Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2015 January 27

= January 27 =

09:02:25, 27 January 2015 review of submission by CharlesBGlazer
I was told this contains copyrighted material, but I don't know what part is at issue. As far as I know, none of it is subject to copyright protection, as I wrote it myself, and I own the photo.

CharlesBGlazer (talk) 09:02, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia assumes content is copyrighted, even if copyright is not asserted by the source. If you wrote the content and published it elsewhere online, you would need to donate it to public domain in order to re-use it here. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 15:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

09:51:16, 27 January 2015 review of submission by WikiInUser
I want to upload some images on my page 'Intent Driven Design' to make the article simpler to understand.

Can you please tell me how can I upload image from my local desktop, so that they will appear at expected position in the article ?

WikiInUser (talk) 09:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello WikiInUser, the advice you seek is at Uploading images. However, please refrain from adding images until after your article has published, as we do not need the images until then. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Request on 10:55:59, 27 January 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Seyyedhosseinzadeh
Dear Reviewer,

I have received following message on my under review article:

The submission has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

Would you please let me know what kind of "copyrighted information" and then accordingly I could resolve it.

Many thanks, Dr. Seyyedhosseinzadeh

Seyyedhosseinzadeh (talk) 10:55, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * - When you submit content onto Wikipedia, there is an agreement (just above the "Save page" button that states you agree to release contributions under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence and the GFDL. What this means is you permit all of your edits to be freely republished and even sold for profit elsewhere. Since, by default, most websites do not have this licence, a copy and paste of a site onto Wikipedia has to be considered a violation of that copyright, and incompatible with our standard text licence. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

15:11:40, 27 January 2015 review of draft by Penthrift
I think the article is ready for submission. But I have not found proof that Walter Mondale was his student, although I know from Dr. Armajani (when he was alive) that this was the case and that Mondale consulted with him during the Iran Hostage Crisis. My plan is submit the article as is, leaving in that Mondale was his student, while I search for proof of that and of his consulting during the crisis. Is that fine? Regarding the latter, if I were to get such confirmation in writing from Mondale, would that constitute "original research" and thus not be allowed? Thank you for you help. Penthrift (talk) 15:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be original research. Wikipedia would need a newspaper or scholarly article to publish that claim; you could then cite that article to source the assertion. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 15:21, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Penthrift (talk • contribs) 17:12, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

16:11:10, 27 January 2015 review of submission by ZRay22
Hi guys, I submitted this but was told that it was too similar to this document here: http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/media/library/specialcollections/documents/CwlPTCCLDApr2010.pdf

I did use this document as a source and referenced it at the bottom of the page. I also paraphrased and submitted but it was still not accepted. Could you please take a look at the page and see what else I could change? This is my first page and I'd love to get it up and running : )

ZRay22 ZRay22 (talk) 16:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC) PAGE''' ]]) 18:29, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The reviewer felt that significant portions of your article were copied directly from the source. Everything you post on Wikipedia must be written in your own words, not copied or even closely paraphrased. A quick shows several phrases and sentences that seem to exactly match that PDF. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|'''TALK

Request on 16:56:19, 27 January 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Lifeisbtrswt
I submitted an article on a notable person, David Grizzle, and it was first recommended that I add more citations/references (which I did) and then just today was rejected, apparently, for copyright material. I am trying to access the article to review for which text was in question but can't seem to access it. I wrote the article myself and though based the info on verifiable, third-party information I did not intentionally copy/steal anything from anyone.

I'd appreciate help in accessing the article--all the hard work I'd put in already to cite throughout--so I can make any necessary changes and resubmit.

Thank you.

Lifeisbtrswt (talk) 16:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello Lifeisbtrswt, the draft was deleted by an admin so that Wikipedia would not be hosting copyright violations. However, you can file a request at WP:REFUND for an admin to email you the code for your draft, so you can make modifications to it to remove any copyright material and re-post it.


 * I appreciate that you did not intend to misappropriate any material, it's just our admins and bots are very sensitive to copyright issues, so we have a "better safe than sorry" policy on deleting them. While you're working to fine-tune your draft, take a glance at our guideline WP:Copyright which has some suggestions on how to avoid unintentionally over-using a copyrighted source. Hope this helps and you can get a smooth draft back into the review line. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:31, 27 January 2015 (UTC)