User talk:Raphinou

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Copying licensed material requires proper attribution
Hi. I see in a recent addition to Austronesian alignment you included material from a webpage that is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this legal requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:42, 27 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm looking over chapter 7 of Blust's ebook, in which he discusses Austronesian alignment. What material are you referring to?  Thanks.  Raphinou (talk) 22:29, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view the overlap. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:53, 28 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I've just looked over the report on the iThenticate link. The report identifies the copied material as the samples from the Tondano language that I had included in the Wikipedia article.  The bot report indicates that these samples are from Blust's ebook.  However, this is incorrect.  I took these samples from Sneddon 1970 (Sneddon, J.N. 1970. "The languages of Minahasa, North Celebes". Oceanic Linguistics 9:11-36.), which is the same journal article from which Blust obtained the same Tondano samples that he had included in his ebook.  In the Wikipedia article, I refer to Sneddon 1970 in the endnotes, and provide the full citation in the references.  Given that I had gone to the primary source (i.e., Sneddon 1970) of the Tondano samples, I did not bother citing Blust's ebook.


 * So, proper attribution had originally been made.


 * Kindly remove the revision that you had added to the reference section since it is incorrect and it makes it seem as if I had done something inappropriate, when in fact, I had not. Thanks.  Raphinou (talk) 00:13, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay I've done that but the Sneddon article does not appear to be released under a compatible license, and the material you took from there appears to have been copied unaltered, not "adapted". That's a copyright violation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:43, 29 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I am following the customary and usual practice of academic research in the field of linguistics. The reproduction of non-creative works, such as linguistic data, in scholarly journals/books constitute copyright violations?  Please clarify/confirm.


 * The adaptation is in the glosses (i.e., the morpheme-by-morpheme translations underneath each of the Tondano words in the sentence).Raphinou (talk) 15:48, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Suggestions: Different examples could be chosen and translated. Alternatively, make it clearer that this is a quotation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:53, 29 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I've modified the endnotes to be more explicit.Raphinou (talk) 23:30, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Symmetrical voice
Hi. With this edit, you deleted the 'Studies' section, but your edit-summary only said you were replacing the term. I'm wondering if the deletion might've been a mistake. — kwami (talk) 23:33, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm restoring on the assumption it was a typo. If there's something wrong with that section, pls summarize in the edit summary. — kwami (talk) 21:32, 26 September 2021 (UTC)