User talk:Richlevine00

Show Indians

I have been examining the article Show Indians. There is a tag indicating "The neutrality of the style of writing in this article is questioned." I noted on the talk page of the article that someone believes the article to be discriminatory and single-sided in describing the "phenomenon of Native exploitation and romanticization in the U.S." Arguments of a similar nature were made by the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the popularity of Wild West shows in the U.S. and Europe, and these debates are discussed within the article. To address the "tag", I added the following to the article: "There has been some objection to the usage of the terms "Indian" and "American Indian", but both terms are still used widely today and no longer considered exonyms." I am considering adding sections and references to this article, but I have concerns that the warning "tag" will delegitimize further efforts. I hope that you will consider removing the tag.Richlevine00 (talk) 02:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Rich, if you feel you have corrected the problems, feel free to remove the tag. If the other editor still feels that the article is biased, you can discuss the content and how it should be changed with him on the talk page. My personal view on this issue is that the term Indian is particularly important to the context so that is acceptable. I only skimmed the article, but I do feel that it glosses over some important aspects. What were their wages and living conditions during their touring season? Ryan Vesey 03:04, 30 August 2012 (UTC)  : Thanks Ryan: My material addresses their wages and living conditions. Your input is most helpful. Richlevine00 (talk) 12:22, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I added a photo gallery to this article. There is a renewed public interest in Show Indians. Especially in Europe. Great U.S. artists, anthropologists and historians of the late 19th began what they envisioned as the chronicles of a "vanishing race." Many of these bright professionals lived among the Indians. The artists and historians were drawn to Show Indians, many whom were leaders and warriors from the Plains Wars, and there is a treasure of information and imagery.

More than one Sandbox?

Hi. Is it possible to have more than one Sandbox for drafting articles? If permitted, how might it be done? Thank you. Richlevine00 (talk) 00:14, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can have multiple subpages, and use them as sandboxes. Put {{User sandbox}} on all of the sandboxes, and you'll most likely be fine. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 00:19, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs

Thank you for your recent articles, including Henry Standing Bear, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:22, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages

Thank you for your recent articles, including Henry Standing Bear, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:22, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions

Excellent work, your articles are really high quality. I've upgraded ratings on them to B and I suggest you strongly consider the WP:DYK process and the WP:GAN to give your work more visibility. I see you are uploading your pictures to English Wikipedia; I recommend doing so directly at Wikimedia Commons, so your images can be used at other projects, too. Let me know if you have any other articles I can review for you. PS. I am more than happy to review all your past creations if you can just give me a list. (You may also want to display such a list on your userpage, outside bragging rights it also can serve useful purpose like I wouldn't have to ask but I could just add review ratings to all your contributions :D). Or other things, like categories that were missing from [1]. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 00:57, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
Dear Richlevine00, thank you for all your contributions, especially your recent creation of Thomas L. Sloan, which I patrolled. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, AnupamTalk 15:49, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Laura Cornelius Kellogg) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Richlevine00!

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re: New York Times: Wikipedia in Poland

Thank you but we are all equally responsible for this, so we should all bask in this award :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:06, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Thomas L. Sloan, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=ENAIT467&DataType=Indian, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:28, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you have made efforts to remove the initial copyvio, but I'm afraid there's still some remaining. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:28, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I am an administrator evaluating the copyright concerns at Thomas L. Sloan, and I am very concerned from your words at that talk page that you may not have understood that you cannot copy content from your sources to Wikipedia unless you can prove that they are public domain or compatibly licensed. Our policy is set out at WP:C, with a helpful general information page including additional links at WP:Copypaste.

A glance back at history shows that you have done this before. For instance, looking at the first edit of Johnny Jones, I zeroed in on the sentence "Some 200 Indians in full war paint, beat on tom-toms and chanted war songs as Junior his father, mother and aunt Sue were approached by Chief Red Dog, who addressed the youngster seated on his pony" and find at page 45 of Bob Goldsack (1990). "Johnny's Here": The History of the Johnny J. Jones Expositions : "the Mighty Monarch of the Tented World". Midway Museum Publications. "Some 200 Indians in full war paint, beat on tom-toms and chanted war songs as Junior, his father, mother and aunt Sue were approached by Chief Red Dog, who addressed the youngster seated on his pony." This book is not available for general preview on Google Books, so I cannot determine how much of the book you have copied here, or what you have copied from other books that are not easily accessed. I spot-checked two more sentences. For one, I did not find a match. For another, "Susie was, in her day, the first and only trained Gorilla in the world.", I found that it seems to have been copied from this 2009 blog: [2]. Without being able to access the sources, I am concerned that the article may be another problem under our copyright policy.

I also glanced at Philip B. Gordon. I checked the sentence "When ordained a priest, Gordon ordered a war drum and peace pipe made so he could present them to Me-Sa-Bi ("Giant") his childhood friend" and found a near match at this 2004 newsletter: "When Father Gordon became the first American Indian in the United States to be ordained a priest in the Catholic Church, he ordered the war drum and peace pipe made so he could present them to Me-sa-bi, his childhood playmate." This would constitute an issue of Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, had you used that as your source. What concerns me is that the newsletter was authored by Paula Delfeld, who is also the author of the book you have cited as the source for most of the article. It seems a worrying possibility that your language may be even closer to that Ms. Delfeld used in her book and thus even more of an issue under our copyright policy.

Except for brief and clearly marked quotations in compliance with the usage guidelines at non-free content, Wikipedia cannot copy content from sources, or closely paraphrase it, unless those sources are demonstrably public domain or compatibly licensed, and even then articles that use content verbatim from those sources must acknowledge the copying to comply with Wikipedia:Plagiarism. In almost all cases, citing a source is not sufficient when using text that is verbatim or nearly so. While sources are required for information in articles, the bulk of content you put on Wikipedia must be written in your own words.

