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Wikipedia and copyright

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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. 2A01:4C8:A0:75C2:E42B:61CB:BFEF:9707 (talk) 11:05, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I also had to undo your additions to Collateral damage for the same reason. Please take a minute to read Wikipedia's copyright policy, which the editor above has left a link to in their comment. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 13:11, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Noncombatant Immunity moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Noncombatant Immunity, is not suitable as written to remain published. First, this is little more than a dictionary definition (see WP:DICDEF. Second, it would need more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:36, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

February 2023

Your edit to Korean War 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. /wiae /tlk 21:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Noncombatant Immunity

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July 2025

Your edit to Collateral damage 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 10:37, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

I am extremely sorry and thank for you informing me about this issue. This post was very informative and educational for me so that I can resolve and not have this issue again in the future. I am extremely sorry again. If there are any resources you recommend I so that I can further educate myself, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. OSINTsparrow (talk) 15:00, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Content has to be written in your own words and not include any wording from the source material (short properly attributed quotations are allowed, but cannot be used as a substitute for writing your own content). One thing I find that works for me is to read over the source material and then pretend I am verbally describing the topic to a friend in my own words. Stuff should also be presented in a different order where possible. Summarize rather than paraphrase, and don't try to include every single detail. This will typically result in your version being much shorter than the source document. It also helps to have more than one source to draw from. There's some reading material on this topic at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing and/or have a look at the material at Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words. Check out the links in the menu on the left for some exercises to try. Or study this module aimed at WikiEd students. — Diannaa (talk) 15:28, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for this extremely helpful response. You explained it very well and in a way I understand now. I really appreciate your help and kindness in sharing your expertise and knowledge to a newcomer like me who wants to share information with the public for the good of humanity! Thank you so much agains for your help and for what you do. OSINTsparrow (talk) 06:12, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 13

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Okay, thank you. I’m sorry for any inconvenience. OSINTsparrow (talk) 00:43, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Still violating copyright

Your recent edits to War crime are copyright violations. Please don't copy whole sentences from the sources. Write in your own words. lp0 on fire () 11:03, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

And also on War. Do it again, and we'll simply revoke your edit privileges altogether. DMacks (talk) 12:18, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

If I add information on the legal provisions (surrounding war, for example), what is the acceptable line between writing in my own words and changing the content of the legal provision, which has very specific terminology and wording? Thank you. OSINTsparrow (talk) 00:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Specific legal wording for which there is no alternative can be copied, but that isn't an excuse to copy whole sentences wherever legal wording appears, nor to express the same ideas in the same order with the same structure. The point of Wikipedia is to summarize the sources, not copy them. lp0 on fire () 07:40, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Is it always better to err on the side of summarizing legal provisions (i.e., principles, norms, rules) even though it changes the content of a provision to an extent? My last question is: what it an acceptable case where "specific legal wording for which there is no alternative can be copied”? I definitely do not want to lose my editing privileges and do not want to cross that line again. Is it safer to just change the wording in such cases even if it adjusts a specific legal meaning in the prior wording? Sorry for all the questions and thank you for your help and responses. OSINTsparrow (talk) 23:46, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

An example of a case where specific legal language can't really be changed is when referring to the name of a specific law, or a legal concept that has its own article and doesn't have any alternate names (not being a lawyer I'm struggling to think of something specific) but in general that will rarely be more than a few words. I would say yes, it is almost always better to rephrase it in your own words, and in your case I would recommend erring om the side of caution. If there's a term you think should be copied directly, feel free to ask at the teahouse or somewhere more specific like WikiProject Law. You'll pick it up over time but the simplest advice I can give is to follow what other articles already do (in particular, you might like to look for some good articles or featured articles and copy them in style). Hope that helps (: lp0 on fire () 07:48, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much. The resources you provided are also helpful and informative. I really appreciate your answers, and thank you for what you do. This was very help and I really appreciate your kindness in answering, and your patience with me as these questions are probably very obvious to an expert like you! I understand much better now. Hope you have a great day. OSINTsparrow (talk) 21:52, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

