User talk:MonkGlonk

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June 2019[edit]

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Naval Criminal Investigative Service. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:28, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024[edit]

Your edit to Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Webpages of the organization are marked as "© 2024 State of Hawaiʻi. All Rights Reserved" and are not in the public domain. Sorry. — Diannaa (talk) 12:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I was under the impression that the material was in the public domain as it was made by an agency/department of U.S. state government. A good bit of that material had however been on other Wikipedia pages beforehand, some for many years, and I just copied that over to the new page as well, believing that it was therefore already checked and withing the editorial guidelines. I will be more careful in the future. MonkGlonk (talk) 13:24, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. If you would like us to check/review other Wikipedia pages, you can consider listing them at WP:CP. — Diannaa (talk) 13:30, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you about this again, but out of curiosity, is there some way to make a "draft" page of sorts that could be checked before it is made public? I'm somewhat confident that I could use the previous sources to write the article again in my own words so that it would not go against the copyright, but I don't want to get another strike, or get blocked, if I get it wrong again? MonkGlonk (talk) 21:45, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's no way to edit here without content being public. The whole website is publicly accessible, including sandboxes and drafts. You might like to try saving your potential edit as a Word document or a Google document and then using an external copyvio detection tool. Here are a few you could try:

— Diannaa (talk) 22:10, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not really understand how I could send a "draft" of sorts for checking before being published through those sites you linked so I went ahead and did my planned changes to the page directly. I studied some other articles for inspiration and tried to write the information in my own words as best as I could. If that is still not enough and it has to be taken down, I apologize, and I guess I'll come back at a later date if I figure out how to do it correctly. Sorry about all the bother caused. MonkGlonk (talk) 12:25, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The new version looks okay from a copyright point of view. — Diannaa (talk) 14:09, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, it appears that the Hawaii DLE website has pretty much directly copied that latest version onto their website. On the main page, the rank structure is identical to what I just wrote and it wasn't there before, and the "Law Enforcement Division" page also includes the same texts that I wrote for the Law Enforcement Training Office and Criminal Investigation Divisions, including some of the internal Wikipedia links. Is that going to be a problem? MonkGlonk (talk) 17:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing but true. I will put a template on the article talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 21:08, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

May 2024[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Hawaii Department of Public Safety into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Aoi (青い) (talk) 08:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]