User talk:PzychoPat

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello PzychoPat! Your additions to Evolutionary origin of religions 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.


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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. Pabsoluterince (talk) 06:23, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for rigorous control. However, in this case I cited the Abstract. Those are always public domain. It is the paper itself that is copyrighted, if it is . So I would like to request that you reinstate my addition. Thanks. PzychoPat (talk) 07:10, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Abstract_(summary) states otherwise. If you can point me to somewhere that backs up your claim I will attempt to reinstate your edits. Pabsoluterince (talk) 08:29, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what country's legislation that would be relevant, but here is the applicable section from the UK for scientific abstracts: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/60 PzychoPat (talk) 08:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia servers are hosted in United States, so only US copyright policy is applicable. https://archive.org/details/comp3_2014/page/n386/mode/1up might be the relevent passage. This is begining to get a bit above my pay grade though.Pabsoluterince (talk) 08:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thankfully, it turns out that there is a simpler solution, and that is to check the journal policy. It is included in the article itself (https://riojournal.com/article/66132/download/pdf/) but I can quote: "This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited." PzychoPat (talk) 09:11, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's not the journal that you copied. This edit adds content from https://riojournal.com/article/66132/download/pdf/. This edit, content from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-019-0066-7. I can't access the removed edit so I can only assume I was correct in my initial edit. Pabsoluterince (talk) 11:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I was able to verify my original edit and confirm I was correct. Pabsoluterince (talk) 11:40, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * My mistake. Can you provide me with the original edit and I'll rewrite it. PzychoPat (talk) 11:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * If you follow this link, it provides the plain text addition. The reference is here: . Thanks for still wanting to edit after all this! Pabsoluterince (talk) 11:53, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing what you do! This is what makes Wikipedia trustworthy and relevant. PzychoPat (talk) 12:00, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, PzychoPat. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the the page Humanists Sweden as you stated here, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Pabsoluterince (talk) 06:24, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Point taken. I used to be on the board of Humanists Sweden and want to convey accurate information. I did not receive instructions or funding for this. Given what I have added, is this an issue? PzychoPat (talk) 07:13, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Such external connections mean that you have a percieved conflict of interest. Edits you would like to make should be discussed first on the talk page. You can suggest edits using the edit request template. Aside from that it was likely another copyright violation. If you have permission to copy content from http://humanisterna.se/in-english/ then the text will need to be donated to Wikipedia per WP:DONATETEXT. Pabsoluterince (talk) 08:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. PzychoPat (talk) 08:39, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I see you've been warned about this before, but have continued today - please stop adding citations to yourself to Wikipedia. You should be suggesting such changes on article talk pages instead of making them yourself. MrOllie (talk) 14:48, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Will do. PzychoPat (talk) 14:58, 12 December 2022 (UTC)