No problem, always happy to help. I'm far from an expert though; I've been here less than three months. I suppose I sometimes have a little bit of a clue. Happy editing! lp0 on fire () 21:55, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

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Koran war

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing a page's content back to how you believe it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree with your changes. Please stop editing the page and use the talk page to work toward creating a version of the page that represents consensus among the editors involved. Wikipedia provides a page explaining how this is accomplished. If discussions reach an impasse, you can request help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution such as a third opinion. In some cases, you may wish to request page protection while a discussion to resolve the dispute is ongoing.

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Note that doing so to add poor grammar is a bad look. Slatersteven (talk) 14:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

HI I am really sorry I was writing an edit and you reverted my edit while I was writing it, so it got completely messed up, and I'm still confused about the discrepancies because I did not realize you reverted it, and I was still making changes. I'm fine with any edits you make. I was literally trying to contribute something and you just keep deleting and it literally has been created discretions every time I added something and I was really confused. Maybe you can look at what I edited after I edit everything I need to today. If you revert while I'm editing. I don't know because the deft I have is in the editor, and not being updated live. I feel like I can't even make edits now. :/ OSINTsparrow (talk) 15:01, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I literally didn’t make ANY reverts. I was trying to make edits! You were the one who made a revert. I was using the version in the editor viewer and that doesn’t get updated live. So I was publishing the old versions, before your edits. I MADE NO REVERTS. So I have no idea what you’re talking about and why you’re assuming I have the time to conduct an edit war. So you see it say anywhere that I reverted a single thing or your side? Because my doge doesn’t. OSINTsparrow (talk) 15:22, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I apologize for my typos. This has really distorted my editing process today. If you look, I redid the first hew paragraphs of the introduction today, and it is formative to the page. i included many historical dominations of the Korean War that were not previously on the page. So I am making a lot of edits, and they require a lot of effort. And my entire process got messed up because of the discrepancies because I was using a non-updated version, and had no idea it wasn’t updated. I was making a lot of edits today, to genuinely try to improve the page.

I am fine with any reverts you make once I’m done making the edits I make. Is it okay with you if I continue making edits to page? Maybe you can look at it once I finish, which should be by the end of today. Then there shouldn’t be any unintended editing wars. And hopefully I can make improvements to the page. Again, I’m fine with you reverting an edits i make once they’re done.

Let me know what you think, because discrepancies keep showing up on my side, and all my contributuions now are being ruined because of the discrepancies.

Thanks and sorry if you thought I was at all warring with you. Again, I have no problem with reverts. And if you look at my Wiki activities, I’ve never made a single revert to anything. So hope you understand that what you’re accusing me of is entirely assumption, and just not correct. I’m not the best with it technologically, and I get very confused with technical issues, like the page not updating and discrepancies. But none of what you said above is true, and is based completely on assumptions you were quick to make. You also make highly inflammatory accusations that are projections, and they literally have no basis, OSINTsparrow (talk) 15:53, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes you did, you reverted me. Slatersteven (talk) 12:48, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Again, I did not intentionally make a revert of your edit. I had an older copy of the article that I published that was in the editing viewer mode for a while because I took a break from an edit I was making that required some more thinking. My browser was extremely slow loading it and there were contradictions found in the versions, so I reconciled the versions by taking parts from earlier drafts and republishing them because I did not know people were actively making edits at the same time I was. I had no idea that was what caused to error or discrepancy. Otherwise, I would have just deleted my own edits entirely and just started over rather than erase someone else's contribution/work on the page for no reason. I assumed falsely that it was my own uploading error from a previous version due to my outdated browser.

For that I apologize and I have changed my editing practices since then to prevent this from ever happening again. I changed my browser to one that is quicker, I never leave my editor viewer on anymore during breaks, I make shorter edits to make sure my version doesn't produce discrepancies with other editors who may be editing at the same time I am.

