[WikiEN-l] Sphaera Mundi

[Poor, Edmund W]

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 at 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/
> 
>