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Edits like this are completely inappropriate. For facts or lore that go back to ancient authors, and for which Boccaccio is not an important authority whatsoever, references should not be added when they basically just mean, "Oh, and Boccaccio mentioned this well-known bit of mythology once!" Please help revert these inappropriate edits and stop making them. [[User:Wareh|Wareh]] 01:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC) |
Edits like this are completely inappropriate. For facts or lore that go back to ancient authors, and for which Boccaccio is not an important authority whatsoever, references should not be added when they basically just mean, "Oh, and Boccaccio mentioned this well-known bit of mythology once!" Please help revert these inappropriate edits and stop making them. [[User:Wareh|Wareh]] 01:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC) |
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== Plagiarism, again == |
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Doug, during the summer I warned you several times that your contributions included plagiarized material. Your latest edits at [[Liber sine nomine]] have reintroduced plagiarized material. For instance, after your latest edits, the description of Letter 4 reads: "This letter, written around October or November of 1352, is to the Roman people in an attempt to persuade them to demand that Cola di Rienzo be returned to Rome to stand trial there." At [http://www.loselle.com/neh/jewellb.htm], we find "Letter 4 is to the Roman people in an attempt to persuade them to demand that Cola di Rienzo be returned to Rome to stand trial." |
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Letter 5 reads: "One of Petrarch’s favorite rhetorical devices was the metonymy and here he uses a synecdoche, a type of metonymy, when he describes his frustration with Biblical words and phrases." At [http://www.loselle.com/neh/jewellb.htm], we find: "One of Petrarch’s favorite rhetorical devices is the metonymy. In Letter 5 he uses a synecdoche, a type of metonymy." |
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Copying text from other sources verbatim, unless you indicate that you are quoting directly, is both [[plagiarism]] and [[copyright violation]], and is not acceptable upon Wikipedia, or indeed in any medium. You never responded directly to my warnings about plagiarism, and from your recent edits, I suspect that you may not understand that your edits are problematic. Please address this issue; if you do not respond, and you continue to introduce plagiarized text into Wikipedia, you may be blocked from further editing. [[User:Akhilleus|--Akhilleus]] ([[User talk:Akhilleus|talk]]) 05:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC) |
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- If I left a message on your 'Talk Page', then please reply there. I am temporarly watching it. I will get back to you there.
- If you asked me a question here, I will answer here. This way then both parts of the conversation are in the same place.
Blanking of talk page
Hi Doug, I just wanted to let you know that when you blank your talk page without archiving, especially if the page contains warnings (such as this one), your action will often be interpreted as if you're trying to hide something. You may want to create an archive of your user talk page: instructions for doing so can be found here: Help:Archiving a talk page. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:25, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, I see you archived your talk page into User:Doug Coldwell/Sandboxes/Archive 3. --Akhilleus (talk) 18:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Bowling Alley
Hey Doug,
Love the 2 pictures of the automatic scoring machines. Was wondering if you could tell me where that bowling alley was located and if it still exists as it does in the pictures. I would love to know. Thanks!
Jeff (user name: gaffbag)
Creating Wiki pages from same book
Hi Doug,
I don't have access to "Famous Women", but a couple thoughts? If there's only one source for the articles you're adding, and the events are long in the past, aren't these Wiki articles in some sense a paraphrase? If so, adding another layer of distance from the historical facts might contribute to diluting them. As a historian, I'm really more interested (now that you've reminded me) in finding the original. Would creating a copy for Project Gutenberg achieve something constructive?
Regards
24.6.67.7 22:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Book Without A Name.JPG
Thank you for uploading Image:Book Without A Name.JPG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI 23:44, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- Mistake - really meant to upload as a newer version of image at Wikimedia Commons. --Doug talk 12:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Misunderstanding regarding the function of references -- edits like this
Edits like this are completely inappropriate. For facts or lore that go back to ancient authors, and for which Boccaccio is not an important authority whatsoever, references should not be added when they basically just mean, "Oh, and Boccaccio mentioned this well-known bit of mythology once!" Please help revert these inappropriate edits and stop making them. Wareh 01:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Plagiarism, again
Doug, during the summer I warned you several times that your contributions included plagiarized material. Your latest edits at Liber sine nomine have reintroduced plagiarized material. For instance, after your latest edits, the description of Letter 4 reads: "This letter, written around October or November of 1352, is to the Roman people in an attempt to persuade them to demand that Cola di Rienzo be returned to Rome to stand trial there." At [1], we find "Letter 4 is to the Roman people in an attempt to persuade them to demand that Cola di Rienzo be returned to Rome to stand trial."
Letter 5 reads: "One of Petrarch’s favorite rhetorical devices was the metonymy and here he uses a synecdoche, a type of metonymy, when he describes his frustration with Biblical words and phrases." At [2], we find: "One of Petrarch’s favorite rhetorical devices is the metonymy. In Letter 5 he uses a synecdoche, a type of metonymy."
Copying text from other sources verbatim, unless you indicate that you are quoting directly, is both plagiarism and copyright violation, and is not acceptable upon Wikipedia, or indeed in any medium. You never responded directly to my warnings about plagiarism, and from your recent edits, I suspect that you may not understand that your edits are problematic. Please address this issue; if you do not respond, and you continue to introduce plagiarized text into Wikipedia, you may be blocked from further editing. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)