I appreciate your engagement on Wikipedia and the Korean War page. We all do this for free to contribute to public knowledge and I respect everyone engaging on here very much. I never want to be the source of anything negative for anyone on here. For that I'm incredibly sorry for any inconvenience I caused in erasing your edits and contributions to the page through my failure to address the technological errors and difficulties I was facing on the page correctly.

It is a complex issue in the sense that if many people are editing at the same time, it can cause discrepancies in the editing process that is very confusing for someone who is not savvy at technology as most Wiki Contributors like you seem to be. This is not an excuse, but it's amazing how easily you and others seem to navigate talk spaces, reverts, etc. here on Wiki so effortlessly. I still don't understand this page that we're currently interacting on.

After analyzing this entire issue thoroughly I think a wonderful tool that Wiki could add to be help contributors is something that shows how many editors are actively editing a page at the same time you are. Especially on high traffic pages, it would be very useful to make sure problems like this don't occur. I for one had no idea a problem like this could occur and get so complex, especially on high activity pages. And when major contributions occur on high traffic pages.

Happy Friday and hope you have a wonderful Easter Weekend

OSINTsparrow (talk) 14:47, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello OSINTsparrow, I don't know if you have seen it yet but I have started a new section about your recent edits to the Korean War article. You can find it here: Talk:Korean War#Poor quality edits and errors.~2026-15666-62 (talk) 04:30, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, I addressed the error highlighted. OSINTsparrow (talk) 22:33, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, I cited the year. Is that not allowed? I'm not exactly sure what's wrong and need more guidance on what the error is after reading through the cited pages. Thank you. OSINTsparrow (talk) 16:58, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

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I was able to identify the error and fix it, thank you. OSINTsparrow (talk) 22:06, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, OSINTsparrow! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! SafariScribeEdits! Talk! 03:28, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for all your help. This is the first article I've ever submitted! Hope you had a good day and thanks for what you do for Wiki! OSINTsparrow (talk) 03:58, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

April 2026

Your edit to Korean War 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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. This is your final warning. Further violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy will result in you being blocked from editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:11, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Di OSINTsparrow (talk) 15:05, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Dianna, every sentence that I took I either summarized or quoted. Which sentence was the problem? OSINTsparrow (talk) 15:07, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

"On 25 July 1950, US soldiers evacuated 500–600 villagers from their homes in Joo Gok Ri and Im Gae Ri. The villagers headed south and reached an American road block on the morning of 26 July where they were stopped by US troops and ordered onto railroad tracks above the road." Then you added a quotation as well, which is still there. I also removed some content copied from the same source that had been in the article for a long time.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 03:08, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Is it still a copyright violation if I quoted it? OSINTsparrow (talk) 03:09, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Please re-write it in your own words. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:20, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, sorry for this delayed response but I wanted to say thank you so much for your contributions to Wikipedia. I saw your page and you are incredible and amazing. While I made an editor account in 2022, it was only recently that I started editing more frequently. Whole I have learned a lot since I first started, I am nowhere near the incredible expert that you are. I am really sorry for my mistakes and not fully understanding the Wikipedia copyright violation policy as seen on my Talkpage. I am the only person I know that makes edits on Wikipedia, and have so much more to learn.

Thank you for correcting my in regard to the Wikipedia copyright violation policy. I think I understand now what you're saying and what I was doing wrong. I will improve and correct this problem moving forward.

On that note, just to make sure I understand, could you explain the line in your opinion between summarizing and/or paraphrasing and copyright violation? More specifically, is paraphrasing okay in your opinion and what is the difference between paraphrasing using your own words and paraphrasing that shortens the content. Hopefully that makes sense.

Thank you so much for sharing your expertise and for your time. Hope you're having a wonderful week so far. OSINTsparrow (talk) 07:42, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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