It would be extremely helpful for you to look at the sources you have used for your older articles and make sure that they comply with copyright policy. If now that you are aware of our policies you realize that older articles do not comply, I request that you rewrite them so that they do. If you need help with this, we can coordinate that, but those who do not have access to your sources will be severely hampered in rewriting and may wind up just stubbing content until you or somebody else with those books can get around to it. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Furthering my concern, I have just found copying from this source in Henry Standing Bear. For example:
Source Article
When Mato Najen went to school, he was elated at the prospect of having a new name, like the white boys. The teacher gave him a pointer, and whirled a big wheel filled with many names for boys. He pointed as he was told, as the wheel slowed to a stop, and found he was indicating “Henry”, and so he was called from then on. For a long time he even supposed there was something mystic about this rite, and so, a sort of divinity in the name. Henry was eager to learn the white man’s ways and when he went to school he was elated at the prospect of having a new name, like the white boys. The teacher gave him a pointer, and whirled a big wheel filled with many names for boys. He pointed as he was told, as the wheel slowed to a stop, and found he was indicating “Henry.” For a long time he even supposed there was something mystic about this rite, and so, a sort of divinity in the name.
According to the Indian Helper, the newsletter of the Carlisle Indian School, Henry excelled in declam and debate. In one instance, Henry led the debate about the question of whether or not the breaking up of Indian reservations, and the giving to the Indians individual holdings of land, constituted the most important step in their regress toward civilization and citizenship. According to the Indian Helper, the newsletter of the Carlisle Indian School, Henry excelled in debate. In one instance, Henry led the debate about the question of whether or not the breaking up of Indian reservations, and the giving to the Indians individual holdings of land, constituted the most important step in their progress toward civilization and citizenship
according to Bob Lee, Henry felt strongly throughout his life about the concept of land ownership. He was appalled by the policies which prohibited him from selling his vast acreage of land to further support his work for the social progress of his people. Henry felt strongly throughout his life about the concept of Indian land ownership. He was appalled by the policies which prohibited him from selling his vast acreage of land to further support his work for the social progress of his people.
To make the issue more clear, I have bolded precise duplication. Adding an additional layer of difficulty in facilitating cleanup of issues, I see that for the second two passages, which are clearly copied almost verbatim from the source, we have a citation not to your source, but to his sources - which means that if we look to the cited source in your content, we will not find the origin of the language.
There is enough copying evident in this article that I have blanked it for processing through WP:CP.
I am also listing a few images at possibly unfree files as they are claimed to be public domain due to publication at a certain time, but no information is given on the publication history. Images are not published when they are taken; publication is a specific legal term. For instance, you claim that File:Henry Standing Bear.png was published in 1953 - where? How do you know, if so, that copyright was not renewed? You cropped the copyright notice from the bottom of the picture when you uploaded it. How do you know that their claim of copyright is not accurate? Please see Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2014 October 19 to provide information on the images I've tagged. I know there are others of similar nature; I have simply listed a few to see if we can begin to get the kind of information necessary to document publication date and verify that these images are public domain.
This is really a matter of urgent concern. We need to determine how much of an issue copying has been in your previous articles and repair it as soon as possible, as well as address any claims about copyright in images that may be speculative rather than based on information. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:35, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that all of my contributions should be reviewed and copyright concerns addressed. Thank you. Richlevine00 (talk) 15:40, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have opened Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20141020. It is still awaiting the image listing, but I hope that will be available soon. To avoid overwhelming you with notices of problems discovered, now that you are aware of our copyright policies, we request that people not give you individual notice of problems. If you wish to keep track of any issues found, please watchlist that page. People will note when they find issues with a Green tickY or when they do not with a Red XN.
You can help speed this process considerably. With respect to the images, what we need will generally be information on the publication history so we can determine if the content was published in accordance with the definition used by the copyright office at § 101 . Definitions. Obviously, this information can be hard to track, but it is particularly important with family photographs and personal memorabilia that may not have been distributed to the public at the time taken but only much later, when the individual's life is written about in historical documents. With respect to text, I hope that you still have access to some of the print sources you have used. If you are able to compare them and indicate where you find duplication, it will go a long way to establishing your good faith intention to help clean up. I would suggest annotating the CCI page, with notes indented under the listing.
To start the cleanup process, I have blanked and listed at WP:CP the articles wherein I identified some copying above. If these are not rewritten from scratch, they are likely to be stubbed after about a week or so. It's not a terrible thing if that happens, as they can be rebuilt from scratch at any point. You can, again, see which articles are blanked and listed at the CCI page. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC) Understood. Thank you. Richlevine00 (talk) 14:42, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Johnny J. Jones, Jr., "Regina Boy".jpg

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File permission problem with File:Susie the Graf Zepplin Gorilla and Johnny J. Jones.jpg

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February 2015

Copyright problem icon Your addition to Thomas L. Sloan has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC) OK. Thank you. Richlevine00 (talk) 22:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Richlevine00, I recognise that you want to contribute to this project, but I find it extremely worrying that a user with a large contributor copyright investigation still open could even consider making an edit such as that which I have just undone at Thomas L. Sloan; that you changed a few words from the earlier version and added some quotation marks makes only the most minimal difference – the bulk of the text you restored was the same that had been removed as a copyvio. If Moonriddengirl writes in an edit summary "PLEASE DO NOT RESTORE", what she means is that the content should not be restored. Is that not completely crystal clear? Please, for your own sake, make the effort to understand and then to respect our copyright policies. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Would appreciate your feedback on Native Art Department International

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2019 US Banknote Contest

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