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And it is all because of you...

...that the article on the rescue of Poland's Jewish during World War II has just received a DYK honour. Yes, the article is on the Wikipedia front page this morning, and I wanted to thank you once more for your invaluable help in bringing it to the project. Be well! Ecoleetage (talk) 10:59, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations, and thanks for letting me know. :D Again, it was a pleasure to collaborate with you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh..and if you could...

Another 'not sure about' issue. Roy Assaf went to Afd and the result was to keep, so some work has been done however a great portion of it was lifted from the record labels bio: "Roy Assaf & Eddy Khaimovich Quartet". There are very little sources out there and considering the article was created by a "Rassaf" Special:Contributions/Rassaf it is not surprising if this was the basis for the record labels bio. You can compare the dif for the first version of the article to the latest and it is almost verbatim now to the record labels bio. Most of the sources are press releases or "official" sites of some sort - but that is secondary to the main issue now. I would be tempted to try a copyvio CSD but considering the path the article has already taken I am not sure if that is even possible. The way the article appeared on October 30, 2008 should have sent it to CSD for copyvio and not to Afd. Soundvisions1 (talk) 02:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

I've listed it at CP. Since the article passed AfD, if it is not revised in temporary space within the one week investigation, I'll take care of it when that term expires. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Soundvisions1 (talk) 12:45, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

PS - I did not see this the first time around - User talk:Royassaf warning about the issue before it went to AfD. Although the post date is July 3, 2007 the article history shows that User:Royassaf made one edit on August 14, 2008. As the current article was created December 5, 2007 maybe there was another article that was deleted for copyvio in July 2007? (or the same article?) And User:Rassaf = User:Royassaf? Soundvisions1 (talk) 14:48, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The article was twice deleted for copyright violation before, on June 29 2007 and July 3 2007. Persistent, this contributor. :) The connection seems clear. It could be a user who forgot his log-in and created a new account. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Republic of China national flag has the wrong color.

Hi, its me again. I normally talk to user Coppertwig regarding problems on wiki, but it looks like he has been away since 8 Nov 2008, so I think I come to asking for your help to look at this urgent matter. Image talk:Flag of the Republic of China.svg, I feel that it is urgent because (1) the issue on the color was raised a few months ago, and no action was taken to rectify it. (2) The color blue was somehow changed from navy blue to dark blue(near black). No nation in the world would use BLACK on its National Flag, let alone Chinese, who normally associate Black with Death. I am pleading to you, plrase use you Admin power to have a look and rectify it as soon as possible. The deface of any nation's National Flag would be considered a national shame.Arilang1234 (talk) 04:48, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I see that you are discussing the matter now on Wikimedia Commons, which is where that file exists. I am not an admin there. However, even if it were here, I would only have authority to act on this if it were the result of vandalism. Not being extremely visual, I'm not sure what color they're going for, but it looks dark blue on my monitor. (I don't see much difference in the various versions posted in the last few weeks at wikimedia:Image:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg. I'm afraid I don't have a very discerning eye for color!) Sorry I can't help. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:22, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Arilang. I've been busy with other things, I'm sorry. I know you have some messages on my talk page, and I hope to find time to answer them today. About the flag: different computers will show colours differently. Maybe your computer shows it darker than other computers. In the discussion, please don't call it "vandalism", but give the reasons why you think it should be lighter, and listen to the reasons that other people give. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 15:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Problem solved, color is back to normal. Thanks.Arilang1234 (talk) 18:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:Something you needed?

I do not what Brienne-le-Château/Temp is, it may have been an article that I tagged with AWB. Other than that, I do not really care. OOODDD (talk) 19:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The Hyde School

Hello!

Hello!

I am writing to ask for your assistance in resolving an issue with a page I am trying to create/edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hyde_School.

A Wiki 'bot marked the page witrh a coptright infringement notice, refering to content that appears on: http://www.hydebronxny.org/aboutNY.htm

The Hyde School in the Bronx and our school are part of the same organization. Therefore, I trust no copyright infringement exists. What is the best way to handle this situation?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Gem555 (talk) 03:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Replying at contributor's talk in case of archival. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Tracy Dali

Nope that's alright. I'll defer. I actually didn't realize you were admin. Many admins would just delete the page as a copyvio (G12). So I thought you were not an admin. Apologies. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 16:10, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Billybunter.jpg

Your message to me must have been intended for someone else. I didn't tag the image. Thanks. --Wolfer68 (talk) 21:13, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

I was confused as well and I was looking that up when you sent your last message. I recall now and I had placed a message on the talk page of Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 November 7 to try to explain what I did. --Wolfer68 (talk) 21:23, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Moonriddengirl - thanks for your extensive comment - I rewrote the front and back ends of the text and reposted it.

You can email me directly via the contact link on www.peterfox.info if you need to.

Thanks so much for your attention and help!

Peterfoxny (talk) 06:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Wallpapers as Images

Can we upload wallpapers? Do they come under the license of free images?

P.S: Kindly reply on my talk page. Its a bit messy to watch so many pages. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 14:52, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry. I thought maybe you will know. Marsa Lahminal (talk) 15:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Songs for a Tailor

On 13 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Songs for a Tailor, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—Politizer ^talk/_contribs 23:38, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! --Bruce1ee^talk 04:55, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! And thank you, again, for looking at it. We may not write articles for fame and fortune (unless we've completely misunderstood the nature of Wikipedia!), but it's still always a pleasure to know that somebody else has at least seen it. If we didn't want them seen, after all, we could just save them to our own hard drives. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:45, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

deletin of Dilhan Kalyon

Hi;

Prof. Dr. Dilhan Kalyon is my graduate advisor and I wanted to create his personal information on wikipedia page. because of I didnot know much about GNU I just created the page for his personal webpage. I have permission from him and the original form of the documents that I posted in wikipedia. But I actually do not know about how come can i use these documents under gnu. Please send me the required steps that I need to do for re creating(please be very and understandable).

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fbodurlar (talk • contribs) 03:47, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Replied at user's talk. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

What to do next...

My turn to person here for this sort of thing - Image:FishGoDeepandTraceyK.jpg is an image I had tagged CSD I9 on November 8 (along with 3 other images from the same user) because the credit was "myspace.com" The uploader placed a {{hangon}} on all 4 of the images with the same message on each ones talk page. Two of the images have been deleted, this image and Image:NUIG October 08.jpg however still are here. Not sure what to do next is because the uploader is trying to expand the info and "credit" however there is still no indication that the images are "free".

Image:FishGoDeepandTraceyK.jpg now has "Tracey K slide show" listed as the "source" rather than myspace. The specific image is "with Fish Go Deep" and there is no licensing information on the page. The websites copyright information is: "Slide.com copyright info"

Image:NUIG October 08.jpg now lists "THE JAPANESE POPSTARS's Albums" as the source, even though more specific is still taken from myspace.

I guess my question is "do I re-update the CSD tag with the specific URL the images are taken from or do I just leave it as is and wait for an admin to come in and deal with it?"

Once, when I was in copyright camp.... :) Soundvisions1 (talk) 06:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

LOL! Well, there are incomplete assertions of permission at Image:NUIG October 08.jpg and Image:FishGoDeepandTraceyK.jpg. I've accordingly changed the tag on those to {{subst:di-no permission-notice|1=Di-no permission}} ~~~~ and left a modified template advisory to the uploader. That gives him or her several days to prove the case before they are deleted. If they haven't been dealt with, but have been tagged since November 8th, then it's very likely that reviewing admins are not finding them uncontroversial deletions. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Lunch with the Devil

I did check the site when the claims came in that permission was granted for use on wikipedia there, and I did see it. I had still requested that the text be changed as it read like an advertisement and some one had obliged to doing that. I don't know if there's any issue now, but I'm glad you're looking into it. Thanks. --Wolfer68 (talk) 01:12, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

As if you don't have enough to do...

I IfD/PUI'd a bunch of unused images and the discovered they should probably be CSD'd instead. Should I "close" the discussion and retag images with CSD's? Advice always appreciated: Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2008 November 14#Image:Westsidewalk.jpg Thanks. Soundvisions1 (talk) 01:21, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

As long as there are no responses to them (and so far, there aren't), you're free to withdraw them and relist them elsewhere if you find a more appropriate forum. I'd use <s>strikethrough</s> and leave a note explaining why. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:23, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. Phew. There should be some sort of "bulk" CSD "unused" tag where you can just add images from the same user that are all taken from the same website. (or frame grabs from the same user taken from the same source.) I guess the entertainment law class I was forced to take in college comes in handy at times. :) Soundvisions1 (talk) 02:38, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

LOL. It can be tedious sometimes. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:48, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

HM Episodes?

You know the List of HM Episodes page? Well, under the different seasons pages, you can't edit the page, like under the season 3 section, I can add an airdate that i KNOW is official. Can you help me? - Alec2011 (talk) 02:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

That's actually a new one on me. Part of the page is transcluded from elsewhere, but I'm not sure how. I'm looking at it. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:16, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah! I see. Clever! List of Hannah Montana episodes doesn't duplicate the season guides, but "transcludes" them from the sublists. If you look at the code, you see that here: {{:List of Hannah Montana episodes (Season 1)}}. That tells Wikipedia to copy the contents of List of Hannah Montana episodes (Season 1) to List of Hannah Montana episodes. What was puzzling me was why it didn't copy the whole thing. It's the <onlyinclude> and </onlyinclude> tags in the subarticle. Basically, if you want to update the table at List of Hannah Montana episodes, you need to do it at the subpage, and when the software refreshes, it will automatically update. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

OH, I get it. Can I cahnge some things? Like on the List of HM Episodes page, I like how the chart was before like they had a different color every other episode, and it was smaller..... Also, I like how it did 3 - 1 - (57) I don't like Series Number and Season Number in seperate columns.... Just wondering, is this a new way to decrease Vandiliam? - Alec2011 (talk) 02:26, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't know. You might want to talk to the editor who changed it to see if there's a reason. A discussion at the talk page could help establish consensus to change it back if he or she doesn't agree with you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:34, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

thank you for your explanations re: the USS Liberty - and please help me

I saw what was happening re: the USS Libery and tried to set the record straight and my comments too were edited out within minutes. I really feel that the explanation I was given made no sense. Please lay out for me - specifically - what I need to do to assure that information concerning Captain Ward Boston and the Moorer Commission in included in the USS Liberty entry?--Henrywinklestein (talk) 23:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm afraid that given the nature of Wikipedia, there is nothing that you can do to assure that. There is nothing that I could do to assure that, or any other single editor. It depends on community consensus. Essentially, you need to figure out what the objections are of the editors who are removing the information and, if you feel that they are misunderstanding the policies and guidelines they are applying, address their concerns to demonstrate to them why the material belongs. Further up the page there is a section on the matter, User_talk:Moonriddengirl#USS_Liberty, where I have advised another contributor of how to resolve disputes on Wikipedia. Basically what it boils down to is when two sides disagree on the development of an article, wider community input is sought to help decide what best fits the needs of the article within Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Essentially, it starts with patient and thorough explanation at the article's talk page, inviting broader input if necessary to help resolve stalemate. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:45, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Everything I've ever come across suggests that the survivors (with no exceptions atall?) believe that "the Israeli story is untrue". Survivor web-site ussliberty.com claims that this is on the record from "... Virtually every knowledgeable American official with the lone exception of Robert McNamara" - and quote Secretary of State Dean Rusk, CIA Director Richard Helms, NSA Deputy Director Oliver Kirby, Special Assistant to the President Clark Clifford, Lyndon Johnson's biographer Robert Dallek, NSA Deputy Director Louis W. Tordella, Captain Richard F. Kiepfer, Captain Ward Boston, NSA Director Army Lieutenant General William Odom, NSA/CIA Director Admiral Bobby Inman, David Walsh, Captain William L. McGonagle, and Admiral Thomas Moorer.

Under these circumstances it is distressing that you protected the article immediately after what appears to be a a POV revert, removing a link to the fairly authoritative (Moorer Commission of 2003, partly entitled "... and the Subsequent Cover-up by the United States Government".

What Henrywinklestein is trying to add is not JFK assassination or 911 conspiracy, it appears to be the overwhelming majority view. Editors we treat like this could easily lose all confidence in Wikipedia, believing that the project is in the iron grip of editors of a particular POV, and that they're backed by the heavy hand of adminstrators who cannot be unaware of what they're doing. PR^talk 09:26, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Please refer to Wikipedia:Protection policy. When a page is protected in an edit war, it is typically protected in whatever version it happens to be in at the time that protection becomes necessary. In the absence of clear policy violation, such as copyright infringement or libel, it is inappropriate for me to edit the page I am protecting. As an examination of the history of the article makes clear, this article had been a battleground for reversion by multiple editors, including one 3RR violation. Editors like this, just as all others, must understand the consensus process on Wikipedia and where to go to seek wider review in debates. We do not conduct arguments in article space. If you think there was anything chilling about my note explaining the situation to him at the time of protection, please let me know. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The article doesn't need protecting from two over-excited editors each having slightly different views on the underlying narrative, between whom consensus could be reached after a "cooling-off" period. It urgently needs protection from heavy POV-pushing and complete nonsense such as this from an editor who has wiki-stalked me to an article he's never had anything to do with before.

Henrywinklestein will readily understand that you cannot interfere in a content dispute - however, he will reasonably expect you to recognise disruptive editing and protect the project from it. PR^talk 12:29, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Did you look at the history? I'm puzzled as to your conclusion that this involves two editors. I see five: Jayjg, Henrywinklestein, Justin A Kuntz, WorldFacts, and Narson had all struggled over this material in the 24 hours prior to the single day of protection. Not unusually, the perception of who is editing disruptively seems to differ depending on which perspective is held. If any editor feels that there is disruption in the article, he or she is free to follow the procedures at WP:DE. Meanwhile, content disputes belong on article talk pages and not in article space. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:41, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

PR, I believe what Moonriddengirl was doing here was acting as an uninvolved administrator. This means not taking sides in a content dispute, which leaves one free to do things like protect a page in an impartial manner. If one side of the content dispute is clearly better and supported by the majority, then that will be evident to the editors involved; opinions of more editors can be brought in if necessary via RfC (article content). I might comment myself if I have time, but I'm rather backlogged at the moment. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

@Coppertwig - that article is being repeatedly reverted by an editor (likely non-expert) claiming to be protecting policy. Here is a summary typical of what he includes: "read this carefully. The reasons are WP:UNDUE and WP:NPOV. Is that clear? The Moorer report is no more an "investigation" than Cristol's book."

Now, I've done an analysis of the very different treatment of Moorers report (4 top US military people in 2003 attempting a non-ideological "independent investigation") and Cristols 2002 book - the latter being (as best I understand it) one man's ideological polemic with nobody else's input. Where would you like me to post this analysis, here or at the article? Moonriddengirl's has acted (perfectly properly) as an "uninvolved administrator" - but this falls apart if, when challenged on an imbalance present in the article, she doesn't either check for it herself, or call for evidence.

Rightly or wrongly, I've brought this matter to the TalkPage of the "uninvolved administrator" since matters of policy and NPOV were put squarely in the frame by the very editor whose version that Moonriddengirl has protected.

On top of what I've found (documenting it takes 50 times longer than spotting the problem in the first place), further clear evidence of problems is clear from the section immediately preceeding the "protection" notice added by Moonriddengirl. The WRMEA publishes an article virtually accusing Cristol of lying, claiming that not one of the "13 US investigations" repeatedly claimed by Cristol to "exonerate Israel" do anything of the kind. WP articles are littered with "criticism" far less careful and scholarly than what O'Keefe and WRMEA have presented - why do we have the same editor claiming (again) that policy mandates excluding something so central to his previous defence of Cristol? PR^talk 14:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The article was protected for a single day to encourage conversation and follow up through the dispute resolution process. I placed a note on the article's talk page advising contributors how to proceed. I advised the evidently new contributor, who opened this section, personally how to proceed, since he (or she) could reasonably be expected not to know how. Protection expired at 12:47, 6 November 2008 (UTC)), more than 10 hours before this contributor appeared at my page. An administrator's intervention is not needed when the page is not protected, and all editors should be amply aware at this point of where to go to invite wider community input to resolve disputes about content issues. I see no policy violation here, except the likely inadvertent violation of WP:3RR by User:WorldFacts, who was probably unaware of the policy at the time. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:46, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

@Moonriddengirl My apologies for using your TalkPage to put a question to Coppertwig. However, there is good evidence of things going really badly wrong at this article, with "policy" apparently being used to produce something that (by very simple tests) can be identified as being very distorted. While you cannot be asked to interfere in "content disputes", it is not unreasonable to ask administrators such as yourself to recognise whether policy is being followed or not. In this case, it should be relatively easy for you to discern what is going on, since particular edits are being carried out in the name of policy.

@Coppertwig - please answer my question at my TalkPage instead - where do you want the evidence that the USS Liberty incident article is suffering badly from UNDUE and distortion of the material of sources? PR^talk 16:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, PR. OK, I'll answer your question to me on your talk page. Here, I'll just comment in response to what you've said to Moonriddengirl. Again, there is no obligation on the part of an uninvolved administrator to become involved in content disputes. Content policies such as NPOV are enforced by editors, not especially by administrators. If Moonriddengirl wishes to become involved in a content discussion at a particular article, she is free to do so. If she doesn't have time or is not very interested in that topic, as a volunteer she is under no obligation. There are many articles at Wikipedia and there may be other articles she'd be more interested in discussing. Protecting a page is a normal administrative action and doesn't require any further action on the part of the administrator except perhaps explaining why it was done, which I think she's already done. I would like to get involved in the discussion but I'm not sure if I'm going to have time; I'm busier than usual at the moment and have some messages on my talk page I haven't answered yet. I'm sorry about that. For content disputes (for example, application of policies such as NPOV, NOR and V) you can always use RfC (article content) to get more editors to help enforce the content policies. There are also a number of noticeboards that may be helpful in particular situations for finding editors who have time to look into content disputes. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 17:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Another admin has told us (repeatedly) that the faults at this article are a failure to follow policy - I agree. Lets proceed on that basis, and not inappropriately treat it (eg by locking) as if it's a "content dispute". Henrywinklestein and other editors deserve treating as if the word and judgement of administrators can be relied upon. I'm taking this discussion to the talk-page, where you'll see that, not only has Cristol been credibly accused of basing a core claim in his book on a "pure fantasy", but worrying indications of abusing sources can be found at one of his own web-sites. Experienced editors such as yourself may or may not have opinions on this particular case, but I'm sure you'll want to support editors acting to another part of policy, the use of reliable sources. PR^talk 11:48, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

I believe that you are an experienced contributor, but your comments here do lead me to wonder if you have misunderstood the role of administrators. Please excuse me if I over-explain, if I have misinterpreted your comment.

