Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Malone

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep with Copyvio-free Revisions

[edit] William Malone

Blatant copyvio. [1]. Was speedied, but creating editor removed the tag, saying he found the text on a government web site, not a commercial content provider. Doing formal AFD thing instead. This link and the government site both include an "All Rights Reserved" copyright statement. -- Vary | Talk 05:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete from the government site "Material on this website is subject to Crown copyright protection administered through the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (P O Box 5364, Wellington, New Zealand) unless otherwise indicated. New Zealand and international copyright laws protect third party copyright material on this site. Authorisation to reproduce such material should be obtained from the copyright holders concerned. Unauthorised reproduction, duplication, transmission or commercial use of such copyright materials may result in prosecution." --Pboyd04 05:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The page has been severely dited to reflect the community service to the DIstrict I represent (Stratford, Taranaki), and away from the war record which forms part of the New Zealand history. —the preceding unsigned comment is by MichaelFreeman (talk • contribs)

• Comment I do see that you've edited the article substantially, Michael, but unfortunately, most of what remains is still taken word-for-word from Mr. Malone's Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry. Anything submitted to wikipedia must be licensed under the GFDL. In order for you to be able to release content under the GFDL, it has to be in your own words. -- Vary | Talk 06:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I have rewritten the articel as a stub and removed the copyrighted content. Movementarian 06:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this up, I restored the AFD tag to the page since it shouldn't be removed until this AFD is closed. Triona 06:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Movementarian's excellent rewrite. Do we still need to get the edits with the copyrighted text deleted, or are we done here? -- Vary | Talk 06:17, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep/Withdraw from AFD Copyright issue seems to be satisfactorily resolved by Movementarian's rewrite. Does someone want to make the revisions that are copyvio go away? Triona 06:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Edited: Based on the issue making this article eligible for deletion having been resolved, I believe this should be withdrawn from the AFD process. Triona 11:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: that is unnecessary, replacing the content is sufficient. Copyvios are only removed from the history if someone complains and it must be done by a developer. -- Kjkolb 07:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Rewrite fine ComputerJoe 10:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.