NSK,
It is not true that you did this because it was REQUIRED. You did it to direct traffic to your web site. You even created a sock puppet account with your web site address as its username.
You have 2 choices at this point:
1. Donate the words you wrote DIRECTLY to Wikipedia (agreeing with the disclaimer you surely saw, next to the 'save' button, which licenses Wikipedia to use that text in accordance with the GNU Free Documentation Licenses); or,
2. We will rewrite the article completely - making a fresh start of it. This will remove the issue of an attribution notice.
If you don't make a choice promptly (and politely!) I will make the choice for you, and it will be #2. I remind you of [[Wikipedia:Gaming the system]]; have you read it yet?
Also, it seems likely that you do not understand GFDL. Once you license some text under the GFDL, it is no longer "yours". A republisher need only comply with the minimum requirements, which is to credit you as the author.
There is no obligation to link to a website you are trying to advertise.
Ed Poor
-----Original Message----- From: NSK [mailto:nsk2@wikinerds.org] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 6:57 AM To: English Wikipedia Subject: [WikiEN-l] Sphaera Mundi
On 1 August 2005 I decided to contribute an article from my wiki http://www.jnanabase.org in Wikipedia. My wiki is GFDL, just like Wikipedia.
I proceeded and copied the text from my wiki's article and I pasted it to a new Wikipedia article [[Sphaera Mundi]]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaera_Mundi
Because the article was written in my wiki (which has 1834 pages), I added a standard attribution notice to cite the source, with a link back to my wiki's original article, as per required by GFDL and Wikipedia's policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources
On 3 August 2005 another Wikipedia user edited the article and added categories. On 9 August 2005 a different user cleaned it up and disambiguated some links.
On 12 August 2005, [[User:UninvitedCompany]], who is a sysop, removed the attribution notice.
On 14 August 2005, [[User:Joe Kress]] (I don't know that user) re-added the attribution notice, as Wikipedia's policy requires: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources
2 hours later UninvitedCompany removed the notice again. 3 hours later I added again the notice.
We had some discussion with UninvitedCompany and he says the source of [[Sphaera Mundi]]'s shouldn't be included in the article because it's an "unreliable source" and because it's "spam", although my wiki appears in the 3rd position in a Google search for "sphaera mundi" and most other pages of my website have a PageRank of 6, while the site has been slashdotted 4 times: http://portal.wikinerds.org/taxonomy/term/49
According to the GFDL licence and copyright laws, proper attribution must be provided. Citing where an article was copied from is not spam.
In a similar incident, I also copied an article from my wiki to a new Wikipedia article with title [[Erhard Ratdolt]], with an attribution notice. When UninvitedCompany removed the attribution notice, another sysop deleted the article saying "copyvio of Wikinerds. Deleting." - and this shows that an article copied from an external GFDL source into Wikipedia without proper attribution is copyright violation and a violation of the GFDL licence.
If the notice is deleted again from [[Sphaera Mundi]] (or any other article from my wiki without proper attribution), I will request its deletion.
This sysop also removed other attribution notices and various other edits I have made, so I believe he is bullying me. I have requested mediation and I have collected all evidence at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Www.wikinerds.org/Bullying
Please someone explain to this sysop that articles copied from external GFDL wikis must contain proper attribution. We don't want our articles to appear in Wikipedia without attribution of the source. If you don't want to include the attribution link, please delete articles copied from Wikinerds.
-- Owner of http://www.wikinerds.org/ Owner of http://www.jnanabase.org/
Poor, Edmund W (Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com) [050815 23:18]:
It is not true that you did this because it was REQUIRED. You did it to direct traffic to your web site. You even created a sock puppet account with your web site address as its username. You have 2 choices at this point:
- Donate the words you wrote DIRECTLY to Wikipedia (agreeing with the
disclaimer you surely saw, next to the 'save' button, which licenses Wikipedia to use that text in accordance with the GNU Free Documentation Licenses); or, 2. We will rewrite the article completely - making a fresh start of it. This will remove the issue of an attribution notice. If you don't make a choice promptly (and politely!) I will make the choice for you, and it will be #2. I remind you of [[Wikipedia:Gaming the system]]; have you read it yet? Also, it seems likely that you do not understand GFDL. Once you license some text under the GFDL, it is no longer "yours". A republisher need only comply with the minimum requirements, which is to credit you as the author. There is no obligation to link to a website you are trying to advertise.
*applause* I concur with every word, and the proposed action is IMO the correct one.
- d.