While administrators have some additional tools to help maintain the project and are expected to be experienced contributors, we do not trump other editors when it comes to questions of content. Admins do not have additional authority in deciding whether or not a specific source is reliable according to the RS guideline. Neither do we have additional authority in deciding whether or not material represents undue weight or is neutral. There are some exceptions to this; for instance, I have some additional authority in implementing matters related to BLP (see here)But unless there's an arbcom decision with which I'm unfamiliar (always possible, given the scope of this project), admins do not have extra authority in determining what content fits at USS Liberty incident. If they did, the matter would likely have been settled with "the word and judgment" of an administrator who has been an admin for almost 3 years longer than I have, right here. Unless, of course, some other administrator or administrators have opined differently. But as Wikipedia:Administrator notes, "There is very little extra decision-making ability that goes along with adminship, and it does not add any extra voice in consensus decisions." When it comes to determining if this material belongs, my opinion would be of no more or less significance than any other, and since I have used my admin tools from the position of an uninvolved admin, I feel it would be inappropriate for me now to weigh in on the content dispute. (Though if I did, my first step would be to search google news & google books to produce additional sources, if such could be found, and also to invite further feedback, as I have repeatedly advised.) And it is a content dispute, unless WP:V and WP:NPOV explicitly address the question. They do not.

If this material was being added by multiple contributors and removed by one, it would be a strong indicator of disruptive editing (though not definitive by any means), and it probably would have led to that one contributor being blocked for edit warring. That wasn't the situation here. The article was locked for 24 hours 4 days ago following a rapid span of reversions by multiple editors. The purpose was to encourage conversation on the talk page rather than edit warring in the article. As conversation is now ongoing, it seems to have succeeded. All contributors know where to seek additional input, either because they were individually notified or because there is a note now on the article's talk page with an explicit reference to DR. If very simple tests can determine whether or not this material should appropriately be included, it should be a very clear-cut matter when inviting outside input at one of those appropriate fora. Applying such tests and settling the matter is beyond my scope as an admin. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:04, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Well said, Moonriddengirl. Wise as an owl, steady as a rock. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 15:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

<deindent>Might be worth protecting it again. --Narson ~ Talk • 16:57, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

(sigh :/) In order to avoid a seeming of bias, I've listed it at RPP. Seems like things have deadlocked again. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:12, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you MRG. Though it looks like this is now at ANI and checkuser. Not exactly going to develop a consensu either way, but I guess it had become inevitable. I apologise for my earlier briskness with you, it is a frustrating set of circumstances but that is no excuse. Thank you for the help. --Narson ~ Talk • 10:40, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I completely understand your frustration, including with my 11th hour intervention. :) It seems like things have gotten ugly over there...and at your talkpage. I don't know that anything's going to come of the ANI thread, but at least the RPP request has brought somebody else into the mix who may help to simplify matters. Maybe checkuser will at least help determine how many different individuals are involved. As I said at RPP, socking seems likely at some quarters, though I'll be very surprised if all of the tagged individuals come up positive. I have actually tried myself to locate sources for this material. I needed to do so while investigating the copyright concerns at Moorer Report (my results at Talk:Moorer Report). I've found sources to verify that an independent investigation was conducted, but this book by Project Censored of the Sonoma State University is the only one I've found that explicitly connects the "Report" to the "Investigation". I would need much more background with this material than I have to enter into debate on the weight of the investigation and appropriate placement of any text on it and its reports, though. I can discuss the placement of "Dream of the Rood" in Anglo-Saxon literature all day. Military history? Not so much. :) (Oh, P.S. I have also noticed and admired your effort to address the debate.) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:52, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Believe me, this is not my area of history. I'm more at home with either the Norman Conquest or the French Revolution or even up to 1945. I can't even remember how I originally got invoved, I think I followed a vandal there and it got on my watch list. The moorer report is real, I am sure of that. That it deserves to be included, I am almost certain of that. However, that it /can/ be included, based on what has been brought forward? That is where I'm a bit iffy. I'm checking through academic journals and finding zilch. Even when I check the US archives I have access too (Amazing how you can access so much electronically now from foreign unis). I will spend the weekend doing it, but I fear the results will disappoint WorldFacts. As to sockpuppetting? It looked suspicious, but I think at most there are one, maybe two sockpuppets, and a couple of sockpuppeters. It is not one person running a sock farm I don't think (Just judging from contribution locks and style). I'd rather everyone went away a bit better educated about wiki policies than people just ended up going away blocked. --Narson ~ Talk • 13:15, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah, Moonriddengirl, your diplomacy is reminiscent of Newyorkbrad. (This is intended as a compliment.) ☺Coppertwig(talk) 15:26, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support!

Thanks for supporting my successful Rfa! Hope to work with you more in the future! I think that, as the last Support !vote, you win the prize for pushing me over the edge into "clear consensus" territory. Thanks!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 20:21, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

HMS Nancy (1789)

Just a note that this article has been edited recently by Eric Macklin (talk), who is connected to the NANCY-GRIFFON Foundation Inc. He has claimed a number of errors and incorrect references; however, his edits to this article (and the associated one on Engagement on Lake Huron) add as many faults as they fix, and the only reference he has added is that to the Foundation. I have left him a pointer on his talk page to the Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest policy. HLGallon (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I see that there may also be concerns with ownership, given the somewhat ominous "Page will now be monitored by the NANCY-GRIFFON Foundation Inc." If the user does not remain within COI guidelines, it may be necessary to request assistance at the conflict of interest noticeboard or take additional steps. I've put the article on my watchlist but do not have sufficient familiarity to necessarily judge the quality of his edits, but will try to offer assistance if I see any problems related to the consensus process. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:24, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

SCV

Well, sorry, but I haven't had any time to work on WP:SCV this week. I was going to really try to do some on the weekend, but I've been busy: I just wrote a long answer to a message on my talk page from a few days ago, and there are some other messages on my talk page I haven't answered yet. Maybe I'll find time to do some copyright work this coming week. Anyway, I guess Cool Hand Luke, MER-C, Toon05 and Sadalmelik (not to mention ClueBot II) have been keeping the backlog down to a dull roar. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 02:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem. :) Your assistance is very much appreciated when you can get to it, but User:John Reaves chipped in, too, (took out a whole day! Whoot!) and things are still well under control. Rather than consolidating, I often relist issues now, which helps. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:13, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Just for fun, here's a picture of a green heron: Image:Heron Green.JPG ☺Coppertwig(talk) 22:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, the funny thing about that picture of a green heron is that the picture is greener than the heron. You may also want to get involved in this conversation about the wording of the CorenSearchBot template, where I mention you: User talk:Sadalmelik#Hi!. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 17:12, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Visual pun. :) My wording there is drawn from Template:Uw-copyright. Only problem with that template is that it seems to contribute to misunderstandings about how many ideas we can draw from one source. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:15, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

What kind of misunderstandings? I.e. are people drawing too many facts from one source, based on the template, or too few?

I just added a section to my userpage: User:Coppertwig#The "What, Where, Why" method of content discussion. Let me know if you have any suggestions on tweaking the wording. I plan to refer editors to it from time to time when I think it would be helpful. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 00:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Protection rules

Sorry to bother you, but I had a question. Randomly I ran across an admin protecting a page on which they were edit warring. I am assuming that behaviour is wrong? Though it does seem heat of the moment. I was going to drop a warning onto the admin's page but thought I'd check. --Narson ~ Talk • 09:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Wow! Now that is an edit war. 30RR? Yes, it's against policy. WP:PROT says, "Administrators should not protect or unprotect a page to further their own position in a content dispute." Wikipedia:Administrators says, "Administrators should not use their tools to advantage, or in a content dispute (or article) where they are a party (or significant editor)...." The only exception I could see is if that was clear BLP or vandalism, and it's not. There may be history that I don't know--perhaps a string of socks adding similar information?--but otherwise it seems to be a good faith (but misguided) edit from a new user. He didn't communicate with him about the issue at all until several reverts in: User talk:DuttyYo, and the template he used confuses me (test1?). Later communication may be done from a stance of misunderstanding the protection policy, but at least is straightforward, but there's no way that anyone could have assumed at that point that the editor was testing. I've had a look at his protection log, and this seems to be a one-off, but I think you'd be spot on to drop him a friendly reminder of how policy goes. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

I left a little non-templated note on his talk page. Thanks again for spending your time pandering to my curiosity MRG :) I promise, I'll stop bugging you soon ;) --Narson ~ Talk • 12:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

No, feel free. I'm happy to help out however I can. But I should warn you that people who've asked me questions find that I'm very happy to reciprocate. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, if its history I'm more than able to comment ;) Though obviously with a British bias. On wiki policies I've only been around 3 years or so, and never taken a huge interest in the non-article area of wiki (With the exception of WP:RM), so I can only comment on things I've ran into or afoul of ;) Luckily I'm yet to find myself in breach of a policy that warrants a block. --Narson ~ Talk • 13:02, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

History. Got you. I'm good with classics and early medieval British. After that, spotty. I'm pretty familiar with policy (though there's always something lurking to surprise), but I never know what I'm going to run into working copyrights. Mind you, after a few more years here, I expect to be quite the generalist. Or would be, if I could remember what I've read. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:05, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

I do enjoy my early William the Bastard stuff, but I have to admit my speciality is probably Early Modern to mid 1900s. As much as I enjoy the older stuff, it is just impossible to keep up the bredth of knowledge needed to study everything. EDITed to add: Speaking of, I really should write my essays. I am being a lazy bugger. --Narson ~ Talk • 13:27, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't suppose you know much about huscarl? --Narson ~ Talk • 15:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Much? Sadly, no. Is that the subject of your essay? :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:42, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

No, the essay is on the origins of WW1 and the other is on the German Reformation. It is for an article here on wiki that I tried to work on a little while ago, concerning a group of huscarl that is a bit historically iffy. (Namely that reports vary as to whether they existed and details of them). --Narson ~ Talk • 16:11, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah. I'd have to check the sources. I've never heard anything to suggest they didn't exist. But as you know, it's not unlikely that reports vary, given the time. If reports didn't vary, however would we get tenure? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:17, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Not huscarl in general, just a specific group called the 'Thingmen'. Basically some mercenaries, originally, hired by Aethelred for 38,000 lbs of silver. --Narson ~ Talk • 18:21, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I thought you were saying another contributor was denying the existence of huscarls. :) (People have denied more recent history, alas.) I missed the specificity of it. What kind of sources did he offer? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:33, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

It was all based on dane stuff. I re-wrote the article a bit to try and reduce that dependence on some obscure Danish texts and brought in a western text. Just wondered if you knew much about the subject so could confirm whether they did indeed exist :) It stumped some of us milhist chaps for a while :) Thingmen is the article. --Narson ~ Talk • 19:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Afraid not. My focus is less militaristic than that. My medieval studies primarily focused on European church history as well as domestic law in early medieval England, Ireland & Wales. (The former has proved of some use to me post degree, at least as far as conversations with others go; the latter, not really. You reach a point of esoteric beyond which no amount of stretching can gracefully introduce a topic of conversation. :) By the time I get on Jeopardy and it becomes the final question, I will probably have forgotten it all.) Naturally, my current work has nothing to do with any of it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:51, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Really? Quirky old laws are a penchant of mine. I recommend: Turner, Ralph V., Judges, Administrators and the Common Law in Angevin England, (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1994)...it is a good book. --Narson ~ Talk • 20:15, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

←I'll have to check it out. :) I did my undergrad honors thesis on marriage laws in early medieval Ireland and Wales. A very girly focus it was seen to be, I'm afraid, by my elderly male professors, but they indulged me. (Some of them enthusiastically, some of them...not.) I can't think of any quirky books to recommend from it, though. :D Most of my quirkier material relates to my grad secondary focus on 19th Century literature. Not laws (which are generally more grim than funny), but manners. I love reading through the old etiquette books. Did you know that young ladies were discouraged from publicly sucking on the handles of their parasols? (In one American etiquette book, anyway.) I've always wondered why. Why need it have been mentioned at all? Had it become all the rage in Hoboken? Had this particular etiquette maven seen just one too many use her umbrella in lieu of a spoon? I wish I could remember which specific etiquette book that was in. It's somewhere in the stack. That one stood out to me, obviously, but there are many "huh?" moments in the material. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Acctually our head of single honours is a Gender Historian, I am taking his Women's History 1780-1920 module. I must admit, it is not totally my thing (I lack the ovaries to truely sympathise) but it certainly is interesting. It is suprising to hear how the attitudes with women shifted and the fight between evangelists and jacobin style ideals. --Narson ~ Talk • 21:02, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Robbery-Homicide Division

I don't understand why you deleted this page. Robbery-Homicide Division may have been a television show, but it is actually a real unit of the LAPD. I should know. I am a detective there. The name of our division is not copyrighted. The only thing about our division that is protected is our logo which is trade marked. I was in the process of gathering more history about our unit to publish it to the page.

I would appreciate a reply and explanation.

Detective Greg Stearns LAPD, Robbery-Homicide Division —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.29.97 (talk) 04:27, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. The problem with the article is that it copied text from this site, which is copyrighted both because it bears copyright notice (© 2004-8 City of Los Angeles ) and because copyright is conferred on text automatically by US law unless it is explicitly released into public domain (as with US Government works). We can only use text on Wikipedia if it is in public domain or released under a license compatible with GFDL, which allows both modification of the material and reuse--even commercially. LAPD, by contrast, not only posts that copyright note, but reinforces it at this subpage, indicating, "All materials published on the Site are protected by copyright, and owned or controlled by the Los Angeles Police Department, or the party listed as the provider of the content, software or other materials. Commercial use of the materials is prohibited without the written permission of the Los Angeles Police Department."

You are welcome to create an article on this unit, though we ask you to first read over our conflict of interest guidelines to see how you can best do so given your connection to the subject, but unless you are able to present verification that LAPD is willing to license this material for use here, it must be written entirely in original language. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

See also WP:Requesting copyright permission and WP:Donating copyrighted materials. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Alan Garrett Anderson

Just saw this; I cannot express in text how grateful I am :). Without me pushing it, is there any chance you could do the same for Terence Fox? Thanks! Ironholds (talk) 23:01, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I will. :) Not (east coast time) today, though. It's a bit time consuming. Depending on how long tomorrow's batch at WP:CP takes, I hope to get it then. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:06, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help :). I love how I said "I cannot express in text how grateful I am", thereby expressing it in text :P. Other question; where can I find a FA star similar to the {{DYKicon}} one for DYK's? I got meself a Featured List (and a bloody difficult one too) and I'd like to brag :P. Ironholds (talk) 23:16, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

LOL. Well, we Wikipedians are verbal folk in general. As for the featured list, congratulations! I don't blame you for wanting to display. :) I have stolen this from User:ChrisTheDude, who has so many that surely he can't object: {{click|link=PFA Players' Player of the Year|image=Cscr-featured.svg|width=20|height=20|title=This user helped to make PFA Players' Player of the Year a featured list.}} Height and width are of course customizable along with the various details. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:21, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks! You shouldn't have told me about the height and width; there's a little part of my brain which is going "ooh, make it cover the whole page! Make it cover the whole page!". Ironholds (talk) 23:25, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I'm sorry that I didn't get to this today. Real life. :/ Tomorrow I should have more time at keyboard! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:05, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Just in case you happen to stop by: I'm in mi sandbox wrking on ur articul. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Drawing board request for what happened to article

I've responded to everything currently at the drawing board except for Wikipedia:Drawing board#ConeXpress where the user was asking what happened to his article. When you get the chance could you check his deleted contributions and see if there is anything to tell that user. Thanks in advance, and thanks for all the work clearing that page (I think it is pretty much you and Elipongo doing all the heavy lifting there). -Optigan13 (talk) 02:18, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I think after looking at his contrib history that he might just be asking what happened to the satellite project. There's nothing in his deleted contributions. I've answered him on that basis; if he means something else, I hope he'll clarify. Meanwhile, thank you for the work you've been putting in. It's a tremendous relief, knowing that somebody else is helping out there, particularly since we were added to WP:YFA and exploded in terms of (not always sincere) activity. The rise in ratio of nonsense is a bit hard. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I was wondering where all that traffic started coming from all of a sudden. I was going to say you and Elipongo write a lot more than I would on some of those. When it was nice and slow it was easier to give thought out responses, versus with that last spree I just ended up saying flatly that some of the subjects aren't notable. Maybe we should develop something similar to the {{HD}} template series for stock responses. Of course that will be right after I finally complete the merge of draw and rff, I keep meaning to do it, but real life gets in the way. -Optigan13 (talk) 04:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Is use of a letter a copyvio?

Here is one for you. Letter to LA County Courthouse from Bonnie L Thompson Not sure how to "verify" it or if it is a "cut and paste" - but is it a copyvio without access to the actual source? (EDIT - I was about to say "never mind" as someone removed it, than I saw it was you. LOL. Soundvisions1 (talk) 16:57, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I'm on it. :) Letters are indeed copyrighted. I've left a note to the contributor about how to provide verification of release. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:02, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

dear Moonriddengirl

I need your big favor, I made this page titled Everything You Do, it's a single by a band called M2M, I sourced the article appropriately but it is still nominated for deletion. I don't understand why this is happening so I need your help by giving your opinion about the AfD since you're an established Wikipedia editor, here's the discussion page, thank you so much in advance. Signed, Kotakkasut (talk) 19:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC).

