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Copyright attribution when translating and copying from German Wikipedia (2)

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I'm afraid I'm completely lost here. My latest translation is Heinrich de Ahna. Can you show me how it should be, according to your indications ? Tomorrow will be de:Marienkirche (Prenzlau). Same question. LouisAlain (talk) 20:33, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It is not my understanding. It is part of the Wikipedia requirements for copyright policy. How to meet those requirements can be found in the guideline Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

Not only is it a breach of copyright, it is also plagiarism as you are not giving credit where credit is due to the Wikipedia editors/authors of the work you are translating. See the article on plagiarism and the guidance for editors in WP:plagiarism.

You asked for an example for the article Heinrich de Ahna. user:Grimes2 provided one with the revision as of 12:53, 12 February 2021 (diff)

So far I have been discussing this with my experienced editor hat on. I can not tell if your failure to understand the guidence a genuine language problem, or you are being deliberately objuse, so I am now metaphorically putting on my administrator's hat:

If you create an new article by copying the text from other Wikipedia articles, you must provide the information as described in WP:TFOLWP. If you continue to create articles without adequate attribution I will initiate a conversation on Wikipedia:Copyright problems and then (unless there is consensus not to do so) foĺlow through with a Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigation. As you ought to already know, deleting this warning will be taken as proof that you have read it and understood it (WP:OWNTALK).

If you still require help understanding what you must to to meet copyright requirements, then ask here and wait until you do before creating any more articles.

-- PBS (talk) 19:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well done! I see from your edit history you have created two new articles with nearly adequate attribution:

17:33, 12 February 2021 diff hist +5,801‎ N Udo Mainzer ‎"Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Udo Mainzer; see its history for attribution."
18:01, 12 February 2021 diff hist +6,581‎ N Matthias Untermann ‎ "Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Matthias Untermann; see its history for attribution."

All you need to do if you create a new article is to add an interwiki link in the attribution you are providing.

Instead of "at de:Matthias Untermann ..."

Use "at de:Matthias Untermann ..." — which is created using at [[:de:Matthias Untermann]] NB note the leading colon ":" which is needed (see Help:Interlanguage links).

-- PBS (talk) 20:00, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 Well done! I see from your edit history you have created two new articles with nearly adequate attribution:
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 :Instead of "at de:Matthias Untermann ..."
 :Use "at [[:de:Matthias Untermann]] ..." — which is created using <code>at <nowiki>[[:de:Matthias Untermann]]</nowiki></code> NB note the leading colon ":" which is needed (see [[Help:Interlanguage links]]).
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