Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Landsat program into NASA. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 11:46, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Diannaa, thank you for pointing this out. No issue complying (I see you already made attribution reference for Landsat). I will correct others if I think in a similar state. I also see your extensive history. Seeking some advice. A number of subsections (individual programs/missions) exist or existed as excerpts... Many of the excerpts (e.g. source intro paragraphs) lacked citations. I have used some language from source page (excerpt) but have added citations and altered in many. Does this generate the same attribution requirement? Or does the change to include the citation(s) change the obligation. not suggesting an issue with Landsat; but many other pages in the Spaceflight domain (e.g. NASA programs/missions) tend to lack citations.. Maybe another way to say this - does the attribution obligation require that the source already meet the wikipedia citation expectation? Appreciate any advice you may have on this.SpaceHist65 (talk) 23:04, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Attribution has nothing to do with the citations; what you are doing when you provide attribution is giving credit to the authors - the Wikipedians who wrote the prose that you copied. This is required by the terms of our Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. — Diannaa (talk) 00:41, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hello SpaceHist65, the NASA edits from this month were reverted primarily because there appeared to be rapid removals of content that weren’t adequately explained, and were also contested by another editor. We can meet at the article talk page to discuss further. Thanks. NeutraI (talk) 04:38, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- There were very few practical removals of information. There was movement of historial spacecraft programs to the History section from the jumbled up prior narrative and creation of current programs to align with a previous structural change that I had made to fix the structural template issue that had been applied to the article. (note Planetary Sciences, Astrophysics, Earth Science additions). I am still working on Heliophysics missions. In the last week, I will admit to updating individual paragraphs that I had incorporated in the prior couple of weeks to ensure the use of original narrative instead of excerpts and also add additional spacecraft missions relevant to each topic area. This was in response to constructive comments by editor Diannaa regarding re-use of existing wikipedia material. You will not see any vandalism or other changes that are inconsistent with the reality of what NASA is doing. SpaceHist65 (talk) 04:46, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I see you're in Southern California as am I. Whereabouts? I'm in Vista.
I'd planned to get a lot more Wikipedia written this winter, but so far, I've just managed two articles. :( --Neopeius (talk) 05:56, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- South Bay Los Angeles (Torrance area).SpaceHist65 (talk) 22:17, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:58, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I'm just letting you know that I reformatted the headings in your edit request at Talk:Parsons_Corporation. When you request an edit and then include text formatted as a top-level heading in the proposal, that is interpreted as a new section on the talk page. This can make requests difficult to read and also messes with some technical stuff, e.g. the edit request tool used by some editors to answer requests and automated talk page section archiving carried out by bots.
For clarity and to avoid these issues, I have reformatted the request. Happy editing! Actualcpscm (talk) 13:53, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
