User talk:Argos'Dad/Archive 8

April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive
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File source problem with File:Codrington.jpg
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Picture problem
Hello. A source link on File:V-class-silhouette.gif doesn't work. How do we know it is released on GNU FDL or cc-by-sa licence? I'm asking, because I'd like to use it in Commons. Regards. Pibwl &larr;&laquo; 09:47, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Branch Tanner Archer.jpg
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Planning Discussions Now Underway Regarding DC Meetup #10

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You are now a Reviewer
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Meetup/DC_10
Check out the new things that the Smithsonian is offering us! Sadads (talk) 15:47, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador at GWU/Georgetown
Hi Argos'Dad, thanks for inquiring about the Wikipedia Campus Ambassador role! If you are interested in being a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador at Georgetown University or George Washington University, I would like to send you the application form. What email address can I send this to? (Feel free to email me this info if you prefer: alin@wikimedia.org).

More details about the Campus Ambassador role can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Campus_Ambassador. Here is also a little bit more information; in a nutshell: The Campus Ambassadors are crucial components of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative. Volunteers in this position will be in charge of training and supporting the participating professors and students on Wikipedia-related skills, such as how to create new articles, how to add images, how the talk pages work, etc. Campus Ambassadors will also help recruit other people on campus to contribute to Wikipedia articles, for example by setting up Wikipedia-related student groups and by organizing "Welcome to Wikipedia" social events. In general they will become known as Wikipedia experts on the university campus (in your case, on the GWU or Georgetown University campus). The estimated time commitment for this role is 3 to 5 hours a week, possibly slightly more at the very beginning and very end of the semester. The Wikimedia Foundation will hold a mandatory three-day training for all Campus Ambassadors in August, and will continue to stay in contact with and offer full support for the Campus Ambassadors throughout the academic semester.

Thanks. I look forward to hearing back from you soon!

Annie Lin, Campus Team Coordinator Alin (Public Policy) (talk) 21:38, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Copyright followup: Claude Pollard
Hi. Verno is out of the office, so to speak (or going to be; not sure if he's left yet), and I saw your note at his talk page, so I headed over to look at your temporary page. Your proposed rewrite at the temporary space did continue to contain some close paraphrasing as well as some direct duplication of the source. Consider, for example, the following passage:

The source says:

Changes to this content were minimal, and there were other passages that also followed too closely, particularly in the "early life" section.

While rewriting content to avoid close paraphrasing can sometimes feel like reaching behind your back to scratch your elbow, I'm afraid that we don't have much choice. While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. The less creative the expression, the looser copyright applies, but even so close paraphrasing becomes a great concern when there are long passages that include fragments of the original and the structure of the original is retained.

The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism". I went on ahead and revised this somewhat to separate it from the source. Ideally, it would be great if you could add something between his resignation from public office and his death. :) More information from multiple sources is a great step towards avoiding close paraphrasing as long as we also avoided fragmented similarity.

If you have questions about this, please let me know. Copyright is mostly what I do on Wikipedia, so I have a lot of practice. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:19, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for taking the time to rewrite the article to reduce any copyvio. Political biographies are tough since there are often few sources and few ways to describe the timeline of a politician.  You have done a great job and I will ask you to look at other examples as I create them.

Argos ' Dad  14:06, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Feel free to stop by any time you have concerns. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:17, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Lefkopirgo.jpg
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Meetup/DC 11
Hey, just in case you missed it, there is an oppurtunity to get a free dinner this Tuesday August 11 and a chance to meet and hang out talk about WikiProject United States Public Policy and WP:GLAM/SI. Sorry that this is so late in the game, I was hoping the e-mail would be a better form of contact for active members (if you want to get on the e-mail list send me an User e-mail ). Hope that you can attend, User:Sadads (talk)11:39, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Modern Greek history proposal
Hello Argod'Dad! Long time no see. I hope you are well. If you are interested, have tabled a proposal on a restructuring of coverage of modern Greek history in Wikipedia, and am awaiting input. Best regards, Constantine  ✍  17:31, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:SantaAnnaSurrender.jpg
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DC Meetup #12
An off-wiki discussion is taking place concerning DC Meetup #12. Watch this page for announcements.

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