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	== Orashmatash ==

	Hi there. I have requested rollback rights, and nobody has made a decision based on my reasons for requesting rollback rights. Would you mind making the decision please? If so, please click ]. Thanks. ] (]) 21:12, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

			If you are coming to open a discussion with me because I reverted an edit of yours as a copyright issue, please make sure your post includes a link to the article in question - not just the name of the article, a link. Then read the following:
	== Thank you. The ] fix you did looks great ==

			I typically use an edit summary with "copyright issue re ''URL''", or "cv ''URL''". The URL identifies source material that matches your edit too closely.
	Many thanks, Sphilbrick, on the cleanup on the ] page. The page looks great.

			'''Copy Within Misplaced Pages'''
	== Thank you for your input ==
			If you added material to an article which came from an existing article in Misplaced Pages, it is highly likely that this will be flagged as a potential copyright violation in our CopyPatrol software.

			If you followed the best practices at ], you left an edit summary indicating the source, I will mark it as acceptable, and you are probably not reading this message. On the other hand, if you did not identify what you did in an edit summary, then I probably reverted the edit. However, the indicated source URL will not be the Misplaced Pages article, it will be be some site that copied from Misplaced Pages. (As a technical point, this is not a false positive because failing to follow best practices means that the attribution requirements have not been followed.) If the edit has been revision deleted, let me know so I can reverse it and you can provide the proper attribution. If it was not revision deleted but simply reverted, feel free to undo my revert, explaining carefully in the edit summary why you are doing so and add the proper attribution.
	Thank you very much for your input. I was trying to write an Article about a surgery and I needed a link to different types of bone grafts. Thanks again. Your pal
	- ] - ] 20:12, October 7 2009(UTC)

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	== Please consider signing this proposal ==
			There are other reasons why your edit may have been reverted in error. I do a lot of reviews of flagged issues. In 1 to 2% of the cases, I do make a mistake and I'm happy to rectify it. Some sources of errors:
			* Source page which has a full copyright notice at the bottom of the page but material within the page is properly licensed. Sometimes that license is buried in the page and sometimes on a separate page.
			* Source material that is public domain but not clearly identified as such.
			* Source material that is properly licensed but I somehow failed to notice the license
			In any of these cases, politely let me know and I will remedy this situation as quickly as possible.}}

			== April editathons at Women in Red ==
	Hi SPhilbrick, a number of editors have been working on a proposal regarding the renaming of the ] and they are now in the process of working with people individually to try and garner support for this proposal. I've reviewed their proposal and have decided to lend my support and signed my signature. Can you please review and if you are willing to support and defend it please add your name to the list of signatories. If you have comments or concerns regarding the proposal please feel free to discuss them . The goal of this effort is to find a name that everyone can live with and to make that name stick by having a strong show of unified support for it moving forward. Thanks. ] (])

