Talk:Samba (ballroom dance)

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I removed the WikiProject Brazil tag, as the ballroom samba dance has little to nothing to do with Brazil, as is highlighted in the article.

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i love the samba.... thank you for the information.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.11.34 (talk) 04:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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 * There is no evidence that the content was copied from the website in question. I copied this piece of text fromm elsewhere in wikipedia as ear;ly as in 2006.. You have to be careful throwing around copyvio accusations without proof. Quite often various websites shatxh wikipedia text without any attribution. At the very least you have to prove that this text on other website predate 2006. - Altenmann >talk 03:35, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * P.S. The website in quextion says it was established in 2011. You really have to unterstand the concept of due diligence. - Altenmann >talk 03:40, 14 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I apologize for causing offense, but I followed the instructions at the page for "copyright concerns" for how to handle the situation when you have a concern that there might be a copyright issue, not when there definitely is one. I don't think it was an unreasonable concern, since it wasn't based solely off the two pages having the same text, as less than four hours earlier you asserted that that very webpage you have now clarified consists entirely of text that was copied from a Wikipedia article was a reliable source. It is perfectly reasonable to conclude that an experienced editor who had done their due diligence when restoring a source whose reliability was in question checked said source before doing that and wouldn't simply assert that the website of some local dance studio that copies the entire text of one of their pages from a Wikipedia article was a reliable source, after all. A new editor might not know that such a page was a bad source, but an experienced editor surely would. For what it's worth, thank you for removing the source in question from the article. Egsan Bacon (talk) 05:22, 14 April 2024 (UTC)