User talk:Donald Albury

I represent the Dunedin History Museum and the city historian. The reference link(s) to the first land grant and the incorporation of the city is from an old incorrect city of Dunedin page. The dates 1852 and 1925 are incorrect for the first land grant and the founding of the city.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.115.241 (talk • contribs) 15:10 4 August 2021 (UTC)

In fact that editor has repeatedly refused to advise me of what the problem is. I'm surprised to hear that editor is an experienced editor as I had not seen need to check. Right off attempting to inject FRINGE political bias and going on to repeatedly demand I debate positions I don't hold is strange for an experienced editor. I have said several times that we can remove and change any parts of my added text and asked how he wants to do that: He still refuses to reply instead insisting on these debates. Invasive Spices (talk) 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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"Educators in all settings may download and print these materials as instructional resources under "fair use" guidelines. Printed copies may be distributed to teachers and other individuals provided that proper credit is given to the Texas State Historical Association." Do you consider Wikipedia to not be an instructional resource?

In addition, the other three articles that you accused me of copy and pasting are objectively just not true. My edits were cited and sourced, and not a single one of my edits to Suffolk, Virginia or Hancock County, Indiana was copied from another source. You added a random link that I never used to both articles and accused me of copy and pasting, which is a blatant lie. 141.154.49.21 (talk) 17:53, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

:I went and checked on your edits before the administrators revdeled them, and Earwig gave clear indication that this was copied and pasted word-for-word. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 17:55, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

::Fix your earwig then, or stop lying. If you go and look at those websites you'll find that it's not. 141.154.49.21 (talk) 14:25, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

:First, please read the policy at Wikipedia:Copyright violations#Parts of article violate copyright. Wikipedia has very strong policies against the use of copyrighted material. It doesn't matter where you found the material, if it substantially matches copyrighted published material (unless it has been released under an acceptable free license), we must remove it from Wikipedia. I checked each of the suspect edits with Earwig's [https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ Copyvio Detector], and only acted on the cases in which that tool reported a high probability that the content matched an online source. If it reported that the given content was likely a copyvio, I then looked at the website to verify the copyright and/or licensing status of the material. In addition, please understand that Wikipedia does {{em|not}} qualify for an educational exemption of "fair use" under US copyright law. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a school. I have distributed copies of copyrighted material in a classroom, but any content added to Wikipedia is broadcast to the world, and thus far exceeds the limits on the educational "fair use" exemption to copyright. Donald Albury 18:36, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

::Then go back and double check your "Copyvio Detector," and then double check the edit description because like I said, it wasn't copy pasted. You realize how absurd it is to accuse me of copy pasting text from a roofing company (that nobody could possibly find unless they specifically googled "roofing company in Suffolk, VA," which no editor would do for these purposes) for a section on the politics of the Hampton Roads, especially when I quite literally cited the New York Times.

::Same with Hancock County, Indiana, where your copy detector detected information from the government webpage of a different county. If you had bothered to read the webpages that you accused me of copying from, you would realize how wrong your detector tool is. 141.154.49.21 (talk) 19:38, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

:::If I may share my experience...if 70 percent of an edit is junk, and 30 percent is well-sourced content peppered in with the junk, it would be unreasonable to expect any other editor to spend time separating the wheat from the chaff. The entire edit gets nuked, and the editor is warned. At least that has been my experience. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:27, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

::::I wasn't talking to you, but if you would like to go through said edits then be my guest. Oh, and by the way, even if I had copy pasted from the Hamilton County, IN government website (and I didn't, since I was editing Hancock County), government sources are considered free use per WP. How about you run back through my edits to Suffolk, VA and to Hancock County, IN and tell me if there is even a single sentence that is copied. 141.154.49.21 (talk) 21:17, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Any chance you could give me a hand with this declined draft? I posted on Wikiproject Florida page as well, but I don't onow how active it is. Thanks for all you do. Happy Spring! FloridaArmy (talk) 18:34, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

:Hi, Florida Army. I watch this page, so I'm replying with what I've found. The [https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/regional_ebooks/3/ History of Orange County, Florida: Narrative and Biographical] Part 2, by William Fremont Blackman, has a brief biographical sketch about Vanderpool on pp. 80–81. The book text can be viewed at the bottom of the Digital Commons page I've linked. It says that in 1876, he married Harriet Langman of New York City, and that he died in 1917. It may be a very brief sketch, but at least it is a "published, reliable, secondary source" that is "independent of the subject." Carlstak (talk) 04:48, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

:FloridaArmy For various reasons I have been busy, so I haven't looked at it. I hope Carlstak's reply helps. Donald Albury 12:51, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

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Hi Donald,

I would kindly ask you to check what user Marclyo is doing on the page Genetic history of Egypt and that measures be taken to stop him. He is insistently making edits based solely on his own opinions, which are not corroborated by the source he cites; he has also tried more than once to insert information supposedly based on a thesis that has not yet been published. The most recent edit history and a post I made on the talk page make it quite clear what is happening. Unfortunately, my ability to act in this context is limited (I can only undo his edits), so I had no choice but to ask for your help.

Thank you very much in advance. Dealmeida87 (talk) 16:48, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

:I am not well versed on the relevant literature, and do not feel qualified to evaluate those edits without putting in more time studying the subject than I have timefor now. Sorry. Donald Albury 17:14, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Saw the b&w you put up on Remington's page, we're putting up a color one now in iBistro if you wanted to update Remington :) 164.51.124.7 (talk) 15:29, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

:If you have colorized a Remington print, then you have created a copyright (on the colorization) and you must release that version under a free license before we can use it in Wikipedia. Donald Albury 15:45, 14 April 2025 (UTC)