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Hi, I noticed your copy-paste edit in the Director of Audit. I think you'll want to read WP:MOVE#Before moving a page next time because it destroys edit history. Tvtr (tlk–cntrbtn) 17:29, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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Dear Wikifriends, I am sorry for this Copyright issue. I wanted to have the list of "Standard-setting Boards" in that page, and I thought a minimum of description for each was necessary, so I took their "official" definitions. I will be more carefull in future. Sorry also for not having answered sooner to your note of 7Feb, I had not read my page sooner.Gilles 06:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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Coordinated organizations

Bonjour, Gilles. I've just done a cleanup and copyedit of this article in your sandbox, per your request at Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English#Co-ordinated_organisations_User:GillesAuriault.2FSandbox. Hope you approve. Textorus (talk) 22:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much, you have even added some translation! I will post the page on Wiki in a few days, I am waiting for a copyright opinion from ArcAngel and Coren.Gilles 05:31, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

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Hi. I figured I would reply to your note here. I've reviewed User:GillesAuriault/Sandbox on your request. I'm afraid that it needs a little more work.

While some of the content seems fine, and removal of the history section is a big help, some of the material is derivative at least of [1]. For instance, that source says:

Their aims and activities are quite diversified. The staff consequently have widely differing qualifications, skills and experience and are recruited from many sectors of economic activity in Member counties.

The article says:

Their aims and activities are quite diverse. Hence their staffs have very different qualifications, experiences and expertise, and are recruited in varying economic sectors of member countries.

Content like this would constitute a close paraphrase of the original source.

I see that you yourself wrote the article on the French Wikipedia. This adds some challenge to me in addressing the translation, since my grasp of French is rudimentary. But it seems that there may be some concerns with that source. For example, I see that the French article contains the following text:

Outre les membres de plein droit, l'Assemblée accueille dix-huit autres pays, qui doivent utiliser l'une des huit langues officielles. 7 Les langues de travail sont l'anglais et le français.... Dans la pratique, la langue utilisée est essentiellement l'anglais.

This copyrighted document says:

Outre les membres de plein droit, qui cotisent au budget de l'UEO, l'Assemblée accueille dix-huit autres pays avec des statuts divers (membres associés, observateurs, associés partenaires), qui doivent utiliser l'une des huit langues officielles. Dans la pratique, la langue utilisée est essentiellement l'anglais. Les langues de travail sont l'anglais et le français.

Some of the content now in our article may be derivative of this, and some of seems to be a direct translation of that or another official source. For example: "In practice, the language used was essentially English." This is a word-for-word translation from that source, and must be formulated as a quotation to meet the English language Wikipedia's practices. (See Wikipedia:Copy-paste.)

Also in the French article I see:

Le français et l'anglais sont les deux langues officielles de l'Organisation. Le règlement de l'Assemblée parlementaire reconnaît en outre trois langues de travail, l'allemand, l'italien et le russe. Les interventions dans une langue officielle ou de travail sont interprétées dans les 2 autres langues. Les interventions peuvent être prononcées dans une langue autre que les langues officielles ou de travail; dans ce cas, l'orateur doit assurer l'interprétation dans l'une des langues officielles ou de travail. Un compte rendu officiel des débats est publié dans les langues officielles.

The same source says:

Le français et l'anglais sont les deux langues officielles de l'Organisation du Conseil de l'Europe. Cependant, le règlement de l'Assemblée parlementaire...reconnaît en outre trois langues de travail qui sont l'allemand, l'italien et le russe..... les interventions prononcées dans une langue officielle ou de travail sont interprétées simultanément dans les autres langues officielles et de travail. Toutefois, les interventions peuvent être prononcées dans une langue autre que les langues officielles ou de travail ; dans ce cas, l'orateur doit assurer sous sa responsabilité l'interprétation simultanée dans l'une des langues officielles ou de travail. Un compte rendu officiel des débats de chaque séance est publié in extenso dans les langues officielles.

