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Thank you for flagging the copyright violation. I agree with the removal. However, there was other content that was removed that did not come from the website you flagged. This included infobox additions, a new section, and other text in the introduction not related to the vision/mission paragraphs.

I have reintroduced these elements onto the page. I will leave mission/vision absent.

COI on my profile. Happy to add elsewhere if needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reece_at_CIMSPA

While it may not seem like the right thing to do, it is convention, when identifying a copyright issue, to do a rollback, which sometimes picks up other copyright issues and sometimes picks up inrelated,a nd non-problematic issues. You are always welcome to restore the non-copyright issue edits.

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Ame ★ (talk) 21:52, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!
I've been much less active for the last couple years but posts like this inspire me to try to do better. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:57, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
youre welcome!! I'm glad they inspire you 😸❤️ Ame ★ (talk) 16:37, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Sphilbrick

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It's a joy to see your username back on the CopyPatrol list! DanCherek (talk) 04:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! S Philbrick(Talk) 12:07, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:2010 Albert Lea tornado

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Just to let you know, the "all-caps" material was from the National Weather Service (see source linked at bottom), I was rewriting it, since an exact copy of the NWS isn't very encyclopedic. Source is in the public domain, as well. :) EF5 14:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am aware that the material comes from NOAA which is public domain, but it still needs to be attributed, and unless there is a very good reason , all-caps isn't acceptable. S Philbrick(Talk) 15:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's just how they write (see the source). I guess I should have cited it, but I don't have a tool that just "de-caps" everything. Anyways, that's off the point. Since the device I write with is too smll to comfortably do the "double-window" thing with, I just paste the PD material (whether it's caps or not) into the draft, rewrite it, and then delete it. EF5 15:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft: Daniel P. McCoy

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You deleted my draft for Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy's page due to "Copyright Infringement" can you please explain the error so I can remedy it? I am new to Wikipedia so I understand that I may have formatted it wrong. However, please be aware that I am a representative of his office and have permission to use his official bio and photos from our website. Kevin.albany (talk) 14:22, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is not a question of format.
The issue is that this page: Dan McCoy bio is fully copyrighted unless acceptably licensed for use in Wikipedia.
You almost certainly other person you claim to be but we don't know that officially, and we can't take you word for it.
There is a process for providing a license for that site so that it can be used by Wikipedia.
There is a link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
See WP:COI
For going that route, please be aware that if you are a representative of his office then you have a conflict of interest issue and should not be editing a page about him.
Sorry for the bureaucracy but it's necessary.
Here's a link to a page specifically designed for new editors to ask questions. Wikipedia:Teahouse
I urge you to post there, explain your position relative to Daniel McCoy, and I am fairly certain you will get advice that discourages you from writing such an article. That's without even addressing the question of copyright. S Philbrick(Talk) 15:59, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Tom D. O'Malley - draft versus sanbox

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Hello Sphilbrick - I have a quick question regarding the best location on wiki to develop draft articles.

Background: I am developing what will be a very comprehensive article on Tom O'Malley (the founder of the modern independent refining industry). I grabbed parts of a relatively weak (and 25-year-old stale article from Encyclopedia.com) as a starting framework. My article will be 5-10x as long as the starting point and probably have >100 references. However, while it was sitting in draft mode (for literally minutes) without being submitted under AfC, and without its citations, a bot picked up the similarity with encyclopedia.com (which surprised me given that it was a draft as patrolling drafts seems a bit odd). I then cut the text out and put it into my sandbox - leaving the draft space empty but did not delete the draft shell as I plan to repopulate when the article is more mature.

The sandbox does not appear to be bot-patrolled (please disabuse me if this is wrong).

