User talk:Harry Hutchens
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Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Harry Hutchens, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Ann Packer has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
- You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
- Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
- Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
- If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
- In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
- Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:23, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
- As a bit of additional information, copyright problems were flagged by a service powered by iThenticate and confirmed by human review based on similarities such as this:
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| Packer started out in athletics. She began at high school as a high jumper, before quickly (and fast being the operative word) moving to the track where, in 1959, she won the English Schools 100y crown, though she was disappointed with second place in the English Schools 200y in 1960. | Packer started out in athletics as a high jumper, before quickly moving to the track where, in 1959, she won the English Schools 100y crown, though she was disappointed with second place in the English Schools 200y in 1960. |
| In 1964, Ann Packer was among the favourites to win the 400m at the Olympic Games in Tokyo | In 1964, Ann Packer was among the favourites to win the 400 metres at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. |
- I have added bolding where content is precisely duplicated to help make the issue more clear.
- Because we cannot build articles by closely paraphrasing or copying from copyrighted sources without verified license, the text has been reverted to its earlier version. You are very welcome to continue helping to improve this article, but please ensure that your edits comply with the copyright policies explained above. If you have questions about these policies, you are welcome to stop by my talk page or to visit the Wikipedia:Teahouse, an environment designed to give friendly guidance to newcomers. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:31, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
- In response to your note on my talk page, I'm not sure how else to communicate this issue beyond an explanation and examples of copy-pasted text, given above. As I indicated, the issue was detected by a bot that exists to identify plagiarism and copyright concerns. It flagged your changes to your article, with a report of copy-pasted content, some of which I've identified above.
- The note above also explains that you can't copy content this way except in brief and clearly marked quotations; everything else has to be in your own words and structure. I realize that the article is not in good shape now, but unfortunately we cannot improve it by taking text from other sources like this. As it says each time you edit Wikipedia, at the top of every page, "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted."
- If you wish to appeal for review by another administrator, what we can do is blank the page and restore it for listing at the copyright problems board. You can then explain on the talk page why you believe that the samples above do not violate the policies explained to you here. After 7 or more days, a different administrator will review the matter and handle it accordingly. Let me know if you'd like to do that, and I will put the necessary template in place. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
- In response to your note at my talk page, it is policy when copied content cannot be simply extracted to revert to the last edit before the content was added. (See Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Those were examples and not the only issues within the article. (A quick glance at your changes to the article instantly reveals another: In the Olympic village, Packer was sharing a room with Mary Rand, who had been crowned Long Jump champion and wore the gold medal around her neck; it proved to be tremendous inspiration for her friend. - this is copied from [1]. Alternatively, we could blank the article and allow you to rewrite it from scratch, but the effect here is the same. If you'd like to expand the article, you are welcome to do so and your work there would be appreciated, but I'm afraid you must conform to our copyright policy. When content does not conform, it must be removed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:36, 11 April 2015 (UTC)