Talk:Brisbane Central Technical College

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Despite the title, this article, as it stands at present, is almost solely about the buildings which currently comprise the heritage listed site. The material is excellent but really needs to be extended to address the people involved and its activities, not to mention its origins at the Brisbane School of Arts. My interest is primarily in an extended biography of Edward Gustavus Campbell Barton Brisbane's famed early electrical engineer and wireless experimenter. Barton commenced a series of lectures on electricity in 1895 which continued into the early 1900s b:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/Edward_Gustavus_Campbell_Barton/Notes. I will jot a small paragraph here on the early connection with the School of Arts but hope someone will extend the work accordingly. Over 1200 articles in Trove are tagged Edward Gustavus Campbell Barton and review of these will reveal a wealth of material relating to the School of Arts activities.

OK, so I did a cut and paste of a relevant paragraph from Brisbane School of Arts, very soon got reverted by another editor saying a "good faith copyright violation" http://bleedingheartgallery.blogspot.com/ I really haven't got time to deal with this rubbish. But one comment: So, if a copyright violation, why do the paragraphs stand in the other Wikipedia article? Even more to the point, would not the time spent reverting the "copyright violation" have been better spent rewriting the paragraph to be copyright compliant?Samuel.dellit (talk) 22:55, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The blog is the copyright violator in this case, not the article Brisbane School of Arts which is using CC-BY text properly attributed. But what you didn't know to do was to add in your edit summary when you pasted into this article "copied from Brisbane School of Arts". Wikipedia content is licensed CC-BY-SA so copying between its articles requires attribution. This then creates the chain that links your edit back to the School of Arts article which attributes the Queensland Heritage Register which is CC-BY licensed, which makes your edit not a copyvio. Without mentioning that the material came from elsewhere on Wikipedia and in the presence of the same content on an external site, your edit appeared to be a copyvio. Just repeat your copy and paste but add those important words and all should be well. The folk who check for copyvio are volunteers too and not mind readers, they can't know where you got the content if you don't tell them. Kerry (talk) 13:24, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If you look at the article history for this article, you will see me expand the article with an edit summary "expanded article using text from Queensland Heritage Register (CC-BY)". This is for the same reason, to make explicit that an edit that will match content from an external website is in fact Not a copvio. Unfortunately we get many copyvios everyday on Wikipedia, so you have to make explicit what you are doing when you are doing the right thing. If you need assistance, please don't hesitate to ask me. Kerry (talk) 13:34, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * PS I hope you will write more about Barton, as I attended a very interesting talk about him at the Royal Historical Society of QLD a couple of weeks ago, so I know there is lots to tell about his many and varied contributions. Kerry (talk) 13:38, 21 January 2020 (UTC)