User talk:Abdullah Asim
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I saw you added a bunch of articles, recently. Before I congratulated you I did a google search on the first two sentences of one of them - Pakistan. They were a direct copy of the Pakistan article on the simple.wikipedia.
Please see point number 5, from WikiAlpha:Criteria for speedy deletion. This material is, I believe, eligible for deletion as a copyright violation - unless someone adds appropriate attribution.
There are clones of Wikipedia that merely say, somewhere on their copied pages, something like "this material was copied from the Wikipedia".
Wikipedia's lawyers think proper attribution requires a list of all Wikipedia contributors who worked on the article. I am not a lawyer, but I think this is either too much or too little. I personally think there is no real reason to add attribution for anyone who merely trimmed content, or whose edit was simple copy-editing.
Anyhow, note, I added the {{swp-cca}} tag to the Pakistan article you copied. It is a stopgap, for articles copied from the simple Wikipedia, a stripped down version of {{wp-cca}}.
Would you please consider going back to all the articles you copied here, and adding either {{wp-cca}} or {{swp-cca}}, whichever is appropriate?
Let me introduce myself. I am just a volunteer contributor here, like you. But I have been around since 2012, and I am one of the long term contributors the management here trusted with administrator bits. That means I can delete the material you added, that I think measures up to the deletion criteria. I won't give it speedy deletion, I'll give you time to clean it up, and I will help you do so if you don't understand what I have written. Geo Swan (talk) 15:30, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Please be more careful...
When you copied material from the wikipedia that content referenced images that existed there and don't exist here.
If an image was licensed for use on the Wikipedia that license allows it to be used here. All you have to do is copy it over. I copied over File:Islamabad the beautiful-5.JPG, as an example for you. Could you please follow that example, and copy over the other images missing from the articles you copied?
Note the information I copied:
- I said where I got it from... If the Wikipedia used an image from elsewhere, like flicker, or the DoD, provide a link to there, otherwise link to the wikipedia's version
- I said who owns the remaining intellectual property rights, and provided a link to their info.
- I stated the license under which he released the image, providing a link to the actual license. If the image is public domain, just say public domain.
- I said when the image was released
Wikipedia image information pages are more complicated, but I think this is the minimum required.
One other factor is the maximum size. Wikipedia's maximum image size is quite large. Here it is 2 megabytes. When copying a larger Wikipedia image use a lower resolution. If you look closely at the image description page https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islamabad_the_beautiful-5.JPG you will see links to lower resolutions... Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 427 pixels | 1,024 × 683 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels | 4,608 × 3,072 pixels. The 1280x853 resolution, almost as good, was only 370kb. Geo Swan (talk) 15:45, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Missing templates
When you copied material from the wikipedia that content referenced templates that existed there and don't exist here.
Templates are complicated, and it requires more skill than I have to port a template from Wikipedia, and make it work here, because all but the simplest templates call other templates, and they may not exist here, or work properly here.
Best practice here is to not call upon templates that don't exist. If you lack the skill to port templates, then simply trimming them from the article works.
If you are considering trimming a template that adds an illustration consider trimming the template, but manually adding in the illustration. Geo Swan (talk) 15:50, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
- User:Geo Swan first of all thanks for sharing the detail with me. I have added the tag you ask for. And I have a question. Is this website is project of Wikipedia or it is different from Wikipedia?
- Abdullah Asim (talk) 00:17, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
