User talk:TopScholarNZHistory1993

May 2022
Your edit to George Vesey Stewart has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. Theo (talk)  17:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi. I just read the policy of Wikipedia about copy pasting text and in this instance it's expressly permissible: It is acceptable to copy text from public domain sources or those that are explicitly licensed under a compatible licensing scheme. Attribution give credit to the original author is always required whether or not the text is free: see Wikipedia:Plagiarism.). There is a guide for embedding freely licensed content (either public domain or Wikipedia Compatible licenses), at Wikipedia:Adding open license text to Wikipedia and the Copyright FAQ.
 * Te Ara content is licensed for use under Creative Commons. What is your objection? Do you dispute the Wikipedia policy? or do you dispute that the content falls within the policy? Or do you dispute the attribution? Please can you clarify so we can focus on understanding and resolving your objection.
 * Can you also either unblock me from editing or explain why you blocked me without warning when the Wikipedia guidance says PERSISTENT VIOLATORS WILL BE BLOCKED. In this case, it was not persistent, it's my first ever edit. Second, it's not a violation, because it has a Creative Commons license. Your to say if you disagree. And thirdly, you gave no warning. That seems quite unfriendly to me but I'm new here and maybe it's normal for people to do that. I will await your answer before taking next steps. This is important. Tell me if I'm getting somethingoobvisou wrong here. TopScholarNZHistory1993 (talk) 18:01, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi TopScholarNZHistory1993! Welcome to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence. Noncommercial licenses are not compatible with Wikipedia, per the guidance at WP:Compatible license, so it can't be reused here. For clarification, you have not been blocked from editing; the original wording is taken from a template. DanCherek (talk) 22:50, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Ok. Got it. Sorry I didn’t appreciate the commercial usage point and the rationale obviously makes sense. So I’ve now approached the copyright holder using the Wikipedia guidance for requesting the reprint license. Since it’s a national encyclopaedia of New Zealand and they are also non-profit and the website says commercial licenses can be requested hopefully they are familiar with the process and willing to grant the license. If and when that is provided with the requisite email confirmation sent to the Wikipedia email address specified in the request guidance I will then redo the edit. If it’s refused, I will rewrite the piece myself consistently with the guidance about not plagiarising, being factual etc. That will take me rather more time so I’m hopeful plan A works. Glad to hear I’ve not been banned. Thank you for the dialogue. Wikipedia is my favourite website by a long long way. I’m a small donor in your eyes but your a big beneficiary in mine ! TopScholarNZHistory1993 (talk) 20:31, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi TopScholar, just checking in to reciprocate the thanks for the dialogue. No hard feelings were meant. Wishing you the best of luck furthering information on the country I was born in ;) Theo  (talk)  20:03, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Theo for saying that although it wasn’t nexessary. and if I had known people call one another by usernames here I never would’ve chosen my one! Must sound a pretentious you know what. Hey I still not heard back from the NZ museum, oddly because normally NZ is very good on response times and they specified one. But I’m busy with stuff so not chasing. Will circle back when I get down news. TopScholarNZHistory1993 (talk) 15:59, 11 June 2022 (UTC)