Hi. It's already all over. :) The editor who nominated the article has withdrawn the request, evidently feeling satisfied now that the article does meet the notability guidelines for music. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thank you so much for replying to my favor :D and I'm so sorry that I have to disturb you with all of this, thank god it's all over because I have to abandon my old Wikipedia account because some Wikipedia seniors kept on erasing my adequately sourced articles and I feel sad that most of my hard work are gone to waste :'( but thankfully not this one. Thanks again and have an awesome time. =) Signed, Kotakkasut (talk) 19:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

(If I may join this conversation) Oh, dear, I'm sorry to hear about the articles getting deleted. You can usually find a few words about why the article was deleted by going to Special:Logs, clicking "Deletion" as the type of log, and typing in the name of the article in the right-hand box. If they were deleted by PROD, you can have them brought back just by asking an administrator (but someone might start an AfD discussion afterwards). If they were deleted by "speedy deletion" (CSD) or by AfD and you think they shouldn't have been deleted, you can contest the deletion at deletion review; or you can re-create the same article but with more sources or in some other way different so as to address the reasons why they were deleted. You can also ask an administrator to give you a copy of a deleted article, if you didn't save a copy. In future, you might want to try creating articles in your userspace first, and asking one or more experienced Wikipedians (feel free to ask me; I might or might not be able to help) or asking at the Drawing board, for advice about whether it needs more sources or something. To create an article in your userspace, just create an article with a name like User:Kotakkasut/Example; you can put any name instead of "Example". You can also look at the guidelines such as Wikipedia:Notability (music) to help you figure out what articles might or might not get deleted, though some things are borderline and can only be decided in an AfD discussion. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much Coppertwig :') definitely, I will ask for your help and opinions when making new articles, thanks a lot for the help offer, I really appreciate it =) Yours faithfully, Kotakkasut (talk) 01:59, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Anglia Regional Co-operative Society

This is ridiculous! We are only talking about one section, not the entire article. Chrisieboy (talk) 19:18, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

The copyright infringement is substantial and dates back to the creation of the article. Do you have permission to reproduce that text? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:20, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Which part are you referring to? Only the section under History has been called into question and all that can be atttributed to original sources. Chrisieboy (talk) 19:24, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Given only one section has been called into question, I fail to see why you have blanked the entire article. Chrisieboy (talk) 19:31, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Blanking the whole article until there is time to investigate is always the best course of action. Nothing is lost. There's no reason why, on discovery of its copyvio issues, ARCS should suddenly shoot up to the top of the (long) list of copyvio issues to be investigated. Please do not give people who spend so much time fixing these problems a hard time because you're unhappy that the standard MO is being used. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:38, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) In which case, don't you think it is more sensible to just remove the offending text? Chrisieboy (talk) 19:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

(duplicated from editor's talk page) The material has already been removed; you have restored it multiple times. The copyright process will allow you to "work on it" either by verifying authorization or revising without causing potential legal problems for Wikipedia. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:47, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

So, now you have adjudicated, remove it again. Deleting the entire article is completely OTT. How does that improve Wikipedia? Chrisieboy (talk) 19:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

PS. I note the template itself states: "By default, this template blanks all other content on the page. To limit blanking of the text, as for a copyright violation in a single section, place </div> at the end of the suspected copyvio area." Chrisieboy (talk) 20:01, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Run that by me again: you have caused the problem, and are now getting irate that the consequences of your actions are not what you'd anticipated and others who work to fix the sort of problem you have introduced are not dancing to your tune? How does that work? Some sense of proportion, please? --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:24, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Though I usually keep communication in one place, I just thought I'd note that I've explained the purpose of blanking the entire article in cases such at this to the contributor at his talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:07, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Chrisieboy: Moonriddengirl works very hard on copyright problems, as a volunteer. This is important work. It protects Wikipedia from breaking the law and possibly expensive lawsuits. The amount of material that's blanked by the copyvio template at any one time is a very small proportion of all the material in Wikipedia. It's usually only for about a week. It's OK if some material is blanked when people aren't sure whether it's a copyvio or not. It's not OK if some copyvios are not blanked. Please be nice to Moonriddengirl. She's busy with many copyright problems and doesn't have lots of time to argue with you. Please don't make any more copyright problems so you won't take up any more of her time. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 00:20, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

So incredibly busy, that she is now going through other articles I have worked on. Chrisieboy (talk) 11:41, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm attempting to assume good faith, that you did not realize that duplicating text from these other sites is against US law and grounds for blocking from Wikipedia. However, your defensiveness makes that a little difficult. So, too, does your removal without comment of a notice from Corenbot related to one of the articles. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

It is normal in such cases to look at an editor's other edits. It's not an attack on that editor but an attempt to protect Wikipedia. dougweller (talk) 13:35, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

←Just to note that this matter and the one below, along with another, are now at WP:ANI. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:17, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

London Pensions Fund Authority

You have now blanked this page without due process. What precisely do you object to there? Chrisieboy (talk) 11:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you think "due process" is in these cases. Perhaps you should read over WP:CP. This is due process. I object to the copying & pasting of sentences from another source, which is a violation of copyright law and Wikipedia policy. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Which part do you claim I have "copied and pasted" here and how exactly did you come across it..? Chrisieboy (talk) 11:51, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I exactly came across it in looking through your contribution history, as Jimbo Wales advises we do when we encounter an editor who has infringed in one article, since he may have infringed in others. The article and source are both fairly brief, but, for example, let's start with the second paragraph. Your article says, "The LPFA was established in 1989 as a non-departmental public body to take over the running of the former Greater London Council Pension Fund, following the Council's abolition in 1986. LPFA is also responsible for the residual employer functions of the GLC, Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) (abolished on 31st March 1990) and the former London Residuary Body (LRB)." The source says "The LPFA was established in 1989 as a stand-alone public body, to take over the running of the former Greater London Council (GLC) Pension Fund following GLC abolition on 31st March 1986. LPFA is also responsible for the residual employer functions of the GLC, Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) (abolished on 31st March 1990) and the former London Residuary Body (LRB)." The opening sentence also needs to be revised. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:00, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

These are straightforward facts and within the confines of the English language it is difficult to see how they can be restated; I think you are simply targeting me now because I have challenged you above. Chrisieboy (talk) 12:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Whether it is difficult or not, they must be restated. You cannot duplicate text verbatim from external sources on Wikipedia unless they are public domain, licensed under GFDL or meet our non-free content criteria. If you would like wider review, I would be more than happy to invite additional administrators to take a look at these articles. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

The information in question is directly sourced from the relevant legislation. Chrisieboy (talk) 12:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

The language is duplicated from the website. Alternate sourcing doesn't alter that. And even if the language itself were directly sourced from the relevant legislation, crown copyright is incompatible with GFDL, as it does not allow modification. Sourcing is not the concern here. The means of expression is the concern. The material must be completely rewritten in new language that does not infringe the source unless we are able to acquire permission from the source to use this text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

explanations about deletation

Hello

My article about Jose Da silveiura has been deleted, as i'd like to know why. If i commited some mistakes or didn't respect copyrights, excuse me! I am learning about Wikipedia's use and it's difficult to understand what is allowed or not. Thanks for your future answer Melanie≈≈≈ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.219.41.185 (talk) 14:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia. :) The primary problem with the article is that, aside from one sentence and a few words, it was taken from this website. As the notice at your logged-in page indicated, we can only use material from external sites if it is explicitly released into public domain or if it is licensed in accordance with GFDL. It has to be "explicit", noted in plain language, because the United States grants copyright protection to all published material, whether it has a copyright notice or not. If it doesn't have a release on it, it is presumed copyrighted and unusable. (See our copyright policy for more.)

You are welcome to create this article again in fresh language or to follow one of the procedures at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials or Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission to utilize language from that source. But I would like to note, though, that even beyond the copyright concerns, there were other issues with the article that could cause it problems on Wikipedia. We have specific guidelines on what makes a person eligible for inclusion on Wikipedia here. Your article indicated that the gentleman is important, but it did not offer reliable secondary sources to verify. Newspapers, magazines and respected industry websites (not related to the artist) can go a long way to helping an article survive on Wikipedia.

Please let me know if I can clarify any of this further for you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

*sigh*

I've kind of been sitting on this one but nothing is happening so here, I turn to you. Image:Frances pinter.jpg is an image that I tagged {{di-no permission}} as there was a credit given to the photographer but it was one of those "I am uploading this and they say it is fine" deals. An editor, who I am gathering is a "fan" of the uploader, objected and on the day it was set to be CSD'd (November 14) they removed the CSD tag, added a PUI tag and moved it to IfD/PUI. The very first thing the editor said was "I'm listing this here (in direct violation of the editnotice statement, sory)..." and than explained that his "argument is that we should recognize that Mr. Buckman is truthful in his claim, and keep the image." I said it should be a CSD i11 and I tried to explain that Copyright law is the law, on or off Wikipedia, no matter who the user is. Another editor implied I have something against the uploader as I did an MfD nom for their user page, which to me seemed like a facebook/myspace/bio page from an SPA who made only COI edits. That last comment was three days ago. I placed the tag on the image November 9, 2008 so it has been well over the time limit. So where does this go from here? Soundvisions1 (talk) 03:02, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, it's supposed to sit at PUI before closure for 14 days. PUI does get backlog, though, so it may last a bit longer. PUI is not IfD, so their arguments to keep are only material if they address copyright concerns. The administrator who closes it should judge whether evidence of permission is sufficient. I'd keep an eye on it, as once in a while a PUI goes well past date. Once it moves into backlog, if you see it being ignored, you might want to ask about it at WP:MCQ, noting that it's gone stale. Alternatively, I would recommend neutrally asking an admin who handles PUI matters to take a look at it to discern the handling. Neutrality would be very important there. :) I'd just note that it was past due and ask him or her if s/he'd mind closing the matter. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:11, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Olive Ruskettle

Hello,

Could you please restore Olive Ruskettle for me? If you like, you can redirect it to List of Forgotten Realms characters. Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 07:32, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) Sure. It's back. I have transformed it to a redirect, though, since it lacks secondary sources. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:50, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! BOZ (talk) 12:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Reservoirhill

You'll recall Reservoirhill (talk · contribs) from a couple of months back, who puts together articles by threading together quote after quote after quote, way beyond the endurance of fair use.

I've just looked at his latest, Esperanza Spalding, and see no real change in behaviour. Would you be so good as to give me your opinion?

thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:01, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll be interested to see what Moonriddengirl has to say about this one. This looks like a situation where the original articles are quoting the subject. I usually figure it's OK to use quotes like that, since the sentences weren't composed by the journalist anyway, so if they can use them why can't we? But if the original article is essentially an interview with the subject, then I guess it isn't fair to copy large segments of that interview. I'd say that for this particular article, it's taking about two or three times as many quotes from one source as it should, for some of the sources. But that's just my opinion, and I'm not an expert on that aspect of copyright: I'm just going by my opinion. Perhaps the creator of the article could be asked to reduce the number of quotes? I figure, if the reader wants that level of detail, they can follow the links and read the original sources. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 21:14, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

That's disheartening. :/ (Coppertwig, this is a continuance of an earlier issue which I had hoped had been resolved. With respect to your question, it's a bit complicated, but for Wikipedia's purposes it comes down essentially to this: federal courts consistently hold that interviews are copyrighted; they are divided as to whether the interviewer holds the copyright or the interviewee; either way, as the material is not public domain, we do not have the rights to utilize it.) I believe that this user is utilizing these quotes to support his claims and is operating in good faith, but in spite of the extreme care he is putting into his work, the material does constitute a problem.

Tagishsimon or Coppertwig, if you have time, please look at one or two of the linked articles. If quotes seem to be (as at a glance it looks extremely like) overextensive, please blank the page to prevent publication with the {{copyvio}} template until the matter can be addressed. It's a very good idea to ask the creator to remove some of the quotes. This could be done in the temporary page that will be linked at the blanking template. I'm in the middle of revising a copyright matter at the moment that will probably consume most of my time today (some demands IRL), but this will need to be addressed, and we should not publish this material if it fails WP:NFC. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Between the two of us, three articles have been tagged. Other prior articles are borderline, and more work needs to be done, as time permits, to revisit earlier articles. Thanks for your second opinion, and I hope the IRL stuff goes quickly. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I removed a small number of quotes from Mae Jemison (also by ReservoirHill) and think that article may be OK now in terms of number of quotes from any one article. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 23:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you both. :) Nothing really bad with RL—just the work I get paid for trying to capture my attention. :D But it is causing me to fall behind on my true avocation. I committed to finishing the article in my sandbox today, and I'm going to be pushing. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:36, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your valuable suggestions

Thanks for your valuable suggestions on the overuse of quotations in some of the articles I have made contributions to. I appreciate the work you are doing to bring them into conformance with Wikipiedia standards.

I think what I will do in the future when I start to make a major addition to an article is: take it to my sandbox, make my additions, then ask you to take a look at it before I put it in back into the article.

Best Regards,

Reservoirhill (talk) 15:13, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I would hope that wouldn't be necessary, although I'm happy to give you feedback as you get comfortable with these matters. :) I spend quite a lot of my time evaluating articles that duplicate text from external sources. Most of this is placed by single purpose contributors, rather than dedicated Wikipedians such as yourself. I believe we can clarify these concerns so that you can contribute your otherwise very valuable text without running into copyright questions. (You have truly impressive research skills.)

The important point to remember is that we can't duplicate phrases or sentences from any source that is not public domain or licensed under GFDL unless it meets our non-free content criteria. This is intentionally more narrow than fair use, because Wikipedia is widely mirrored in commercial and non-commercial publications. This will cover both how many quotations you can use from a source and also how much material you can duplicate without quotation marks.

There is no firm legal rule for how many words are too many to copy without quotation marks, but in academic circles you often hear people suggest that more than three words in a row is too much. In fact, less than three words can be "too much", if those words are what is described as an "apt phrase". Say our source has a sentence like "Moonridden Girl, the pro temp president of The John LaCarre Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy, is a screaming lunatic." We could duplicate text like "the pro temp president of The John LaCarre Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy" without concern. We couldn't duplicate "screaming lunatic" without quotation marks and attribution even though it's less than three words--not just because it's not neutral, but because it is a distinctively creative pairing of words. :) At best, this would be plagiarism; at worst, "fragmented literal duplication" in copyright terms. But we also have to be careful to avoid "comprehensive nonliteral similarity", which might not use any of the same language at all, but which is so close in form and content to the original that an observer would have no doubt we'd copied. We wouldn't say, "Moonridden Girl, who works as the pro temp president of The John LaCarre Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy, is a complete madwoman." We'd have to find some way to restructure it: "The American Association of Lunatic Evaluation has classified the insanity of Moonridden Girl, pro temp president of The John LaCarre Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy, characterizing her as a "screaming lunatic."" This restructuring, sadly, can be a tremendous pain in the neck. But it is necessary to avoid such issues as this: "found the comments so out of line that she interrupted the briefing to clarify that volunteers did not have to follow the embassy's instructions" Source: "found the comment so out of line that they interrupted the briefing to clarify that volunteers did not have to follow the embassy's instructions" at Philip Goldberg. (Bold text my own addition.)

The second issue is, as you know, is the number of quotes pulled from single sources. As I said, we utilize a standard deliberately more narrow than fair use. Extensive quotation is forbidden, and quotes should only be utilized as necessary "to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea." (That's from WP:NFC.) Your frequent use of quotes would be fabulously proper in a journal article or a newspaper story—in fact, I find your style very reminiscent of that—but it reproduces far too much text from copyrighted sources, I'm afraid, for Wikipedia's purposes. In this case, I would highlight Esperanza Spalding. I suspect that the extensiveness of material pulled from some of these sources would not only exceed WP:NFC, but also fair use, which considers the "substantiality" of the material borrowed. Although an essay and not policy or guideline, Wikipedia:Quotations is instructive here. Quoting a few recommendations from that essay: "...while quotations are an indispensable part of Wikipedia, try not to overuse them. Too many quotes take away from the encyclopedic feel of Wikipedia" and "a contributor should try to avoid quotations when...a summary of a quote would be better. This may be due to lack of importance, lengthy articles, etc. On lengthy articles, editors should strive to keep long quotations to a minimum, opting to paraphrase and work smaller portions of quotes into articles." I'll note that this is also important to minimize extensive use of copyrighted material.

I'd be very happy to help you develop comfort with these matters if you'd like, but though I think you may need to familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia method of handling quotes and utilizing external sources, you seem to me to be a very competent and valuable contributor. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:41, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments and I have a question

Thanks for your comments and I will try to develop a more restrained approach to writing for Wikipedia.

My wife and I are getting ready to go on a cross country trip and will be out of touch for the next few days so I wanted to let you know that if you were planning to take a look at the Rick Benjamin article, I have contacted Mr. Benjamin and he has agreed that he will put all of his quotes that are in the article about him into public domain so we can use them, if we wish. He wrote me that:

• The quotes you cite below are indeed my words, freely given specifically for the purpose of their dissemination to the public. I don't believe that any newspaper can claim copyright on my public statements. Or should. I certainly do wish all of the quotes below to part of the public domain. Please let me know if you need a signed letter to this effect, or anything else in the way of waiver, from me.

I am a little unsure of the legal mechanism that would allow him to put his quotations into public domain. Would a screenshot of his email to me granting us permission be sufficient? I could take the screenshot and upload it to Wikimedia and then post it to the discussion page of his article. He is also willing to write a letter, but who should he direct it to and how do we get it into the system.

Best Regards and thanks again,

Reservoirhill (talk) 16:36, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

The procedure for verifying permission on this is a little complicated, and I will be happy to help you with it as much as I am able. Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission explains how to do it. Essentially, Mr. Benjamin's release needs to be forwarded to the Wikimedia Foundation at permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org. This addressed is manned by volunteers from the Wikimedia Foundation, who will evaluate the release to see if they believe it meets our needs. I must warn you, from experience, that getting a non-standard release through them can be challenging. :) I recently was working to help a contributor release just part of a website to Wikipedia, and it involved numerous e-mails before we finally reached wording that the Committee felt protected the project from potential litigation. I am not sure how they will want to address a complete release of this gentleman's words, given that the federal courts are still undecided as to whether the interview subject or the interviewer owns the interview. (See http://www.publaw.com/interview.html: "[I]s the interviewer, the person who ultimately controls the format of the interview, the author? Or is the interviewee, the person whose words and ideas are expressed throughout the interview, the author? Judicial decisions and opinions have been split in deciding this copyright ownership issue.") I would suggest you forward your e-mail to them with an explanation in your letter and see what response you get. If you don't hear back from them within a few days, I'd write them again.

I'll make note that permission may be forthcoming at Rick Benjamin and hold off on revising for a while. If it doesn't resolve soon and we wind up modifying it, the fuller version can always be restored once the permission process completes.

