User talk:Spaghettimeister

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Speedy deletion nomination of National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority


A tag has been placed on National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.nopsema.gov.au/assets/Corporate/A477257.pdf. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Dps04 (talk) 05:38, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The contents of https://www.nopsema.gov.au/assets/Corporate/A477257.pdf might be public domain, but I didn't see any indication that that was the case. However, I didn't look very hard because even if it is public domain, it is almost never appropriate to simply copy and paste material from other sources. There are times it is appropriate to use a short excerpt exactly as is, but the material should be enclosed in quote marks or in a quote box. There are some rare cases where we use large excerpts of public domain material but we prominently mark them as such and this one doesn't qualify.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:57, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

So is it common practice for the Wikipedia mafia to completely remove articles rather than 'fix them' when they were not written by members of the inner circle? Wikipedia is supposed to be open and collaborative. If you don't like something, change it, don't delete the whole article from existence. Leaving the article would provide an opportunity for others to update it without having to start from scratch. I myself intended to evolve the article over the coming weeks. Not all the content in the article was copied from one of the sources, but even if it was why rewrite something that is unbiased and accurate when it can be reused with credit given to the author. Any information is better than no information, especially when Wikipedia is one of the first sources the public consult when researching a topic. From what you have said, it sounds as if the article was deleted because you didn't like it, didn't want to change it, and an alleged copyright infringement claim just provided reason enough to remove it from public record and make it all go away. This is just wrong. I wonder how this would have played out if this was a US government agency... very differently I imagine.Spag Bol (talk) 08:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Any information is better than no information. With all due respect, I disagree. Per WP:COPYOTHERS, copying copyrighted materials not only hurts Wikipedia's reputation, but may also create legal liabilities, so they should be avoided at all costs. If you claim the material copied was not protected by copyright, you have the burden to verify that the material is compatibly licensed or in the public domain. Even if the plagiarized material is indeed in the public domain, as you previously asserted (supported by little evidence), this does not translate into a blanket approval for copying the material verbatim, especially when the source in contention sounds entirely promotional in tone. Please see WP:G11 and WP:G12 for further details. Also, I don't see how any other editors could help "fix" an article substantially based on plagiarized material. It is better to start from scratch than trying to improve on an article which was blatantly plagiarized. Furthermore, deleting the article also does not "remove it from public record". Most of the "deleted" material is still readily available at the subject's webpage. Finally, please assume good faith at all times and refrain from hastily interpreting another users' comment on your article as an WP:IDONTLIKEIT argument. Thanks. --Dps04 (talk) 14:43, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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