Talk:Mitsugi Saotome

message: This article still sounds a bit too much like written by an adoring student with too little distance to his/her subject. / Habj 03:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Encyclopedic

message: Patty Saotome has provided some critical edits of the article. Shoshin Shrine Dojo has been struck and replaced with the correct Aiki Shrine Dojo. A few dates have been corrected along with a few other minor changes.
--manji 07:22, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits Provided By Patty Saotome 

message: Did Saotome-shihan become a naturalized US citizen? If not, we need to remove Category:American aikidoka. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 02:19, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: American?

message: I get a fatal error when I attempt to use the duplication link: 
:Downloaded document from http://rogov.zwz.ru/Scilib/Military/Aikido.djvu - Reported at OTRS 2012062210005376 by the copyright holder (60613426 characters Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 242453705 bytes) in /home/dcoetzee/public_html/duplicationdetector/compare.php on line 297 
If you just download the Aikido.djvu file (which I presume is posted there by the copyright holder), it does not appear that the content contains significant infringement. The following passage from the wikipedia article is also in the "About the Author" section of the book (last page of the djvu file):
:When asked about his decision to move to the US, Saotome said "I meditated on Ōsensei's spirit for three days and three nights and I felt it was his wish that I should go. This country is a great experiment, a melting pot of people from many different cultural backgrounds living together, the world condensed into one nation. The goal of aikido and Ōsensei's dream is that all the peoples of the world live together as one family, in harmony with each other and with their environment. The United States has the opportunity to set a great example."
However, this quote is reproduced in many other places, such as:
*http://usfaikido.com/about-aikido/about-mitsugi-saotome-shihan/
*http://aikido-shobukan.org/?ref=2
*http://www.aikidorgvtexas.com/asuhandbookbw.pdf
I do not know the origin of the quote, but it appears the the publication is reprinting a quote from an older account. I was under the impression that quotes were not eligible for copyright in the first place. And if this is the only bit of text 'copied' from the book, I would expect it to fall under fair use anyhow.
Given the error in the duplication web app, I would expect the copyright holder to point out more specific xamples.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.146.225.4 (talk) 16:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright Violation? 

message: From Wikimedia Foundation legal:
Regarding the copyvio on this article, there are two considerations, both arguing against removal. 
# The WMF was not properly served; and 
# DMCA takedown notices are only effective against incidents of copyright infringement on our site.  Because we aren't hosting infringing material, there is no copyright infringement for us to remove.
I have reinstated the article.  Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:30, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resolution to Copyvio