I have run into similar issues when I bring in a large new article from MS Word all at once and save before the citations have been completed (in draft mode). Should all of this work be done in the sandbox versus the draft space? This seems a bit counterintuitive to me. thank you

here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Tom_D._O%27Malley

Refineryguycanada (talk) 18:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the sandbox is patrolled. It must be as I occasionally see it pop up in the notifications of potential copyright issues. Neither the draft space nor the sandbox are acceptable places for starting articles if your approach is to bring in copyrighted information and then clean it up. While I personally think that's never a desirable editing approach, I get that sometimes people do it that way. If you choose to work that way, it must be done off-line.
Material in draft space and in sandbox space doesn't have to fully meet final editing standards such as formatting or even complete citations, but it can never ever have copyrighted text other than the obvious exceptions (short excerpts as block quotes or within quotation marks) S Philbrick(Talk) 20:35, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok - thanks for the heads up. Refineryguycanada (talk) 17:43, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please revert the deletion of draft article at Draft:The-Corruption-of-economics and let me delete the the copyright offensive material. This is going to be my first article.

I did not realise that a public description of a book on Amazon is subject to copyright.

Thank you,

Janos Abel Janosabel (talk) 21:31, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With rare exceptions, everything you add to an article should be in your own words. Some of the exceptions include short quotes with the material is in a block quote or marked with quote marks and attributed. Other exceptions include public domain text which is properly attributed. My guess is some people are confused with the term public domain and think that things found in public websites constitute public domain. If that's your assumption it is quite incorrect.
My recollection is that there was not much of value beyond the copyrighted material in the draft article I deleted so I'm declining to restore it. S Philbrick(Talk) 22:02, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the explanation.
So is there no way to write an article now for that book?
Harsh regime to enforce. I was not allowed to correct an error due to misunderstanding or insufficient competency.
There is plenty of value and noteworthiness I can put into that article during the weeks to come. Janosabel (talk) 23:03, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I decided to take a second look on the chance that I misremembered the contents. Here's the entire contents of the article excluding the copyrighted portion:
A book by Fred Harrison and Mason Gaffney edition published in 2023 by Shepheard-Walwyn. S Philbrick(Talk) 00:11, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for this second chance. Teaches me to be more careful about rules. Janosabel (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting undeletion

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Dear Sir, I noticed that my recent article Draft:Krishna Hari Pushkar was speedily deleted due to copyright infringement. I sincerely apologize for this oversight and kindly request you to consider restoring the article temporarily, so I can remove the infringing content and improve it in compliance with Wikipedia's guidelines.

Thank you for your time and understanding. Gauravs 51 (talk) 14:27, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that's not an option. I can and did email you the contents although it was unbelievably painful due to the convoluted history of this article S Philbrick(Talk) 14:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sir, can I rewrite and rectify my mistakes ? @Sphilbrick Gauravs 51 (talk) 14:49, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. I sent the contents of the deleted draft to you by email. S Philbrick(Talk) 15:29, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Many Thanks !! Gauravs 51 (talk) 15:35, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Pape

