipedia license by WikiEuropa

Your little bot didn't realise what those naughty Eurocentrics have been up to!!! Actually the foot is on the other boot. The Eurocentrists took the text wholesale from the old wikipedia Precarity page and pasted it on their Eurocentric site. Their page was set up on 14:45, 13 February 2008 after the above referenced page was up!!!Harrypotter (talk) 22:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Copyright

Kennan Ward page.

I placed in the text and on the web site the following.

The text on this page only is available as GFDL to support Wikipedia. KWP2009--Kennanward (talk) 20:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Kennan--Kennanward (talk) 21:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Vue 7 Infinite

The content is more detailed in reference to Pserpedia Vue 7

Zahid Shaikh--zahid_shaikh (talk) 17:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot error

The text on the Martha Shaw page is taken from her college's website AND substantially revised. It is also the standard information given at all websites pertaining to the conductor Martha Shaw. Thank you. Matterhorn3 (talk) 05:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Matterhorn3

Dusting (inhalent abuse)

Hi. I was in the process of moving "Dusting (inhalent abuse)" to "Dusting (inhalant abuse)" (correct spelling) and got a message on my talk page to come here (the maintainer's page). So far, I've created the new page and not yet deleted the old page (with a redirect). I've never moved a page before. So I hope I didn't mess anything up. If I have, please feel to undo what I've done. Thanks. Originalname37 (talk) 20:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Oops! I should have read (more of) your message about CorenSearchBot leaving a template on your talk page (sooner). Never Mind. Originalname37 (talk) 20:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Kincraig Shinty Club

of course it's similar, "plantspedia whatever" nicked that info from the wikipedia in the first place Sologoal (talk) 15:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

navicus copyright ok

i received a notice from coren regarding the copying of text from my existing website at www.navicus.com. i am the owner of the language from www.navicus.com. please remove the coren disclaimer.

Thanks!

Jesse Berger, CEO, Navicus —Preceding unsigned comment added by Navicus, Inc. (talk • contribs) 20:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Bot's listings at WP:SCV

Hey Coren, sorry to bother you about this, but CSB has been listing some entries in the following format recently, and they aren't displaying as a link properly, which makes a bit of extra work for people processing the listings. If you could look into it, I'd appreciate it.

• Louise murphy — Marie-Louise O'Murphy. CSBot reporting at 23:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

– Toon^(talk) 02:12, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Odd. This looks like a mediawiki change; apostrophes never used to be converted to entities before. I'm on it. — Coren ^(talk) 02:47, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Smoke N Mirrors

Someone incorrectly titled the album Smoke & Mirrors (album i changed it to Smoke N Mirrors which is correct. Your bot is ANNOYING —Preceding unsigned comment added by 420AllDayEveryDay (talk • contribs) 04:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Elisabeth Earle

I used text from Elisabeth Earle's official webpage, which I operate and write. The material is public. I'd hate to have to rewrite the whole thing just to change up a few words. What can I do to her site to get the bot to leave me alone? --Jdclark78757 (talk) 01:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Please read the guide to donating your own copyrighted material to Wikipedia. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest. — Coren ^(talk) 02:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding your ArbCom vote

A minor point of clarification which will likely not have any impact, but a few people have asked me about it. I asked NYB to change his vote because I believe that his statement supports an accept vote, not a decline vote.

However, as for whether I personally feel a case should be opened, I'm still rather torn. A full-blown has the potential to be quite nasty. Though I see your point that an RFC could be equally nasty.

I just thought it was important to make sure everyone was on the same page. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

In this particular case, the net effect would end up being pretty much the same (that is, if Brad switches to accept then the case opens). But if it makes you feel a bit better, I have every intention of making sure any case that opens would not devolve into a melee— something which is considerably more difficult to ensure in the freer format of an RfC. — Coren ^(talk) 14:23, 27 February 2009 (UTC)