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			== Copyright violations on Chartered Institutes for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity ==
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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.
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			I have reintroduced these elements onto the page. I will leave mission/vision absent.
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			COI on my profile. Happy to add elsewhere if needed.
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			: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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	you kindly removed the article: Life Guru - Discovery Health Channel, sighting the reason notability.
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	Whose notability are you refering to as an excuse for removal?
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	How about a call to Discovery health UK, or to one of the near million viewers that watched it?
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	thank you <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 05:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
			* The Arbitration Committee ] the following administrators to the ]: {{noping\|Bilby}}, {{noping\|Extraordinary Writ}}
	:Are you ]? I'll be happy to provide more information, including how to recover the draft article so it can be improved, but I'd like to make sure you are watching. (If you don't sign in using your user ID, I cannot be sure who just posted; I'm only guessing.)--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 12:49, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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	That all seems to be working great. Thanks ever so much ] (]) 16:40, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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	I wasn't quite sure it fit that specific criteria, but I should have checked first. So sorry about that. I would prefer to use an Afd nomination, but again, it's hard to classify the article in any of the categories provided. ] (]) 18:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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	::All right then, I've just opened a deletion discussion ]. I decided to list it under "Society topics", as that seems to apply here, even if it doesn't (in my own opinion) fall under any specific category as an article. ] (]) 18:28, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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	:::: I wrote up a deletion reason, but looks like I'm too late.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 19:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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	Hi, I've noticed you've been deleting quite a few articles proposed for deletion, but you seem to be deleting them before they've had their seven days. They shouldn't be deleted (unless, of course, they're eligible for speedy, in which case one should select the relevant criterion) until at least seven days after the time they were proposed for deletion in UTC. For example, ] was tagged at 07:14 (UTC), 7 December 2010, which means it shouldn't be deleted until 07:14 (UTC) on the 14th, which is about 5 and a half hours from now. ] \| ] 01:56, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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	I see that you deleted a former member of the Manitoba parliament under an CSD:A7. I've never seen that before - for unsuccessful candidates, maybe, but not for elected politicians. if you were concerned about it being a long term unreferenced BLP, well that isn't a csd criteria yet and we are ] on the backlog. Please reconsider what A7 should really be used for - it seems that the ] was a bit overly enthusiastic. Regards] (]) 09:20, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
	:Fair enough. I don't think we should have unreferenced bios, but that isn't yet the current policy (regarding old bios).I'll restore it.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 20:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
	::Thanks, can you please undelete the talk page too. Regards, ] (]) 14:30, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
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	I was going to make it 'notable'. ] (]) 19:21, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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	Hi Sphilbrick. Based on the info on your user page, I am assuming you can help with my query. I was reading the article ] and noticed that 'storey' (meaning a floor in a building) was spelt without an 'e'. I was about to correct this when I noticed the article was written in American English (neighbor not neighbour). Is 'story' a spelling mistake or not? Also is there any quick way to correct multiple spelling errors or do I have to painstakingly correct each one? Regards--] (]) 10:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
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	:"Story" is the American English spelling. I'm familiar with many English/Am English differences, but this is one I hadn't known. Is it "storey" in British English? If so that would explain something, because I was involved in editing a bio in which the person's last name was "Storey".
	:If you need to make multiple changes, there's an option in user preferences to add an editing toolbar. I think that has the ability make multiple changes at once. I say I think, because I'm in IE at the moment, where it isn't available, so I can't tell you exactly how it works. I will be home Friday, if my cryptic comment isn't sufficient, ask again and I'll give you more details.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 18:47, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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	::Thanks for clearing that up. I too was not aware of that difference between our two languages. In British English 'story' is a narrative whereas 'storey' is the space between floors. Surnames are typically Storrie or Storey but as with all names, the owner decides the spelling. Yours--] (]) 23:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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	Good morning, SPhilbrick: I last got a message from you on 12/8, when you said you would try to check out my changes to the article on Howard M. Guttman. Have you had a chance to do that? If not, when do you think you will be able to? Thank you, Dale Corey ] (]) 14:42, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
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	I understand. Thank you, Dale <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 16:08, 16 December 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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	: I've worked on cleaning it up a bit. Still mulling over whether it is ready, as it still sounds overly promotional. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 18:58, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
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	:: You do have some. The Leadership Excellence reference is third party, but it is a blog. Blogs are disallowed in some instance,s allowed in others, but rarely considered high quality references. I didn't check out the Harvard Management interview, but it should qualify. However, one quality source may not be good enough.
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	Hi , i am mailing you regarding deletion of my article about Mr Harshad Gune. It was tagged because it said does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia.

