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Copyright problem on George E. Ohr

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I have blocked your account, because in spite of repeated warnings, you continued to add copyright material to this wiki in violation of our copyright policy and copyright law. You cannot resume editing until you provide a clear statement that demonstrates that you have read and understand our copyright policy and intend to follow it in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:04, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

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UTRS appeal #22417 was submitted on Aug 20, 2018 18:59:24. This review is now closed.

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UTRS appeal #22436 was submitted on Aug 22, 2018 22:20:16. This review is now closed.

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Request reason:

Beginning in July I edited several Wikipedia pages, adding a single quote to each and citing my website The Attic as the source, under references. Some of these have been flagged for copyright violation. But many have not been flagged, and one earned a thank you from a previous editor. I am appealing this block because I see no difference between the style or usage of any of the quotes, nor does citing a single quote seem to me a violation of copyright. My own books, "Freedom Summer" and "Sacco and Vanzetti," have been quoted and cited on Wikipedia, always without my permission or knowledge. I am simply doing what seems to me to be common practice here and I believe it comes under copyright law’s “fair use” compliance. As to fair use, I believe The Attic qualifies because: 1) it is a free site 2). The quotes are short, well within Fair Use length restrictions 3). Full citation is given. If my appeal is accepted, I intend to continue adding a quote or two to articles that relate to those I write for The Attic. I make no money from the site; in fact it has lost a few hundred dollars a month since January 2017 when it opened. I do The Attic in the same spirit Wikipedia is done, for the edification of general readers. In my 30 years of work as a journalist and author, I routinely used quotes in the manner described above. I am bewildered by these allegations of copyright violation. No editor of books or magazines that I know of would consider my use to violate copyright laws. (BTW, the first violation you cited was for plagiarizing a Smithsonian article on potter George Ohr. I wrote the original article.) If what I have done is a violation of copyright, I am left to wonder how any quotes ever get placed on Wikipedia. And I am especially bewildered by why some of my quote additions got flagged and others didn't when, to my knowledge, the format, length, and sources were exactly the same. I hope this appeal is not too long. I apologize for any violations inadvertently committed and I wait your reply and explanation.

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see below — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:38, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

You weren't blocked for adding quotations. You were blocked for adding material from this website. You added the paragraph starting "For its first decade...", most of the next paragraph starting "Schulz’s book “Happiness is a Warm Puppy”", the entire next three paragraphs. None of it was framed as a quotation. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:28, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

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Request reason:

After 30 years in journalism, I was pulled up short to be accused of plagiarizing material from a Website. Until I clicked on the website. And there was my website -- The Attic. Yes, I freely admit that the entire paragraph was lifted, without quotation, from my own Website, The Attic. I wrote the original article on Snoopy, then used the exact words on Wikipedia. I had no idea it was a copyright violation to use your own words in different contexts and on different sites. (Historians do it in books all the time.). However please let me know if this violates Wikipedia rules and, if so, I will not do so again. I will confine myself to adding quotes to Wikipedia articles related to those in The Attic. However, while this Snoopy paragraph is why I was blocked, other previous edits were reverted. I hope you can explain any of those, how such might be avoided IF my editing privileges are restored, and what else I might be able to do to get them restored. Meanwhile, here is a link to About the Attic Master revealing me as the author of all 60+ pieces on The Attic. https://www.theattic.space/about-the-attic-master/

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I believe you when you say The Attic is your own website. See below for more information. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:38, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

In order to protect the rights of copyright holders, we need to have documentation that shows the copyright holders have given permission for the material to be copied to this website. Wikipedia has procedures in place for this purpose. Please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:35, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

I am sure you are the owner of The Attic website. However, as soon as you publish material online (or anywhere else for that matter), it enjoys copyright protection, whether it is tagged as such or not. Our rules require that for us to accept submissions, they have to be compatibly licensed. We have to have proof that the material has been released under a compatible license, either via the OTRS email system, or by the copyright holder placing a compatible license on the source webpage. Regarding the Smithsonian article, what normally happens is as soon as you sell it to them, they own the copyright, and it's no longer okay for you to publish it somewhere else without their permission. Please have a look at our copyright rules before you resume editing, and don't add anything that's been previously published unless and until the proper licensing is in place. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:38, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

The main pages I want you to look at are WP:Donating copyright materials and Wikipedia:Copyrights. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:43, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

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Not just a copyright question, maybe

Hi

Thank you for your contributions. Leaving aside all the copyright-related stuff above, are you sure that your website is considered to be a reliable source per Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability? I wonder because you likely had references for the text on your website, and could just add these original references as references in the Wikipedia article. Is there a specific reason for not doing so, or for additionally linking to a potentially unreliable source?

Thank you very much in advance for clarification. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:32, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed that nearly all your contributions to articles are references your own blog, theattic.space – this could be problematic under 1. conflict of interest (WP:COI); 2. using Wikipedia to promote your own blog (WP:NOTPROMOTION & WP:CITESPAM); 3. theattic.com may not be a reliable source as it lacks editorial oversight and you are not a recognized expert (WP:QS & WP:BLOGS); 4. it could be inferred that you are a single purpose account (WP:SPA) who is not here to build an encyclopedia (WP:NOTHERE) – according to Wikipedia Blocking Policy (WP:BLOCKPOL), not here to build an encyclopedia is a common rationale for blocking – I would recommend that if you want to add content to articles that you support your edits with properly cited references (WP:CITE) to reliable published sources (WP:RS & WP:VERIFY), using secondary sources and not primary sources (WP:PSTS), and do not use your own blog as a source – there was a discussion on the reliability of theattic.space as a source on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 248 (Sept 2018) and theattic.space was not added to the list of reliable sources (WP:RSPS) – you were previously advised on "Managing a conflict of interest" on your Talk page (Sept 2018) – thanks – Epinoia (talk) 00:28, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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