Talk:Herman Laatsman

Speedy deletion nomination of Herman Laatsman

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A tag has been placed on Herman Laatsman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://tous-les-faits.fr/hermann_laatsman. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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The present article does not relate to a living person. Herman Laatsman died in 1976. It uses some parts of a French article published by the same author in 2011, under a creative commons licence (Alain Souloumiac). There are no copyright difficulties as long as the present article has been created by the same author. Though the author has met a few times Herman Laatsman in the past, he has not family links with him.

19 footnotes support the facts reported in the article.

Proposed deletion of Herman Laatsman

The article Herman Laatsman has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. ~~Alain Souloumiac~~ This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because ... (your reason here) --Alain.souloumiac (talk) 07:04, 24 May 2015 (UTC):

Answer

As stated in the article, Herman Laatsman died in 1976. All facts are supported by precise footnotes.

1/ the sentence related to the attribution of the Medal of Freedom is quoted form a public act of the President of the United States.

2/ the other material copied directly from: http://tous-les-faits.fr/hermann_laatsman was originally designed and written by the same author (Alain Souloumiac).

3/ this material is a copy from an original text written by the author for Wikipedia France and published under a licence authorising edition, use and redistribution by anyone under usual Wikipedia terms and conditions.

Incidentally, published in 2011 the original text happened to be removed in 2014 from the French encyclopedia for three main reasons:

- H. Laatsman did not benefit of a sufficient notoriety to have his biography published (le personnage a bien existé, mais sa notoriété semble étrangement faible);

- the risks taken by a resistant and the Medal of freedom do not constitute a justification as such for publication (Le fait qu'il soit dans une liste (de résistants, de récipiendaires d'une médaille, etc.) n'est pas suffisant pour écrire sa biographie.);

- the French article does not contain valid references (Il me semble que reconstituer une bio grâce à des archives du ministère de la défense américaine est un travail de chercheur incompatible avec nos principes fondateurs. Je crains qu'une demande de restauration de page soit vaine, mais vous pouvez demander une restauration provisoire dans un brouillon personnel si vous voulez récupérez votre travail).

Request made to cancel the removal of the biography of the Dutch Partisan was rejected.

Because, disregarding personal danger, Herman Laatsman, saved the life of several american and allied pilot and because the President of the United States had recognized the fact, I believe that the publication of his biography had more chance to be admitted by the US encyclopedia.

The present article is new. Most of footnotes it contains did not appear in the French encyclopedia.

• @Alain.souloumiac: Hello! Regarding the above, can you link to where the content is published under CC License allowing re-use? As for being the same author as the source that the bot found, we need more information to confirm this, as we are all fairly anonymous. You can see WP:DCM for how to do that. I don't think there is any doubt of his notability, but the issue here is making sure that the text is legally allowed to be here. Thanks, Crow^Caw 20:01, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

• @Crow: Bonjour! As stated above, the content of the original article in French on the Biography was published under CC Licence allowing re-use. The source the bot found is a copy of the said publication. The said publication was deleted by Wikipedia France for the reason mentioned above. Evidence of this deletion may be found at the following address: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujet:Sg346d5gcpi0ubae. Hope this will allow you to access to the deleted copy. Alain.souloumiac^Caw 6:33, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

• I have added an infobox above with the link to the OTRS ticket 2015052210007389 to clarify the licensing issue. (This should not be construed as an endorsement of the article - that's a separate content decision.) I can't really say that it's a {{ConfirmationOTRS}} since technically I haven't personally seen the (now-deleted) French Wikipedia article, but I think this should suffice to answer the licensing question. --B (talk) 20:31, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

• @B: I got a steward to restore the article text for me. You can find it at User:Crow/Frwikitemp, both the initial version, the final version, and the article history. Crow^Caw 21:10, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
  • @Crow: Okay, thanks. Maybe it is worth putting that text here in a collapsed section somewhere so it is available for reference? Though I have no strong preference in the matter, I think the template that I put up at the top is probably still better than {{ConfirmationOTRS}} because it's a bit more informative. (Again, if anyone disagrees, I have no objection either way. We are all sufficiently convinced that there is no copyright-related reason to delete the article.) --B (talk) 23:06, 25 June 2015 (UTC)