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	Well i would like to say that Mr Harshad Gune is one of the board members of Open Source Initiative which has wikiepdia page. Here is the link ] and all the board members who are listed there have a wiki page about them . Hence i went ahead and created a wiki page for Mr. Harshad Gune.
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	So please let me know whether wiki article about Mr Harshad Gune would be accepted or not, so that i can again write a wiki page about him accordingly.
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	Would the "Ecological Urbanism" article be ok now? Thanks for your help!!! <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 17:36, 22 December 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	:Much better. Still could use some work, but you've addressed the copyright issue.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 17:57, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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	Thank you very much for your feedback on Yoxi. I read the guidelines, and made the post as factual as I could, shortening it as much as possible, and adding as many hyperlinks in the method described on Wiki. Please let me know if this meets with your (and Misplaced Pages's) approval. And thank you for bearing with me, this being my forst post onto Misplaced Pages. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 03:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	: Sorry, but I'm not finding it. I create a page for you at ], but you haven't edit there, and I see no other evidence of edits.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 16:17, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
	::Oh wait, now I see it. You didn't take my advice. I did it for you. It has along way to go. but I placed it in a location less likely to get deleted so quickly ].--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 16:22, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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	I went ahead and read (many times) the reference info page and while I feel I'm close I still can't seem to get it right. I edited the page in the area you created: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ballark/Yoxi -- can you have a look and let me know where I may have slipped. I used the codes they told me to, so I'm perplexed as to what is the hold up. I also trimmed the post way down to be very bare bones. Can you please send me any feedback you may have? Thanks a million for all you guidance.
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			It's a joy to see your username back on the CopyPatrol list! ] (]) 04:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
	It appears that both my NANOCOAT wikipedia page and my username (IPM2) have been deleted by your patrol;

			:Thanks! ]] 12:07, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
	1: Copyright infringement that is mentioned to justify NANOCOAT Text deletion refers to my own original text that can be found of course in several websites, including CORDIS from the European Commission who funds this project that I coordinate, and other sites that have copied this abstract for their own database (as BIOINFOBANK); should I ask for a copyright of my own original text !!?? I have also added the website links of the companies involved in the project as partners, if this is not allowed of course I can delete these links!

			== Draft:2010 Albert Lea tornado ==
	2: Username IPM2 is the acronym of my company name: International Project Management, Plating & Materials, the NANOCOAT project coordinator; if I should use my own name (Pascal NEGRE) no problem, just let me know !

			Just to let you know, the "all-caps" material was from the ] (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. :) ]<sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup> 14:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
	Thanks to help me reactivate this page, as the European Commission herself wants us to disseminate about this project and its future technical outcomes, through media such as your Misplaced Pages !!

			: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. ]] 15:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
	Best regards
			::Well, that's just how they write (see ). 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. ]<sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup> 15:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

			== Draft: Daniel P. McCoy ==
	Pascal NEGRE
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	: I see that another admin blocked IPM@ as a user name. This is because we do not allow promotional usernames. See ]. You are encouraged to register another name.

			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 Misplaced Pages 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. ] (]) 14:22, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
	: Nanocoat was deleted because it was a copyright violation. You might find it odd that we would delete material you have written but the policy does make sense.

			:It is not a question of format.
	: First, some people are under the mistaken impression that one can give permission for material to be used only by Misplaced Pages. This isn't the case. Once text is added to Misplaced Pages (and not deleted as a copyright violation) it can be used by anyone (with proper attribution). It can be used anywhere, for education use, or to make a buck, and you no longer have the ability to stop them from using the material. In an extreme situation, if you were writing the text on a contract, expecting to be paid, you might find that the client can simply copy the text from Misplaced Pages, and not have to pay you. So one of the reasons we are careful is for your protection. Even if that isn't an issue, you might not have the authority to grant a license to Misplaced Pages. I've written papers for journals, and I have to ask permission to quote myself. If you write text for another entity, you may well have given them the copyright. You cannot then use that same text in Misplaced Pages without getting their permission. I don't know what exact arrangement exists between you and the organization that published the material, but we start with the assumption that the organization controls the copyright, and you have to provide us with evidence of permission if you wish to use it in Misplaced Pages.
			:The issue is that this page: is fully copyrighted unless acceptably licensed for use in Misplaced Pages.
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			: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.
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			: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. ]] 15:59, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

			== Draft:Tom D. O'Malley - draft versus sanbox ==
	: It may be that an article on Nanocoat is appropriate for Misplaced Pages (but it is of no interest to us that the European Commission wants such an article. Misplaced Pages is the sole judge of what belongs on Misplaced Pages. If you'd like to try again, I suggest you create a new user name, then start an article in a user subpage (let me know if you want to know how to do that.) If you want to use words existing in another site, or a close paraphrase of those words, we have to arrange for permission. It would be easier if the context was rewritten, but if you want to use a close paraphrasing, let me know and I'll let you know what steps are required.

