User talk:Sphilbrick/Archive 92

VPI?
I assume you meant WP:VPI here? -- RoySmith (talk) 17:22, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops, yes. Thanks for noticing.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  17:39, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

VNIIFTRI
I deleted the direct copy text on VNIIFTRI. What else needs to be done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by VickHard (talk • contribs) 12:18, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I addressed the Revdel. No opinion on remaining issues.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  12:33, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

OTRS question
Hi, Sphilbrick! At Michael Avenatti you recently removed mention of his child per an OTRS request. Did that OTRS request say anything about his marital status? According to many sources, he and his wife are divorced or divorcing. Most of the sources are unreliable, Hollywood-gossip type blurbs, but it was also mentioned at Fox News. I’m not going to make any change to the infobox based on these sources, but I wondered about the OTRS. Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 19:15, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, there are limitations to what I can say without asking permission, but I don't think it is out of line to say that the OTRS email included no reliable sources, so couldn't be used to make any additions to the article. I'll also add that there was an OTRS email, and I did remove a mention, but the removal was my decision, not the request.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  21:57, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks anyhow. I know you have to request the privacy of OTRS material. --MelanieN (talk) 00:01, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

George Cheyne
The copyright issue is rather strange. I am the copyright owner of this work The Spiritual Side of Samuel Richardson and am a specialist (Ph.D) on George Cheyne. I felt the need to correct some mistakes and add extra information. I really do not want to have any conflicts whatsoever and really would very much like to continue my edit on this page. Best regards, Hanengerda (talk) 13:04, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for contacting me.


 * As you are no doubt aware, the document is clearly marked as follows:


 * &copy; G.J. Joling - van der Sar 2003
 * All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
 * manner whatsoever without written permission from the author.


 * If you are the copyright holder, you can provide a free license for the material which would allow it to be used in Wikipedia (with respect copyright issues — I'm not commenting on reliable source issues).


 * You can read more about how to arrange for this here:


 * Donating_copyrighted_materials-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:12, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Re ping -- S Philbrick  (Talk)  13:13, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your quick response. I am slightly confused now. I am not really using parts of my book or reproducing it. I am merely giving the source so as to make verification possible for third parties, just as I am mentioning other books such as the one by Anita Guerrini. Anyone may use texts from my book (and my articles) as long as they quote my book (and the articles) as the source. Hanengerda (talk) 13:28, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Your edit inlcuded the following:

''Cheyne received a classical education, being at first intended for the ministry. However, on the advice of Dr Archibald Pitcairn, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh and chief representative of the so-called iatromathematical school of medical science, which drew close analogies between the human body and a machine, Cheyne went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. During these years he may have spent a brief time in Leiden''

Page 36 of the book has the following passage:

''He received a classical education, being at first intended for the ministry. However, on the advice of Dr Archibald Pitcairn, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh and chief representative of the socalled iatromathematical school of medical science, which drew close analogies between the human body and a machine, Cheyne went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. During these years he may have spent a brief time in Leiden''

Does this help? -- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:54, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

I'd also like to bring your attention to MOS:QUOTE, and Quotations. Wikipedia does allow quotations of copyrighted material but the quotations must be short, clearly marked (quotation marks or set off in block quotes) and properly attributed. While I don't think we have a formal rule on length, we generally insist on shorter quotations than many other publications permit.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  14:04, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your examples. I do sincerely hope that the changes we have made are now acceptable to Wikipedia. Best regards, Hanengerda (talk) 15:33, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

== Regarding article- Larger Pacific striped octopus ==

You reverted all my edits on this article on a single click without even verifying all the edits. You cited "https://www.futurity.org/octopus-behavior-982652/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=taboola&utm_term=sciencealert" for the copyright issue. But, the fact is only some part of the article was "copied" as such, otherwise my other edits were written and researched by me. What you did is so 'mean' that it discourages me from editing Wikipedia further because the revert that you did took you not more than few minutes, but it took me five hours to jot down the whole work with its exact sources. You might be an "Administrator" but you are definitely not a good one because you easily overlooked my work, which cost me hours. Thank you for making me realise that no matter how good we try to be, there will always be mean people like you. Suman chowdhury 22 (talk) 14:43, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I try to spend a few hours working on potential copyright issues every day. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every month, and it takes quite a bit of time to handle each of these.