Meanwhile, I hope that you and your wife enjoy your trip. :) I myself will be away from Wikipedia for a bit next week for the Thanksgiving Holiday. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:48, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Pictures of Dennis Bray and Jean-Pierre Changeux

Hello,

Thanks for the attention you give to Wikipedia :-)

I forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org the e-mails from Dennis Bray and Jean-Pierre Changeux authorising me to use the pictures Image:JPChangeux-small.jpg and Image:DennisBray.jpg. Please do not delete them. That's the third time I upload those images. I would like to focus on more important things. Those pictures are fine. There is no copyright infringements at all. And I am a friend of both JPC and DB (I know this is not a proof of anything. Just a way to say I am not a hooligan craving to deface wikipedia)

Best regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lenov (talk • contribs) 00:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Too late! The images have been removed again :-( Please help-me there. I will upload them another time. But I am really desperate now.

Nicolas Le Novere (talk) 08:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Arrghhh. Sorry. This time an undo was sufficient to restore the picture. So only the link was delete. Nicolas Le Novere (talk) 08:44, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again. The images keep getting removed with the following message: "OrphanBot (Talk | contribs) (34,166 bytes) (Removing image with no copyright information. Such images that are older than seven days may be deleted at any time.) " I don't know what to do. Those images are fine. I forwarded the mails from the copyright holders. What should-I do? I tried every single of the choices offered as license, ending up declaring them in the public domain. But nothing works. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lenov (talk • contribs) 23:06, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Personnel section

Hi.

If the list of people involved in an album is twice the long of the article itsel, is OK to just put a link down rather than the list? I know is not common, actually, i`ve only see it once.Zidane tribal (talk) 22:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I don't think so. I understand why the creator would want to (completely!), but I think we need to list them all. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:08, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

OK. (sigh) Zidane tribal (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, were you the creator? Sorry. :/ I thought you were reviewing. :) Total sympathy, believe me. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:54, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

No, you are right i`m reviewing but if i find an stub and i can urn it into a start, i do it, and so is the case this time Zidane tribal (talk) 21:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

"DJ Sassy" page

Hi,

As I have a perceived Conflict of Interest with this page, I would be grateful if you please remove from this page reference 2, the Sol Campbell article from the Sunday Mirror. This article contained a number of significant factual inaccuracies, and the Sunday Mirror did in fact later apologise for the errors. I have tried to remove the reference a couple of times myself, but these edits have been reversed. You stated in our initial discussions on 10th May (page 6 of your Talk archive, extract below) that you would remove the reference on my behalf, because it did not significantly add to the article, so I would now like to take up your offer of assistance in this matter.

It took me a moment to understand what you meant by the Sol Campbell story, as evidently you have been mistakenly removing the article above it, which is a review of the television show on which Sassy appeared. That interview was provided simply to substantiate that Sassy is notable enough for an article. It isn't necessarily related to her notability (since it says little about her career but only discusses her dating), and I have no concerns that its removal would unbalance the article. If you would like the 2004 interview (this one) removed, let me know and I will take it out.

Thanks in advance. AquilaUK (talk) 16:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah. I had removed this link rather than the one you requested. I have taken it out, restoring the one inadvertently removed, although along with it I had to take the text it was supporting. It was related to notability, since it characterized her modeling career, but not so significantly that the article can't stand without it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

If you could be so kind...

I think I am handling this ok but I would like some over site if you could. "In a nutshell" - I tagged two images (Image:20080615-Jade.jpg and Image:20080615-Jade_2.jpg), PUI Discussion and IfD Discussion. The uploader came along, removed the tags and commented they owned them but were not the photographer. I re-tagged the images with {{di-no permission}} tags and also left a message on the users talk page. The user also left me a message on my talk page, I did reply with the information contained everywhere - about sending in the email. But based on comments in the discussions ("This image is sourced right to Jade Online") and the subtle rewrite of the "author" information ("Copyright owner: Vincent Kwok, webmaster of Jade Online") I am not sure if the email has been, or will be, sent. Maybe I am not looking at this correct and need to do something else? Before I tagged I looked at the website the images came from and it contains images from many sources. I see no copyright information or license information anywhere on the site or any information that indicates actual sources of the images. Here are some sample pages/gallery's from the website: "Discography" and "Jade Online‧Photo". In the case of the CD/VCD/DVD covers I doubt the website owns copyright on them and there are "tons" of gallery's in here, none of which have any information attached. Some gallery's clearly contain images from other sites: "2002-04-27" and "2002-04-28" are two of them. I am still assuming good faith here but looking at the website, I think I need another set of eyes to check it over and, if you have a way to, see if that email came in. If you would be so kind. Soundvisions1 (talk) 14:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) Before looking into it, I just wanted to note that I don't, sadly, have a way to see if that e-mail has come in. It's sent to the Communications Committee and handled there. If it is addressed, it will be noted at the image with the placement of an WP:OTRS ticket #. That out of the way, I'll take a look and see if there's additional input I can offer. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I think that your handling of this is probably correct. Your recent investigations suggest that even if he does send a letter, he may not have the right to do so. I would make note of this at PUI, with the links to the galleries noted above. Unless this is an official site, quite likely they are infringing themselves, which would make their permission meaningless. An OTRS ticket would be meaningless in such a case. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:01, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Okely dokely. Thanks neighbor. Soundvisions1 (talk) 15:26, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

• Update: Of sorts. The user once again removed tags even though the issue is not resolved, and I have reverted his edits. However I also see that they have uploaded Image:20080604-JadeKwan.jpg with the same questionable copyright info. The same {{di-no permission}} tag should probably be added to this as well, however I do nto want it to seem as though I am only targeting his images. (EDIT: I found "20080604-Tungstar" gallerys which contains images from this event, although not this exact image. It is possible the image(s) came from "Tom.com" or "Photo Tom.com")Advice? Soundvisions1 (talk) 16:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I've left a note for the contributor advising him or her not to upload more images before verifying and explaining why. Meanwhile, the largest question: do these people have rights to their images? If I were handling this, I'd trot over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan and see if I could find somebody to help me figure out the nature of that site. Is it a tabloid that might legitimately employ photographers to cover events? Is it a fan site that is undoubtedly lifting them from somewhere? It seems to be a pretty active wikiproject, so I bet you'd get a good response there. Alternatively, I'd approach somebody directly from Category:User ja. In that case, check to see if s/he is active and what level he speaks. I wouldn't approach this guy, who is at level 1 in Japanese and who hasn't done anything since June. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I did post a question for someone, but here is an interesting twist - a forum entry on the website posted by "Oops (Vincent), Administrator, Webmaster" and dated "2008-9-3 10:44 AM" (even though the actual header says "Oops 2008-11-22 01:51 AM" - "Our granted photos in Wikipedia". Still no word from the actual photographer(s) however. I am thinking it might be time to pass this all on to a "higher power". I am not implying that is you, just saying. Soundvisions1 (talk) 18:05, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't be your best "higher power" for this, anyway. :) You'd want to consult an image admin. I'd probably wait for response from whoever you asked, so you can clue said image admin into the full story. If I were you, I'd ask User:Garion96 or User:Stifle, who seem experienced in that field. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:11, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I just took a glance and your question is directed to a level 1 speaker, it seems. (User:Veratien). I'd aim at least for Level 3--for example User:LordAmeth. But now that you've asked, you might want to wait and see if Veratien can help. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

← A post from an IP said that the Tom.com website is "...something like the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo". Also the image uploader has posted on the images and the talk pages they sent in the letter/email on the 17th and just sent in a revision today. Do you know if they just take the email at face value of will they look at the images and the discussions as well? Only asking because if it is the same statement that is on the forum it does not mention the actual photographers. As a photographer myself I actually somewhat feel like this is a personal issue. I have found images I have done posted on websites such as this and been told by the webmaster that my images were "given to them", but not by me. As this is them same type of website with clippings from magazines, photos for various sources and what not I think the emails need to be from the actual photographers, not the webmaster. I know you aren't part of the process when the email gets in but I just thought I would toss that out so you know where my head is at. :) Thanks. Soundvisions1 (talk) 21:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

My personal experience with the Communications Committee suggests that they're very careful about accepting permission letters. I've never walked through the image process, but I recently helped shepherd a release from a respected university library that wanted to grant part of its content to Wikipedia, and this one took multiple rounds of e-mails. I'm inclined to think that they will not accept permission without looking to see if the site can grant it...but I'm sure it's going to be a bit difficult because I doubt very many of them speak Chinese (since they are specific to this project). I have no idea how they determine if the photographer or the website publishing the material has right to release it. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Woah! Weird thing happened. I came across a blatant copyvio which led me to a photo sharing website, sort of like Flickr. So I though to myself "Why not search for Jade Kwan" and I found: Dick Ho, the photog who took Image:20080615-Jade.jpg (Which is a cropped version of 20080615_JKFun_024 - looks like the version on Wikipedia was cropped to remove the watermarks.) If you look be sure to browse through the "Album: Jade Kwan". Soundvisions1 (talk) 23:23, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Good sleuthing! I see Garion is on it. I'm pretty sure he will be diligent in verifying the status of these images. I got a response here, by the way. Aervanath feels the page is likely an official fanclub. This doesn't mean they have rights to all the images that are posted, of course. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

So I was somewhat correct when I made my first IfD/Pui. I said it looked as though it was some sort of fan site. Well hopefully the photographers get involved in this, I am somewhat puzzled that, if they "work" for this website, it is so hard to have them email their own permission or have the webmaster ask them to post the license "at the site of the original publication", which, at least in the case of Dick Ho, does not seem to be the site saying it is ok for use. Ah what a tangled web we weave. :) Soundvisions1 (talk) 13:23, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Coaching

re Unitive Coaching

Hello there - as a newcomer to Wikipedia, I'm not yet conversant with the conventions. I was surprised to see that our entry was deleted - I still don't know why, because the unitive approach has become recognised as being quite separate from other forms of coaching. So, I'd really appreciate what exactly is wrong with the wording of our entry and will then do whatever is necessary to render it acceptable Unitive (talk) 18:04, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello,

Re the following entry:

Unitive coaching

The unitive approach to the process of self-discovery facilitates the journey to complete self-awareness. It covers every aspect of the whole person – rational, emotional, perceptive and intuitive. Growing organically over a period of years from its roots in Jungian, Gestalt and humanistic psychology and existential philosophy and incorporating transpersonal and Zazen-based insights, it is now established as a comprehensive and tutorial framework within which an enduring and valid personal and professional authenticity can be built.

...I'm new to Wikipedia so wasn't aware of the rules. Sorry about that, won't do it again, but please tell me what's wrong with the above and I'll bend over backwards to correct it! Unitive (talk) 18:14, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. First I have to note that my only edit to that article has been to remove some copyrighted text that is not related to your edit. I noticed the content dispute after this. Give me a moment to look at the article's history, and I'll see if I can help you figure out the issue. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:15, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello Moonriddengirl,

Thanks for your response. It's a great relief to be able to talk to you. The whole entry just goes to three lines and I can't for the life of me see where any copyright material has been included (by the way, the term Unitive is a registered trade mark, wholly owned by ourselves). We do good, honest professional work and really deserve an entry! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.99.218.179 (talk • contribs) 18:42, 22 November 2008

I am evaluating, but this is slow-going, as the history of the article is complicated. However, I am unaware of any accusations that this material is copyrighted. The copyrighted text I refer to above was not, as I said, related to your edit. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:43, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

I am almost done. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Because this got very long, I have posted my response at User talk:Unitive#Problematic material in Coaching. Please let me know here if I can offer you any further explanation. Further detail I could not provide if I tried. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:12, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Zhengyi (Character)

Thanks again. :) Could you also please restore the edit history of Zhengyi (Character) for me? If you like, you can redirect that one to List of Forgotten Realms characters as well. Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 19:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 20:07, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Clint Eastwood

Hi can you please speak to and keep an eye on IP about his disruption to the Clint Eastwood article. I've had to revert him three times in quick succession. Basically he is vandalising the article by adding red links for images which don't exist and removing free images that exist. Here is his latest adding "CLint Eastwood POW REALLY COOL". Thanks Count Blofeld 19:42, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I've given him a vandalism 2 warning for the last one and put Clint Eastwood on my watchlist. He's been at it for a while, it seems. I note you've added this to other userpages as well, so I imagine that if he persists he'll be appropriately handled. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:54, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, just trying to find an admin who is active! Most never seme to be here when you need one! I can continue with editing now and not worry about that anyway. Thanks for your help. Best Count Blofeld 19:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hes done it again —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Blofeld (talk • contribs) 22 November 2008

I almost missed this down here. :) Seems he's been blocked for edit warring. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Track listing

Hi, MoonG. Do we do track listings? Are they a copyright problem? The Arrow (album)

Also, with another article, I deleted the chorus of a song: possibly short enough not to be a copyright violation, but seems unencyclopedic as well as a possible copyright concern: [1] What do you think?

Thanks for your guidance. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 01:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Track listings are okay. The chorus of the song doesn't meet WP:NFC, as there's no purpose for it. It isn't there to illustrate a point and isn't accompanied by critical commentary, so I think your removal is a good idea. Bigger concern: that article doesn't seem to meet WP:MUSIC. Hmmm. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:45, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. ☺ Um, which article doesn't meet WP:MUSIC? Coppertwig(talk) 02:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. :) I'm a bit tired. I meant the song article. I'm looking at this contributor's contributions. There are some images concerns, unfortunately. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:51, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Re copyright concerns (Chrisieboy) on ANI

I was away for the weekend, and saw this has now been archived. I've read the archived thread, including Chrisieboy's response - are we calling this resolved for now? EyeSerene^talk 14:37, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) I think so. I've made a note to myself to follow up on him and will look in periodically to be sure that he understands the policies better. Very likely at least one of the tagged articles is going to have to be deleted when it comes current at the copyright problem board in a few days. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Heh, no problems - hopefully the message has got across anyway :P EyeSerene^talk 18:03, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Ted Kaufman

[2]

Ted Kaufman is going to be a United States Senator pretty soon and people are going to be looking him up to find out more about him, so this with silly copyright dispute needs to be fix ASAP. High-Importance article. 99.241.15.245 (talk) 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Be that as it may, we can't fix it by illegally publishing copyrighted material on Wikipedia. The copyright investigation comes due for evaluation in a few days, but given that there is already a stub article prepared, I'll go ahead move it into article space. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

It's been superceded by new text, I see. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:30, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of "Nairsan"

My article was speedily deleted under criterion WP:CSD#G4. The article was previously deleted following a deletion debate... Hi Moonriddengirl whats that Deletion Debate? -Still Wikepedia is a Bluemoon to me" Venkatesh 07:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Venky2007 (talk • contribs)

Hi. A deletion debate is when a contributor thinks that something does not meet our inclusion guidelines and brings it before the community for them to agree or disagree. If the community decides the material doesn't belong, it's deleted. In that case, a new article can only be written on the subject if the new article fixes the problems that led to the deletion in the first place. (You can see our deletion policy for more.) Your article was discussed here, and the contributors to that discussion felt that the film did not demonstrate that it met the notability guidelines. Another problem was that the film had not yet begun filming. Generally, Wikipedia does not include articles on films that have not yet begun filming. In fact, we usually don't include movies that have begun filming but not yet been released unless there is something unusual about them.

If you want to create a new article on the film, please read over Wikipedia:Notability (films) for other things that can make a movie "notable." The best way to create an article on the film is to use reliable sources that verify that it has widespread coverage in the press. For this purpose, we can't use press releases or material from the official website. We look for things like newspaper articles or magazine articles or respected industry websites that are not connected to the film. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

You are a Kevin Powell Partisan ... and It's Time to Get Reported

Unfortunately, it seems that you are actually rejecting facts which have been published in various media, as well as comments even from the Kevin Powell for Congress campaign. I can understand that you are so very concerned about his "brand." I'm actually concerned about the truth and keeping Wikipedia a free, honest, and truthful source. For example, citing that post on R8NY is relevant because Kevin Powell's campaign manager posted a response. That makes it an authoritative source, with an original comment from the campaign itself.

Pointing out facts like he didn't come through on a promise to have Dave Chappelle show up, that he promised Orthodox Jews he would bring home the bacon, and that he had not filed his FEC paperwork in time - you have no right to deny them. And as such, I am going to have to report you. Regardless of what I might do on other sites, you have already shown you are in communication with the candidate, and have been authorized by his campaign to remove things harmful to his brand. But when that includes the truth, it is time for your partisan efforts to be exposed. Sorry, but those are the facts. And I'd appreciate if in the future, you didn't try to disguise your partisan efforts by some claim to truth. You've already shown that doesn't interest you as much as protecting his brand (your words, not mine).

Slothman :)

No, they aren't my words. My words are visible here. And my reply to the above is visible here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Slothman, please don't make unfounded allegations against other editors. Wikipedians typically provide diffs when making accusations; we don't tend to think much of statements without proof. All I see here is Moonriddengirl acting in a very proper and neutral manner as an administrator. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 00:01, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Wahiba Sands

Hello, you investigated and deleted Wahiba Sands in the past. Now it is back via Talk:Wahiba Sands/Temp with the author claiming to have amended the article. Others still see copyvios. I've blanked it. In any case, happy Thanksgiving!--Tikiwont (talk) 14:53, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, and to you, too! :D I'll try to investigate it to see how much infringement remains at some point today if possible. I'm trying to catch up on some of those pesky RL work issues before leaving town, and I've got two more tickets pending from today's crop of WP:CP. Oh, I'm going to be so behind when I get back in town. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

No holiday in my current time zone. though.:-C. This one isn't urgent now so take it easy.--Tikiwont (talk) 15:07, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

History merge?

Did you attempt to merge the histories of the old and new versions of Anglia Regional Co-operative Society? {When I look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglia_Regional_Co-operative_Society&curid=20398980&action=history I can only see the history of the Temp page.) --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:37, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I did, but I failed to finish the process. Thank you for pointing it out! I'll repair it immediately. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:38, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:39, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

p.s. I notice you are from the US - I didn't expect you to respond to Talk page messages on Thanksgiving Day. There must be a barnstar or wooden spoon to give for that. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:52, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

LOL! :) I was desperately trying to work up to the last minute out the door in an effort not to be totally swamped when I returned! There are quite a few WP:CP issues waiting for me. In any event, I'm glad that I got a chance to address that one. I wouldn't want to leave something like that pending, so I'm very glad that your note arrived in time. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:27, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Hi

You removed an excerpt from a new novel which has been published in a Penguin Books advertising catalogue. The novel is 416 pp, the excerpt less than a page, so it is certainly not an issue of "extensive quotation" from the copyrighted source and the quoted excerpt falls within the scope of the Acceptable use:Text clause of the Wikipedia Fair Use policy as I mentioned on the Discussion page.

