User talk:Moneytrees

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Communications about copyright

Hi Moneytrees! I have seen the essay you linked to, especially after a fairly good communication at User_talk:Enćenćecasïdća#Linked_essay. According to your essay, "Machine/manual translations of copyrighted content are still usually copyright violations", which I did not quite know earlier. Ever since the previous warnings, I have been more careful about copyvio issues especially involving closing paragraphing of English sources, but I did not quite get previously that a translation (even with some modifications) of cited content is still usually considered copyright violations, which was my fault, and sorry about this. Indeed, this is the first time that I ever got warned due to translations of cited contents, and I have already understood the issue by now and promised to avoid this even when translation and some modifications are involved. User:Enćenćecasïdća tried to help by letting me find out the linked essay and then advising me to ask an Admin in his talk page, and I am indeed doing this. May I ask what I should do in such case? Apparently I have already successfully avoided copyright issues for those involving citing English sources by now (indeed, I have been very careful for such), and can definitely ensure this even for those involving translations of non-English sources in the future, which I have already seriously promised. Please give me one other chance, which I really appreciate. I think the block is no longer necessary since I already understood the actual reason for it, and will avoid this at all cost while making useful contributions. By the way, I have lived in an English-speaking country for over two decades with fairly good English education, and I definitely want to contribute to Wikipedia with the best of my knowledge. Thanks a lot!

Additional information (according to the linked essay):

1. Provide an explanation for why you thought it was acceptable to copy text in the first place. Being honest with your thought process will get you far.

• Since I translated the text from a non-English language source this time, with some modifications, and properly cited it with references, I did not initially consider it a copyvio, unlike those sources which are originally written in English with close paraphrasing, or in the cases without proper citations (I have been used to cite them). The words I used were in a completely different language from the source (with proper citations and some modifications), so I did not originally considered it closing paragraph, but now I know this understanding is incorrect.

2. Explain in your own words what copyright is. A super detailed response isn't necessary, a sentence or two can suffice.

• In my understanding, copyright is the legal right of its owner(s) for some content; one can not claim some text being its own instead of its author(s). If one need to use the content, the sources must be properly cited, and even in such cases it is better to not match the original wording. Now I understand that this applies to different languages as well.

3. Attempt to do a rewrite of the content that you had copied.

• It was already done in the original article a while ago, with major rewrite, after realizing that it may still cause copyright violations even when translations and some modifications are involved.

4. Clearly commit to not copying from sources in the future, and detail how you will write in the future.

• Sure, I do. As I have already pretty much avoided copyvio issues when citing English sources over the past year, I will use pretty much same standards for those involving translations from non-English sources as well, so that such issues will be avoid completely.

--Wengier (talk) 21:57, 23 July 2026 (UTC)