 * Some of these are what I will call "clean". An editor copies some material from someplace into a couple in a single edit and makes no other edits to the article at that time. If we catch that before any other editor has edited the article, it is fairly straightforward to roll back to the earlier version, and then do a revision deletion on the edit involving the copyright violation.


 * In other cases, the situation is not quite as clean. The editor may have made only a single edit but it incorporates some copyrighted material and some written in their own words. It may also include some straight and some of the material which has been loosely paraphrased which total counts as a copyright violation. I copyright software is very good at detecting straight copies and it doesn't okay job of detecting some loose paraphrasing but it's not as good. Rather than spend a considerable amount of time deciding what part of the edit is a straight copy, what part of the edit is a close paraphrase and also a copyright violation and what part of the edit is original wording from the editor, it is our general practice to rollback the edit. If there was some material that was not a copyright violation, the editor is free to add it again if it works in context.


 * More problematic are situations where an editor makes a series of edits. Sometimes, an editor will make an edit including material from a copyrighted source, and follow that up with a series of additional edits reworking the added material. In that case, it would obviously be wrong to undo only the initial edit. In other cases, the editor may make an edit including material from a copyrighted source as well as some other edits material in their own words. While you might prefer that we remove only the edit including the copyrighted material, it is very possible that the subsequent material builds on that and makes no sense standing alone. Is quite time-consuming to sort out from a sequence of edits exactly which ones involve copyrighted material, which ones involve noncopyrighted material but would make no sense if the copyrighted material is removed and which ones involve no copyrighted material but might be okay if left in. We simply don't have the time to do this type of in-depth analysis on a regular basis. For that reason, it is our practice to use rollback. In other words, if the sequence of edits includes at least one clear copyright issue, rollback restores the article to the state prior to the first edit.


 * I'm quite aware that the use of rollback can, and does occasionally undo some otherwise acceptable edits. In your particular case, you made a sequence of nine edits, three of which were tagged as being copyright issues. I think I am justified in using rollback even if only one were tagged but the fact that three were tagged makes this clear situation where rollback is appropriate. (In fact, it just occurred to me that when I did the revision deletion I only picked up the most recent copyright so I'll go back and expand the revision deletion).


 * I am truly sorry that our approach to managing copyright issues may have undone some acceptable edits. However, while that may result in a wastage of your time, I don't think it's fair to suggest that editors working on copyright issues should triple the time they spend analyzing potential violations in order to save a few minutes in a few cases. I do understand that it can be discouraging to see a fair amount of work wiped out. I hope you can also appreciate that if Wikipedia fails to aggressively remove copyright violations the entire project is in danger. If you don't commit copyright violations, you won't lose your work. (As an aside, I continue to be astounded that some editors apparently spend hours in an edit window and don't compose edits off-line. Which is happened, and I've heard of editors losing hours of work because they didn't use an off-line editor. Is it truly the case that you did five hours of work and did not save any of it off line?)-- S Philbrick  (Talk)  15:07, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

No, I did not save even a single byte of my content in off-line mode. Maybe, that's my mistake. Perhaps, it is even a bigger mistake to have considered about contributing to any article.Suman chowdhury 22 (talk) 15:30, 27 July 2018 (UTC)


 * As a serious question, put yourself in my shoes and imagine that you saw a sequence of nine edits, three of which were tagged by our copyright software program as being copies. How would you have handled it if it was your responsibility to address the problem? I truly mean this as a serious question. All of us who carry out administrative type functions tend to develop a process over time. It is always wise to question those processes if they are not optimal. On several occasions in the past, someone has pointed out that a process I used could be improved, and I strive to do so. I'm more than one occasion I've modified a process to reflect legitimate issues. If you can identify ways to improve the process, I'm listening.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:38, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

BIOS
I'm confused why you reverted me on BIOS (here). My edit was a cleanup of some vandalism by an IP that has repeatedly blanked huge hunks of the article with no explanation. Similar huge removals by another IP on the same ISP in India were reverted on June 4 by (see this edit). It seems to be pretty clearly disruptive/nonproductive editing. Am I missing something here? --Krelnik (talk) 23:53, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm as puzzled as you are.


