Talk:Keokuk Junction Railway

Copyright issue
Copyright Issue?

CloseApple (Closed Mind), marked this article for copyright notice. I removed last paragraph that was added by someone in past. IF the a lazy webmaster for Pioneer Railway copied the Wikipedia article, which was written BEFORE they Owned or purchased railway (a known problem that CloseApple routinely ignores) -- THAT is NOT a Wikipedia copyright Issue, it is Wikipedia not protecting the IP of its volunteer writers and editors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatgr (talk • contribs) 05 October 2012


 * Uh, wow. Not only have you removed the copyvio tag, but also removed the original research maintenance tag when the only reference is a copy-paste of the article.  If it's not a copyright violation, then it's unverified claims that have not been sourced in 5 years.  I'm not sure what part is unclear about "Do not restore or edit the blanked content on this page until the issue is resolved by an administrator, copyright clerk or OTRS agent."  That warning is there specifically to tell you not to do what you just did.  So, considering that you:
 * claim it was "was written BEFORE they Owned or purchased railway" yet you created this article in 2006 with the phrase "On March 12, 1996, Pioneer Railcorp purchased 93% of the common stock" already in the text;
 * added the other website as your source for the text in ;
 * are responding with weird, inapropos insults like "Closed Mind";
 * also claim that something (I'm not even sure what) is "a known problem that CloseApple routinely ignores" when I don't remember ever encountering you before, our names have never even appeared on the same page together until yesterday, and I don't even add copyvio tags that often;
 * are violating a well-known Wikipedia process that, if you claim to have seen me do "routinely", you must be familiar with; and
 * appear to not be signing or formating your comment in the normal way, even after 3000+ edits:
 * I am therefore assuming you may not have a clear understanding of what has occurred in the past, or perhaps are just having a bad week. In any case, I have restored the copyvio tag as well as whatever other intervening edits you made in violation of the copyright investigation procedure on Wikipedia.  Please wait for someone with expertise to remove or otherwise deal with the tag on the article. --Closeapple (talk) 11:55, 6 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It's pretty clear this was not a backwards copy. However, only 4 paragraphs were an actual violation, so the rest of the article can stand -- it just needs a little expansion now. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 20:02, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://web.archive.org/web/20060830084344/http://www.pioneer-railcorp.com/Subsidiaries/KJRY/kjry.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)