There is a precedent for quoting an excerpt from a Publisher's catalogue at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Day (see the first heading on the Discussion page).

I'd appreciate it if you'd revert your deletion so that people can continue to build the page on Inherent Vice. with best wishes Abaca (talk) 21:37, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Abaca. I've deleted the extract on Against the Day and explained my reasoning on the talk page. An extract is not a necessary precondition of an article on a book. Fair use does not work on the precedent of another article which until today had got away with it, but on an analysis of the characteristics of use of the text per Wikipedia:Non-free content. If you're able to frame a compelling argument against the terms set out in that policy document, then you would get the extract back. If not, then not. I remind you that wikipedia is not in a position to play fast & loose with other people's copyright; rather the reverse. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Not sure that Moonriddengirl's Talk page is the appropriate place to debate this with you, Tagishsimon, but the discussion of the possible "copyvio?" in the Against the Day article was there, and the consensus of the editors of that page (which has undergone quite extensive discussion and editing, as you could see for yourself) was that it should remain, which it has done for upwards of two years, so it's clearly not a case of an article "which until today had got away with it" at all. In fact, it's your deletion of the section which does not conform with the Wikipedia guidelines. Similarly, it's not a case of having to argue against the Wikipedia Policy document, but one of debating your interpretation of the policy and your evaluation of the usage of the extract. My feeling is that the excerpts should be reinstated in both articles and the discussion about whether or not they constitute a violation of copyright should be undertaken on the respective Discussion pages of each article, as per Wikipedia policy, or else submitted to an administrator for definitive arbitration. Abaca (talk) 00:00, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Moonriddengirl about this deletion. Nearly a page seems much too long. In all the articles I've edited, quotes have been kept much shorter due to copyright concerns. Note that Moonriddengirl is the admin who usually handles the WP:CP noticeboard, so she can be considered an expert on copyright issues. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 02:16, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Obviously, having deleted it to begin with, I am in agreement that this material does not fall within WP:NFC. The material was submitted to administrator for arbitration. It was listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2008 November 26. As an administrator who volunteers at WP:CP, I removed it based on that listing; my handling was based on Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins, in that I felt that the section was restricted enough to simply remove and noted both that I had done so and why at the article's talk.

As WP:NFC points out, "On Wikipedia, our goal is to be a Free content encyclopedia, with free content defined as any content granting the right to redistribute, study, modify and improve, and otherwise use the works for any purpose in any medium, even commercially." Our NFC guidelines for text have been formulated on this basis, and they are meant to be equally applicable to commercial as non-commercial publication for that reason.

As I pointed out at the article's talk page, I found the quote extensive and not utilized in the manner described for acceptable use of quotations here. Fair use laws consider the "purpose and character" of the usage. We can certainly quote a brief passage from a book, for example, in discussing what reliable sources have said about the literary style or the use of allusions or alliteration or what have you; providing an excerpt without commentary is window dressing. You aren't creating something new that requires the use of the text for clarity, as you are in critical evaluation.

If you want additional input, WT:NFC might be an appropriate location to discuss the matter further; however, we don't publish material that may infringe copyright pending such determination. That's why the {{copyvio}} template blanks the material by default. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:46, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

BARNSTAR Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png

How do I get a Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png?

Empiresj1 (talk) 23:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Work as hard – and as wisely and carefully – as Moonriddengirl does. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 23:46, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes people are kind and offer recognition when they believe that you are working very hard somewhere on Wikipedia. As nice as it is when they do so, though, it's really best if you're working on Wikipedia because you enjoy it, as others may or may not choose to comment on your work (and sometimes when they do it may be for reasons that surprise you). --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:12, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Good answer, MoonG. Welcome back! ☺Coppertwig(talk) 22:18, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! :D It's good to be back (and, of course, to find you speaking of me so nicely in my absence! :)), though I've got sooo much to catch up on. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:20, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

wow!!

I like your Image:Web-browser.svg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Empiresj1 (talk • contribs) 29 November 2008

Thank you, but it's not mine. You can read where it originally came from by clicking on the text that now replaces the image. I got it from Template:Vacation3, although that template now uses a different image. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:52, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Gananath Obeyesekare

Hi. I just noticed that User:Robotforaday mistakenly redirected this page to the wrong name, and I corrected it with a redirect since the new name already exists (Talk:Gananath Obeyesekere). Obviously, this isn't the way to do things, and since you were the last editor on that page (as well as an admin), perhaps you could fix the edit history? Thanks! Viriditas (talk) 13:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I've done a history merge. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:56, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast! Thanks ever so much! Viriditas (talk) 00:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

CSD discussion - Your feedback is appreciated

Your feedback would be appreciated in the New "i12"? discussion on the rewording of G6. Thank you. Soundvisions1 (talk) 16:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'll take a deeper look a little later and see what I might be able to contribute, but at first glance it looks as though you're getting into an area of image work that is outside of my experience. After all, one of the reasons I drew together the WP:GID was because I didn't know how to process them myself. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:01, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

That is a good thing though. :) IMO a CSD should be easy enough for someone to understand who may not always be involved in that area. It is more of the wording though. Not talking about a fair use image that is orphaned, not talking about a blatant copyvio as that is covered, not talking about a WP use only as that is covered. Really it is only for otherwise "properly" licensed, "user created", images that have been orphaned, or were never used, that would serve no use outside of the deleted (or non existent) article. (Totally unrelated - how was turkey day?) Soundvisions1 (talk) 18:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Best help I could figure out how to give is to bring up a couple of images and discuss how it might impact those. :) Turkey day was good...as always, both fattening and exhausting. :) How was yours? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:14, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Replied on the discussion but in general the images you show are not fully the types of images I mean. Look at User:Wellus/Photo/2007 for example. If this personal user photo album were deleted it would orphan these images. Should they all be sent to Commons? Or the images uploaded by Nevermindthelove that were orphaned when his article was deleted?

Thanksgiving day was boring. Went to my aunts on Friday though and had Boston Market make the "family dinner" :). Soundvisions1 (talk) 19:42, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

hello there Moonriddengirl, have I improved?

You did my Wikipedia:Editor review/Reechard after my first round with Sarah Cahill (pianist). Do you have time for a quick re-assess of this BLP? It's more verifiable, not sure if I went too far with the WebCite citations. I'd like to add links to external media - online scores, archived video, audio. Is there a guideline for that? Should I add more CD reviews and better discography? Best, Reechard (talk) 01:11, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Let me take a look. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:20, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

It's shaping up nicely. You've certainly put a lot of effort into it! I don't think that you've gone too far with citations; I'd personally add more. For example, the background section only offers a single inline reference. Is all that information from that source, or are there other sources that tell us which albums she listened to in her father's collection?

I notice that the footnote in this article often appear in the middle of a sentence. As per Wikipedia:MOS#Punctuation_and_inline_citations, these are usually placed with punctuation.

I would include in her discography anything that you regard as noteworthy. If she has been prolific, you may wish to focus on the highlights. Otherwise, you may wish to include complete details. CD reviews might be better discussed in separate articles about her cds, although a general section on "critical reception" that provides an overview of how critics have responded to her various recordings could also be appropriate. You wouldn't want to pay undue attention to any one of her recordings in her primary article; individual album articles are a good place for going into the minute details about these.

The guideline to look at with regards to links is WP:EL. Essentially, you don't want to overdo it--a concise list of good links are valuable here, but you don't want to drop in everything you can find. :) The subsection on Wikipedia:EL#Rich media talks about how to link rich media. Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking to copyrighted works reminds us to be careful to ensure that whatever we link is legally available for linking. For example, we could link to song samples at her record label, but not necessarily a youtube clip of a concert, since this is likely to have been illegally posted.

Good luck with it. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Will move inline citations to punct. ASAP. :) While I may be an encyc. editor slash wiki newbie, I'm a copyright veteran. Works in question are posted by otherminds.org on archive.org and calperformances.org / on youtube, on their official channel. Scores are posted by the composers on their own sites! So, I think I got THAT covered. Still, will read up on guidelines above. Yay! :-) Reechard (talk) 01:54, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

thanks for that last "Sarah->Cahill" edit. I simply could not see it - you just fixed it quietly - I appreciate the help!Reechard (talk) 02:31, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Long time no see

Hi Moonriddengirl!
It's been a while since I've asked you a question (bothered you) on your talk page. Anyways, this time I'm just dropping by to wish you a happy Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy your wikibreak! (don't worry, I'll be back to bug you soon enough) αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ ^(talk) 01:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) I'm not sure where you're located, but we share a time zone. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, if appropriate. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:26, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes appropriate ;) I hope you enjoyed your wikibreak. I was wondering if you would mind doing some subpage cleanup for me. These pages are no longer used: this and that, this and that, and finally this and that. They were from a mini-task force that I created when I was a newcomer, but due to lack of activity (and no idea [nor interest] in what I was doing) I have closed it. If you don't feel comfortable deleting these pages, let me know, and I'll place them under {{db-userreq}}. Best regards, αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ ^(talk) 02:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

What about this one? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that one too. Thank you! αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ ^(talk) 11:57, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Moonriddengirl! ARBITRARILY0 ^(talk) 23:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Second opinion

Hi, as a fellow worker on copyright :), could you take a look at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2008 October 9 for me. The concensus seems to keep, although personally I am inclined to think they are copyvio's. But I don't know for sure. Garion96 (talk) 20:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Forgot to mention. It is about the "life goes on" images c.q. text listed there. Garion96 (talk) 20:18, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) Given my limited Russian, I can't be sure, but I'd be inclined to think they're copyvios, too. If that translation is accurate, they're okay with partial reproduction, but it doesn't follow that they're okay with alteration. I'm far more familiar with text than image, but I have to ask: how does the non-free use rationale at Image:Life goes on p1.png hold up by Wikipedia's philiosophies? Is it possible that one of these images might be retained under WP:NFC and the others deleted? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, mine is as limited as yours. I think I will delete them and leave in my closing a message that an image can be restored if put under the non-free content criteria. I am not such a big fan of fair use currently so won't decide myself, plus I don't know much about the topic. Thanks for checking. Garion96 (talk) 20:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!

Look forward for more help from your side in future edits!!

Venky2007 ^{(talk) 07:43, 3 December 2008 (UTC)}

Platform Tennis

I noticed that the page on Platform Tennis was deleted over alleged copyright violations. The document in question http://www.bwplatformtennis.com/images/history.pdf was written by Jackie Brown (owner of bwplatformtennis.com). Naturally http://www.bwplatformtennis.com/game.html used the same writing verbatim and is no surprise.

The original document was intended for public use and for press releases. If necessary I could get documentation from the writer.

Bobconsidine (talk) 22:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. The problem is not that the website uses the same language as the pdf; the problem is that our article utilized it without evidence that we have authority to do so. In order to restore the article, we will need to obtain external verification, since we otherwise have no way to verify that we have the right to license the material by GFDL, as all Wikipedia content is licensed. The process for doing so is at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permissions. It may be a little complicated in that the pdf is credited to www.platformtennis.org rather than www.bwplatformtennis.com, so it may be difficult to establish that anyone from bwplatformtennis.com is authorized to release that content. Is Jackie Brown, owner of bwplatformtennis.com, still affiliated with platformtennis.org? An e-mail from an address affiliated with that latter site to the Wikimedia Foundation would simplify matters greatly. The e-mail address to contact is at the wikilink above, and there is included at that document a boilerplate release template that would serve. You can also access this release template separately at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries. It can also serve to make a note at the website, but the fact that two websites are involved here might make this tricky.

Please let me know if a permission letter is sent, and I'll restore the article. However, it will need to remain blanked, as it was for the week before its deletion, until the release is verified (if it goes through e-mail). If a release is posted on www.platformtennis.org, I may be able to restore the text immediately. It should follow the format recommended at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permissions. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:31, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Permission e-mail's (2) will be sent today from the APTA aka platformtennis.org. one from the President mark.fischl at platformtennis dot org and one from the executive director apta at platformtennis dot org. It would be appreciated if the page could be restored until verified. Thanks for your help. Bobconsidine (talk) 13:27, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for following up. I have restored the article and made note at the talk page that permission is pending. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:38, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

You didn't restore the article. Just wondering, per your 13:38 comment, whether that was what you meant to do? (I wanted to check it for POV). --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

By restored it, I meant undeleted. It needs to remain blanked pending receipt and logging of the permissions letter. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah. Such mighty powers as undeletion are beyond the comprehension of us common-or-garden wikipedians, which explains why that didn't come to mind ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Since the above doesn't really make clear that it was deleted deleted (as opposed to blanked deleted), I can see your confusion. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:32, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Robert of Thornham

Thanks for the work with this article :D. I'm sorry to have wasted time you could've spent writing stuff with cleaning up someone else's mistakes. Ironholds (talk) 20:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

It's no problem. :) I'll get to the other one as soon as I'm able. Busy time at work, alas. If you want to talk about how to paraphrase a troublesome passage at any point in the future, please feel free to let me know. It can be tricky and sometimes very frustrating, but I'm always glad to offer my two bits. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:31, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

The MovieMan

I have a friend Felix who makes videos for youtube with his own channel (www.youtube.com/TheeMovieMan/. He would love it if you checked it out he is very funny and you are sure to get a laugh out of them.So please spread the word about Felixs videos and watch them yourself. Thanks. (ALIEN123456789 (talk) 18:47, 5 December 2008 (UTC))

Just FYI

I have posted this already in the discussions about the A.P bombing image so this is for your use, to tuck away somewhere in case you need to refer to it. Image:Marked-ap-letter.jpg. It is a letter from the Associated Press that is giving permission for two images to be used. But the very last paragraph should be extremely clear: "With respect to any and all other photographs in which The Associated Press is the copyright holder, The Associated Press reserves all its rights, and specifically does not agree that any Wikipedia publication of a copy-protected Associated Press photo in which a Wikipedia user chooses to upload would constitute fair use." Soundvisions1 (talk) 23:46, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

As I said on Soundvisions1's talk page, this letter is irrelevant. The nature of fair use is that we do not need their permission. To quote from our article Fair use, "It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test." I agree that press photos can be used here under fair use relatively rarely. But fair use means no permission is necessary. Fair use is a legal right. Every fair use case that goes to court, the copyright holder did not want the third party to use their work or else they would not have brought the suit. Any time a court says that something is fair use, they are essentially saying, Too bad for you, copyright-holder; the defendant has the right to use the image no matter what you say. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:53, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about this, the conversation coming here. I was giving the copyright patrol a heads up on the letter for future reference. Soundvisions1 (talk) 00:11, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. As you know, I don't do much with images. If I see something that I think has a questionable fair use rationale, I usually trot it off to WP:MCQ or WP:NFCR. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:19, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Copies of Wikipedia pages

Oops, maybe I did the wrong thing. What are we supposed to do with articles that are copies of Wikipedia pages? I forgot some of the options and tagged this one Fjerritslev Municipality for speedy deletion [3] and maybe I shouldn't have. I should have just put a note at the bottom of the page saying that it incorporates material from a certain other Wikipedia page? Maybe it should be restored? I'm just learning how to handle these ones. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 00:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Depends on the circumstances. If I delete them, I usually delete them as G6, although I have G12ed them. It's also possible just to note the original page in the edit summary of the new article and note the page it's been moved to in the edit summary of the original article, if there seems to be good reason for the split. It's good to give the contributor a modified version of Template:Uw-c&pmove, pointing him to Wikipedia:Splitting. Feel free to use my form letter, here, if you encounter one again. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:38, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I still find it a little confusing. (I'm still at the "yes, but what exactly am I supposed to do? stage on the article-split ones.) Um, would I have to write "thanks to Moonriddengirl for the form letter" or something, per GFDL? ☺Coppertwig(talk) 00:51, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Make free with it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:52, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

The article's already gone, so this may be of more use to you in the future. My first question: is there a good reason for the split? If so, I usually complete the procedure. I make note at both the new article and the old article to satisfy attribution requirements. Then I give that letter to the contributor and move on. If there's not, I usually restore the material to the original article and delete the new one as a G6. Then I write a slightly different version of the letter to the contributor, explaining also why the split is a problem. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

How do you like the message box I put at Talk:The Mr. Men Show? The one that goes "Material from this page has been split to..." Would it make sense to create a template like that? Would I just be bold and create it, or discuss it somewhere (Where? WT:Suspected copyright violations?) ☺Coppertwig(talk) 20:34, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

! Fab! I don't think you need to discuss it, but if you did, I'd discuss it at Wikipedia talk:Splitting. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:43, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Copyright?

But I didn't add it. Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 04:14, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

(Replied at talk page. Apology and warning should definitely stick together. :)) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:20, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Attribution question

Hi there. Quick question! (Because you seems to be expert on copyright issues :)) Is it copyright violation to create an article using text from a website under a free license, without mentioning that source? (Here is a case at hand) --PeaceNT (talk) 15:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

If I may (partially) answer this: it can be a copyright violation. It depends on the terms of the license. In that case, it's a version of a creative commons attribution share-alike license which specifically states that attribution is required. So yes, if no attribution is given, it's a copyright violation. That can easily be fixed by adding attribution. I'm not sure whether or not that particular license is compatible with Wikipedia; we can only use stuff with certain particular licenses and I'm not sure if that's one of them or not. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 15:47, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) You're right to be concerned, and Coppertwig is right that it is a copyright violation. Licensed material is still copyrighted, just as Wikipedia articles are. In most cases, all we'd have to do is attribute it to repair it (if, for example, it came from a GFDL source). However, I do not myself know our current relationship with Share-alike. GNU Free Documentation License#Compatibility with CC-BY-SA indicates that the licenses are not compatible. I don't know if that's still true with our new & improved GFDL. I'll see if I can find out. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Just to update, I've asked at Wikipedia talk:Comparison of GFDL and CC-BY-SA. If I don't get a response I will (as Wikipedia seems to require) continue forum shopping...not until I get an answer I like, necessarily, but until I get an answer. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:27, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Wow. One of the things about this place that keeps amazing me is that there are always folks around who know more than I and who I can turn to for advice. :) Thank you, Coppertwig and Moonriddengirl! I made a note regarding the source on that article talk page, but it seems there will be more to fix if it's still a copyright violation. Originally thought CC-BY-SA was a free license too, didn't realize compatibility issues could be so complicated. :( Just watchlisted Wikipedia talk:Comparison of GFDL and CC-BY-SA, will be eagerly waiting for replies. --PeaceNT (talk) 16:39, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

It may be a free license, too, and just putting it on a Wikipedia page might not be a copyright violation, but the exact terms of the license have to be just right, so that when people take a copy of all the Wikipedia articles and do stuff with it, they won't be violating the terms of that license. We don't want to add too many restrictions to what people can do with Wikipedia articles: that could get complicated if each article had slightly different licensing terms.