 * Our copyright detection software catches a lot of things, but sometimes it has a false positive, especially in the case of reversions of unexplained removals. however, I specifically recall looking at your edit summary, and agreed that no action was needed. In fact, I just double checked the log and I marked it as "no action needed". Whenever I do a rollback, I always, always leave an edit summary and the edit summary there is the default when you don't enter anything, so the only thing I can imagine is that I accidentally clicked rollback and didn't realize it. Sorry. And thanks for raising it politely. It isn't even the case that I misread the situation and accidentally rollback I still am not quite sure what happened but I undid my edit.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  02:54, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


 * No problem, when I see something I don't understand, especially when there are admins involved, I figure some sort of cleanup might be going on that I hadn't heard of or whatever - never hurts to ask. Cheers. --Krelnik (talk) 15:06, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I wish more followed that rule.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:48, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Question for ya
Hey Sphilbrick! Would you be willing to help me out? I am working with the Emporia State University photographer with photographs for administrators and coaches that have articles here. He has uploaded several and are awaiting OTRS... would you be willing to look them up? They are Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4, Image 5, and Image 6. He uploaded all images. Thanks, Corky  18:03, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll look into it.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  20:33, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Found and processed 4, still looking for image 1 and image 5.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  20:41, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Found one more.
 * I did not find one for David Cordle.


 * I see that several permissions statements were sent in (for future use, it is acceptable to identify multiple images in one permission statement, as long as the license is the same). Someone merged the six entries, but one had just a footing comment and no content, presumably the David Cordle one.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  20:54, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch, sir! I am guessing they used the Wikimedia OTRS release generator (not sure if you can add multiple photos or not, and I doubt if they know). I will let them know about Cordle's image and see if they can re-send it. Thanks, Corky  21:23, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * That's a good point. I think you can use the release generator for multiple files, but I think it's mildly tricky, so my guess is they uploaded one at a time, used the release generator for each one and one of them hiccupped.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  21:52, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
 * David Cordle now resolved. There was also an issue involving Seth Wheeler but I believe it has been resolved. Keep up the good work.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:45, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! They should be uploading three more soon (hopefully by the end of the week). I recommended them to just email the permission for the other three files with the same ticket number, that way it causes less trouble! Thanks for your help! Corky  15:54, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, using the same ticket number will help, as it will pop up on my list. I'm traveling for a few days, but give me a heads up if it isn't handled promptly.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:56, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Will do. Hope you don't mind me asking, what was the issue with Seth Wheeler's image if you're able to tell me? I am mainly wanting to know if it was communication on my part or the photographer's... enjoy your travels! Corky  22:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No big deal. Some enthusiastic editor found the image online and tagged it as a copyrvio, but I removed the notice immmmediately after processing the permission. S Philbrick (Talk)  22:56, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, perfect! Good to know it was just that, thanks! Corky  00:28, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, Sphilbrick. One last request for you dealing with the same ticket number (#2018071710006756)... File:Jory Collins.jpg, File:Toby Wynn.jpg, and File:Craig Doty.jpg. Hopefully they used the same ticket number (as I suggested), but I'm not sure! Thanks, Corky  22:52, 2 August 2018 (UTC)


 * It's actually three different ticket numbers but I found them all and processed them all. Thanks for the heads up.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  00:01, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

