User talk:AZmonarchlady

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--Orange Mike | Talk 17:09, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Request to unblock and change username

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

AZmonarchlady (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

AZmonarchlady (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I now understand why the user Southwest Monarch Study has been blocked. It is clear that the username violates the rules for user names and it is clear that I did not understand the policy. For that I apologize as a new user. I also understand how the post could have been seen as promotion or spamming. There was never any intent to promote the Southwest Monarch Study or to spam. I was unaware of Wikipedia’s guidelines and should have learned more first. How did the mistake happen? The Southwest Monarch Study tags monarch butterflies and gathers information about where the monarchs are later seen. We published some of the data on our web page, southwestmonarchs.org. Someone copied our data, added a copyright notice and began circulating their publication as if it was their own work. We didn't want to lose the right to use our own data. We informed the infringers that the data was used without permission, and that they were therefore prohibited from using it. The infringers told us they had stopped using the data even before receiving our notification, but many of our colleagues in the monarch butterfly community told us the infringers had contacted them with the intent of distributing our data as their own. A few days ago, a link appeared on the Wikipedia Monarch_Butterfly page as a map citation. This was just an attempt to publish a graphical re-representation of our data. I replaced the citation with a reference to our website. There was never any thought or intent of promoting Southwest Monarch Study. I merely wanted to give a proper citation. A better citation would have been Monarch Watch's migration map. http://monarchwatch.org/blog/2010/05/two-way-monarch-migration-map/ I would like to continue to edit Wikipedia. For example, at the beginning of the Monarch_butterfly page, the eastern and western populations are mentioned. I would like to add a study published in peer-reviewed journal that found no significant genetic differences between the populations. I am also aware, from a Xerces publication, of more milkweeds that monarchs use as host plants in the West.i I apologize for my error. I never have and never will use Wikipedia to promote the Southwest Monarch Study. What appeared to be promotion was my mistake, and I accept full responsibility for it. I was only trying to protect our data. If a similar situation should ever arise, I will handle it in a way to prevent even the appearance of impropriety. To prevent another mistake, I will start any future edits to any page with a discussion on the talk page.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Yunshui ^雲_水 20:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Yunshui, for recommending that I be unblocked. Thank you, OrangeMike, for recommending that Yunshui unblock my account and change the username. There seems to be some confusion if user:Southwest Monarch Study and user:mdann52 are the same. They are not. The block was only for the invalid username and the appearance of self promotion. I grateful that concerns have been resolved in this matter. I am happy to discuss other issues as needed after I am unblocked. Southwest Monarch Study (talk) 14:56, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Violation of Copyright

On the edit history of the article Monarch butterfly the following edit was posted: 07:49, July 15, 2014‎ Mdann52 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (68,291 bytes) (-635)‎ . . (→‎top: rv link to copyvio material (Ticket:2014071510000218))

I would like to maintain that no copyright infringement was done. I referenced a url to a website, a normal and typical practice. No copyrighted material (the raw data itself) was/is used in this section of the article. No word-for-word text was copied from the reference and then pasted to the article.

There seems to be some confusion of what constitues a copyright violation. I can only say that this/these users are well-intentioned and are responding in good faith, wishing to enhance and improve the article. I have been privately contacted by a representive of Southwest Monarch Study via email. I would rather resolve this issue with the assistance other editors who have the expertise of determining copyright violations here on wikipedia rather than thru private corespondance.

bpage (talk) 02:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Response

User:Southwest Monarch Study is not User:Mdann52. Because of my newness,I reported that the data was used without our permission via an email to info-en@wikimedia.org. I received a response on July 15 with Ticket#2014071510000218 that the post was removed.

From my understanding, the block is due to using the name Southwest Monarch Study and the perception of self-promotion. Southwest Monarch Study (talk) 06:05, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, AZmonarchlady. You have new messages at Talk:Monarch butterfly.
Message added 13:44, 21 July 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Yunshui ^雲_水 13:44, 21 July 2014 (UTC)