So yes, it is complicated; but I thought I could just type WP:Creative commons or something and get redirected to a page with a list of which versions of which licenses we can accept and which we can't. Maybe that page doesn't exist at the moment, or if it does it's too hard to find. Especially if even Moonriddengirl doesn't know. Maybe we need to ask the Foundation lawyer or somebody, and make a page like that? ☺Coppertwig(talk) 18:54, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

K. :) I see another editor has taken care of the article and listed it at WP:CP. Thanks for taking the time helping me review this issue. Back to other work now. Wish you too an awesome week. :) --PeaceNT (talk) 14:39, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Spa

FYI, I've just asked for sockpuppet investigation of User:Alljerry, User:Alphamay1, and other associated accounts with bees in their collective bonnet about spa baths. Perhaps I should call them the Spa SPAs... AlexTiefling (talk) 19:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

LOL! :D Don't blame you. Seems pretty like there's some kind of shenanigans going on. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:35, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Photo copyright status

Hi. I'm hoping you can shed some light on a situation. I took a look at a photo copyright, and thought it was not valid (or at least, it needed work). Apparently, you made a similar comment to the same user about a different photograph. [4]. Unfortunately, I can't tell what you both decided to do. I'm not too worried about this particular situation, but I would like to understand the justification for future reference. Thanks! Piano non troppo (talk) 12:40, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. My comment didn't concern an image, but an article, and it was deleted. If you would like to give me details, I may be able to give better feedback about the concerns that you're facing here. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:42, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Notability concerns

RolandR is making aolt of trouble for me he is trying to get rid of my articals byclaiming they are bad or not noteworthy enough. but there are many articals that aren't noteworthy and they exist just press the random artical botton Psycowitz (talk) 16:32, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Since you've asked somebody else about this as well, I'll reply at your talk page. Your reply should be there soon. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:05, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

i am talking about the kol ami of frederick that is not a copyright infringment and yet he wants to delete it because it is not noteworthy enough but there are weird articals like Sankō, Ōita, Laskowo, Mogilno County those deserve deletion for their unnoteworthyness as mine —Preceding unsigned comment added by Psycowitz (talk • contribs) 00:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

redid the sig

Thanks for your heads-up note about my missing sig. I went ahead and corrected my typo. (Of course, I'll always blame it on this lousy keyboard rather than these spastic fingers.) Cheers — CactusWriter | ^needles 13:09, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

December 2008

Please will you stop puting them tags up and delteing tags me and Salavat done this artical. A Candela (talk) 23:08, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Replied at user's talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 23:12, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

I'm Mark Quero and I am the publisher of the article about the organization. Its okay for me to edit and distribute with regards to the information about the institution.

Thank You —Preceding unsigned comment added by Journ89 (talk • contribs) 11 December 2008

Replied at user's talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

I hereby assert that I, Mark Quero, am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK [=http://moas-srcp.catholicweb.com/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=220934&From=home].

I agree to publish that work under the free license LICENSE http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Srcmoas-logo.jpg.

I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.

I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.

I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

December 11, 2008, SAN ROQUE CATHEDRAL MINISTRY OF ALTAR SERVERS —Preceding unsigned comment added by Journ89 (talk • contribs) 11 December 2008

Replied at user's talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

List of Forgotten Realms characters

Hello.

I'm trying to build List of Forgotten Realms characters as a proper character list. Could you please restore the edit history of Aldanon for me, and redirect it to the list so that we can merge the content in? Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 04:52, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. While I'm obviously fine with restoring PRODded articles, I'm a little less comfortable restoring articles that have passed through AfD with consensus to delete. If notability were the only concern here, I'd be less reluctant, but the article was 8 paragraphs of original research. It's obviously too much to merge into a list article. If it would serve your purposes, I would be comfortable userfying the content so that you can refer to it in preparing a much abbreviated summary in your own language, if that would serve. I'm not sure it would be appropriate under the circumstances to put it back into article space, even under a redirect. Would userfication help? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I guess that would be allright. I'd like to merge something in there if possible, but a straight up merge that large is probably not appropriate. BOZ (talk) 16:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

No, although a much abbreviated summary would work. I'll userfy. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) BOZ (talk) 16:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

hey

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Journ89 (talk • contribs) 14:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the information about the Wikipedia standards. I will go back and put them into my own words sometime later. Please do leave a note on my page if there is anything else to comment about. Thanks, Tokyocolumbia (talk) 21:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

okay, i'll e-amil using my yahoo account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Journ89 (talk • contribs) 12 December 2008

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

i have email-ed the permission using the google account (gmail) since Catholicweb is powered by google. Actually I have already mailed it yesterday... If you haven't read it, my message says....

Moonriddengirl, I have asked the administrator if he could post the permission in the webpage http://www.moas-srcp.catholicweb.com/. And so he posted. you can scroll down at the home page, you can find there the permission on the left side boxes. Also, a permission about the copyright can also be found on the footer because it tells that ...

" ... Copyright (C) 2008 San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers Diocese of Caloocan, Philippines Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, rephrasing is allowed but must be based on the facts that the article contains and is intended to deliver. .."

Please bring back the main article for it is already been permitted. I'm planning to add more facts about their organization and so the others. I'll be kept in touch with the administrator of SRC-MOAS On-line for the security of the facts about them.

I'm looking forward for your response..."

And I am really looking for a favorable response.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Journ89 (talk • contribs) 14 December 2008

I don't think that's enough; sorry. Anyone can get a gmail email address, so using a gmail address doesn't prove that you're the copyright owner. The license "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies..." is not enough for Wikipedia; on Wikipedia, we need to be able to edit and modify the information without restriction. Only material with licenses compatible with GFDL can be accepted. Thank you for all your efforts. I hope you can find a way to get the required permission communicated. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 01:39, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

moonriddengirl, I have already mailed wikimedia with regards the permissions and I think everything is settled now, so can you please bring back the article about the organization to normal now for I, and so on the others, are planning to add more facts about the organization.

Thank You.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.69.36.247 (talk • contribs) 14 December 2008

Although this may be superseded by the below, if you are able to have the release modified to fit our needs, I will note that the material is not restored under this method until your letter is received and processed by the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. At that time, if the release is legally sufficient, a "ticket number" will be logged at the article's talk page and the contents restored. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:27, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

coopertwig, the webpage owner has already posted in their website that its okay for them to have an an article from them. Please look at their webpage.

I'm looking forward for a favorable response —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.69.36.247 (talk • contribs) 14 December 2008

This is moving in the right direction, but I'm afraid that the release at the website is not quite sufficient for Wikipedia. Your license must be compatible with GFDL. You retain the right to be credited for your contribution, but not to limit modifications. Quoting from Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials:

“ Please be aware that the content you donate is subject to continuous editing by the Wikipedia community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. Your contribution will always be part of the page history, so you retain credit for your work -- our license requires us to provide that credit, and to ensure that you are not held liable in any sense for the changes others make to your work. Do remember that one of the benefits of this freedom to edit is that you are freely able to incorporate the improvements that others make into your own website or source work, so long as it remains under the GFDL. If it is important for some reason that your work remain intact, please read the guidelines for our sister project, Wikisource. ”

(Note also that at the bottom of the edit page on Wikipedia it says, "If you don't want your material to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it.") If you wish to permit Wikipedia to utilize language from the website, you will need to modify the license your website displays accordingly. Our recommended language is "The contents of this website are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 and later." --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:14, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Journ89, I looked at the website and it says, "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, rephrasing is allowed but must be based on the facts that the article contains and is intended to deliver." As I explained and Moonriddengirl explained, this is not sufficient for material to be used by Wikipedia. That is, the website is allowing material to be put on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia does not allow material with that kind of license to be kept; it must be deleted, by Wikipedia policy. The license must not only allow the material to be put on Wikipedia, but it must also allow the material to be used in all the ways that Wikipedia material is usually used: that is, it must be allowed to be edited, copied again, etc., all the things that the GFDL license usually allows. That license does not allow the unrestricted editing that Wikipedia needs; it explicitly puts a restriction on editing. It would be far too complicated to try to have one Wikipedia page comply with a special restriction like that; there's no way we could make every Wikipedian editor pay attention to a special restriction that applies only to that page. We couldn't stop people from coming along and editing it in ways that might violate the license. So we just have to delete it. One other problem I see with the license is that it says "this license document"; it's not clear what that is referring to. It sounds to me as if it's talking about the license itself, not the website contents. Maybe it was meant to say "this licensed document". Moonriddengirl has given a suggested wording that you can put at the bottom of the website page that would be acceptable. Any other wording may or may not be acceptable and may take some time and effort to figure out whether it's acceptable or not. I'm sorry for the complications. Again, thank you for your efforts in contributing material to Wikipedia. By the way, if you want to post a comment without creating a new section every time, you can click on "edit" at the right of the title of the section of the page, and then add your comment at the bottom of the other comments. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 15:12, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

so what am i to do now? what will the web administrator do? I'm kinda tired of such things you want me to do where in fact it is already been settled. Please help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.69.36.247 14 December 2008 (talk • contribs)

If you have sent a letter, we wait several days for that to process. If it is not sufficient, the article will be deleted, unless the website is altered as I explained above. (If the release on the website is changed, let me know.) Otherwise, you do have the option of writing an article completely in your own words, as the notice on your page indicates. You cannot currently alter the article, but you can write in that temporary space. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it seems you have written a temporary version, although you did not note that you had done so at the article's talk page. Let me evaluate it. If it doesn't contain text from the external site, then we may be able to utilize it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

maybe i'll just have the administrator have the language you recommend

That would have been the easiest route. :) However, the temporary version only contains one sentence from the source. I am revising it now and will replace the prior version of the article with the new version in just a minute. If the administrator of the website does allow reuse as our license requires, then the original sentence can be replaced. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

okay, thank you moonriddengirl. Im sorry for this stuffs. I'm just a novice when it comes to this. Please have me time to learn for I'm not used in doing things like this. And well, I found it kinda complicated in a way :))

I understand. There's a lot to learn. :) Thank you for addressing the copyright concerns. If the administrator of the external site decides to license it according to GFDL, your original first sentence can be restored. Although it is complicated, you might want to read over some of the links on the "welcome" at the top of your registered user name, since it might help you more quickly learn your way around. And we do have a help desk, Wikipedia:help desk, where you can ask questions about contributing. When you post there or on talk page, please "sign" your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). That way others will know who they're talking to. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:34, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

oh, okay. Thanks for the replies. I found you more gentle than coopertwig :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Journ89 (talk • contribs) 14 December 2008

I'm sorry I wasn't gentler than I was, then; but I'm glad that you and Moonriddengirl seem to have found a way to proceed. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 16:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm also glad that we have found resolution to the matter. I expect that you may have misinterpreted something Coppertwig wrote if you found him ungentle, since in my experience Coppertwig is typically very motivated to help others. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:38, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

San Roque Cathedral Ministry of Altar Servers

Well, on the other hand, I would like to THANK YOU both for helping. I hope I can ask you guys more questions about these stuffs. I appreciate everything.

Note

As an FYI, many concerns have been expressed over Guido's inability to either grasp policy, or accept that he must abide by others' interpretations. That is one of my central concerns here. This may save you some time during discussions with Guido. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 18:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I will cease banging my head against said wall. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:27, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to go pretend to have a life now. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:35, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I can recommend some excellent head-banging ointments for you, I've lots of experience in that area. As you can see on my user page (fourth user box), should you have any blisters or scabs from your own personal horse-beating stick, I should be able to help you there as well. My overall opinion is that you're pretty much wasting your time if you are under the impression that you can change his opinion through arguments or pointing to policies. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 20:45, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Evidently a trait we share. :D No, now that I see a history with this issue and I know this is not a language barrier or something, then there seems to be little point in trying to persuade him. Any further comments would be to benefit the unseen audience. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:58, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

We shall discuss further when the Blind Ferret Mates with the Ox-Turning Plough, and the Forbidden Doors of Mystery Open to the Twice-Eaten Fool. Avaunt! The Speckled Butterfly Drinks the Dew of Hidden Mountains. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 21:15, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Mind boggling! Again, thank you much for the advisory. Otherwise, at this point, I'd probably be harassing our lawyer to ask him to help explain matters. Instead, I'll try for something productive, like challenging the Black Knight to a duel. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh, this is merely a scratch, try keeping it up for a month. I'm trying to avoid the appearance or reality of WP:CANVAS, so I shan't be warning anyone else. But if you want to, I leave it to your judgement. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 22:38, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

[5]. Limited, neutral, nonpartisan, open. Check. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I summon the dark demons of drama to (checks page name) Help:Talk! *thunder* /lightning/ €drama€! I predict this will end badly WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 22:55, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Or, perhaps, never end at all. :) I am evidently incorrigible. (Hmm. I could simply stop watchlisting?) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:21, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Been there, created the user box. I heartily believe that it's a complete waste of time to try to convince him the error of his ways, but the more people that try the more defensible it is to the community that he's a problem. WLU (talk) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 02:28, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Pauly & C. - Compagnia Venezia Murano

You did a great job with this - above and beyond the call of duty!

Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. :) As you said, it was obviously a notable company, and I generally try not to leave gaps like that if I can help it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:06, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Arilang requesting urgent action

in regard to article Massacres and Atrocities committed by Manchu rulers
see talk page Massacres and Atrocities committed by Manchu rulers

Quote: This has nothing to do with being a Manchu apologist or anything like that. I will put up this page for AfD this afternoon. Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 04:44, 17 December 2008 (UTC)Unquoted.

I have agreed with your proposal of moving to my user page for further development, looks like user Madalibi is going to do something which is in contrary to your specific instruction. Could you stop him from taking up further action, which is uncalled for?
In my opinion, he needs to explain (1) why he act like an admin when he is not? (2) Why he want to move the article after I have agreed to your proposal (3) the style and his tone and chose of words does not match with the claim that he is a 'new editor', and my suspicion is that he is actually an admin from other wiki, possible an admin from zh:wiki in disguise?

cc to user PBS Arilang ^talk 05:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

This one seems to have been resolved before it even became morning in my part of the world. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:53, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Guido den broeder evidence request

Hi Moonriddengirl,

I'm still assembling information about Guido's conduct - you are aware of his conduct on the issues regarding moving pages and whatnot. I have been asked to accelerate my work in assembling evidence about problematic conduct in support of a block or ban here - as a result, I no longer have the time to review every page and every diff for full context. Would you mind helping me by popping in any issues you consider problematic on my sub-page? Note that it's not a RFC, it's really a sandbox for evidence (the title was for its original use, now I'm just not bothering to create a new page). Please, only areas where you consider it a clear misinterpretation of policy, failure to attend to external comments, blatant content disputes (I have been using this as area when there is clear consensus from most or all other users, and Guido continues to POV-push without evidence for a particular interpretation). Please feel free to decline if you're not comfortable or don't have the time. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 19:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Incidentally, there's history with GFDL. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 19:47, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

My experience with him is thus far limited to the GFDL issue, which I personally believe is a serious concern. I'll be happy to add the links on that issue to what's already there. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:28, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. There's already a section; User_talk:WLU/RFC#GFDL WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 22:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I know. I added a few links to it maybe an hour ago? (The December 8th continued thing was me. :)) I tried looking through other contribs, but your document is so complete already that I felt at a bit of a loss! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

The content expertise and question I'm more concerned about is, were his arguments POV-pushing against consensus? Of secondary concern is was there any evidence he was heeding, or ignoring, the comments of other editors? The answer may be no, and that's fine. I'm trying to establish a pattern of POV-pushing against consensus on a variety of articles; it may not be there, it may be only something I see (i.e. I'm either crazy or absurdly paranoid or cruelly vindictive), but I can't answer content questions on a lot of these articles because it would take too long for me to do the research to become an expert or even informed amateur. But again, it may not be there. If you analyze the interactions and text and don't see a problem, then there's nothing new to add and there's no need to keep looking. Guido has a tendency to raise the hostility of others and it's hard to review contributions where I don't feel secure in my knowledge of the material such that I can call "bullshit, give it up, you're done". WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 23:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Well, multiple editors pointed out to him that he was misinterpreting policy. His response was largely to continue to assert his opinion without explanation (see specifically this thread, though he did eventually reveal the source of his misunderstanding here: that he believes Wikipedia is a work for hire. The primary difficulty I had with his conduct in this conversation was his poor debate methodology, which is probably not contrary to policy. :) For the first few rounds, he would not explain why he felt that contributors do not own their contributions; it was only after I supplied reference to a US Govt circular (which he rejected as a reliable source) that he explicitly defined his concerns. Surely he rejected consensus in that conversation, but that's not my major problem. After all, if I met consensus that I thought was legally wrong, I'd reject it, too. :) But I'd explain thoroughly why, and I'd back it up with case law. Instead, he seems to have arrived at an opinion which he is putting forth as proven fact without basis. Is there a way to express that in your evidence? Or a need, now that he's (for the moment) indef-blocked? Is it actually significant to your conversation? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:32, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Undent. That's actually quite helpful, thanks. The indef block was premature (not unwarranted in my highly biased opinion) as all the evidence uninvolved editors were presented with was a vast, ugly sprawling page of crap that would be extremely difficult to tease out. Any editor who didn't have involvement with him would be hard-pressed to come to any conclusion based on it. The whole reason I delayed starting an AN or ANI thread was so I could thoroughly review his contribs and create a solid final version that would hopefully be more convincing than what I have now. I'm in process for that, and this will be useful; also helpful for the arb case that will almost certainly land in my lap. Content disputes are very difficult to sort out, and in my experience undue weight is probably the hardest thing to demonstrate to someone who is not already an informed participant in the debate. This looks like the pure wikipedia-process equivalent, but your summary will make it easier for me to grasp. I'm also comforted that yet another editor has reached an opinion I feel has some truth to it - Guido's contributions are based on his own opinion and will not shift no matter the evidence. Thanks very much again. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 15:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

If this were a content dispute, then I think we might have been looking at Wikipedia:Disruptive editing: "Cannot satisfy Wikipedia:Verifiability; fails to cite sources, cites unencyclopedic sources, misrepresents reliable sources, or manufactures original research." Check. "repeatedly disregards other editors' questions or requests for explanations concerning edits or objections to edits; repeatedly disregards other editors' explanations for their edits." Check. Of course, I don't know that he was actually doing anything wrong with his misunderstanding: reproducing wiki content off-wiki without attribution, for instance. But I tend to worry anyway when somebody positively asserts misinformation that could get Wikipedia in trouble with the law, particularly when doing so seems to require consistently disregarding what's actually written in policies and guidelines. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Seong Moy

Thank you for your friendly reminder to us at the Annex Galleries. I have sent an email to the permissions-en email. I hope it works....