W2O Group
Hi Sphilbrick. I was wondering if you had a minute to take a look at some changes I suggested on the Talk page here on an article where I have a COI. CorporateM (Talk) 15:41, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅-- S Philbrick (Talk)  00:52, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry about that.
I did not know that was considered copyright infringement. The game does exist. I thought it would be okay to do a page about it and I'm sorry about all this. Kristie Ann Webb (talk) 14:22, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Besides, it's for the best not to create the page for that. If creating a page may cause copyright issues, then I have no further business creating any page. I think I'm done for a long time. 😭 Kristie Ann Webb (talk) 16:10, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Many new editors make similar mistakes. It is easy to cure. Write in your own words.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  00:53, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Smart Technologies
I reverted your change to Smart Technologies. I did this solely because the old logo was public domain while the new logo is a fair-use image. You may have good reason to prefer the fair-use image instead. If so, I'm happy to have that discussion. Just ping me! --Yamla (talk) 18:48, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The old logo may be public domain but it is not the current logo. I understand the preference for a public domain over a fair use image if the two are identical but when one is the wrong image and the other is the right image, I'd say the fair use image, which is the current one, is better.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  18:53, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm... not certain. But you make a sufficiently convincing argument that I'd be happy to have you redo your change. :) --Yamla (talk) 19:00, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain either, but the logo I added was provided by the company, after noting that the pd logo was not the currrent one and asking for help fixing it, so the odds are in my faovr. Can you do the revert?-- S Philbrick (Talk)  19:10, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Will do. --Yamla (talk) 19:15, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for the discussion. :) --Yamla (talk) 19:16, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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Discretionary sanctions alert

 * I am posting this on your talkpage out of an abundance of caution solely because you recently edited Talk:Sarah Jeong and, as the message says, not suggesting any policy violation by you (I realize that as an experienced editor you already know this). Abecedare (talk) 01:32, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Copyright
When I upload an image, are the rules for doing so here the same as at Wikimedia commons or are they different?? I have photos i want to add to an article on video games that I took at E3 a few years ago and I am afraid if i upload it someone will delete it unfairly. thanks JC7V -constructive zone  05:04, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There are some differences but the differences mainly relate to fair use images. It sounds like you are talking about photos you took and presumably are willing to freely license. That case the rules are the same with the exception that such photos belong at Commons so they can be uploaded to Wikipedia but they will be tagged and moved to common so it's better to start by uploading to Commons.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:39, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of recent contributions to Michael Okpara University page
Please, I will be more grateful if you can enlighten me on the copyright issue for the recent deletion of my contributions to the aforementioned page. In other for me to improve in my editorial skills. Barolove (talk) 11:39, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Click on "view History" to see the edit summary> (Reverted good faith edits by Barolove (talk): Copyright issue re http://mouau.edu.ng/about/historical-background. That identifies the copyrighted source which closely matched your edit.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  11:44, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, hope I can still edit it by modifying the wordings to be a bit different from the original source and acknowledge the source of information.Barolove (talk) 11:52, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * A "bit" different is not enough and is called Close paraphrasing, still a problem. It needs to be written in your own words.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  11:55, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Please you know there are some terms/words that cannot be changed when used by another person, for example, College of Education, College of Natural Sciences as were used. I will be glad if help me to recast such words/statements or preferable show me the way(s) to recast them. Thanks Barolove (talk) 12:04, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * A 3 word phrase is not a problem, Check out this comparison.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:10, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * just tried viewing your suggested page "this comparison", but after registering, I noticed that I have to pay some token before accessing any relevant information in the page. Thanks for your kind gesture so far, I will recompose my former edits before posting them. Barolove (talk) 13:41, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * You shouldn't have to pay anything. If you cannot see it, the main point is that there are duplicate phrases much longer than 3 words. Also, you do not have to ping me, I automatically get a notice.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:58, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Verastem
Hi can you please check my response to your "speedy deletion" mark of the article Verastem? I believe that was erroneous as the language you found was a full study name which I had to use exactly as it appears on various posters and scientific pubs. Dolcevikasf (talk) 23:42, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I responded there, but on the chance it gets deleted a copy my response here:


 * The issue isn't the title of the study. The third paragraph of the article, the 64 word sentence starting with:


 * "Verastem Oncology's New Drug Application (NDA)..."