			Hello Sphilbrick - I have a quick question regarding the best location on wiki to develop draft articles.
	: For an article to survive, it will have to show evidence of ], substantial coverage in reliable sources independent of you and the project. Hope this helps, please ask if you have any additional questions.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 16:11, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

			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.
	== Thanks =) ==

			The sandbox does not appear to be bot-patrolled (please disabuse me if this is wrong).
	Thanks for replying so quickly to my question! ] (]) 15:03, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

			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
	== Dale ==

			here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Tom_D._O%27Malley
	Thanks for the detailed comments. I will go back to the drawing board and try to incorporate them. I hope you have a very happy holiday! Dale ] (]) 15:29, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

			] (]) 18:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
	== Yoxi ==

			: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.
	Sphilbrick, saw your re-post of Yoxi. But you said it still has "a long way to go"--can you elaborate? It was flagged first for being promotional--but then I trimmed it to being strictly factual. Then it was flagged for being not notable, yet I included hyperlinks to stories in Slashfood, Mashable and TheSan Francisco Chronicle. GOOD magazine is a content partner. Our first competition featured three very well known judges. What am I missing? Thank you again for your help and for your patience.
			: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) ]] 20:35, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
			::Ok - thanks for the heads up. ] (]) 17:43, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

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	:Every one of your references was a bare link, not formed as a proper reference. See]. (I trust you see I have saved your content, and moved it to a place where you can work on it in peace?) By the way, "factual" is not the opposite of "promotional". An article can be 100% facts, and still not qualify, if it is judged that the main point of the article is to promote something, rather than serve as a neutral summary of what independent sources say about the subject.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 20:23, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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	Hi I created that article about Jeanne DiFrancesco last week and the article got deleted. It was about my boss and she wanted to me to make it for her. I didn't know what I did wrong. Let me know what I need to do that will make it easier for the future. {{unsigned\|Mes5285 }}
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	Thanks for your feedback on my G4 nomination of this article. I have now moved it to AFD. ] (])
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	I am working on all my articles, but as you know most wiki contributors come here on their free time. I don't have time to participate in an AFD discussion, I can however beef up secondary references for all the articles. The problem with secondary references is that they lack the information needed to be referenced, for example ] and ] are strong secondary references but they won't have the release date. If you are more active i'd appreacide you discussing for me in the afd while I expand my articles in a more wikifiable way. It is very demotivating working on something which might get deleted.

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	Hi, i've posted texts taken from from www.indianmedicine.nic.in (http://indianmedicine.nic.in/index2.asp?slid=143&sublinkid=82&lang=1)about sowa rigpa. this website is free of copyright view the copyright policy here (http://indianmedicine.nic.in/index1.asp?lang=1&linkid=6&lid=24).
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	== ~~That~~ ~~was~~ ~~fast!~~ ==		== Deleted without courtesy warning. ==

			Please revert the deletion of draft article at ] and let me delete the the copyright offensive material. This is going to be my first article.
	Thanks for the U1 deletes. ] (]) 18:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
	:No problem. I got an iPad for Christmas, I leave it on my desk when working at home, and find it easy to delete U1s. For most deletes, I want to check to see that the editor has been notified; with a U1 it is easy, so i can do it on the IPad quickly.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 18:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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

			Thank you,
	== iPad ==

			Janos Abel ] (]) 21:31, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
	Congrats on the iPad. How do you like it so far? I love mine, but the bandwidth runs out too quickly. ] (]) 18:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
	:I'm happy with it so far, but haven't done a lot with it. I'm reading a book on it, and using it to supplement my WP work. It's nice for multi-tasking; sitting on the couch, half watching TV and catching up on email or checking something out. I haven't taken it out of the house yet, so haven't had a chance to see how it works off my network. I did try to access one of my maps in Google, and it failed, so I'm disappointed in that, although maybe I'm doing something wrong. Nice screen image, but haven't used it for a movie yet. BTW, Happy New Year.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 18:54, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

