User talk:Edsienkiewicz

July 2021
Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Plagiarism, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 00:28, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

January 2022
Your edit to Douglas A-1 Skyraider has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. BilCat (talk) 08:08, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Edsienkiewicz! Your additions to Douglas A-1 Skyraider have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:33, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:57, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Unblock appeal October 2023
has been closed, with an instruction that any unblock request should be posted here. When the appeal was closed I was engaged in the process of checking the history behind the block, and since I have put in the work of doing that, I am posting my observations here, as they may be helpful if you do request an unblock. I apologise if I have missed anything significant. The block was said to be for copyright infringements, but I was unable to find any copyright infringements. You several times added public domain text, copied from United States Government web sources. As can be seen above, on 23 July 2021 DanCherek warned you that when doing so you should provide attribution to avoid plagiarism. Three times on 14 January 2022 you added to the article Douglas A-1 Skyraider text which was subsequently revision-deleted by CambridgeBayWeather, who gave "Violations of copyright policy" as the reason for doing so. Twice when you posted that text you gave attribution to https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KZlbEAG. I have confirmed that the text that you posted was indeed substantially the same as content of that web page, which is on a US government web site, and therefore it is in the public domain. It looks to me as though both, who repeatedly removed material you had posted and requested revision deletion, and , who performed the revision deletion and blocked your account from editing, were mistaken, so that the block should be removed. However, I have in the past seen blocks which I thought were obviously mistaken, but where I later found out that the blocking administrator knew of relevant information that I didn't know, so rather than jumping to the conclusion that the block should be overturned, I invite CambridgeBayWeather to comment here, if he has anything relevant to say. JBW (talk) 18:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)


 * My apologies. It does appear that the work was from the US government. Oddly enough when clicking on the link from above I get an page about Paul Claude Charvet. However, clicking on the link from the material added gives me a blank page and says I must log in. Either way it was my error and I will unblock and restore the deleted material. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 02:27, 14 October 2023 (UTC)