User talk:FlowerofScotland

January 2009
Welcome, and thank you for your edits to Rags (dog). Unfortunately I have had to revert them to respect WP:Copyright as you had incorporated text from this source. Please take the time to read LeadSongDog (talk) 03:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Editing Rags is my first encounter with Wikipedia and I am not even sure this communication is being correctly handled.

The written edits that you removed are my material copied from my original article written over 10 years ago.

At their request I sent copies of my original work to both the Harbor Defense Museum at Fort Hamilton in New York City and the 1st Division Museum outside Chicago. they both have these copies in their files. The 1st Division Museum sent me a release form allowing them to reproduce my work which I signed and returned.

I then made the mistake of placing the exact same story of Rags on a Web Page created on AOL. Since that time my work or parts of it copied word for word have appeared on a number of other Web Sites, including the one you refer to in your message. The Find A Grave web page uses my information and a web page K9History used my material word for word with the comment that " it was found in cyber space".

My belief is that the material I placed on the Rags page is coprighted to me as the original author and the source you name and others have violated my copyright. Only the 1st Division Museum in Chicago is permitted to use it.

My AOL web page no longer exists since AOL has ended that program.

My history with Rags goes back over 60 years. I first read Jack Rohan's book as a boy and upon retiring in the early 1990's researched Rags at the N.Y. Public Library and used Rohan's Book and N.Y. Times articles to write my paper on Rags. I have since been able to obtain a first edition copy of Rags.

I might add that I have 3 degrees in History, the most recent being an Honors level from the University of Dundee in Scotland.

In restoring the information to the Rags page you have restored a number of errors. Rags was born in France not the U.S. and the events of July were the 14th, Bastille Day, not the 15th and the year was 1918 not 1917. Also the term press-ganged is totally inapprobriate.

I might also note that I have listed the sources for my material which you will not find with any of the other copies of my work.

In summary: The copyright for any of the original, sourced work I placed on the Rags page is mine. FlowerofScotland (talk) 16:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply. For topics pertinent to the article, the article's talk page is the best discussion venue, but because you are new here on WP I raised it here on your talk page as is the normal courtesy. I've copied it back to this page (above) from my talk for the sake of continuity of discussion. On WP we are very big on citing sources to prevent this kind of problem from arising. My sympathies on the abuse of your work, but you should be aware of the fact that anything you post on WP without express attribution will be assumed to be your original contribution which "You irrevocable agree to release ... under the terms of the GFDL". If you are content to do so, simply provide a citation for where you published the original work and I'll be more than happy to undo my revert and add that citation to the article. In general, WP avoids self published sources (such as your AOL page) but as you say this was simply a reissue of something you previously had published that principle may not apply in this case.  Cheers,LeadSongDog (talk) 17:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've attempted to verify your publication, but as yet have been unsuccessful. It does not appear in major catalogues that I've checked, and (as you have said) AOL's hometown sites have been shut down. Perhaps correspondence with the First Infantry Division museum's librarian will be more fruitful.  Hang in there.LeadSongDog (talk) 17:58, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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Misapplication of capitals
Once again, I've corrected the capitals you added in the section titles. This is as per Wikipedia's Manual of Style, see WP:MOS. Please stop re-adding them, they are wrong. We only capitalize proper nouns and the first word of the title. Also, please be careful to log in when editing. Cheers, LeadSongDog come howl 19:21, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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 * Please read and follow the above instructions. You'll need to add the license tag to the image file, not to the article using it. Thanks, LeadSongDog come howl 21:09, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

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