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Please help me with... I wonder how to make or propose a change to a title of an article. Thanks Maxweber1920 (talk) 15:30, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * See WP:Requested moves. —A little blue Bori  v^_^v  Jéské Couriano 15:44, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sebastián L. Mazzuca (June 29)
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 * I am surprised to read this. I have added an image to the democratization entry that I found in the Wikimedia Commons. I have provided extensive references to sources I have drawn on. I have paraphrased some texts. I have used quotation marks quite extensive. I am baffled. I have been working very hard to improve some entries. Maxweber1920 (talk) 23:25, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I have really tired to be a good citizen and contribute to Wikipedia. Maybe this is not for me. You take good care of yourself. Maxweber1920 (talk) 23:28, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I found some violations of the copyright policy on Norberto Bobbio. You can view the extent of the overlap using this tool. Some of it is quotations (there's actually one lengthy quotation without its closing quotation mark), but there's enough straight copying to constitute a violation. Later I also found a problem on Democratization, where content was copied from this copyright paper. — Diannaa (talk) 00:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me and explaining what you see as a problem. I really appreciate you taking the time.
 * I used the tool you mention to see the comparison. I did some work on the Bobbio entry last night I believe. I used a source, from an International Encyclopedia. I now see that the prior material in the entry - that was not my work - was taken from "Bellamy, Richard, "Norberto Bobbio", obituary in The Guardian, January 13, 2004." I used a different Bellamy source - Bellamy, Richard, "Norberto Bobbio," in James Wright (ed.), International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2nd ed., Elsevier, 2015. Thus, a lot of the overlap was due to whoever had worked on the entry before and had copied a lot of material word for word from the Guardian obituary. That is not my responsibility.
 * Lots of the overlaps in what I wrote in the Bobbio entry yesterday were things like the title of books written by Bobbio. In some cases, the overlap seems nonsensical. I added Anderson, Perry, "The Affinities of Norberto Bobbio," New Left Review 170 (July–August 1988): 3–36. to the Further readings, because this is a source I have read. Now I see that it appears as one of the highlighted overlaps. In other cases, the overlap is simply because Bellamy uses the precise terms that Bobbio uses and I was actually using those words from the actual book by Bobbio. Bobbio was a political philosopher, and he used terms in a precise way. So I was doing my best to convey to the reader Bobbio's thinking. I think the overview I had provided of the work Bobbio produced during his entire career was a service. It is very important that readers be able to find that information at a glance. I am somewhat surprised by the decision to cut that material.
 * I have been working on a set of authors who have made key contributions to democratic theory, a key issue in the study of politics. I have sought to convey their ideas in a precise manner. I really think it is a shame that this effort is being questioned.
 * As to the use of the paper by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared in the Democratization entry, I paraphrased what the authors wrote. Since the language in the article, by four economists, is rather technical, I used much of the same language they use. I think that is fair use and it is what academics would consider fair use. I also did put the key conclusion of the article in quotation marks, so as to convey the voice of the authors.
 * You may also note that I am also very conscious about offering citations, with precise page numbers of the text which I am drawing on.
 * Well, I am sure I could be more careful. I have set some time aside to improve a number of entries, especially those related to democratization and some scholars who have authored classic works. Maybe I worked too fast, did not take the time I should have to more carefully avoid word-for-word duplication and ensure a correct paraphrasing. But I have made an honest effort to improve a number of entries that I think are important yet were rather weak.
 * I must say that I was taken aback by your "block." If you choose to keep it, I will move on to other hobbies. If you decide to lift it, I promise to more careful in the future.
