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/