User talk:Govertwesterveld

Help me!
How can I protect my copyright ?

Please help me with... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)

I aam Govert Westerveld and chess and draughts (checkers) historian and I cannot agree to several points in your page of chess queen, due to plagiarism by Yalom, 2004. She went to the National Library in The Hague to see my book of 1997 and did not give the necessary references in her book about my research. She copied a lot without mentioning me.

Isabel la Católica, I was the first to mention this possibility. So I cannot agree to the plagiarism in Wikipedia. The introduction of my Dutch book was written in several languages, also in English. You can see the proof in: http://historyofmodernchess.blogspot.com.es/2016/07/english-introduction-in-my-dutch-book.html

You can download my Dutch book on: http://historyofdraughts.blogspot.com.es/p/invloed-van-isabel-la-catolica.html There are many other points, but I prefer in this stage to concentrate myself on the matter of Isabel la Catolica.

Govertwesterveld (talk) 11:39, 2 July 2016 (UTC)


 * If someone plagiarized your work, that's not an issue Wikipedia can deal with; you will need to contact Yalom or her publisher directly (please note that this is not meant to constitute legal advice; you may want to see a lawyer for that). Our article's content is basically correct; Yalom did suggest what we ascribe to her (and I understand you aren't arguing the ideas ascribed to her are incorrect, either). Whether she was the first to do so or whether she took those ideas from you does not change the fact that she endorsed those ideas. At its most basic, we're focusing on the history of the chess queen, not on the development of modern ideas regarding the history of the chess queen, and who had those modern ideas first is not of great relevance to readers who wish to learn about the chess queen. There are other venues more suited to settling such disputes. Huon (talk) 12:10, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Huon, I appreciate your detailed reply. Best regards, Govert Westerveld