User talk:Dbandz

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. The submission has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 21:01, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

deleted page (Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Watch The Duck)

Hi Excirial,

I saw that you deleted my page for a copyright violation, however I did reference that the page was a copied biography off the artist's facebook site, and included the link to it in the references section. Can you advise me on how to modify the page to not be deleted? Is there a writer/editor on Wikipedia who can rearrange the format to better serve that of Wikipedia pages?

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbandz (talk • contribs) 21:14, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hiyas there Dbandz,

Simply mentioning that you copied content word-for-word from an external source doesn't comply with copyright laws. You can literally quote small pieces of an external source where relevant, but you cannot copy an entire page unless its license allows this (Such as when a page is licensed under CC-BY-SA). You can, however, use a page as a basis for writing your own text by paraphrasing it. Note that simply changing a word or two is not enough in that case.

Another method is simply searching a set of publications detailing your article's topic, and then writing your own page based on the information that is on those pages. While doing so you might want to have a look at the good article list as well for an example of a good page (Darren Middleton is a fairly short example that is probably easy to follow). Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 16:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]