User talk:Win.monroe

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August 2010
This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Economy of Estonia, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. Sander Säde 16:48, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Sander, I saw that you removed my input of Estonia's Doing Business rank on the Economy of Estonia page and contacted me, regarding it as spam. It may appear as such, but I am simply imputing the new economic indicator into the appropriate economy infoboxes, of which there are many. I have discussed adding the Doing Business Rank on the appropriate template: infobox economy talk page and with an editor helping me learn how to implement it. I hope this clears up what I am doing and if you don't approve of the indicator, I hope you will join the discussion on the talk page. Please let me know if you still take issue with my contributions and hopefully we can clear up any misunderstandings. Thanks for your time, ::Win.monroe (talk) 17:42, 19 August 2010 (UTC)Win.Monroe
 * I am sorry if it wasn't spam - I must say both URL and website looked like spam to me. I will restore the link, however, I would try to get a bit more support to the new indicator - perhaps you should see if WikiProject Economics and/or WikiProject Business have more input? -- Sander Säde 18:18, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, I assumed making a significant contribution would engender some concern (both from editors seeing category-wide changes and from political interests not approving of their rankings). I have already brought up the proposal on the Wikiprojects: Economics talk page, which includes a brief description and a link to the appropriate template: infobox economy talk page for discussion. However, contributions there are very slow, so after making the proposal and link to discussion clear, I figured that I should be bold, and that doing so would help prompt debate either for or against the new economic indicator.
 * I appreciate you taking time to get back to me about the subject and I am grateful that you agree it does not constitute spam, despite being numerous similar contributions (comparability is a requirement for infobox indicators, therefore adding one or several country's rankings is not informative or appropriate). I would appreciate it if you would remove or make clear that you retract the spam warning, as it still looks suggestive that I have done some wrong, but I think it would be inappropriate for me to change it. Thanks again for clearing this up and I appreciate you being watchful.
 * Win.monroe (talk) 18:49, 19 August 2010 (UTC)Win.Monroe

Women, Business and the Law
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Women, Business and the Law, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://wbl.worldbank.org/ExploreTopics.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

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 * While all the material was appropriately cited, it was also clearly copied from the source which means it was still a copyright violation. The source is clearly marked "©2011 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved", but even without that we cannot accept copied material except when in the public domain or under a free license as outlined above, or in brief quotes. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:39, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * VernoWhitney, thank you for the clarification regarding the copyright issue. I believe that all World Bank material is public domain, but honestly I can't find anywhere that precisely says so on their website. As such, I have rewritten the page, using my language and only shorter, cited quotes from the WBL page. I was hoping there might be a way I could show you a preview in order to determine whether it is a violation of any kind before posting it. Either way, thank you for your assistance.Win.Monroe

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