User talk:Blacklord

This is what appeared when I tried to add a page -

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Wayward for the following reason (see our blocking policy): "Squidward vandal"

Your IP address is 220.245.178.140.

Considering I've only ever added one page & never edited any existing ones, I believe "wayward" is being heavy-handed & needs to be taken to task for his/her irresponsible attitude.

Blacklord 09:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Appears to be collateral damage. I'll unblock that IP now. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Stifle (talk) 13:37, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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Open copyright problem
Hello. The article The Brothers (ferry) was tagged for copyright investigation by another contributor, but it seems that you were not notified of this. The matter has come due for administrator closure, but I am relisting since you will not have had an opportunity to respond to these concerns. I'll paste the requisite notice beneath my message; it includes steps for confirming license of the content or rewriting, if you do not have license for the content.

I have verified that substantial reason for concern does seem to exist. I have not done a close evaluation of all content in the area flagged, but the duplication detector report flags some issues. For one example, text added to the article said:

The suspected source of copying says: {{quotation|The Brothers commenced operation on Saturday, 9th October 1847. Initially, she was engaged to run from Windmill Street in The Rocks to Blues Point from 8am until 6.30pm. It is unlikely that she ran to a timetable, probably only doing the trip when there was a demand.

Text added to the article said: {{quotation|The Brothers remained on the Manly route for some years and was eventually sold to Port Stephens where she was hulked and used as a timber store, eventually being broken up in 1886.}}

The suspected source of copying says: {{Quotation|The Brothers remained on the Manly route for some years and was eventually sold to Port Stephens where she was hulked and used as a timber store. The little pioneering steamship was broken up at Port Stephens in 1886.}}

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If the material can be verified to be compatibly licensed or public domain or if permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution (the "form letter" I'll place below explains these processes). If you can resolve it that way, please let me know if you need assistance with those directions. Otherwise, so that we can be sure it does not constitute a derivative work, this article should be rewritten; more information on that will also be below. 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".

Please feel free to come by my talk page if you have questions or information. Since the matter is being relisted, the article will be revisited again to see what administrator action is needed after a week or two. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl {{sup|(talk)}} 20:03, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Copyright of The Brothers article
G'day,

In regards to the 'copyright violations" on this particular article, Ferries of Sydney (www.ferriesofsydney.com) is my own site - so I guess I can give myself permission to paraphrase myself :)

cheers,

Lance Lyon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blacklord (talk • contribs) 03:16, 24 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, you can. :) The steps are linked in the notice above. The simplest is to change "(c) 2005 - 2011 The Ferries of Sydney" to read:
 * The text of this website [or page, if you are specifically releasing one section] is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).


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Thanks Moonriddengirl, I've updated (removed) the copyright notice on my main page and changed it to your suggested wording - will that now allow me to move my articles over to wikipedia? Tnx :)

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