 * Is an exact copy of wording found here-- S Philbrick (Talk)  00:19, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for clarifying. The language &lt;copyvio redacted> is from an officially approved corporate PR boilerplate. Verastem PR wrote it, approved with Legal and Regulatory committee, and provided to all media sources. That's why Public now uses this language, and every single press release does too. I unfortunately cannot re-write corporate boilerplate and have to use exact same sentence. It is used on LinkedIn as well as other corporate profiles. https://www.linkedin.com/company/verastem/   Beauty of Pharma industry. If you see a potential solution - I'd be happy to explore. Otherwise, I need to leave this sentence as is. Thanks and let me know what else I can do to fix your deletion recommendation. --Dolcevikasf (talk) 00:28, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * What rubbish! "Corporate boilerplate" is precisely the stuff we do not need on Wikipedia. What else you can do? Out comes my usual mantra: wait until someone who a) has no CoI and b) is capable of writing an article without including corporate boilerplate, thinks your company is notable and writes about it here. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:46, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * It is quite understandable that an organization might wish to carefully craft some wording describing the organization and encourage writers choosing to write about the organization to use that exact wording.However, there are two problems associated with using that word. The first is that no evidence has been provided that the organization has released the words under a free license. Without that, it is still technically a copyright violation even if "everybody knows it's okay to use the words". The first problem could be cured with a free license but I don't encourage that because that would not resolve the second problem. Any set of words crafted by the organization, however well-intentioned, are by definition crafted by the organization and not independent of the organization. Our goal is a neutral, independent write-up of the organization (assuming it qualifies as notable). While the official words of an organization are to be reviewed by any editor, a properly written article will look at descriptions of the organization as crafted by independent writers, and put together a new description (not a copy of any one of the descriptions) to use in an article.


 * Editing of Wikipedia is both easier and harder than some people imagine. It is easier in the sense that many new editors are astounded that they can literally click "edit", add some text and save, and in seconds, they have contributed to a well-known encyclopedia. It is harder sense that some people find how technically easy it is to add text, and then do a casual search of the Internet, find some relevant text and decide to add it. The actual process of doing some research, reviewing multiple independent sources, and then writing from scratch, original wording to reflect what sources say turns out to be much more challenging task than copy-and-paste or lightly paraphrase.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:14, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * so was the page removed - I cannot find it at this point. I will need to submit the re written sentence to Legal for approval. Can I find the page in the drafts somewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.24.42.57 (talk) 13:24, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry to be blunt but it appears you are not comprehending the advice the two of us are providing to you. You do not "need to submit the re written sentence to Legal for approval". Wikipedia is written by independent editors. If you are associated with the company you shouldn't be writing the article. If you are not associated with the company, there is no need to interact with their legal department. The organization does not have the right to approve or disapprove the language.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:32, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * this is not exactly accurate as wikipedia is full of language taken from corporate boilerplate sources. I have no problem re-writing the article myself and rely on independent sources. However, please take a look at any company page including facebook, google, IBM or Genentech, and compare it to their publicly available corporate brochures. You'd be amazed. Your advice only goes as far as how much you are willing to scrutinize the source. Dolcevikasf (talk) 22:29, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm not quite sure what I said that you think is not accurate. If I said there is no boilerplate in any Wikipedia article, please point it out and I will remove that claim. I and several other volunteers spend many hours each day searching for newly added boilerplate and removing it. I can link to literally thousands of articles where this has happened. That said, when you are the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, it is inevitable that some will slip through. If you point out an example, I'll remove it.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  22:35, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I just saw corp bs on Netflix page. Will find the language and let you know. That said, I did not keep a draft of the page you deleted, and now lost the references. is there any way to get the draft? Or at least references? It took me a while to comb clinicaltrials.gov site to find the corresponsing trial numbers... Dolcevikasf (talk) 22:47, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Email sent.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  23:56, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * got it thank you! Dolcevikasf (talk) 01:03, 15 August 2018 (UTC)