User talk:Psolymos

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Hello, Psolymos, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Data cloning. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! RockMagnetist (talk) 16:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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Copyright problems with Data cloning
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Data cloning, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2010-2/RJournal_2010-2_Solymos.pdf, http://dcr.r-forge.r-project.org/tutorials/dcglm.pdf. As a copyright violation, Data cloning appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Data cloning has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Data cloning and send an email with the message to . See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While contributions are appreciated, Wikipedia must require all contributors to understand and comply with its copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you.

(Personal note): I hate to do this because you are probably the author of those articles. But Wikipedia has a strict copyright policy. You probably don't own the copyright for the R Journal article and I can't find any copyright statement on the dclone site. If I were you, I would just write a new article from scratch; it's easier than dealing with copyright issues. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:23, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Copyright violation
(transferred from deleted talk page) I have tagged this article for speedy deletion (copyright violation), but the creator of this article probably wrote the original material. I have left a message on his talk page. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:27, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

I am the author of that article, nevertheless, I changed the link to a html source that has link to the free PDF listed in the TOC of the R Journal. Psolymos (talk) 16:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I don't think that will be sufficient unless you can add an appropriate license statement to the site (see Granting us permission to copy material already online). I should add that I won't make the decision to remove the tag or delete; I'll leave that to an administrator with more experience in copyright issues. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:08, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Not good enough. Does not show the required permissions - see WP:DCM, an explicit permission is required, to at least Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.  Ron h jones  (Talk) 22:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * That's why I removed the direct link to the PDF. Table of content is not copyrighted material. I though that might be sufficient without needing to deal with copyright. Psolymos (talk)
 * Unfortunately, no - you didn't copy the text from a table of contents. RockMagnetist (talk) 22:27, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * As a matter of fact, yes, I did. I changed the link to point to a html page instead of the PDF. I might not get it, but I think deletion of the page was unfounded, but I guess I have to live with that. Having said that, I am going to recreate the page, more carefully addressing copyright issues up front. Psolymos (talk) 22:37, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I hope you do. It might be a good idea to create a draft in your user space (at, say in your sandbox or User:Psolymos/Data cloning), write a new article, then move it into article space when it's ready. It would probably be a lot easier to write new text from scratch than solve the copyright issue. I'd be happy to help with any of the technical issues. RockMagnetist (talk) 22:41, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, now I get it. The problem was that I adapted my own text copied from the intro of that paper. I'll be more careful in the future. That's a lesson learnt. At least I got a sense of how you guys act -- that was marvellously fast. Thanks for your time. Psolymos (talk) 22:43, 18 March 2013 (UTC)