Artannex (talk) 20:19, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Moser Glass

Good move. Thanks. Now I maybe I can find some details to improve the article a bit. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 17:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Right Time

On 19 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Right Time, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 17:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Art Christmas

Hello I am a retired 64 year old musician. My father was the Art Christmas which this article refers to. I am not a computer person but I am trying to do my best with this article.I keep being told that this is copyright material from the web site http://www.artchristmas.com/art1.html This is not so. This web site was designed by me in memory of my father who was Britain's leading sax and multi-instrumentalist from 1920 to 1950. I pay for the web site and I wrote all the text. The photos are all mine from my family photo album. I cannot understand why using my own material and words is breaking copyright laws. Can you please help me straighten this out so that the article I put on Wikipedia can go back on for people to see. I would appreciate anything you could do to help me. Thank you so much for reading this. By the way I don't know whether you will see this or not because I don't know how I got here. Perhaps you could email me at artxmas@artchristmas.com and let me know if you got this and whether you can help me. One final thing. I certainly did not intend to be disruptive when I kept editing the message. I honestly thought that's what I was supposed to do when it had the edit link for me to click on. Again I am sorry if I have caused someone a problem I didn't mean to do that. Thanks again for reading this message...I sure hope you got it and oh yes I don't know how to sign it with those little symbols but I will try.

Regards

Artxmas (talk) 02:12, 20 December 2008 (UTC)Art Christmas Jr. Artxmas (talk) 02:12, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Have replied via e-mail and at the user's talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Art Christmas

Thank you so very much for your email...I have taken your advice and updated my website to read the way you suggested to me...This release will remain on my website...Now is this all I need to do or do I still need to send something else to the Wikipedia Foundation? You indicated that I might have to still send a note and that you will assist me in its composition...Please inform me if this still needs to be done...Again how can I ever thank you for taking the time to communicate with me and to help me with this matter...You have made an old guy very happy...To see a biography of my father finally on Wikipedia will be a thrill for me and my entire family...

I remain in your debt

~~Art Christmas Jr.~~

p.s. I still don't know whether I am signing these messages to you correctly. Hope it's close to being right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artxmas (talk • contribs) 14:13, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I've replied at your talk page, but I'll just note that you are close. :) If you type four tildes together (~~~~), the Wikipedia software will take care of the rest. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Che Guevara's diploma

Hi, MoonG! Happy holidays. If you're not too busy, perhaps you could comment on this: Redthoreau is talking about maybe scanning in a copy of Che Guevara's medical diploma. I'm not sure what the copyright situation would be with that. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 02:55, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! ☺Coppertwig(talk) 02:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

D'oh! I completely forgot to mention here that I had done so! I had planned to. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:22, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Art Christmas

Dear M;

Thanks again. I will send this email immediately.

Art

Artxmas (talk) 14:34, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

There! You got the signature right that time! ☺Coppertwig(talk) 02:01, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Translation

Hello Moonriddengirl!

This is regarding the English translation of the original letter in Punjabi that you have deleted from Dasam Granth.

The translation of this letter was done by Dr. Trilochan Singh and appears on page 56 of the April 1955 edition of the journal 'The Sikh Review'. This translation was also referred by Dr. Dharam Pal Ashta on Page 8-9 of his PhD thesis in 1959.

Can you please advice as to how this information can be referred on Wikipedia without infringing the copyright.

Thanks Gurmatscholar (talk) 10:29, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. It will probably be a little difficult, as it will require permission of the copyright holder. You could write to The Sikh Review and ask for their permission to use the text. (See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) But the document itself is public domain; is it possible to obtain another translation that we can use? Perhaps one that is public domain because of its age? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:22, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello! The translator of this document, Dr Trilochan Singh, died in 1993. Wont that make this translation in public domain? Thanks Gurmatscholar (talk) 14:05, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

No, unfortunately. Copyright protection persists after the death of the author. (see Wikipedia:PD#When_does_copyright_expire.3F for the very complex basics.) With respect to the document, you say it was published in 'The Sikh Review' in 1955; The Sikh Review has a website here. You might wish to write them to ask for permission if another translation is not available. (P.S. If you decide to do so, please be sure that the permission you request is complete enough for our purposes. I'll be happy to help you with that.) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:19, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...appreciated! I will Gurmatscholar (talk) 16:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Sikh extremism

What copyright material are you referring to ? Satanoid (talk) 14:28, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Replied at user talk. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:31, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Both of those sites have been used as source material since I have been criticised for using the 'crushed', I used the word rooting out, I useed a mere sentence from the sight. I could reword it back to crush buut Sineed says thats too emotional, well oh diddums can you suggest a better word ? How about eliminate, hell yeah thats a good word.

Satanoid (talk) 14:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

point taken, will replace 'rooting out' with 'terminate' Thanks Satanoid (talk) 14:41, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Its up to you, I wont edit it anymore, I'm bored of it...but I would like to ask AND point out that if Wikipedia is to be used as a platform for terrorism, misinformation and general hate spreading, are there any rules on Wiki to prevent this. Satanoid (talk) 14:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your information and contributions, I hope you can continue Satanoid (talk) 14:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Please note the follwoing ongoing discussion about Satanoid behaviour--Sikh-history (talk) 09:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the notice. It's unfortunate that the conversation was derailed by the different focus on the behavior of one of its responders, since that reduces the chance of resolution. :/ I'd suggest you might want to consider refocusing that discussion.

My primary focus on the article, which was listed at the copyright problems board, is to keep copyright infringement from returning to it. But I'll certainly also keep an eye out for behavior like this. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:00, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Platform tennis

Hi. First, let me thank you for taking the time (and extreme effort) to be an admin. The Platform tennis page got deleted this month (copyright), I saw your note on the tennis project site, and feel like I may have time during the holidays. Can I get the original article placed in my sandbox? Is it acceptable to create a "project" sandbox? -- Mjquin_id (talk) 16:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the thanks, and thanks for taking up my request on this. :D Ordinarily, I'm quite happy to userfy content, especially if it means a new article where one is needed. Unfortunately, though, since this one is a copyright violation, I can't. We can't duplicate copyrighted information on Wikipedia without permission anywhere unless it meets WP:NFC or we have permission. (A contributor was planning to seek permission, but evidently did not receive it, since no release has been forthcoming.) The plus side of that is that the information is readily available elsewhere online: here and here There were three sentences in the article that were not copied from one of those two links: "Platform tennis is unique as the only racquet sport that is played outdoors in cold weather. The sport is played at private clubs, public parks, and in backyards at both highly competitive and purely recreational levels. This sport must not be confused with [6] (or Paddle). If you use those, please attribute them at the talk page. The first two sentence were contributed by User:Paulwiggin@yahoo.com on 24 September 2005. (At the same time, he pasted the contents of those other sites.) I'm digging for attribution for the third and will respond in just a moment about sandboxing for projects. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:54, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Sentence #3 was added by an IP contributor, 200.203.36.93, on 9 September 2008. To the next question: there's no reason that I know of why a project can't create a sandbox. Wikipedia:Subpages indicates that they're allowed in projects "for project-specific templates, discussion, or guidelines pages." (I've dropped the wikilinks there, because I'm lazy. :)) OTOH, it would probably work just as well for you to create a subpage in your userspace and invite contributions to it from the project page. Either way, once the subpage has been moved into article space, the redirect can be deleted as maintenance. If you do decide to create a new article there, though, please let me know before you move it. Since there were quite a few edits deleted under that title, it would be a good idea to move them to a "deleted revisions" subpage to guard against their accidental restoration in the future. I'd go ahead and do that now, but it's best not to in case you don't create the article and we do eventually receive permission to utilize that text. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:01, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Charter 08

Re User:Moonriddengirl/sandbox

(More importantly) OK, something I'm still not clear on: is it OK if they reply to me and I forward their email to permissions-en etc., or would it be better to encourage them to email permissions-en directly? Since they may prefer either the convenience of hitting "reply" or greater certainty that their email is actually going to Wikipedia authorities, I might give them the choice if either one is acceptable; but it seems perhaps best to ask them to email permissions-en directly.

(Less importantly) In that case, perhaps the draft email for them to send back should also include something like "Re Wikisource article Charter 08"; and perhaps meanwhile Arilang or I should create the Wikisource article with a brief statement that it's intended to include the contents of Charter 08 from the New York Review of Books etc. if copyright permission is granted.

(Less importantly) I plan to put quotation marks around the entire title and subtitle of the article, otherwise it looks to me as though they would be stating that they are creators of the original Chinese version. I assume a couple of quotation marks won't hurt. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 18:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Quotation marks = a stellar idea. :) I have in the past done it both ways: had the grantors send the permission to me and forwarded it or had them send it directly to the Communciations Committee. The downside of asking them to send it directly to the communications committee is that unless they cc you, you won't know if they did. :) An "up" side is that if they send it directly, they can easily be directly contacted by said committee if there's a problem. I don't know how Wikisource feels about temporary articles pending permission. Do you want to ask John Vandenberg? He's an admin there and has been so very helpful with this already here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:19, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.

Rather than take up more of Jayvdb's time and pressure him to make a decision on something that's probably not spelled out one way or the other in policy anyway, I think I'll just be bold and create the article, with a link to the New York Review of Books etc.; I don't see how it can do any significant harm to do so. By the way, apparently I can create articles on wikisource: maybe that's a feature of having a global username, or maybe they don't require 4 days of autoconfirmation, as English Wikipedia does. If the latter, I take that as encouragement to go ahead. (I've never edited there, but I've had a look at their inclusion criteria and stuff.) ☺Coppertwig(talk) 19:10, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

All righty. Good luck with it. Strangely, although I have contributed to wikisource, I can't find it now! Maybe it was before universal log-in? I can't remember. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:29, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah! Here's the problem. I wasn't in the proper language domain: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Moonriddengirl. Tricky! (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Moonriddengirl) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:34, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of NASALSA

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article NASALSA, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Article doesn't state notability of organization.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Call me Bubba (talk) 20:06, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I have no opinion about that particular article, though I imagine that it's creator might. It's already been deleted once and recreated by him. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

References

Please go to this link. You will notice that I created a reference pile at the top because I don't know where the references are supposed to go. Can you please place the references in the appropriate place on the page? -- IRP ☎ 21:34, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. That wouldn't be too difficult ordinarily, but they probably need to be distributed at various points throughout the page, along with the other cleanup that needs doing: wikification, revising to address tone. This is probably a major overhaul. :) Unless I'm specifically revising the copyright infringement, I tend not to get involved in editing articles that are listed at WP:CP, since I feel like my involvement in these articles should remain neutral. Hopefully, the "cleanup" tag will attract a contributor who will bring it into line with our styleguide. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

HoHoHo

Resident Mario (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Mule Day

Hello. I saw your work at the Sikh extremism, and it caused me to think of another article I have contributed to: Mule Day. I noted that this article had much of a section that appeared to be copied and pasted from http://www.columbiatn.com/muleday.htm. I have rewritten all the text that I can see that appeared to be a potential problem. I have also written to the site asking for permission to use their wording.

If you have time to give it a quick check, I would love another opinion. I would like to suggest a couple of items from the article as possibly "Did You Know" subjects, but I did not want to do that if there was a possible copyright problem. sinneed (talk) 16:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) Thank you very much for checking. You've done a good start, but I'm afraid that there is still some problem. For instance, the article currently says, "Mules were such a big business in Maury County, that at one time, the Columbia Mule Day, then called "Breeder's Day", was one of the largest livestock markets in the world." The source says "Mules were such a big business in Maury County, that at one time, the Columbia Mule Day had the distinction of being one of the largest livestock markets in the world." When we revise to address copyright problems, we need to rewrite the material completely in our own words. As you can see, this remains exactly the same as the original up through the words "Mule Day", and it ends with the same run of words, too. I'll revise it a bit further to address those concerns. If you get permission, so long as it satisfies our legal requirements, we should be able to restore it. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:19, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

I am glad I came to a MUCH more experienced editor. I don't really know that their wording is better than yours and mine... just different. Thanks, and all the best. sinneed (talk) 19:39, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

jazz/Ginger Baker/BBC film directed by Tony Palmer/ Bob Bolt camerman

Many years ago I traveled Nigeria with the above, a film was made and repeated by the BBC on numerous occasions. I would now like to include it in my biography but am not sure of the legalities? Ginger now lives in America I beleive, the last I heard of him was playing with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce ( as in the Cream)at the Royal Albert Hall, London a couple of years ago,but not heard of him since,can you throw any light on the matter? Martin Brook62.164.247.28 (talk) 10:06, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. That sounds like a fabulous experience. :) Since you mention legalities, I'm guessing that you're talking about linking to the film in your biography here? If so, you can do it if the site that hosts the film is legally displaying it. You could not link to it from Youtube, for instance, unless they were hosting it with permission of the copyright holder. Since Ginger Baker: In Africa is commercially distributed, I'd be surprised if it were legally displayed anywhere, although there may be legally displayed trailers or abridgements.

If you're simply interested in mentioning/describing your trip in an existing biography on Wikipedia, that's no problem. We have a couple of guidelines that can be helpful: our conflict of interest guideline explains one of the difficulties people may have in writing about themselves on Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, we try to make sure that our articles are as reliable as possible by only including facts that have already been published. I can imagine it would be frustrating, working on article about yourself, to be told you could not include true details unless you can cite a published source, but unfortunately that's the way it's done. :) If you do add details, please let us know where else we can find them so that our readers can verify them.

If what you'd like to do is summarize the film, you can really only do that in an article about the film or filmmaker, since summary is usable under fair use as part of critical commentary. But you certainly can use it as a source for information where appropriate in an article about you. For example, it would be perfectly proper to say, "Ginger Baker: In Africa detail Martin Brook's travels in Nigeria with Ginger Baker. From 1971 until 19**, Brook....."

If you do not currently have a biography on Wikipedia but would like to create one, I'd suggest you take a look at our guideline on autobiographies to familiarize yourself with some of the problems you can encounter. It's difficult, but not impossible as long as you are mindful particularly of our guidelines on neutrality and original research. The next thing to do is read over our guidelines on biographies and our guidelines on musicians (I'm being presumptive, since I'm unsure what your role was on that trip). Wikipedia makes no presumptions on how important people are, but we have created a standard of inclusion based primarily on how much has been previously published about a person. (Unfortunately, this may mean gaps in our coverage of "unsung" persons, but currently it's the only system we have in place for maintaining some encyclopedic standard.) If you meet those guidelines and can assemble reliable sources to verify that, you might try writing your biography off Wikipedia and posting it at Wikipedia:Articles for creation. This is a forum that is open to unregistered users. Volunteers will evaluate it and, if it meets our guidelines, post it in article space. If not, they'll tell you what's wrong. Another (though slower!) alternative is to list it at requested articles, along with a list of your sources. Since you aren't registered, I'd strongly recommend taking advantage of "Articles for creation." It wasn't really created to help avoid "conflict of interest" issues, but it would serve handily for that purpose here.

If you're talking about including it in a biography off Wikipedia, you are on legally firm legs to document your memories of the event as long as they are your memories. If you'd like to summarize the film in great detail, it would probably be a good idea to contact Eagle Rock Entertainment, who evidently publish the film, to secure permission. The necessity of that may be partially dictated by where you live and write. Since I'm not a copyright lawyer, though, I'd recommend checking with one if you're unsure.

(If you're talking about uploading the film here, that's a more complex matter. We would need explicit permission from the copyright holders, and even if we obtained it, we might not have the resources given the size. If you're interested in uploading the film or any part of it, I would suggest asking about it at our media copyright questions board.

As you can see from the above, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by including it in the biography. :) I've covered all bases that I could think of. If I've missed it or not gone into enough detail, please let me know. I will be traveling for the holidays starting tomorrow, but I will be happy to assist you if I can. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

IP on Elbutler

Hi Moon, the attack on Elbutler is also an IP posting to Talk:Mississippi..number is slighty different but the subject matter is the same and they left a troll post there....fwiw, Cheers,
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 12:52, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I've temporarily blocked, which will at least stop the attacks for a few hours from that ip. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Diana Ross & The Supremes Anothologies

Hi, I noticed you seem to be responbible for the way the 4 Anthologies of the group have been put into a single page. Is there a reason why you did this? I offer to create single entries for each version, seeing as the way they are laid out now is kinda messy and difficult to make sense of, and I'm a great fan... Please reply on my talk page :) thanks Dollvalley (talk) 13:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

As per your request. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:19, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

user Madalibi putting words into my mouth

• • I am protesting against user Madalibi as he is putting his words into my mouth. Quote:But you have to stick to what your sources say: you cannot use scholarly sources that make points "A" ("the Shaanxi population dropped dramatically in the late 19th century as a result not only of famines and epidemics, but also of wars") and "B" ("before 1911, Sun Yat-sen called the Manchus 'barbarians'" [or "Tartar caitiffs" for da lu 韃虜]) to argue for point "C" ("the Manchu barbarians committed genocide against Shaanxi Muslims"). I'm not arguing that "point C is false": I'm saying that point C is your point, not a point you can find in the scholarly literature you are citing. No matter how reliable your sources ae, if you blend them in this way you are making a (forbidden) synthesis of published material which advances a position:Unquoted.

