Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Botany

I have gone ahead and deleted the page, and then restarted it with some quotes already within our corpus. It is a dangerous practice for us to copy existing collections of quotes from sources in copyright. BD2412 T 23:05, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Botany
Tagged copyvio for more than 2 months. — Jusjih (talk) 00:13, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 01:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep (and remove copyvio tag). I'm not sure why this was tagged as a copyright violation - when I look at the history and see the listed quotes, I don't see an issue. ~ UDScott (talk) 13:51, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment – There was a complaint at WQ:AN on 17 October 2017 about "...likely copyright violation by copying the quotes selected and given at Today in Science History in a massive scale...." (diff) The article creator acknowledged this was the case, but objected that the complaint was somehow untimely. (diff) The page from which content was copied appears to be https://todayinsci.com/QuotationsCategories/B_Cat/Botany-Quotations.htm ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment/Question: Now I remember this one. I am not really familiar with how copyright law works in this type of situation. But if the quotes are legitimately sourced as written, I don't understand the issue. I know we have discussed presentation violations before, but I'm still not sure how the page as it was has an issue. Perhaps someone better versed in the law could comment? The quotes all seem legitimate and look to be properly sourced. ~ UDScott (talk) 19:45, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: Isn't using statements from sources allowed under fair use per US Law? However, while talking about non-US sources, I think we do need to keep country of origin of the source in mind here and act per their copyright laws. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 16:50, 5 January 2018 (UTC)