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Please do not post material word-for-word from books or other copyrighted material. — ] | ] 00:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC) Please do not post material word-for-word from books or other copyrighted material. — ] | ] 00:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Only those passages in quotes are copied directly from the books so 90% of the article was written by myself. I felt I needed some quotes to back up what I was saying. I don't think it is a copyright violation because:
* Again, very little was pulled directly from the book and I gave credit to the author(s) when I cited them.
* The material I referenced from the book was not the main/central argument of the book so I did not supplant or significantly extend their work (should be fair use). The books I cited were about online communities in general, not specifically about motivations for online contribution. One of the books did dedicate a chapter to motivations but it still was only a small subset of the book material.

If it would help, I can pull the quotes and rewrite them in my own words but give my resources credit for the general arguments I used from them.

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Motivations for Contributing to Online Communities

Is your article Motivations for Contributing to Online Communities copied entirely from the references you cited? That would make it a copyright violation. I have listed it at Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems.

Please do not post material word-for-word from books or other copyrighted material. — Kimchi.sg | Talk 00:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Only those passages in quotes are copied directly from the books so 90% of the article was written by myself. I felt I needed some quotes to back up what I was saying. I don't think it is a copyright violation because:

  • Again, very little was pulled directly from the book and I gave credit to the author(s) when I cited them.
  • The material I referenced from the book was not the main/central argument of the book so I did not supplant or significantly extend their work (should be fair use). The books I cited were about online communities in general, not specifically about motivations for online contribution. One of the books did dedicate a chapter to motivations but it still was only a small subset of the book material.

If it would help, I can pull the quotes and rewrite them in my own words but give my resources credit for the general arguments I used from them.