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| ==Copyright problems== | |||
| As I am beginning to investigate the concerns raised about your use of copyrighted material at ANI, I see that today you seem to have added a paragraph to the article ], , that is copied from the ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', . I have reverted the article to the edit before this text was introduced. Unless you are able to prove that ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' is not exerting its usual copyright protection over its text, we cannot accept that text. | |||
| For ], we cannot accept ] text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of ''information'', but not as a source of ''sentences'' or ''phrases''. Accordingly, the material ''may'' be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original ''or'' ] from that source. Please see our ] for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. | |||
| Your note at the Administrator's Noticeboard, "clearly I am still in the process of editing", seems to suggest that you think you may paste text here from non-free sources while you are working on writing articles. I'm afraid that this is inconsistent with our copyright policies. Except in accord with ], we can't use non-free text anywhere on Misplaced Pages for any length of time. You must put it completely into your own words ''before'' publishing it here. | |||
| Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators '''will''' be ] from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. | |||
| If you are uncertain whether the text you wish to use is copyright protected, you should seek feedback. If you cannot prove that the text free, you must presume that it is not. | |||
| Since you do seem to have introduced copyright protected text into the project in a manner inconsistent with our policies, I will be checking your other contributions to see if there have been other instances of concern. I'll let you know if I find anything extensive. Any non-free text that you have placed here will need to be removed. I hope this will not also remove free material you have placed, but unfortunately that does sometimes happen. See ] for more. | |||
| If you have any questions about these policies, please let me know. <!--much of this modified from template:cclean--> --] <sup>]</sup> 17:49, 28 June 2009 (UTC) | |||
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Copyright problems
As I am beginning to investigate the concerns raised about your use of copyrighted material at ANI, I see that today you seem to have added a paragraph to the article Nanyue, here, that is copied from the Encyclopedia Britannica, here. I have reverted the article to the edit before this text was introduced. Unless you are able to prove that Encyclopedia Britannica is not exerting its usual copyright protection over its text, we cannot accept that text.
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text.
Your note at the Administrator's Noticeboard, "clearly I am still in the process of editing", seems to suggest that you think you may paste text here from non-free sources while you are working on writing articles. I'm afraid that this is inconsistent with our copyright policies. Except in accord with non-free content criteria, we can't use non-free text anywhere on Misplaced Pages for any length of time. You must put it completely into your own words before publishing it here.
Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies.
If you are uncertain whether the text you wish to use is copyright protected, you should seek feedback. If you cannot prove that the text free, you must presume that it is not.
Since you do seem to have introduced copyright protected text into the project in a manner inconsistent with our policies, I will be checking your other contributions to see if there have been other instances of concern. I'll let you know if I find anything extensive. Any non-free text that you have placed here will need to be removed. I hope this will not also remove free material you have placed, but unfortunately that does sometimes happen. See Misplaced Pages:Copyright violations for more.
If you have any questions about these policies, please let me know. --Moonriddengirl 17:49, 28 June 2009 (UTC)