Talk:Q125118675

Fraudulent Use of Family Manuscript on Public Domain

Two months ago I explicitly told Richard Arthur Norton ((Redacted)) that he did not have my permission to publish a private family manuscript I had loaned him.

He had, at that time, used false pretenses to me, suggesting that he was a family member. I asked for verification of this and got none--indeed he did not respond to any of my requests at all.

I became alarmed. I continued to tell him not to place this manuscript in any public domain. Today I find he has, without any word to me or warning. And he did so hours after I explicitly sent this last correspondence denying permission.

I am shocked Can you please assist me in this matter and have this manuscript removed from your site and public domain? I now have reason to believe this man is a fraud and I am not his first victim. After decades of work with researchers and historians around the world, I have never encountered such fraud and disregard. It is disturbing that Wikidata allows this kind of theft.

Below is my last correspondence with this scoundrel.

Gratefully yours, JA Lounibos

Regarding Permissions JA Lounibos From:jalounibosyahoo.com To:Richard Arthur Norton

Sun, Mar 24 at 8:50 AM

Richard,

At present I do not wish you to place the Memoir on such public domains as Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archives. I sent it to you because of what I believed to be a mutual Naughton relationship? But I cannot find it.

The Memoir is a family piece. It is preserved for the future. And I wish it to remain private for now. Perhaps in the future that might be a possibility, but, no, not now.

And, so far, I cannot document what our relationship is. Can you please help me here? I need documentation. DNA is good, but that is general Naughton stuff. I need documents. I would appreciate it if you could write me a TREE--beginning with yourself, your family and dates, and then working back through your parents' families, your grandparents, your greats, and so on, so I can see how to integrate your branch into my own detailed Tree here.

I hope you will help me here. The Memoir is a treasure in our family and has been shared amid our family branches, which I understood you to be part of? But I do not know if you are-- and am a bit disturbed that you have not sent me the documentation I requested and are running with my shared documents to public platforms? It is included in my extensive and detailed TREE which is private. I do not wish it to enter the public domains, yet. Since you were adding my grandmother's photograph to Family Search, I had assumed that we are of shared branches, a sibling connection, but, as yet, I cannot validate that, and need your assistance in this. And I hope my generosity in sharing these documents with you has not been premature.

So, no, you do not have my permission. Please respect my wishes here.

JAL

On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 02:50:40 PM PDT, Richard Arthur Norton <(Redacted)> wrote:

Do I have your permission to add the memoir to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive so that it is preserved for the future? Have you run OCR on it to convert it into ASCII text? If not, I will do it.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Francis_Norton_(1857-1939)_memoir.pdf https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Francis_Norton_(1857-1939)_memoir.pdf

Richard Arthur Norton 2601:204:CE01:20A0:41BD:6157:A1A6:A5B5 23:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Could you deal with this? @Bovlb:--Trade (talk) 15:30, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Not today sorry Bovlb (talk) 16:34, 25 May 2024 (UTC)