"point "C" ("the Manchu barbarians committed genocide against Shaanxi Muslims"). I'm not arguing that "point C is false": I'm saying that point C is your point" my answer: point C may be my point, but I have drop the issue of 'genocide' many hours ago, he knows I have dropped it because he knows I have changed the names of the article. Why he is accusing me of something that I no longer fighting for? I therefor like to say that he is not saying the truth, and he is fabricating something, and I am disputing all his claims, or accusations, or whatever it is. Arilang ^talk 05:48, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

• cc to User:PBS

I lack context to understand this argument. Since you are already interacting with another administrator on it and this does not seem to be an emergency, it may be better to let him handle it. In general, though, the best point to dispute the claims is at the place where they are made. If the AfD had not been closed, you might make your case there. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:55, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Moonriddengirl. Arilang's complaint is about discussions he and I had on the talk page of the (now deleted) wiki called "Massacres and Atrocities committed by Manchu rulers." After deletion, the content of this wiki has been moved here and the talk page here. The talk page of Genocides in history is also relevant. I agree with Coppertwig that we should not discuss these problems on your talk page. I only wanted to insert a few "missing links" in case you needed them. Thank you for your time! Madalibi (talk) 03:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Arilang.

I agree with Moonriddengirl that the best place to answer is usually the same place that Madalibi said those things. If not there, then a good place to discuss it is on Madalibi's talk page. I suggest taking time to calm down, then putting a gentle, friendly message on Madalibi's talk page explaining how what you really mean is different from what Madalibi said. Please assume good faith: assume that Madalibi is making a mistake, not doing something wrong on purpose. The best way is for you and Madalibi to try to work it out together in a friendly way. I suggest one message to Madalibi, and then I suggest just forgetting about it, unless Madalibi does something like that again. If you like, I can help you find a good way to say it to Madalibi; you can put a draft message on my talk page and I'll help edit it. I'm sorry that sometimes we teachers are causing problems instead of helping!! ☺Coppertwig(talk) 13:48, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, its me again. My answer is on my talkpage. Thanks for your time. Arilang ^talk 21:41, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you and happy new year. Thanks for everything you have done for me in the past months. Arilang ^talk 13:15, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

DJ Sassy Wikipedia page

Hi,

I wanted to discuss with you the Wikipedia page for DJ Sassy, which we have been in contact about a few times this year. Having reviewed the page recently, it seems to me that much of the information is very dated, and does not reflect some changes in Sassy's career this year. Most significantly, Sassy has changed her DJ name to Sassy Pandez, rather than DJ Sassy. There are a number of reasons for this, but most important is the fact that there are a number of other DJs in the world who also refer to themselves as DJ Sassy, and this has been a source of confusion at times. I would therefore like to significantly revise this page, and replace the existing links and references with newer ones I now have that relate specifically to Sassy Pandez.

Removing the older links and references to DJ Sassy will certainly help to avoid future confusion with other DJs, but I would also like to know if it is possible to rename the page itself, from DJ Sassy to Sassy Pandez? If this is not practical, is there another method that can be used? Maybe deleting the DJ Sassy page and creating a new page for Sassy Pandez?

Your comments on the above would be much appreciated. Thanks. AquilaUK (talk) 22:58, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Given your connection to her, you should create new information in a sandbox and seek feedback first, either at WP:COI or from an editor who has contributed to the article in the past. I'd be happy to help. It is certainly possible to move her article to a new name if there is sufficient widespread independent sourcing to verify that the new name is how she is widely known. (see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)) However, while it would be great to update with new information, there's no reason to remove older, reliably sourced material just because she has rebranded herself. We should be able to make that amply clear by the text to help avoid confusing her with other DJs. For example, Steven Demetre Georgiou became famous as Cat Stevens before renaming himself Yusuf Islam. He is still best known as Cat Stevens, and his article is located there. If you look up Yusuf Islam on Wikipedia, though, it will take you to that article, and the article itself sets out the history of his names. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:10, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. Please can you explain how I create a new page in a sandbox? I can't see how to do it. I would agree with you that in an ideal world there would be no problem in leaving all of the old references on the page, and simply making it clear in the article about the name change. However, my experience to date would tend to not support this. Many of our clients do not have English as a first language and do not necessarily understand things which seem clear and obvious. This has caused us some difficulties in the past, since Wikipedia seems to be the second point of reference for a lot of people after Sassy's website. So, any reference to other names just seems to create confusion. If it's ok with you, I'll create the new page for you to review with the new links and references that I have, and we'll see what you think. Hopefully you'll be ok with it, and we can leave it at that. AquilaUK (talk) 01:31, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I've created one for you at User:AquilaUK/sandbox. Feel free to work on your version there, and I'll be happy to offer feedback when you're done. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:35, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for setting up the sandbox for me. I didn't realise it was that easy. I've produced a first draft of a revised page, but want to get some feedback from a few people here before I then ask for your views. I'll get back to you when that's done : shouldn't be more than a day or two I hope. AquilaUK (talk) 17:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I'll be traveling starting the 24th, but should be around until then and would be quite happy to take a look. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I've not yet been able to get the feedback from other people that I was hoping for, and I know that you're travelling starting on 24th, so I would be grateful if you could please have a quick look at the article in my sandbox before Christmas and let me know what you reckon. I hope that you'll be happy with what I've done. I'll look forward to your comments. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. AquilaUK (talk) 23:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. It looks like a good start, but you have omitted some sourced information that is relevant to her notability--for instance, there's no reference to her appearance on Poor Little Rich Girls. We want to give even coverage to the press that she has received throughout her career. That seems to have been a notable appearance. You've also omitted reference to her work with The Sun, and you've cut out the reliable source that references her modeling career. This is a primary source. This secondary source lists various publications by name, which fits better with our verifiability policy. I note, though, that some of the other recent sources you've added, like this one, would also be usable to verify points about her modeling career. This source does not meet our reliable sources requirement. I'm not sure about this one, either. It looks like it's modifiable by the individuals themselves, which would undermine its reliability. Self-published sources (sources by subjects) can be used to add detail, but when it comes to information related to her "notability", they can't. Newspaper articles are really much better for that. By the way, I note that her website is still at http://www.djsassy.com/DJSassyCom.html, which will make it a bit difficult to advance an argument that we need to retitle her to avoid brand confusion. I see in recent press she is more widely referred to as Sassy Pandez, which is helpful, but the top of her website is still labeled "DJ SASSY--Entertainer"?

I'm sorry I have to be rather quick with this. I'm trying to squeeze in quite a lot before leaving. Summary: I think some of your new sources are very good, though some of them may not be usable. There doesn't seem to be good reason to cut out her tv show appearance, since it received coverage. I don't think we can justify the "previously known as" when her own website still calls her DJ Sassy. :) It seems likely that some of your new content can be successfully merged, though we'll want to use the news pieces to source important details, including the history of her modeling, rather than relying on material she has posted on her website. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:52, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Merry Christmas to you, too. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:52, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. We will obviously need to do further work on this to reach a concensus when you are back from your travelling, but I will have a think in detail about your feedback over the Christmas and New Year period.

As a point of clarification, Sassy's new website is sassypandez.com, and we have been running this for several months in parallel with the old website djsassy.com, until sassypandez.com got established in the search engines etc. But as of the New Year, we will be taking djsassy.com off-line, and sassypandez.com will then be her only website. Once that process is complete it will then be much easier to justify re-naming the page to Sassy Pandez instead of DJ Sassy.

I understand that hotfrog.co.uk does not meet your reliable sources requirement, because it can be modified. Although the content of thedjlist.com can also be modified, it is relevant to Sassy's notability, because DJs have to apply to be listed in this directory and will not necessarily be included. When DJs are listed in the directory, users can vote for them, and this generates a ranking score : Sassy is currently ranked in the top 3% of all the international DJs listed.

There will also be more articles about Sassy published in January and February, as part of the promotion for a series of events she's doing in the Far East and Brazil, so this should also generate some useful additional references (assuming that they get posted on the internet of course, and not just printed!).

I hope you have a good break over the festive season, and I look forward to being able to work more with you on this in the New Year.AquilaUK (talk) 20:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

David Weyhe Smith

I've rewritten the article rather extensively and added several citations. I don't believe it constitutes a copyright violation any longer. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:48, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

• I didn't post this article.I removed a speedy tag and immediately set to work improving it. I do not post content with copyright violations - ever.Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:15, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
  • I think I see the confusion. By the time I got to the article, I think I had to recreate it first, as it had already been speedied. Anyway, thank you for your reminder about copyright. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:20, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. Complicated. When recreating an article, the first edit summary should credit the copyright holder(s) if it isn't yourself. If it were an article written by another Wikipedian, the name of the other Wikipedian should be mentioned in the edit summary when recreating the article. In this case, perhaps you weren't aware of the copyright violation when recreating the article.

I've made a further edit to change sentences which in my opinion were too similar to the website, still constituting a potential copyright violation.

Thanks for helping to improve a Wikipedia article. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 16:34, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

thanks and some questions

Hello Moonriddengirl. Thanks for The Invisible Barnstar. I added some more wikilinks to the article Art Christmas. May I ask you some questions about this wikipedia ? After editing here and there a long time, mainly adding interwikilinks, I am now trying now to help more. After editing many articles and asked for some speedy deletions I am wondering about some admin decisions. I asked for speedy deletion of the article Aphasia (Song) (now redirect) as it is a copy of a now wikified one (Aphasia (Instrumental)), but instead of a deletion the article was modified to a redirect. Apart from the fact that the best lemma (is this here the common word for the title of an article ?) is perhaps Aphasia (song) I do not understand this decision. Another one is the redirect Anne Enright - Taking Pictures. I asked for speedy deletion after moving this article, but it was declined. Knowing the german wikipedia better and comparing this wikipedia with the german one, I am wondering that here will be wrong lemmas kept. Is it an intention of this wikipedia keeping redirects which will not be used and are totally wrong lemmas ? I wish you a merry christmas. --Ilion2 (talk) 21:06, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

One more question. Do you know a good category for articles like Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency)/2004-election ? Thanks. --Ilion2 (talk) 21:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) I don't know why User:Jclemens chose to redirect it instead of deleting it or perhaps even redirecting the other. If you asked him in a friendly way, I'll bet he'd be happy to explain, especially if you tell him that you're trying to get a better grasp on speedy deletion practices. Since the song was a duplicate, WP:CSD#G6 would have been a valid criterion, but J might not have felt like it was necessary. (Never heard the term lemma before. :)) We do tend to have a perspective around here that "redirects are cheap", so he might have thought it was just as well to redirect to the other to prevent a new article being inadvertently created. (This is one of the reasons listed at Wikipedia:R#KEEP that it might be good to keep a redirect.) (I tend to agree that the "song" disambiguation title would be better. Perhaps we should swap them out.) As for the other article, it's possible that User:Jac16888 redirected rather than deleting so that the contributor who originally placed the text would be able to find it. The contributor does not seem experienced enough to necessarily figure it out, otherwise.

Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency)/2004-election doesn't need categories and probably should be deleted. It's not an article, but a subpage of Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency), with redundant information. As Wikipedia:Subpages#Disallowed_uses notes, we don't do that in article space. I'll investigate further. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for quick response. Hm, are you sure that Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency)/2004-election was redundant to Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency) ? I can not control this anymore, but will give you another example (there a some more like this). Arunachal West (Lok Sabha constituency)/2004-election is a subpage of Arunachal West (Lok Sabha constituency), but not redudant as it serves as a template in Arunachal West (Lok Sabha constituency). I think this was the same for Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency)/2004-election. So we either should insert this templates in the main articles or should categorise them. Lemma is in german wikipedia the common word for the page title. I think I should use here title or page title instead :-) --Ilion2 (talk) 21:37, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

You're right that it wasn't redundant. Once I looked at it more in depth, I realized how it was being used. I've already put the template in the main article and addressed at the contributor's talk page. I'll have to look at the other you link. I'm perplexed that these were put into article subspace. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:38, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

This makes only sense when the subpage will be often changed, which looks not usual for me for election datas. Perhaps you should ask User:VasuVR as I am not very familiar with this wikipedia. Interesting is his edit summary in [7]. Here [8] you will find a lot more of this. --Ilion2 (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Eeps. It seems there may be quite a few of these! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:12, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Best wishes for the season

Ecoleetage (talk) wishes you peace!

Spread peace and goodwill by adding {{subst:WikiPeace}} to other's talk pages with a friendly message.

Thank you very much! And to you. I have spread peace and good will at your suggestion! (LOL) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:23, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

What happens when...

...an editor creates an article by copy-pasting from other articles, using the edit summary "created article per requested articles. other than first two sentences, the article simply combines many other articles. i don't know enough about canada to write any more"?

Note this is not a dispute, I just notified the editor that I don't think they're compliant with GFDL and they asked for clarification. I've made a (probably botched) analysis of the GFDL license for them and they could probably use some clarity after my garbly-text. Discussion is here, thanks for any help you can give!

On a tangential note (because the editor has decidedly not plagiarised), have you seen WP:Plagiarism? It would be nice to slap that into guideline shape, and it's partly intertwined with GFDL issues, i.e. copy-paste editing. Regards! Franamax (talk) 01:19, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Almost missed this one! Masked by a subsequent note. :) I'll head over and weigh in. I have seen that guideline proposal! I recently linked to it on my userpage. I'm getting ready to travel for the holidays, but I'd be happy to help get it into guideline shape. We could really use it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 03:21, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

When creating an article, one should state in the edit summary who the copyright holders/writers are, or state where to find that information e.g. on the talk page or in the edit history of a particular other article, if one didn't write the material oneself. If this isn't done in the first edit summary, it's harder to ensure that it's brought to the attention of whoever might be looking for that information. In that case, a later edit summary (as early as possible in the edit history) and a note on the talk page can help. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 13:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) Franamax suggested as much to the contributor at his talk page. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:58, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Hey, no problem. Merry Christmas to you too! (only 27 hours to go..... only 27 hours to go....) ;) Thingg^⊕⊗ 01:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy holidays

Have a good one and best wishes for a great 2009. BTW, noted your comments at Stifle's talk too. Thank you and Enjoy. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 14:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. :) Happy Holidays to you, too! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Art Christmas

User:Artxmas is preventing the page from properly being wikified by continually restyling it in his own way, such as removing the reference tags, and simply deleting the reference pile and not placing the references in the correct place. After that, he just created a pile of links at the bottom, without any reference tags. I had to undo a couple of his edits. -- IRP ☎ 14:18, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. :) From what he has said to me in e-mail, he is an elderly man who is probably unfamiliar with "wiki" environments. I'm not sure he originally understood that this is different from a personal website, in that others have a say in how information is presented. My suggestion would be to restore what you feel is necessary and just to leave him a brief note of explanation, at his talk page or the article's talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hah!  :) Thanks and Happy Holidays. :)

I'll continue to try to throw sand and water onto the edit war fires, though written flammables were very temping a couple of times. :)
Thanks for guarding the copyright thing.
On that subject... nevermind just joking. :)sinneed (talk) 14:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Hello Moonriddengirl! I just wanted to wish you and your family a merry Christmas! May this Christmas be full of great cheer and holiday spirit. Have a great day and a wonderful New Year, from The Bald One ^{White cat} 11:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Moonriddengirl! Happy editing, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

A special message, just for you! → → → →

Happy holidays, girlie!!

May your holidays be filled with family, friends, and fun, and may the new year bring you much joy. Ariel♥Gold 21:14, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

As with many designs on Wikipedia, this one was of course, inspired by the wonderfully talented Phaedriel, the "design Obi Wan".

nakshatra pages which were deleted

Yes I agree the content which i have put for some of the nakshatra pages like rohini/ardra/uttarashada were from other websites. Iam a first time user of wikipedia & I was trying to consolidate nakshatra information from internet,which i had found useful ,into wikipedia. Sorry for the inconvenience caused due to copyright issues.

Shiva321 (talk) 17:01, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

(I can answer this, since Moonriddengirl is away for a few days.) That's OK! We encourage new users to be bold and go ahead and edit even if you're not sure what all the rules are. If what you do isn't perfect, someone else will fix it. As you spend more time on Wikipedia there's more of an expectation that you'll become familiar with the policies and guidelines.

You might want to try again, summarizing key information from those websites in your own words and putting links to the websites, for example in a "references" section, so that readers can get the full details from the websites themselves. I can help you with formatting the references. Feel free to ask me with a message on my talk page if you have any questions about how to edit Wikipedia. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 16:18, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Shiva321. Thank you for your note. Coppertwig has given an excellent response to it, and I second his suggestions. :) We certainly welcome your addition of useful information to the articles, though we do need to add the material in respect of US copyright law, which governs Wikipedia. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:40, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Best practice: Page moving

I tripped over a situation where a redirect needs to be swapped with the "real" page. I would like to make The_Palm_Springs_Desert_Museum the redirect (or just delete it) and make Palm_Springs_Desert_Museum the "real" page...for naming convention reasons. I have already fixed all pages that link to the "The" page. I assume that the "move" function that I have available will not work for this; is this the kind of thing that only an admin can move? I wanted to ask before I made the request. -- Mjquin_id (talk) 17:54, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

I think you can do this, since I believe anyone can overwrite an article that has only ever been a redirect, but I'll go ahead and do it since I'm here. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:07, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back!

Welcome back, Moonriddengirl, and a belated Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year with peace, freedom and justice. ☺Coppertwig(talk) 00:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks to you and your towering Christmas Spirit. :) And thanks for keeping an eye on things here for me while I was gone. I appreciate it. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

You're very welcome! ☺Coppertwig(talk) 01:32, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

re: Copyright concerns; tagging

Thanks for the tip. I had a feeling something wasn't right when I used the tag. Not sure why I didn't just use WP:TW since I have it. But again, thanks for the help. :) –  LATICS  talk  03:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Hynes Convention Center

Hi. :) I see you've tagged this as a suspected copyright violation. I'm an admin who volunteers at CP (mostly the only admin currently volunteering at CP), and I don't have access to this book, which makes it difficult for me to process this one. :) Since you're an admin, though, you could obviously process it yourself as you evidently do have access to that source. Would you mind? Unless you want to find a pre-infringement edit and selectively delete all subsequent, you can simply remove the copyvio. I have a "warning" I put on talk pages when I do that to help guard against restoration of the material. If you'd like to use it, please feel free. It's at User:Moonriddengirl/cclean. You'd need to tweak it a bit, since there's not a URL to use. :) Anyway, I'll be watching your talk page and hope that you'll be able to help out with this one, since I might find it difficult to find an admin who can access this material. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:07, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't have this book; the reason I think text in the article is lifted from the book is that one of the other contributors wrapped several paragraphs in 'Howie Carr states, "..."'. -- Beland (talk) 15:46, 30 December 2008 (UTC)