User talk:Josve05a/Archives/2018/August

Latest comment: 6 years ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic The Signpost: 30 August 2018


Changes on Insane Robots page

Hi Joseve,

I painstakingly created the Insane Robots Wikipedia page, and I see you have deleted most of it for "copyright violation". The content there does not violate any copyright; I am the copright owner and I can assure you of that.

Please can you restore the content of the page, especially as it is now very inaccurate and missing most of it's relevant information.

Thanks,

Rob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbdavis (talkcontribs) 16:54, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

HiJosve05a, I look forward to hearing from you asap about you allegations of copyright violation which I take extremely seriously. Rob

@Rbdavis: As anybody can create an account on Wikipedia, anybody can pretend to be anybody here. That's why we don't allow content from the web to be posted on our website unless the source is under the same Creative Commons license as Wikipedia is, or if the copyright owner emails a release for the original content to be licensed under said license. Please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. We only host material which are either in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. (tJosve05a (c) 23:10, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
You may very well be the owner of the content, but we require you to email WP:OTRS (as detailed in the link above) to assert that you are, and release the content under said free license. (tJosve05a (c) 23:11, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Also, please read WP:IOWN. (tJosve05a (c) 23:17, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
You may not have commited copyright violation, but you may, however, have violated Wikipedia's policy about copyrigthed content. (tJosve05a (c) 23:21, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I understand that in your view the copyright issue relates to the body text descrbing the game (though this is in the public domain, has been distributed widely without copyright notice via press releases, reproduced widely in publications online already, and is on the public web pages of numerous entities including Microsoft, Sony and Valve). Anyway, we will seek to complete the paperwork you are requesting if it is a requirement.
However this does not apply to the press citations in the "reception" section, which were painstakingly set up according to Wiki protocols to include links, dates, quotes, titles, etc. This is what took about a day of work and there was no reason to just delete this, and journalists article are certainly not protected from linking by any application of copyright law. Therefore please reinstate these as a matter of urgency.
Thank you,
Rob
Rbdavis (talk) 11:57, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
I am not an administrator, and can therefore not delete nor undelete deleted content. I only marked your edits as being copied from elsewhere online and reverted to a previous version. In order to have some content undeteled, you need to contact the deleting Hut 8.5, or by contacting OTRS as above. I merly tagged your article, I did not take nay administrative action. (tJosve05a (c) 15:36, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi
I understand that you marked the game's description content for deletion and I accept this deletion.
However, the labourously added press citations were not in any way content copied from elsewhere, so you marked them incorrectly. I am not able to navigate these systems to undelete the content your tagging caused to be deleted. You made the mistake. Can you please untag and undelete the press citations. They should never have been deleted. I don't go around Wikipedia tagging things incorrectly to be deleted, and neither should you.
Thanks,
Rob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbdavis (talkcontribs) 17:07, 3 August 2018‎ (UTC)
@Rbdavis: I literally cannot. I do not have the technical capabilities to undelete content which has been redacted or deleted, only administrators do, such as Hut 8.5 who redacted your edits. The edits you made included content which was copied from elsewhere online, and therefore those entire revisions needed to be reverted and redacted from public view, per our policies on copyrighted content and revision deletion criteria 1. I cannot undelete content deleted by administrators, I have as much (or little) power as you do. What you can do is contact the deleting admin, email OTRS and license the content which was removed as being free, or ask on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard for the content which wasn't copied, to be reinstated. (tJosve05a (c) 17:18, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

 

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  • After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
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