			: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.
	::Happy new year to you, too. Yeah, I love being able to sit on the couch and surf the internet on decent sized screen. BTW, I don't know if you're into classic gaming, but this accessory is pretty cool. ] (]) 17:50, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
			: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. ]] 22:02, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
			::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. ] (]) 23:03, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
			:::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.'' ]] 00:11, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
			::::Thank you for this second chance. Teaches me to be more careful about rules. ] (]) 17:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

	== ] ==		== Requesting undeletion ==

			''Dear Sir, I noticed that my recent article ] 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 Misplaced Pages's guidelines.''
	Not exactly sure what you were trying to do, but the result was a redirect that led back to itself. I doubt that was your intention, please try to fix the issue. --] (]) 19:06, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
	:Correct, not my intention, will look at it right away.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 19:29, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
	::Not quite sure what happened. Working with editor to resolve.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 19:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

			''Thank you for your time and understanding.'' ] (]) 14:27, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
	== Jan Sophus Jansen article submission ==

			: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 ]] 14:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
	Dear Sphilbrick,
			::Sir, can I rewrite and rectify my mistakes ? @] ] (]) 14:49, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
			:::Sure. I sent the contents of the deleted draft to you by email. ]] 15:29, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
			:::Many Thanks !! ] (]) 15:35, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

			== Lake Pape ==
	I received your feedback and appreciate your insights. I did find a Misplaced Pages article on the song "Yon Yonson" (the phonetic spelling of the name), so I thought that I would tailor this new article to highlight the probable author and subject of the song.

			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 ] article you reversed my additions but I am not sure why it broke copyright rules, thank you for understanding my good intentions. ] (]) 00:01, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
	I've shorten the article, eliminating many of the ancestral information with the goal of providing a brief summary of who Jan Jansen was with respect to the song.

			: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.
	After you have a chance to review the changes, I will look for your feedback. I know I still need to figure out how to enter and link the references.
			:Look at your first sentence of the biodiversity section:
			::Lake Pape is rich in ] and is classed as a mesotrophic lake on the ].
			:Now check out 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 ] 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 . 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 ]. Latvia has been a signatory since 1995. See also 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. ]] 13:26, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
			::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? ] (]) 13:39, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
			:::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 ]. 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. ]] 13:44, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
			::::Thank you very much for the assistance and support! ] (]) 13:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

			== 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 Misplaced Pages and based on this experience likely my last. ] (]) 17:58, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
	] (]) 22:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC) <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 22:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

			:I hope you will reconsider.
	== Seek & Destroy page move ==
			: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 Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages 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, Misplaced Pages 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. ]] 18:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
			::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. ] (]) 18:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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			:::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 Misplaced Pages's voice and should be taken with a grain of salt.
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			== Copy of an article ==
	I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know you should not have preformed the deletion/pagemove of Seek & Destroy (Metallica song) to ]. By doing so you separated the talk pages of the two articles, as well as deleted a page history that was required to be kept since ] had been merged into another article. That was noted in the page history as well as the talk page's history, so you know where to look in the future. Generally if you aren't sure what you are doing, don't do page moves that involve deletion, particularly if you are separating the talk page and article. It can be very hard (or even impossible, if a page restoration is preformed as well) to fix mistakes made in that process. See ]. Thanks, ] <sup>]</sup> 23:27, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
	:] is an example of breaking the page history in an unfixable way, such I mentioned above. Perhaps it can be recovered from cached versions. I'll see what I can do. If you could refrain from deleting pages and moving other pages on top of them, that would perhaps be a good idea. ] <sup>]</sup> 23:33, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
	::Happily I was able to fix ], unhappily it was only by checking every diff manually to see which page it should have been on. What happened with ] is that you (I believe unintentionally) ended up preforming a ] between the diambig page that was at ], and the page for the APS - ]. After a history merge the page history contains entries from both pages history, and there is no way to separate which page each edit was made to except by looking at each revision and guessing. This will always happen when you restore a page when a page already exists on top of it. For both Quick Kill and Seek & Destroy you ended up separating the talk page and its article. When pages are moved the talk page should be moved with them, which does not happen automatically if the target page has to be deleted. I've fixed this for both pages as well. For ]. First step is going to be to look at the history of both pages, and both their talk pages. If the destination page has a substantial history, you should check several things. Make sure the page being moved isn't and ''was never'' (check the first history revision) a fork or cut and paste of the destination page. If it is a cut and paste a history merge (and likely a messy one) must be preformed. On ] there is only one revision in the history, and no revisions on the talk page. So we are good to make a move. Step 2 is to delete the destination page and its talk page. The link to delete and move is nice, but I wouldn't suggest using it because then you will have to move the talk page separately. After deleting both pages, move the remaining page and its talk page to the new name. If you get confused at any point it will always be fairly easy to ask for help and to undo everything done ''unless you restore a page when there is another page at the same title''. As long you avoid doing that, you should be fairly safe. ] <sup>]</sup> 00:15, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
	:::If the destination page has a substantial history it likely shouldn't be being deleted by CSD anyway. ] <sup>]</sup> 00:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
	::::I appreciate the detailed explanation. It hasn't totally sunk in, but as I have some real life work to do, I'll leave it, and return to it, and make sure I follow it before proceeding. Thanks.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 00:43, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

