User talk:JBW

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Can you undelete my wikipedia page for Arizona Arts so I can edit the post to make it fit the guidelines. Since you deleted it I am unable to start over and since I was assigned to create a wiki page for my workplace (Arizona Arts) I would appreciate if you could undo what you did. I read that after a page gets declined I can edit it until I get it right, but you ruined things. Arilynndh (talk) 20:35, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If there were no other considerations I would be reluctant to restore such material, written from start to finish as a piece of marketing copy, but I would consider possibly doing so. However, there is another problem. The page consisted substantially, and perhaps entirely, of material copied from the web site of the university, some of it verbatim, some of it very closely paraphrased. That is contrary to Wikipedia's copyright policy, and restoring it is not permitted by policy. Such copied text would not be allowed to be posted anywhere on Wikipedia unless the University were to provide an unambiguous statement that the text is freely licensed for anyone in the world to reuse, either as it is or modified in any way whatsoever, for any purpose whatsoever, subject only to suitable attribution to the Wikipedia page in question. It seems to me highly improbable that will happen. JBW (talk) 07:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me where exactly is it copied from the website. I wrote the whole article with the exception of the departments and the impact reports when I had to consult my boss as well as the department heads of each school. For the facilities I also used the website to write a description of the place, but I used my own words. Arilynndh (talk) 22:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, Arilynndh, I have looked back at the deleted draft. The amount of text which was detected as copied was, in fact, much smaller than I remembered, and a significant part of that was trivial matter such as titles and names. Nevertheless, there was some text which was unambiguously copied. Compare, for example, the following from https://arts.arizona.edu/bio/andrew-schulz/:

• Andrew Schulz joined the University of Arizona as Dean of the College of Fine Arts in July 2018. In January 2019, he was named the inaugural Vice President for the Arts and charged with carrying out the reimagined vision for the arts at the University of Arizona, as defined in the university’s Strategic Plan

with the following from the draft which you posted:

• In July 2018, Andrew Schulz joined the University of Arizona as dean of the College of Fine Arts ... In January 2019, Schulz was named the inaugural vice president for the arts and was charged with carrying out the reimagined vision for the arts, highlighted in the university's strategic plan.

Those were essentially copies of the same text, with minor changes in wording.

Or turn to https://arts.arizona.edu/impact-reports/#flipbook-df_11514/1/ and compare:

• The annual State of the Arts Impact Report captures the extraordinary accomplishments of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni

with:

• Each year, Arizona Arts releases an impact report that captures the extraordinary accomplishments of students, staff, faculty, and alumni.

In view of the fact that the amount of copying was much smaller than had been my impression, I will restore the draft for you to attempt to improve it. However, please bear in mind that you must comply with all of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and that failure to do so may result in deletion of material and possibly a block from editing. JBW (talk) 08:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi JBW! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:29, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please also look into User:Alejitao123/sandbox5. It claims that a requirement for Argentine citizenship is to "Convert to the communism." It also claims that "Argentine Russian-language ability" used to be a requirement for citizenship. Thank you, Air on White (talk) 21:15, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Air on White: Thank you for pointing that out. I have deleted the page. As you may have seen, I had already deleted a number of userspace pages from that editor. I was tempted to just delete everything in their userspace, but that would be questionable. Checking each one individually was a slow procedure, as in many cases the vandalism is well hidden, and I evidently missed that bit. I will put some more time into the task, and of course you are very welcome to point out any clear cases that you see. JBW (talk) 07:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The page ""Talent Public School Narakkal"" wasn't made for or from advertising point of view, initially the article was an inspiration for me from pages like "Hidhayathul Islam Higher Secondary School" and "Toc-H Public School"

As I created article within for same day edit. I wish to improve it, from a neutral point of view and with WP Guidelines and Policies. Thank you MrBlank7 (talk) 18:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MrBlank7: The article was absolutely unambiguously promotional, describing its subject in glowing terms. However, there is a more important problem. As you know, almost all the content of the article was copied from the school's website, as can easily be seen by comparing it with https://talentpublicschoolnjarackal.com/ and https://talentpublicschoolnjarackal.com/submenudisplay/ABOUT%20US. It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. Certainly we can't accept text previously published on a web site which has a copyright notice saying "all rights reserved", as in the case of material you have posted. Copyright infringing text cannot be restored to Wikipedia. JBW (talk) 07:52, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I realise mistake being done. To improve, I meant, removing all the copyrighted texts, and leave only main point of the notable page. Sorry for copying, that indeed too was additions of text. Further allowing to restore the page would be grateful for me to make myself further edits as per neutral point of view. As like told, took as an inspiration to create a page from Hidhayathul Islam Higher Secondary School. So I'd rectify those copying of content from the website rather than filling unnecessary copy of text. MrBlank7 (talk) 11:32, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MrBlank7:0 It's natural to look at existing articles to see how to create a new one, but unfortunately not all existing articles are good ones to follow, and Hidhayathul Islam Higher Secondary School is not a good article.