 * All the best Maxweber1920 (talk) 01:48, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's what you added in your 32 edits since July 10: . Here's a comparison using Earwig's tool that shows the overlapping content on June 5. So you are correct that some of the overlapping content was there when you arrived. I was aware of this, and cleaned up not only your additions but the content that was there before.Wikipedia uses a summary style, and adding a lot of quotations (even short ones) is not a very effective writing style, and it's problematic because Wikipedia is aiming to be freely licensed. We have rules about quotations, and what we're supposed to do is use only short quotations, and only if there's no alternative. There's no set limit on the size or number of quotations. That said, Wikipedia articles should for the most part be written in our own words, and quotations used only when absolutely necessary. Quoting the crux of Bobbio's thinking, using his own words instead of our own, is too much. While you may feel it's vital information for our readers, it's also not particularly compliant with our policies to include it verbatim. So if you can't figure out a way to re-write the content in your own words it's better to leave it out than to resort to huge quotations. Sometimes a good alternative is to offer the reader the info via an external link. Fair use in the way you may have seen it applied elsewhere does not apply to Wikipedia editing. It's either a quotation, or it's prose we have written ourselves in a summary style.It seems to me that you do understand copyright and why it's important but was careless or rushed in this instance. I would like to see your comments on the over-use of quotations and receive your assurance that when unblocked you will avoid violations of the copyright policy in the future. Again, short quotations are okay but only when there's no alternative.By the way the June 5 version has very little overlap with the Guardian obituary. — Diannaa (talk) 02:55, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello Diannaa,
 * I looked over the comparison using Earwig's tool. One of the first paragraphs is this, with the highlighted part being "regarding fascism as a necessary evil against" -- "Bobbio was born into what his Guardian obituary described as "a relatively wealthy, middle-class Turin family" whose sympathies Bobbio would later characterize as "philo-fascist, regarding fascism as a necessary evil against the supposedly greater danger of Bolshevism". In high school he met Vittorio Foa, Leone Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese, and at the university he became a friend of ..." This is not something I wrote.
 * The tool also highlights things such as "L'indirizzo fenomenologico nella filosofia sociale e giuridica". But I certainly never added any titles of Bobbio's works in Italian.
 * Finally, this tool highlights things such as the universities that gave Bobbio honorary doctorates and the titles of books - when these are things that are widely available in CVs and there is simply no way to put in one's own words the titles of books and articles. On these sort of specific facts, I tend to check more than one source - even if I then place a single reference to what I think is the best source. So here again this tool is being used to suggest that I copied something from some public source when this is simply not the case.
 * So I really think it is unfair that this sort of tool is being used to make a case that I did not follow rules regarding copyright. I does not understand this tool fully. But the idea that the tool somehow detected that there was 49.2% chance of a possible violation is not justifiable. And it seems that you initially used this sort of tool to argue that I had picked things up from some published sources in an unfair way, when I would hold that what the overlaps that tool shows were in part (I would not know how to quantify this) due to some other person or involve things that are trivial (such as using the exact same title of a book or the name of some place). I would urge more caution in using tools such as these.
 * However, moving on, I do see what the goal of Wikipedia is. The goal is to write objective entries, that are informative for the general public, and to use one's own words, while limiting quotations to a minimum. I take your point that it is better to leave some points out if it is too difficult to put it in one's own words. The suggestions of using external links is a good one.
 * I think I have erred at times when I have been rushed. I acknowledge that. I tend to work in spurts. And I had some free time a few days ago and I was trying to work on several related entries at the same time. I was working late into the night a few days - and I was not as careful as I should have been. I see that I cut some corners, particularly when trying to convey substantive ideas, such as Bobbio's ideas about democracy. Mea culpa.
 * What I can say (promise) is that I will do my best to be more careful, to work more slowly so as to avoid any possible conflict with copyright policy.
 * Best wishes, Maxweber1920 (talk) 23:21, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The analysis that includes your edit does not show a percentage of 49.2%; that's from the June 5 version of the article, before you began adding content. Regardless, I don't go by the percentage that Earwig's tool shows; it's not a useful indicator of what will be found. That said, the initial reports that I review are in the queue at CopyPatrol, which uses an external service (Turnitin) to locate for us potential violations of our copyright policy. I am highly experienced at assessing these reports and am well aware of their limitations, as well as the limitations/usefulness of Earwig's tool. I did see enough that I had to clean the article, and when reviewing your talk page, I saw four previous warnings for copyright issues. Hence the block.I do believe that you understand copyright and how it applies to Wikipedia and will be more careful not to rush or cut corners in the future. The CopyPatrol tool checks all additions over a certain minimum size. Be aware and act accordingly from here on out. I am now unblocking your account. — Diannaa (talk) 00:09, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Much appreciated. Maxweber1920 (talk) 00:40, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Ok. Thanks. I have seen the ordering of sections as I proposed in other entries. So thanks for your advice. Maxweber1920 (talk) 16:33, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

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