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Your efforts concerning Insolvency Law in Australia...

Just a little voice from the middle of nowhere, (read Australia.)

Beyond appreciative of your endeavours to summerise so succulently, an overview of Insolvency Law in Australia.

Thank you for your tireless efforts to make the Internet, more so what it should only be; A place to freely seek a higher understanding, of any academic specialty, (or otherwise passing curiosity), previously unattainable.

Three Barn Stars or not, well done, as you're easily five stars in my book...

220.233.132.194 (talk) 01:41, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

No worries. I may be the only person in the world who finds insolvency law interesting and fun! --Legis (talk - contribs) 12:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Proposal to rename category

Please see my proposal to rename Category:17th-century British politicians to Category:17th-century English politicians Hugo999 (talk) 13:16, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

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Years in British Overseas Territories post-1980

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Yes, I agree. Not quite sure how that happened. --Legis (talk - contribs) 02:37, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

WP:Seealso

Reads- The "See also" section should not link to pages that do not exist (red links) nor to disambiguation pages (unless used for further disambiguation in a disambiguation page).

There is also this talk page discussion[1] from December 2015 concerning an editor who was continually putting Seealso redlinks into law articles....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, got it. I was not aware, but now stand corrected. --Legis (talk - contribs) 14:11, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

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National Westminster Bank plc v Morgan

I have removed your addition to the above article. From what I can gather, it is subject to Crown copyright. The webpage http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1985/2.html states this in their copyright information, and our article on the topic says the same. — Diannaa (talk) 13:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, but intuitively, I think that must be wrong. Judgments may be technically subject to crown copyright, but they are widely reprinted in full. For example BAILII, also a non-profit organisation, republishes every single judgment issued by the senior courts in the UK in full to widen public accessibility. And of course for every judgment there are multiple printed law reports (in addition to the official reports) all containing the full text of the judgment (All England Reports, Weekly Law Reports, PICR, BCLC...) If multiple non-profit and for-profit organisations can reprint the judgments in full, reprinting an excerpt of it is unlikely to problematic. Of course if it is, then we desperately need to go through all the Wikipedia articles relating to English judgments and redact such quotes, because they are pretty liberally strewn with them. --Legis (talk - contribs) 14:05, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

On their copyright page, BAILII states "BAILII's understanding is that Crown copyright protected material (other than the Royal Arms and departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context, and provided that where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material is identified and the copyright status acknowledged." So here's the problem: This license is not liberal enough for Wikipedia's purposes, which under the terms of our Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License requires that the material can be "remixed, transformed, and built upon for any purpose, even commercially." — Diannaa (talk) 15:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

I follow your argument, but if that is correct, then surely we have a mammoth task of going through all the Wikipedia legal articles and stripping out the quotes. If for example you look at Royal Bank of Scotland v Etridge (No 2) (not one of mine, I hasten to add) it is pretty much nothing but quotations from the case report. And if you take an article like Undue influence in English law (which is one of mine) that is pretty liberally punctuated with quotes from cases to illustrate the points. How big is this issue? --Legis (talk - contribs) 15:05, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

WP:NFCC is the policy page on the use of non-free content. Selectively quoting is okay, within reason. Articles should as much as humanly possible be written in our own words. Massive quotefarms is not what we are looking for. I don't think you should take it upon yourself to undertake cleaning up our suite of existing articles. Just please be much more selective in the future in your own use of quotes and try to paraphrase more and quote less. — Diannaa (talk) 15:12, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Noted. Will proceed on that basis. --Legis (talk - contribs) 15:14, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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wiki article deletion issue

Hi, Legis can I ask for your help on editing an article I created, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Y._Du the article is marked for deletion, but it's in the right category, written from a neutral point with relevant information from reliable sources, links of references are provided and cited, and are from acknowledged well recognized news sources, such as China Daily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014-08/18/content_18435219.htm

Sinovision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SinoVision

http://video.sinovision.net/?id=23755&cid=121

All information on the wiki article were pulled from the news sources cited. Would be great if you can advice or edit to improve the article. thanks. Audreylomberg (talk) 00:53, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, but it looks like the deletion of that article has already been completed. Reading the entry on the deletion log, it seems that the main reason for deletion was that the subject was not sufficient notable, so nuetrality and reliable sources were not an issue. Take a look at the guidelines of when a person is sufficiently notable for a Wikipedia article at: Wikipedia:Notability (people). --Legis (talk - contribs) 12:12, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for your views. Although I think you'd have to concede that articles linking back to Wilson Field keep being placed in articles, and keep being found by editors to constitute Linkspam. At the very least, there appears to be some pretty clear WP:COI breaches going on. --Legis (talk - contribs) 12:56, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

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Change to page

Hi User:Legis, just wondered can you make an edit to Maiorana page please? That the name is Norman French in origin, on page 326 of this source Della Calabria illustrata the book states that the fleur-de-lis in the coat of arms of the family also indicates a Norman origin. I just don't do edits on that scale, because more than likely no one will edit the page for many months, leaving my mistakes (that become Wikipedia's mistakes) on show. You'd just have to blank the page then change categories to Norman and "Maiorana is an Italian surname" to "Maiorana is a Norman French surname" (Good examples of Norman names are Banister (surname) and Molyneux). Hope you can help, thanks.--Theo Mandela (talk) 00:13, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

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