			could you provide a copie of the article ] ] (]) 13:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
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			Your revert reinstated numerous errors. Why?
	Hi! This is just to let you know I've replied to you on my talk page. -- ] (]) 19:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
			* I left you a message there on Talk, where your reasons for your unsupported revert should have been noted.
			* I provided a reliable source for the simplest corrections of the original history of Buddhist robes, when the numerous errors were completely unsourced, those multiple errors your revert reinstated - on New Year's Eve, of all inappropriate times.
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			:I responded at your talk page. ]] 14:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
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	I have removed primary references, and tried to substitute them with notable secondary references from ]. Please have the AFD tag removed :) --] (])
	:I don't have the authority to remove an AD tag. With very rare exceptions, once an article is submitted to AfD, it goes through the seven day process, and then action is taken based upon the consensus of the respondents. In some cases, such as this one,t he time is extended. The good news is that all !votes are "Keep" so far. (Cross-posted to your talk page.)--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 17:14, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

			Hello. You deleted my edits on ], destroying my hard work. I would like to politely ask you to send me text you deleted, so I can rewritte it and get back to working on my article :) I know that your bot flagged it as "copywritted", but it was just a quote from a newspaper, I pasted so I could use its informations in the article. It obviously wasn't intended to be in the final version. ] (]) 22:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
	== Yoxi re-re-do ==

