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Copyright violations

Hello, Icasite. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. For some suggestions on responding, please see Responding to a CCI case. Thank you. --Dougweller (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:05, 25 November 2010 (UTC).

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Dear Dougweller,

I created a page about Imperialist Competitive Algorithm. You addressed some copyright issues.

This method was presented in 2007 in the following paper which is referred in the first line of the article.

1. Atashpaz-Gargari, E.; Lucas, C (2007). "Imperialist Competitive Algorithm: An algorithm for optimization inspired by imperialistic competition". IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 7. pp. 4661–4666.

Then in other papers which are the new applications and/or variants of this method, the basic part, which is the algorithm itself is remained unchanged by referring to the first (above mentioned) article. This why you see that some parts of this article appear in many papers. For example the pseudocode of this algorithm is the known and standard steps of this algorithm and it is really hard (or may be impossible) to express these steps in terms other than what is currently published in papers.

Also most of the paper about this algorithm are listed in the references section of the article, including the 3 articles you indicated as the copyright issue sample.

I modified the article to address the papers in more detail. For each paragraph I added references. If you think following the above explanation and modifications I did, I need to modify the article or remove some parts, please kindly let me know.

I also sent you the copy of this message as on email to you.

Bests,

Icasite

Here is your comment about this article.

Imperialist competitive algorithm is a newly created article by a new user. A quick search turns up a large number of copyvios (interestingly enough, writers of journal articles in this field appear to be guilty of the same). Thus [1] is the (or a) source of "modeled by picking some (usually one) of one of the colonies of the weakest empire and making a competition among all empires to possess these (this) colonies." and " The total power of an empire depends on both the power of the imperialist country and the power of its colonies." and almost all of the section on pseudocode. Another source is [2], A search on "starts with an initial population. Each individual of the population is called a country" and other excerpts turns up this article [3] although you can only see it with a google search as the snippets show it but you can't read the article itself. Dougweller (talk) 07:03, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

The problem is that you've copied word for word from various sources. You should also read WP:Close paraphrase. I've replied on the copyvio page. Dougweller (talk) 20:46, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Discussion of this article continues at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2010 November 26. MER-C 04:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

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