User talk:NYScholar

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N.B.: Please do not copy my comments placed on my talk page or other talk pages or editing histories of articles, or other Wikipedia pages, take them out of context, and/or move them elsewhere. Doing so distorts them. Thank you.

Further information: § N.B., and WP:TPG

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Copyright

General information

For general information about the status of current Wikipedia policies pertaining to copyright, fair use, and copyright infringement, please consult also:

• Wikipedia: Copyrights
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA),
• External links provided therein and below.

Please do the same for:

• trademark, and other various topics, issues, and controversies pertaining to
• intellectual property, including musical, audio-visual, multi-media, and digitally-formatted properties.

Thank you.

(I do not have time to discuss any of these matters further in Wikipedia.) --NYScholar 20:52, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Some related United States Government resources

• United States Copyright Office.
  • Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code: Circular 92.
    • Preface.
    • Definitions.
    • Section 106.
    • Section 106a.
    • Section 107.
      • Fact sheet for Fair Use (July 2006).
    • Section 108.
    • Section 113.
    • Note 37.
    • Note 38.
    • Note 39.
    • Note 45.
  • FAQ.
    • FAQ: How is a copyright different from a patent or a trademark?
• United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Basic Facts about Trademarks.

(All accessed 3 September 2006.)

Issues relating to Wikipedia as a source

Problems that academic scholars find in Wikipedia

• Read, Brock. "Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?" Chronicle of Higher Education 27 October 2006. 9 July 2007. (For additional articles on Wikipedia in the Chronicle, see its menu links in "Related materials.")

Related perspectives

• Lapp, Alison. "Wikipedia's Opponent", PC Magazine 2 May 2007. 9 July 2007. (Concerns the founding of Citizendium and Scholarpedia.)
  • Citizendium: The Citizens' Compendium: Welcome page. Founded by Wikipedia's co-founder Larry Sanger[1]. (Described misleadingly in the cross-linked Wikinews article as "a Wikipedia fork". Though early memoranda by Sanger initially described it as such, Citizendium is not any longer a so-called "Wikipedia fork"; it is now a separate project, independent of Wikipedia. It serves now as an alternative to Wikipedia.)
  • Scholarpedia: The Free Peer Reviewed Encyclopedia: Welcome page––another project also conceived as an academic scholarly alternative to Wikipedia in specific technical fields. ("Scholarpedia is a free peer-reviewed encyclopedia that combines the philosophies of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica. Scholarpedia hosts Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, and Encyclopedia of Computational Intelligence. All three will be published in a printed form, and will be used as seeds to start Encyclopedia of Cognitive Neuroscience, Encyclopedia of Applied Mathematics, and Encyclopedia of Computer Science [later next year (2007)].")

[Both projects, Citizendium and Scholarpedia, require editors to use their actual names in ways that identify their specific credentials as experts in their fields.]

Jimmy Wales on the importance of properly-sourced material

• Wales, Jimmy. "Getting Rid of Bad Fair Use". lists.wikimedia.org 19 May 2006. 9 July 2006. (Advocates deleting copyright violations from Wikipedia and its related Wikis and following "fair use" provisions of copyright laws.)
• –––. Keynote Address excerpt. Wikimania, August 2006. (Be very firm about high quality references, particularly about details of personal lives. Unsourced or poorly sourced negative material about living persons should be removed immediately from both the article and the talk page. "... we have a really serious responsibility to get things right.")
• –––. "WikiEN-l Zero Information Is Preferred to Misleading or False Information". mail.wikimedia.org 16 May 2006. (These principles also apply to biographical material about living persons in other articles. The responsibility for justifying controversial claims in Wikipedia of all kinds but especially for living people's bios rests firmly on the shoulders of the Wikipedia editor making the claim.)

Academic Criticism of Wikipedia

• Cohen, Noam. "Education: A History Department Bans Using Wikipedia As a Research Source". The New York Times 21 February 2007. 9 July 2007.
• Gonsalves, Antone. "Britannica Slams Nature's Wikipedia Comparison". InformationWeek 24 March 2006. 9 July 2007.
• Wales, Jimmy. "Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Use of His Creation". The Chronicle of Higher Education 12 June 2006, "The Wired Campus: Education News from around the Web". 9 July 2007.

See also: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and WP:NOT

N.B. Please see the tags at the top of this page. I move comments that others add to this page if I perceive them to have been misdirected and/or I archive them. [If they involve personal attacks, I delete the personal attacks, referring to WP:NPA.] This is my personal talk page. I archive comments when and as I wish. That is my prerogative. You can find them in the archive or moved to where they should be placed. Not here. Please do not post any more comments on my talk page. Having already expended a great deal of my time to respond expeditiously, patiently, and courteously to earlier comments, I simply cannot and do not want to take the time to deal with them any further. (As already requested above, please place comments about making improvements to articles on the talk pages of those articles.) Thank you. Due to my own other priorities (related to my own professional work and travel schedule), I am turning back to focusing on my own non-Wikipedia related work. Thanks very much to those who do understand for understanding. [Since first posting this, I have attempted to make some corrections to and to update a few articles that I have worked hard on recently, but I really do need to focus on my own work in order to get it done on schedule. I have to go offline to do it. [Earlier discussions are in my "Talk archives"; please click on "Skip to table of contents" to find that box easily.] Further information: § N.B., and WP:TPG

[Updated out of courtesy. --NYScholar 09:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)]

Thanks for the Barton Gellman article update

I followed your "contribs" link and saw your extensive authorship of the Joseph C. Wilson article, and added an external link to it. I am very impressed with your contributions; a lot of Wikipedia authors don't adhere to very rigid research or ethical standards, so it is nice to discover someone who does. Apparent public relationship 23:54, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Much appreciated. (Just happened upon the Gellman article via the Wikified link to his name in Joseph C. Wilson and noticed it needed some work. Just finished adding notes sec. etc.) --NYScholar 00:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

No More Personal Attacks

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. You have repeatedly attacked me, and I have brought it to the attention of the administrators. You need to stick to commenting on content, not on me as a contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please try to stop vandalizing the work of others, and stop attacking others.

Also, do not remove this message, or I will bring that to the attention of the administrators. You have been warned.

Tim Osman