Talk:Royal Institute of Oil Painters: Difference between revisions

It appears that this article was taken nearly verbatim from the organization's web page, theroi.org. Ma^t_chups 17:50, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it appears the organisation's web page, the roi.org, has taken their text nearly verbatim from this page. I wrote the original text on 16 February 2007.[1] The source was the Federation of British Artists.[2] (Click on the left "the FBA and art societies", then "Royal Institute of Oil Painters".) I paraphrased and rearranged the source text to avoid copyvio. There was also some information referenced from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

At the time of writing the article, I could not find an independent web site for the ROI, such as now exists. The ROI web site was not added as an EL to the article until 8 months later on 17 October 2007 by an IP address.[3] The google cache of its history page http://theroi.org.uk/historyroi.html, which is the one in question, dates only from 4 December 2008.[4] The google cache of a number of its pages dates from late 2008, which indicates that they were either created then or changes made to them at that time.

The ROI "meta name, description, content" on a number of the ROI pages, as shown by a google search,[5] also uses text taken directly from the wikipedia article: "The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, also known as the ROI, is an association of painters in London and is the only major art society which features work done only in oil."

I am emailing the ROI to point out their copyvio and asking for proper acknowledgement or the text to be changed.

Note also that "The History of Oil Painting Medium" on the ROI site [6] has been taken verbatim from the Winsor and Newton text.[7] This is acknowledged on the ROI site.

Ty 19:47, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]