			:I'm puzzled that you say it was "just a quote from a newspaper". That's exactly what is meant by violation of copyright rules. It is permitted to use short quotes if enclosed in quotation marks or set off as a block quote and if they are properly sourced neither of which apply here.
	Hi again Sphilbrick, I went ahead and read (many times) the reference info page and while I feel I'm close I still can't seem to get it right. I edited the page in the area you created: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ballark/Yoxi -- can you have a look and let me know where I may have slipped. I used the codes they told me to, so I'm perplexed as to what is the hold up. I also trimmed the post way down to be very bare bones. Can you please send me any feedback you may have? Thanks a million for all you guidance. <ballark>
			:You seem to be under the impression that it's okay to have copyrighted material in a draft. It is not. It's never a good practice to start with copyrighted material and massage it but if you must, do it in an off-line editor.
	] (]) 02:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
	:~~Don't~~ ~~feel~~ ~~bad,~~ ~~refs~~ ~~are~~ ~~tricky.~~ ~~Until~~ ~~you~~ ~~get~~ ~~used~~ to ~~them,~~ ~~then~~ ~~they~~ ~~are~~ ~~easy,~~ ~~but~~ ~~until~~ ~~then,~~ ~~they can~~ be ~~tough~~. ~~BTW,~~ if you ~~look~~ at ~~the~~ ~~code~~ ~~now~~ to ~~see~~ ~~what~~ I ~~have~~ ~~done,~~ be ~~aware~~ ~~I'm~~ ~~using~~ a ~~relatively~~ ~~new~~ ~~approach~~ ~~called~~ ] ~~citation~~ ~~style~~. ~~Many~~ ~~editors~~ ~~haven't~~ ~~yet~~ ~~heard~~ ~~of it~~, ~~but~~ I ~~think~~ ~~it makes~~ the ~~editable~~ ~~screen~~ ~~cleaner,~~ so I ~~like~~ ~~it.~~ ~~You~~ ~~sort~~ of ~~had~~ ~~four~~ ~~refs, but I think there was a duplicate, if I excised anything in error, let~~ me know , ~~and~~ ~~I'll~~ ~~fix it and or help you~~ so ~~you~~ can ~~learn.~~ I ~~trust you understands~~ the ~~draft~~ ~~still~~ ~~has a ways to go, but at least it now has some references~~.~~(Cross-posted~~ ~~to your talk page.)--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">~~]]~~</font>~~ 19:06, 7 January ~~2011~~ (UTC)		:My reversion may have picked up otherwise acceptable edits because it's standard practice to revert all consecutive edits by the same editor. I can send you the material but you need to turn on your email option in your preferences so that I can send it to you via email. Alternatively, and more easily for you, I turned off the code which hides the edits so you can recover the edits yourself. Let me know when you are done so I can turn back on the revision deletion code. ]] 00:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

			== Issue Regarding Khawaspur Page ==
	== deleted article "How Strategy Shapes Structure" ==

			Hii @] , Thanks for letting me about my mistakes regarding Copyright issue. i should repharse it on my own words. i will surely keep in mind for further editing in future.
	Hi Sphilbrick,
			Apart from this , This ] page is totally mistaken to Pakistan which is totally wrong. there is nothing like khawaspur village or ] in Pakistan. Also there is no any citation in page that support it a village in Pakistan. Only one citation is there which say it's in India.
			Also i checked all contribution history also , editors also claim that this page has many mistakes.
			So allow me to do a revision of this whole page. i surely will provide a reputable citation for it. I will again keep in mind about copyright issues matter.

			Much Regards ] (]) 20:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
	The article you have deleted "How Strategy Shapes Structure" is a published article by the same authors of Blue Ocean Strategy - Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne - published September 2009 by Harvard Business Press. I am an Institute Executive Fellow who work with both Kim and Mauborgne at the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in France. There is nothing promotional about the wikipedia article you have deleted, just an update on the latest thinking on Blue Ocean Strategy. Please re-insert the article at your earliest convenience to benefit your readers who want to know more but do not wish to obtain and read the entire published article "How Strategy Shapes Structure".

			:Thanks for replying. ] (]) 20:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
	Regards,
			:Go for it. I agree, it seems clear it is in India, so a complete overhaul is warranted. ]] 22:14, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
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	:I will look at it tomorrow after work.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 02:18, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
	::I'm not sure whether you've read anything else on my talk page - no reason to expect you to, but I had a number of requests, and I'm doing them in order. I've finished the others, and will look at Jansen soon, but probably won't get to it this evening, sorry. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 01:43, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

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	Nothing's ever simple, is it! Over time, Jackytar has uploaded a large number of non-free images to Commons and en:WP, marking them as "own work". I put "fair-use" on some of them, and created "fair-use" copies of others. Zscout370 has been making free-use .svg versions. Thus, I've been adding G7 to the non-free ones I uploaded. Seems I've been sloppy, and also added G7 to some of those uploaded by Jackytar. I guess they need a different tag. (The one that says "this non-free image has been superceeded by a free-use version". Thanks eagle-eyes. Cheers, ] (]) 03:39, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

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	my article HANDVO was deleted wrongfully. what can i do? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 17:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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I have reintroduced these elements onto the page. I will leave mission/vision absent.

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

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Thanks!