There's no question of restoring copyright infringing text to Wikipedia, but I can email it to you if you enable email in your account preferences. Let me know if you do. JBW (talk) 18:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Surely @JBW, thank you for help. Reach me out by email.

MrBlank7 (talk) 08:06, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MrBlank7: I've emailed the wiki markup of the article to you. JBW (talk) 09:56, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted from NON-archive talk what you already re-archived into ARCHIVE: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGeometrized_unit_system&diff=1231874423&oldid=1231154219 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.30.188.245 (talk) 19:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He wrongly restores what is ALREADY re-archived by you: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGeometrized_unit_system&diff=1230936662&oldid=1230896811 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.30.188.245 (talk) 19:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I saw that you EC'd Woody Paige almost a decade ago. Considering no vandalism or sockpuppetry has occurred since the protection was added, could you unprotect it?

Thanks. OzzyOlly (talk) 20:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OzzyOlly:  Done. Let's hope the problem has gone. JBW (talk) 20:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"11:48, 16 March 2023 JBW talk contribs deleted page ISO/IEC 29110 (G12: copyright infringement of http://www.cetic.be/Software-lifecycle-for-Very-Small &ttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/322059955_Applying_Software_Engineering_Standards_in_Very_Small_Entities_From_Startups_to_Grownups Copyright infringing text has been present since the creation of the article"

The copyright of ISO standards is owned by ISO (www.iso.org)no one else can claim copyright. The deleted article was published by the editors of the ISO 29110 series and members of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG24 to inform and help the VSEs. The page must be restored , the cancellation is not justified. SWSYeng (talk) 16:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SWSYeng: I'm not entirely sure what you are saying. Do you mean that copyright in all or part of the deleted text is owned by the ISO? If so, far from being a reason why the article should be restored, it is a reason why it must not be restored, as the ISO's copyright statement, as seen at https://www.iso.org/copyright.html, says "All content on ISO Online is copyright protected. The copyright is owned by ISO. Any use of the content, including copying of it in whole or in part, for example to another Internet site, is prohibited and would require written permission from ISO. All ISO publications are also protected by copyright. The copyright ownership of ISO is clearly indicated on every ISO publication. Any unauthorized use such as copying, scanning or distribution is prohibited." JBW (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As ISO is the owner of the copyright cetic.be can not claim any infringement, the copyright is related to ISO publications those can not be copied or scanned and so on. The ISO Technical Committees are used to publish articles on Wikipedia to inform and to promote their standards in many languages,this is a very welcome marketing practice by ISO, please have a look, for instance, at ISO 9000 or ISO 27000 pages, or at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_standards . The same has been done to inform about ISO 29110. Therefore, either Wikipedia removes all the references to ISO and then what is the purpose of Wikipedia? or Wikipedia restore ISO 29110 article. SWSYeng (talk) 14:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) Facts cannot be copyrighted, so the use of ISO Technical Committees as sources is perfectly fine. However, you must present the facts in your own words. Copying text directly from a source is copyright infringement and against Wikipedia policy. - ZLEA _T\^C 15:22, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Hope tou would be fine. I recently made new account and need your help. Previously, I edited on the Wikipedia by the accounts like User:Qwef1234, User:What about him?, User: Stereotypical Name, User:RoyalCharm, User:15Shelby and User:BNK2345. I admit that I did extremely wrong on violating the policies by using multiple accounts. I made many accounts but Qwef1234 was the main one, others were used rarely, and were more often after the blocking of the Qwef1234. I also want to clear that I am not related to User:Nauman335 by any means, just major areas of interest are same which led to labeling my account as the sockpuppet of Nauman335. I apologise for my deeds and now want to start from a new end. I have mentioned all the accounts that I owned, and now want to contribute to the Wikipedia by fair means. Hoep you will not disappoint me. Stay good. Wonderland92 (talk) Wonderland92 (talk) 05:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JBW -- I see you've recently been involved with block evasion by Extrapolaris. I'd appreciate any input you can offer here please! --Rlandmann (talk) 14:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]