Talk:Trinity–Antonian Cricket Encounter

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... it is a notable sporting event in Sri Lankan Schools sporting calendar, that draws large number of spectators and content in the local media. --Cossde (talk) 16:33, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Trinity-Antonian Cricket Encounter- Use of my Content

Hi, I created draft of Trinity-Antonian Cricket Encounter for AfC on "16:23, 27 August 2012" (Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Trinity-Antonian Cricket Encounter). It was rejected pending further improvements. Apparently, you've used my content and created this page. Appreciate you explanation about this, thanks.--Sajeewashaluka (talk) 15:45, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Hello Sajeewashaluka, one of the reasons why I nominated this article for speedy deletion was that Cossde had copied your work on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Trinity-Antonian Cricket Encounter. If you compare these two versions - Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Trinity-Antonian Cricket Encounter and Trinity-Antonian Cricket Encounter - you will see that Cossde has copied your work word-for-word. This is against Wikipedia's licensing which requires that attribution be given to the original author (you). Cossde has in effect plagiarised your work and passed if off as his. You are quite right to ask for an explanation.--obi2canibe^{talk contr} 17:37, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Sajeewashaluka, my assumption was that this content was copyright-free as content on Wikipedia is. If you want to have it removed you may do so. I never took nor want to take credit for it. I only wanted to create an article that I saw as should be in Wikipedia. Cossde (talk) 05:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Cossde, It is not a matter of taking the credit of creating the article. But you could have informed me your plan. Once my AfC is rejected, I was improving it by spending my effort and time.. Thanks --Sajeewashaluka (talk) 14:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

I've done a history merge; Sajeewashaluka is now listed as the original author of record. Cossde, that was extremely poor form; although Wikipedia content is free, you must preserve its provenance as much as possible. DS (talk) 15:11, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Agreed.Cossde (talk) 08:49, 6 September 2012 (UTC)