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I'm still pretty new at this, and am adding information to the KTBU article. Unfortunately, being new, I'm slow so by the time I post my additions, I have a conflict because you've been working on it at the same time, correcting en-dashes and the like. It's then hard for me to reconcile the differences so I cancel my work and then start over.
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I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. ~~~~ S Philbrick(Talk)00:13, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, it looks like you reverted my edits in 2 sections, about 2 different quilts, that I made with 2 different saves. For the 1898 quilt, I did quote the artist, but for the 1886 quilt I don't believe I had any quotes at all, just corrected obvious errors left by another editor, and added wikilinks. Wikipedian-in-Waiting (talk) 01:23, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Philbrick, pinging you again since I haven't had a response yet. You reverted two changes, so I'll comment about each.
'Bible Quilt 1886' section: In this section, I changed a paragraph that listed the panels into a numbered list so that it's clear which story each panel shows, omitting the ones that were not correct (like the Jonah story), and adding the specific Biblical passages. You probably removed this by mistake. Here's the comparison, for convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harriet_Powers&diff=1270910742&oldid=1245552444
'Pictorial Quilt 1898' section: You've locked it so I can no longer see my changes, and I'm not clear on your comment (left on the change log) about a Medium article, but I can describe what I did or tried to do. Like the section above, it listed the panels in paragraphs, sometimes with mistakes and sometimes without wikilinks to related articles. Importantly: the quilt weaves together the artist's interpretation of some Bible stories with events in her lifetime or weather events that she must've heard of. Because some of them may not be understandable to current viewers outside her personal context, her own words give clarity. And, given that it's sometimes her interpretation of astronomical events as seen through a Biblical lens specific to her personal understanding of the Bible, it's more confusing (and potentially error-prone or based on speculation or bias) to provide a summary of her words. As an artist statement from the 1800s, I don't believe that's under copyright. It's published at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, website on their page for this quilt which they hold. You can see it here, in the 'Description' section: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/116166
This is the passage I quoted, and I meant to cite the MFA Boston page. I'm not sure where the Medium page that you mention comes into this, but that person is quoting the passage from MFA Boston. It's not *their* (podcaster Bernadine's) words, it's the artist's words, from the 1800s. Although they don't put it in blockquotes on their Medium page, and don't link to the MFA Boston, they do start their quote by saying it's "her [the artist's] own words".
The only other citation I added to my change to this section, if I remember correctly, was to a dissertation. There was no quoted material, it was just to provide an additional source to explain panel 12, "the red light night of 1846". Wikipedian-in-Waiting (talk) 12:10, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies for the delayed response, which seems delayed because you thought you pinged me. Please review Help:Notifications and that should help convince you that your attempt to reach me on your talk page never sent a notification to me. As I glance at that page it's not the best organize page of ever seen so please reach out to me if you want more help. Pinging is a very tool, especially if you want to reach me of them on my talk page so I'd like you to make sure you see how to do it.
As for the main subject matter, you did correctly assess that I found your text on a page that asserted copyright and given the date of the material of interest, it seems likely that page incorrectly asserted copyright over public domain text.
I have not looked at the article in question because it's been eight days and it's possible you've tried to make subsequent changes. I can return the article to the version just before my reversion but that would wipe out any subsequent edits. I can send you the text by email. Let me know how you'd like to proceed. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ S Philbrick(Talk)12:26, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll answer here and on your page, hoping you see the response. Yes, please undo the removal you made to both of my changes to the wiki article. On the article's revision log, they were:
