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| 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) | 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) | ||
| ===Close paraphrasing=== | |||
| When rewriting material into your own words, you must take care not to simply switch out a few words here and there from a source, while retaining language and structure of the original. Unless there is no creativity in the presentation of facts, you can use the facts themselves but ''not'' the diction and syntax. Take, for example, this: "Strikeforce, will take the leap from San Jose and Showtime to national television when the organization’s new weekly highlight show premieres late tonight on NBC." Your revision of this, "Strikeforce took the leap from the bay area in California to national television with the organization’s new weekly televised event late on NBC", is insufficiently separated from the original, right down to including the same sentence structure and metaphoric language. You can use the fact: "Strikeforce used to be local and cable, but is now on a national network." The rest is protected and can only be used if we quote it in accordance with ]. Otherwise, you produce what is described as a ], which can be a copyright violation under United States copyright law. | |||
| Meanwhile, the sentence before it--"The first ever weekly mixed-martial-arts program on major U.S. network television aired on Saturday, April 12, 2008 with the debut of "Strikeforce on NBC"--seems to have been pasted directly from . I am continuing to evaluate your contributions to that article to see how extensive such copying is. --] <sup>]</sup> 18:10, 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)
Close paraphrasing
When rewriting material into your own words, you must take care not to simply switch out a few words here and there from a source, while retaining language and structure of the original. Unless there is no creativity in the presentation of facts, you can use the facts themselves but not the diction and syntax. Take, for example, this: "Strikeforce, will take the leap from San Jose and Showtime to national television when the organization’s new weekly highlight show premieres late tonight on NBC." Your revision of this, "Strikeforce took the leap from the bay area in California to national television with the organization’s new weekly televised event late on NBC", is insufficiently separated from the original, right down to including the same sentence structure and metaphoric language. You can use the fact: "Strikeforce used to be local and cable, but is now on a national network." The rest is protected and can only be used if we quote it in accordance with WP:NFC. Otherwise, you produce what is described as a "close paraphrase", which can be a copyright violation under United States copyright law.
Meanwhile, the sentence before it--"The first ever weekly mixed-martial-arts program on major U.S. network television aired on Saturday, April 12, 2008 with the debut of "Strikeforce on NBC"--seems to have been pasted directly from . I am continuing to evaluate your contributions to that article to see how extensive such copying is. --Moonriddengirl 18:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)