User talk:RgC

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Your contributions to Bressay and environs are most welcome and I enjoyed reading St. Mary's Church, Shetland. I did however wonder if Bay of Cuppa was notable enough for its own article. If you are planning on creating Voe of Cullingsburgh it might be best to merge it with that article. If I can be of any assistance just let me know (you can reply here or on my talk page). Ben Mac Dui 18:50, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shetlopedia

Hi RgC,
I noticed that some of the content you've added here is very closely related to the respective pages at Shetlopedia, I'm assuming that's where you started out? Since Shetlopedia's content is copyrighted, and they explicitly prohibit the reuse of their content, we can't keep it like this. When I compare e.g. our St. Mary's Church, Shetland with Shetlopedia's version, many phrases are so similar that they violate that copyright. E.g:

"The history of the kirkyard area goes even further back, because it is built on an iron age broch which is older than the stone. Remains of the broch is found in the north west side of the kirkyard."

vs.

"History of the churchyard goes even further back, because it is built on a broch from iron age, which is older than the stone. Remains of the broch are in the northwest of the churchyard."

I'm afraid that all those pages will need to be rewritten. While we can take information from copyrighted pages, we mustn't take sentences, and need to say it in our own words. Can you please do that? And while I haven't checked your other pages yet, I assume some will require the same treatment?
No amount of rewriting will help the images though, I will have to mark them for deletion at Commons.
If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to reply here and ask, I'll keep this page watchlisted for a while.
Amalthea 23:16, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've for now hidden the pages Bay of Cuppa, St. Mary's Church, Shetland, and Voe of Cullingsburgh. There are now a couple of ways forward. One is to rewrite the pages from scratch, reusing the references and maybe the rough structure from the current articles, preferably in a new page (just as the messages on the pages say). If they are rewritten, it must be avoided to copy phrases from the sources, to avoid plagiarism.
Another possibility would be to include the information into a parent article, since Ben above already wondered if the pages are notable enough for standalone pages, they have to be rewritten anyway. Ben is a member of WP:WikiProject Scotland, maybe he can give us some ideas.
Amalthea 23:39, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here are suggestions and an offer.

With regret, turn Bay of Cuppa into a redirect to Voe of Cullingsburgh, unless it can be shown to have sufficient notability. (The regret is because it is such a wonderful name).
I will volunteer to re-draft Voe of Cullingsburgh into a hopefully more acceptable form in a sandbox somewhere. I am not that familiar with copyvio problems and don't want to just assume it will be OK, i.e I will ask Amalthea to support the new version before posting.
I'm afraid I lack the time to fix St. Mary's Church as well. I think it did have a couple of other refs and perhaps RgC would be willing to have a go at fixing that article? Ben Mac Dui 16:20, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Voe of Cullingsburgh now done at User:Ben MacDui/Sandbox. The Gazetteer and History Group refs have useful information about the church. Ben Mac Dui 17:16, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great! The cleanest solution in this case, where you alone have rewritten it from scratch in your sandbox, would be to delete the current article and simply copy&paste your current sandbox into a new article there. Dito Bay of Cuppa, if you turn it into a redirect. Amalthea 22:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done - although I removed the pre-existing text, rather than "deleted" and re-created the existing article. Hope that's OK. Ben Mac Dui 09:13, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If we can delete the problematic revisions without creating attribution problems we normally do, but they are just as often left in the history and are only removed upon request by the copyright holder, so it's fine as it is. Thank you, Amalthea 11:18, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RgC, please don't let yourself be discouraged by this, it's a quite normal beginners mistake. You can at any time recreate the St. Mary's Church article, provided that you create it from scratch. If you need the links and references you placed in the previous article, just say the word. Amalthea 11:18, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update regarding copyright concerns on St. Mary's Church, Shetland

Good morning,

The above has been listed at WP:CP and was due for review today. As the article has not been rewritten and we have no means to ascertain permission, the article has presently been deleted do to copyright concerns, and due to the Shetlopedia copyright, will require a full rewrite.

If you need any help, you can create a new section on your talk page and add {{helpme}} followed by your request below it, someone will be along shortly to assist you. Alternatively, you may also leave me a message on my talk page. Best regards, MLauba (talk) 10:32, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Translation request

You requested me on my user page to translate a piece of text for you. Here it is

On 16 April 1913, Gianni Widmer, an aviator from Trieste, made the first flight over the skies of San Marino. With his 50hp Blèriot XI he started from Sartòna in Rimini and arrived at a height of 1,600 metres before landing after eleven minutes of flight on the plateau of Monte Carlo (508 metres) in the commune of Fiorentino.
A memorial recalling this achievement was erected on the plateau where Widmer's landing happened. Widmer was awarded from the Republic of San Marino a first-class gold medal for civil merit. The monument was sculptured by Charles Reffi, while the inscription was written by Pietro Franciosi. Chronologically, this was the second memorial erected for an aviator in the world, the first being in 1913, in Paris, in honour of Alberto Santos Dumont.

Hope that it is fine and helps you in your translations. Wishing you a happy new year :) —Chrisportelli (talk) 13:07, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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JavaScript RegExp problem

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