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As a new wikipedia editor, I am guaranteed to mess up, and I would appreciate some advise on adding information and sources to stubs or any article as I am not sure what is against the copyright rules. On the Lake Pape article you reversed my additions but I am not sure why it broke copyright rules, thank you for understanding my good intentions. BigBlobfish (talk) 00:01, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for asking so politely. I'm sure it can be jarring when you're trying to make good faith improvements to an article and find they been removed.
Look at your first sentence of the biodiversity section:
Lake Pape is rich in organic matter and is classed as a mesotrophic lake on the Trophic state index.
Now check out this site and look at the first sentence of the biodiversity section:
Lake Pape is rich in organic matter - a mesotrophic lake.
That sentence is a close call, and had it simply been that sentence I would've let it go. However, look at your second sentence:
There are sharp-leaf plants growing on the shores and bays of the lake.
And now the second sentence of the site:
There are sharp-leaf plants growing on the shores and bays of the lake.
There are several additional sentences, some identical, some close paraphrases.
The next issue is whether the source issue is acceptably licensed so that it could be used (with attribution course)
Many sites include a footer with the copyright status of the site. In this case, there is no such indication at the bottom of the page, nor is there at the bottom of the main page. Occasionally, I will run across editors who think the absence of a copyright statement means there is no copyright. While that was true many decades ago, the law was changed and the default assumption is that material is subject to full copyright even if there is no particular notice. There are some exceptions such as material created by US federal employees in the course of their employment, but that doesn't apply here.
The site appears to be associated with the country Latvia. While I have not memorized the copyright laws in every country, many countries are part of the Berne Convention. Latvia has been a signatory since 1995. See also Latvia The Berne Convention states that material is automatically subject to copyright as opposed to requiring a specific indication. (This is a casual summary. ) If you have information suggesting that this site is public domain, please let me know. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:26, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for such a kind response. But does this mean I can't use the information from the site or does this mean I just have to write in my own words? BigBlobfish (talk) 13:39, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can use the information, in fact you should use it as a reference, but you should write it in your own words. I urge you to read close paraphrase. Some editors were under the impression that as long as they change a few words here and there will not be an exact copy which is correct, the key issue is whether it's essentially the same thing. This can be tricky as your goal is to make the same point. Good practice is not to copy a sentence and then try to change it, but read the whole site and ideally some other relevant site, and then write your own summary. When done, take a look at the original source on the chance your memory is so good you managed to largely reproduce it. Good luck, and thanks for your interest in contributing. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:44, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for the assistance and support! BigBlobfish (talk) 13:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point of contributing?

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I just edited Bedinvetmab to add the MOA which is missing. I pulled the info from the manufacturers prescribing information - i.e. the primary source and my edit was removed because of copyright violations? This is my first contribution to Wikipedia and based on this experience likely my last. Diegoarey (talk) 17:58, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you will reconsider.
The early edits of many new contributors arise because they read an article, realize some important information is missing, go out and find that information and add that information copying and pasting from the original source, not realizing that this is almost always a violation of copyright policy.
Contributing to Wikipedia is a little bit harder than some realize, because it means you have to write the information in your own words (with some rare exceptions such as identified short quotes, and material from some public domain sources.)
We want material added to Wikipedia articles to be reliable and while it might seem obvious that the words written by the actual manufacturer would be the best source, that's not necessarily the case. Manufacturers have a potential conflict of interest. One hopes they write factually and unbiased but one can't be sure, which is why we like to support additions to articles with citations to reliable sources that is places that have a reputation for being unbiased.
You asked about the point of contributing. The point is that when done correctly, Wikipedia can serve as a source of information which is as free of bias is we as a community can manage. All done by volunteers and free to the public. S Philbrick(Talk) 18:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Makes sense on one hand, on the other hand, if the point is to fact check because "while it might seem obvious that the words written by the actual manufacturer would be the best source, that's not necessarily the case. Manufacturers have a potential conflict of interest." then I would have expected the community to edit what I wrote if it's factually incorrect rather than delete it. Diegoarey (talk) 18:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are two issues which relate to two of the five pillers of Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Five_pillars
The second pillar:
Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
Is why we have concerns about accepting material from the manufacturer without question. That's why we push for "citations based on reliable sources" in sources with a conflict of interest which aren't viewed as reliable. That doesn't totally exclude the use of information from a manufacturer. For example a statement such as "according to the manufacturer, lorem Ipsum..." Might be acceptable if it's clear that the words are not in Wikipedia's voice and should be taken with a grain of salt.
The second issue relates to the third pillar:
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute
That means we need to "respect copyright laws and never plagiarize from any sources". S Philbrick(Talk) 18:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copy of an article

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could you provide a copie of the article Reign of Righteousness Kharavela Deva (talk) 13:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sent to your email address S Philbrick(Talk) 13:50, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not visible. Regards,Ved Sharma (talk) 11:08, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What does that mean? S Philbrick(Talk) 13:02, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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