User talk:Abbasulu

db-copyright

I tagged List of Malayalam songs recorded by K. J. Yesudas, and several other articles you contributed here, with {{db-copyright}}, because they showed signs of being cut and pasted directly from the Wikipedia.

You removed that tag, with the edit summary "There is no copyright infringement in this article. All sources are collected from various news articles and websites that are up for being used in public domains."

That is the wrong counter-argument.

I did a web search, for "is an Indian playback singer who has sung over 9,000 songs" [1]. It confirmed that you copied and pasted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindi_songs_recorded_by_K._J._Yesudas

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Hindi_songs_recorded_by_K._J._Yesudas&action=history&offset=&limit=500 confirms you were the primary contributor to the Wikipedia version.

https://xtools.wmcloud.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/List_of_Hindi_songs_recorded_by_K._J._Yesudas shows half a dozen other contributors edited that article.

Now, if all of the edits made by those other individuals were genuinely trivial edits, or were edits only to the article's metadata, then it is not legally necessary to place the {{wp-cca}} template at the top of the article. You are allowed to port material to wikialpha, that you wrote elsewhere, when you are the sole author of that material's intellectual content. I've done this hundreds of times. Sometimes, when I port an article I originally contributed to the Wikipedia, I go back to the last version for which I can claim sole authorship, rather than port the very latest portion.

If other contributors did genuinely add new intellectual content there is a legal requirement for the {{wp-cca}} template at the top of the article, AND a list of all the userids of the Wikipedia contributors has to be available. We put that list in a subsection of the talk page.

But, when I port articles I wrote, from the Wikipedia, to Wikialpha, I always explicitly assert, on the article's talk page, "I believe I was the sole author of the intellectual content of the material ported to this wiki".

In the case of your articles, an independent third party, (me), has to go to a lot of work to confirm this is not the copyright violation of Wikipedia contributors it looks like, on the surface...

Please follow my example, when porting material where you believe you are the sole author of the intellectual content of a Wikipedia article. Geo Swan (talk) 13:49, 31 August 2023 (UTC)