Here is one piece of information that a different stduent added that went missing from the logs:
The National Library of Pakistan is establishing regional offices in four provincial capitals. Clauses to include electronic publications, as deposit material, are also being added to the Copyright Law. Muhammad Waris, Bhatti. 2014. "National Library of Pakistan as Legal Depository." Pakistan Library & Information Science Journal 45, no. 1: 18-23. I have jsut added it again. Let's see if it sticks. Any additions made from sources after 2010 were stricken AND disappeared from the history and logs. I did not keep a record On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Katherine Casey <fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've looked into this a bit. The page history is difficult to interpret, > because it now shows non-contiguous edits as contiguous (a side effect of > the attending administrator trying to delete versions that contained > copyright violations and keep ones that didn't), but the upshot is that the > content of the article that was being reverted was an extremely close > paraphrasing of a 2009 book called The Library: An Illustrated History by > Stuart Murray (it's available in Google Books in the US, but I can't figure > out how to link directly to it). The article did cite this work as a source, > but represented the Wikipedia text as the article author's own (it did not > enclose any of the copied text in quotations, and even if it had, we're not > permitted to wholesale-copy others' work). That's a pretty clear violation > of Wikipedia's copyright policy > (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COPYVIO>), and it looks like > people did try to explain that on the user's talk page but it just wasn't > coming through clearly, for whatever reason. I do not think the onwiki > portion of this situation had anything to do with the gender of the > contributors. > > All of that, however, is quite apart from Kathleen's point about how women > can be more easily driven away by criticism and aggression. Almost all of us > made mistakes as new editors (and continue to make mistakes as old > editors!), and how those mistakes are responded to - and how we, in turn, > interpret those responses - can very easily sway whether we stay or go. > > -Fluffernutter > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Derric Atzrott > <datzr...@alizeepathology.com> wrote: >> >> >One especially disturbing event was a student editing the entry on the >> >national library of Pakistan. Someone claimed she was violating >> >copyright and deleted her work. it was even deleted from the history >> >logs somehow. I went to the library and added a number of citations >> >to strengthen the entry. These, too, were deleted claiming copyright. >> >Someone just DID NOT want that entry edited. This kind of experience >> >discourages people and in my teaching it seems to discourage women >> >more than men. >> >> Do you know what admin it was? I'd love to hear their rationale and >> perhaps bring up some type of discussion on-wiki about them if their >> deletions were inappropriate. >> >> Thank you, >> Derric Atzrott >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
