User talk:Donald Albury
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Dunedin, FL
[edit]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)
Arecaceae
[edit]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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Noticed you hadn't done any editing in a while
[edit]Hi Donald, I noticed that there had been no activity on your account for a while and was going to email you to check in. Are you okay? I hope you are in good health and that all is going well with you. Carlstak (talk) 00:41, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- Just got back from a cruise a few hours ago. I was doing a little editing use my alternate account. Donald Albury 00:44, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, good to hear. I suspected you might have been on a cruise. Hope you had a great time. Carlstak (talk) 01:21, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- Except that I caught a bad cold and was miserable (couldn't sleep) on the 14-1/2 hour flight from Sydney to Houston. Donald Albury 09:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- Ugh. I go through periods of chronic insomnia, and even though I know it's not a good thing to do, I'll take a large dose of phenylpropanolamine (Benadryl) if I get desperate enough. Melatonin works, usually, for me, but not always. Carlstak (talk) 19:18, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- Except that I caught a bad cold and was miserable (couldn't sleep) on the 14-1/2 hour flight from Sydney to Houston. Donald Albury 09:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, good to hear. I suspected you might have been on a cruise. Hope you had a great time. Carlstak (talk) 01:21, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
"officially" @ Liberland
[edit]Hi Donald, thanks for your diligent feedback.
For Liberland, I have followed the common practice for nations and micronations that use an abbreviated name, but do have a full, longer name.
You asked How "officially"? - and reverted my edit. The project officially calls itself "The Free Republic of Liberland", hence I mentioned it in that way. The adverb "officially" does NOT require a UN-acknowledged government body to endorse an "official" naming.
You may refer to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/official, in particular (C2) "If a piece of information is official, it has been announced publicly with authority" - Example "Their engagement is now official"
-> Would you please revert your reversion. Thank you. Greetings, Rene. Rene05x (talk) 03:30, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Rene05x: Please discuss this on the article talk page. Donald Albury 14:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]"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)
- 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 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 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)
- 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)
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Would you have a moment to look at Indian River Shores, Florida? You were one of the most recent editors there. I'm trying to avoid an edit war. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:18, 12 March 2025 (UTC)