Again, it is difficult for me to judge the level of paraphrase from that to the English version. And since I am not near fluent in French, I cannot easily assess other content. I would be happy to try to help you revise the content for the English Wikipedia as needed, but I would need to find somebody better in French to help determine the extent of the need. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:27, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Salut, although French is also my second language I reviewed these texts and I agree that the close paraphrasing is problematic. This report shows a substantial number of long copied phrases, such as:

"OCDE: Les langues officielles et les langues de travail sont le français et l'anglais. En pratique, fort déséquilibre en faveur de l'anglais."

"Les langues de travail sont l'anglais et le français. Les documents sont systématiquement et simultanément publiés dans les deux langues."

A simple Google search shows that these are not common French phrases (e.g. "fort déséquilibre en faveur de l'anglais" has no Ghits beyond these documents), nor do I believe they represent the only way of expressing these ideas. Dcoetzee 12:59, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much to you Moonriddengirl and Dcoetzee. I have deleted a lot, so there should not be any CopyVio anymore... (Allthough I think there was no real issue with texts of the French Assemblee Nationale, since they are published to be used by citizens, as long as they are not distorted - which is probably why French WikiAdmin have not seen any problem with quoting the Assemblee Nationale) GillesAuriault ^(talk)Gilles, 30 March 2011 (UTC). I have also shortened the quotes on the French Wikipage about "organisations coordonnees".Gilles 15:30, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Co-ordinated organisations (again)

Salut, Gilles. I have removed your French text about ISACA from that page and restored the former version. I suppose you made a little mistake there while using copy & paste. Regards, De728631 (talk) 14:58, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

oops Thanks! I had an unwanted REDIRECT from my sandbox which caused this stupid mistake! Sorry Gilles 18:40, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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I still think that the CSAIO page is useful... The page helps (with the hyperlinks) to understand how many trade-unions try to coordinate their actions and learn from each other; A perspective which is not readily available on the Internet, and which other wikipedians will enrich I hope.

I am not a very experienced wikipedian, so if Sparthorse has another opinion (that "CSAIO is not of clear notability") he may well be right... Whichever the final decision will be, Thank you anyway for your help, Gilles 14:39, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

List of three-letter initialisms

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Thank you robot! I don't know this http://fr.goldenmap.com/Liste_de_sigles_de_trois_lettres, I just translated the linked French wikipage. There is certainly no copyright issue, as anyone can generate the full list of three-letter initialisms by simple systematic permutation.Gilles 12:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

1. List of three-letter initialisms 8,074 links"

Could you please fix all links to disambiguation pages. It are just 8074 links... Night of the Big Wind _talk 02:15, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for deleting the duplication. I had not found the WP:TLA page before. I have added a link to the WP:TLA in the French equivalent page, and the same for en:Wikipedia:List of two-letter combinations. Gilles 12:44, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Maryana, I am very happy to meet a Community Organizer! (That must be one of the new dream jobs of the IT era, no?!)

1. Was the message helpful? Were the instructions clear and easy to follow? Yes, absolutely.
2. If not, how do you think the message could be improved? ... not sure it needs to, in my kind of case...
3. What do you think about the deletion process in general? OK! Do you understand how to contest a deletion? Yes, but I did not find it necessary to contest.

I have had 3 pages deleted in 5 years, and they were all OK with me! IACPA was a Redirect-page with a mistake, so it was 100% OK to quickly delete it. The page List of three-letter initialisms was already existing at Wikipedia:TLAs from AAA to DZZ, a page I had not found before because few links led there. So it was completely normal to delete my page. (Since then, I have created quite a few cross-reference links between the French wiki and English wiki, Italian etc.). As for the deletion of CSAIO, I regret it a little because I think it was a useful info with quite a few hyperlinks, but on the other hand I am not an expert in 'encyclopedialogy' so I accept the decision of experts. It was anyway a short page, no link with me at all (I just like to find quickly in WP the signification of initialisms I encounter, and I have added a lot of these initialisms in the English and French wikipedia).

Thank you very much for your inquiry, Maryana.__Gilles 17:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

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Thank you for these notes. I have fixed the links to disambiguation pages.Gilles 13:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you very much, that's fine195.128.1.27 (talk) 06:21, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you very much, fixed it - Gilles

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A tag has been placed on Airborne Precision Spacing requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4106260. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material 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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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 04:09, 23 August 2023 (UTC)