Hello Sean4780! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Reverse Discrimination (EU Law), but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted material from other websites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from https://irelandsreversediscrimination.wordpress.com/, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate your contributions, copying content from other websites is unlawful and against Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are likely to lose their editing privileges.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! — Diannaa (talk) 14:20, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I feel you need to read wp:spa and wp:not. As well as wp:rs and wp:primary. Slatersteven (talk) 12:35, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Advice, this isn't a good idea, and I took the liberty of removing it. You may be having a dispute with Dianaa, true, but the interactions between you and her are over an administrative action she took in pursuing copyright concerns. Dispute Resolution mediation is for times when an article talk page discussion has proved fruitless, and a 3rd party mediator is needed. ValarianB (talk) 12:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to close this dispute before User:ValarianB removed it, and was about to say that disputes about copyright should be handled at Copyright Problems. I will also caution you that, first, Wikipedia administrators always enforce copyright aggressively, without regard to who the editor is, and, second, it is very seldom useful to say that an administrator is being a bully, even if the administrator is being a bully, and in this case User:Diannaa was not, because she was only aggressively enforcing copyright, which is her responsibility. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and conduct allegations against administrators are a distraction. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:16, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sean4780, and welcome to Wikipedia. I edit here too, under the username Slatersteven, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I've started a discussion about whether an article that you created, Reverse Discrimination (EU Law), should be deleted, as I am not sure that it is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia in its current form. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reverse Discrimination (EU Law).

You might like to note that such discussions usually run for seven days and are not ballot-polls. And, our guide about effectively contributing to such discussions is worth a read. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

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Slatersteven (talk) 13:09, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm an administrator trying to go through and clear up this page so it's usable and visible to everyone. I saw the note you posted releasing your text under the CC-BY-SA license. That's almost what we need, but I'm afraid it's not exactly what is needed since you are the author. We need a statement that says something like: "The text is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)." That can be added to your Wordpress site (either as a new post just mentioning this material, or as a footer releasing all of your writing under free licenses) or you can send it in an email following the steps at WP:CONSENT. I know this is complicated for using text that you already wrote once, but since it was originally published outside of Wikipedia we have some pretty strict rules which have to be followed. As soon as you post something to the website or email the necessary permissions, if you let me know (you can just reply here) it would be greatly appreciated so I can make the records we need and open the article back up. Please let me know if you have any questions. VernoWhitney (talk) 01:31, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://irelandsreversediscrimination.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/to-wikipedia/

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to wikipedia

The text is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) Sean4780 (talk) 23:34, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I have to run off to eat here soon, but if you can leave that page up I'll finish getting everything fully sorted in the next few hours. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:43, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Another heads up - I've nominated the Irish immigration image for deletion over on Commons. Just because something is freely dissemenated, doesn't mean that we can do the same without legal issues. There's some general guidance here at WP:COPYOTHERS and commons:COM:Copyright rules by territory/Ireland has some information about Ireland specifically. Reusing text from elsewhere on Wikipedia (or images from elsewhere on Wikimedia Commons) can be very complicated even when it seems straightforward, so please don't hesitate to ask around if you have questions. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:26, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fair dealing of a work for the purposes of criticism or review of that work shall not infringe any copyright.

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/ie/ie098en.pdf

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Fair dealing: criticism or review

1.—(1) Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of criticism or review of that or another work or of a performance of a work shall not infringe any copyright in the work where the criticism or review is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement. (2) Fair dealing with a work (other than a photograph) for the purpose of reporting current events shall not infringe copyright in that work, where the report is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement. (3) In this Part, ‘‘sufficient acknowledgement’’ means an acknowledgement identifying the work concerned by its title or other description and identifying the author unless— (a) in the case of a work which has been lawfully made available to the public, it was so made available anonymously, or (b) in the case of a work which has not been made available to the public, it is not possible for a person without previous knowledge of the facts to ascertain the identity of the author of the work by reasonable enquiry. Sean4780 (talk) 16:38, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'd appreciate it if you talked to me, rather than just copied and pasted text. Regardless, Wikimedia Commons does not host media under fair use/fair dealing, they have to actually be in the public domain or freely licensed. Here on Wikipedia, we do allow a limited amount of copyrighted material under fair use, but it has to meet all of our significantly stricter non-free content policy and guideline. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:54, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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