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Hi Sphilbrick

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

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

Draft:2010 Albert Lea tornado

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. :) E_F 14:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

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)

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. E_F 15:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Draft: Daniel P. McCoy

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 Misplaced Pages 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)

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 Misplaced Pages.

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 Misplaced Pages.

There is a link:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/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. Misplaced Pages: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)

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

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/Draft:Tom_D._O%27Malley

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

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)

Ok - thanks for the heads up. Refineryguycanada (talk) 17:43, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

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Deleted without courtesy warning.

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)

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)

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)

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)

Thank you for this second chance. Teaches me to be more careful about rules. Janosabel (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Requesting undeletion

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 Misplaced Pages's guidelines.

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

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)

Sir, can I rewrite and rectify my mistakes ? @Sphilbrick Gauravs 51 (talk) 14:49, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Sure. I sent the contents of the deleted draft to you by email. S Philbrick (Talk) 15:29, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Many Thanks !! Gauravs 51 (talk) 15:35, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Lake Pape

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)

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)

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)

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)

Thank you very much for the assistance and support! BigBlobfish (talk) 13:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

What's the point of contributing?

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 Misplaced Pages and based on this experience likely my last. Diegoarey (talk) 17:58, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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 Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages 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, Misplaced Pages 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)

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)

There are two issues which relate to two of the five pillers of Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages:Five_pillars

The second pillar:

Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages's voice and should be taken with a grain of salt.

The second issue relates to the third pillar:

Misplaced Pages 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)

Copy of an article

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

Sent to your email address S Philbrick (Talk) 13:50, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Not visible. Regards,Ved Sharma (talk) 11:08, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

What does that mean? S Philbrick (Talk) 13:02, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

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Your revert at Kasaya_(clothing)

Your revert reinstated numerous errors. Why?

I left you a message there on Talk, where your reasons for your unsupported revert should have been noted.
I provided a reliable source for the simplest corrections of the original history of Buddhist robes, when the numerous errors were completely unsourced, those multiple errors your revert reinstated - on New Year's Eve, of all inappropriate times.

Metokpema (talk) 09:52, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

I responded at your talk page. S Philbrick (Talk) 14:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Courland Uprising

Hello. You deleted my edits on Draft:Courland Uprising, destroying my hard work. I would like to politely ask you to send me text you deleted, so I can rewritte it and get back to working on my article :) I know that your bot flagged it as "copywritted", but it was just a quote from a newspaper, I pasted so I could use its informations in the article. It obviously wasn't intended to be in the final version. Artemis Andromeda (talk) 22:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm puzzled that you say it was "just a quote from a newspaper". That's exactly what is meant by violation of copyright rules. It is permitted to use short quotes if enclosed in quotation marks or set off as a block quote and if they are properly sourced neither of which apply here.

You seem to be under the impression that it's okay to have copyrighted material in a draft. It is not. It's never a good practice to start with copyrighted material and massage it but if you must, do it in an off-line editor.

My reversion may have picked up otherwise acceptable edits because it's standard practice to revert all consecutive edits by the same editor. I can send you the material but you need to turn on your email option in your preferences so that I can send it to you via email. Alternatively, and more easily for you, I turned off the code which hides the edits so you can recover the edits yourself. Let me know when you are done so I can turn back on the revision deletion code. S Philbrick (Talk) 00:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Issue Regarding Khawaspur Page

Hii @Sphilbrick , Thanks for letting me about my mistakes regarding Copyright issue. i should repharse it on my own words. i will surely keep in mind for further editing in future. Apart from this , This khawaspur page is totally mistaken to Pakistan which is totally wrong. there is nothing like khawaspur village or Ropur district in Pakistan. Also there is no any citation in page that support it a village in Pakistan. Only one citation is there which say it's in India. Also i checked all contribution history also , editors also claim that this page has many mistakes. So allow me to do a revision of this whole page. i surely will provide a reputable citation for it. I will again keep in mind about copyright issues matter.

Much Regards Callmehelper (talk) 20:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Callmehelper (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Go for it. I agree, it seems clear it is in India, so a complete overhaul is warranted. S Philbrick (Talk) 22:14, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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