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Hi Sam. Can you edit your common.js and remove the double brackets around Copyvio-revdel in line 359. Even though it's in a comment section the software is pulling it up as a link to {{Copyvio-revdel}} and is adding your common.js to Category:Requested RD1 redactions. Bizarre I know and I had it happen to me previously. Nthep (talk) 11:55, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done, and thanks for telling me, Nthep. Embarrassingly, I have made this mistake before, and I know that at least some templates mentioned in js file comments should not include curly brackets as that will make the js file end up in a maintenance category. My apologies for sleeping on the watch and missing this instance. Best, SamSailor12:14, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Oona Wikiwalker: If you are certain, then follow WP:BACKWARDSCOPY: add a {{backwards copy}} to Talk:A-MAC, then remove {{Copypaste|date=October 2021}} from the article.I notice that the editor who added {{copypaste}} to the article in this diff did so manually, and had to correct a typo in the next diff. They did not include a |url=, which in my opinion makes the tag less useful – are other editors supposed to guess from where some of the text supposedly was copied? (I'm surprised to see that |url= is optional, see the template documentation.) The editor left no comment on Talk:A-MAC.I also notice that in this diff two minutes earlier, they manually tagged with {{Unsourced|date=October 2021}}. {{Unsourced}} is a redirect to {{unreferenced}}. That is an incorrect tag, as the article contained a general reference listed in the ==External links== section, but some editors are unaware of the explicit restriction listed in the template documentation:
Watch out for lists of general references that someone has incorrectly listed under ==External links==. If the link leads to a reliable source that supports some article content, then that website is a reference, not just an external link.
But that would have required opening the link and confirming that the source is reliable and supports some content, and ideally converting the URL to a {{cite web}}, moving it inline, changing the ==External links== section to a ==References== section, and adding a {{reflist}}. Then the correct maintenance template would have been {{one source}}.I have sourced the article with three additional book sources in this diff. SamSailor08:16, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for your careful attention and advice. It's certain that Eyreland posted the content in question and that Mr. Sharp posted his five years later, but I do not know for certain where Mr. Sharp got it. He says on his blog that he makes himself difficult to contact and, indeed, I don't find an email address for him, even searching through the page source. What is the best thing to do for Wikipedia? Is this small enough and old enough that I should just tag the talk page with {{ backwards copy}} and let things go at that? Should I pursue the Non-compliance process? I realize our interaction doesn't qualify me to expect legal advice from you or absolve me of responsibility for my actions; I'm just asking you what you would do in my position. I really have no idea. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 22:19, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2007 image used in A-MACYou're most welcome, I'm happy if I can help.Let's look at the findings: 1. A-MAC looked like this in October 2006. Over the next four years there were only about 15 revisions to the article. Between June 2010 and March 2012, no edits were made to the article, ergo this June 2010 revision is what Frank Sharp was looking at when he wrote his Blogspot page in 2010–2011. 2. If we compare the June 2010 revision with the Blogspot page using Earvig's Copyvio Detector, this is the result. I think that most people will agree with you that this is a case of bacwards copy. That seems a much more plausible explanation than thinking Eyereland and Frank Sharp coincidentally copied, verbatim, the exact same four lines from some obscure source that today is no longer indexed by Google. I will add a third finding: 3. Compare the 2007 file Multiplexed Analogue Components transmission (simulation).jpg (thumb on the right) with this Frank Sharp image file. They look suspeciously identical, don't they? Better still, if we compare the original upload on Commons with Frank Sharp's file, we find that the
file on Commons is 950 × 576 pixels and 159 KB, and
Frank Sharp's file is 952 × 578 pixels and 157 KB.
Typically it's up to the person who wrote the content to initiate a non-compliance complaint. I suggest adding the backwardscopy template and removing the copypaste tag. — Diannaa🍁 (talk) 20:19, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
for catching the mistake in my edit in Croatia. I normally do look at the preview but for whatever reason was confident that was in the caption and so wasn't as diligent. Skynxnex (talk) 17:20, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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