VladikVP

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello VladikVP! Your additions to Natural semantic metalanguage have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:54, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

The excerpt that I used (which was by the way taken from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2019.101239) is a frequently cited (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=13790299595740497552&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en) example from Wierzbicka, Goddard 2014 "Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures", but I was not in possession of the original work, which is why I opted to cite a different article that deals more specifically with the topic. The corresponding article already contains lots of citations and references to works by precisely the same aiuthors, published by precisely the same institution (OUP).

My point is, the rest of the article is based on work by the very same authors... if using excerpts from them is grounds for copyright removal, then shouldn't the rest of the article be deleted as well? The material that I added by its very nature can't be rephrased, so what should I do to be able to use these specific examples on Wikipedia? --VladVP (talk) 18:47, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

I have once again removed content you added to the same article. The material I removed matches this pdf which apparently matches content found in the book. To answer your question from 2020, the reason the rest of the content hasn't been removed is because I don't actually have access to the book and only removed material I am sure has to come out. If you think there's still copyright violations in the article, please consider listing it at WP:Copyright problems or removing any remaining overlapping material yourself. — Diannaa (talk) 14:09, 22 September 2022 (UTC)