User talk:Wisephil1

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Recent edit reversion
In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. ~ S Philbrick  (Talk)  12:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Wisephil1! Your additions to F. C. S. Schiller have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues. It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Our policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 03:51, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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 * Hi, Dan. I heavily edited the previous article, adding mostly the last half, the "Later Philosophy" section. Most of the long quotes were NOT added by me, but a previous contributor. I tried to cut them down in my own edit, but could not as they were "block quotes." and there were no guidelines on how to do so. My additions meet your guidelines, and I did not add any long quotes that would violate "fair use."
 * 2. All of Schiller's writings are now in the public domain, since his last published work was 1938. After 75 years the copyright expires. So the previous contributor is free to quote away, although there is one long quote that should be cut down and summarized. I did not want to delete too much of his work, since he took the time and trouble to write the first article.
 * So please restore my additions. Wisephil1 (talk) 16:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, Dan. I heavily edited the previous article, adding mostly the last half, the "Later Philosophy" section. Most of the long quotes were NOT added by me, but a previous contributor. I tried to cut them down in my own edit, but could not as they were "block quotes." and there were no guidelines on how to do so. My additions meet your guidelines, and I did not add any long quotes that would violate "fair use."
 * 2. All of Schiller's writings are now in the public domain, since his last published work was 1938. After 75 years the copyright expires. So the previous contributor is free to quote away, although there is one long quote that should be cut down and summarized. I did not want to delete too much of his work, since he took the time and trouble to write the first article.
 * So please restore my additions. Wisephil1 (talk) 16:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)