User talk:Oktavia29

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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

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You recently added some new material to the above article. It does seems like useful information that I was unable to find myself when I created the article. Would you mind letting me know where you got this info? Do you have a link to the website where you got it?

Thanks. Big Bird (talk • contribs) 20:29, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! :) We appreciate your contributions, but I need to have a word with you about Wikipedia's practices for dealing with source material. It seems that some of the content you added to The 3 Rooms of Melancholia followed very closely on your source material.

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"A separatist movement--fueled by racism, jihad, and revenge--has evolved over the last decade into an Islamist insurgency responsible for almost daily attacks against law enforcement and government officials in the region." "A fierce separatist movement has evolved over the last decade into an Islamist insurgency responsible for almost daily attacks against law enforcement and government officials in the region. " (New York Times, October 2010) "An American producer approached Iikka Vehkalahti of the Finnish public broadcasting company YLE to suggest a suitable director for this project. Vehkalahti asked Pirjo Honkasalo to direct one part of the series. She chose the commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour," sowing the seeds for The 3 Rooms of Melancholia." "An American producer...approached Iikka Vehkalahti of the Finnish public broadcasting company YLE to suggest a suitable director. Vehkalahti asked Pirjo Honkasalo to direct one part of the series. She chose the commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour", and The 3 Rooms of Melancholia was born."(Production History) "A filmmaker of the European auteur tradition..she believed a film director cannot give up control over work for which she is artistically and morally responsible. She also wouldn’t allow a third party to take over her right to make the final judgement calls on how to use footage of the lives of people living in a war zone." "A staunch believer in the European "auteur" tradition, she felt that a film director must not relinquish control over a work for which she is artistically and morally responsible. Nor would she allow any third party to pre-empt her right to make the final judgement calls on how to use footage of the lives of people living in a war zone."(Production History) "the directors of the cadet school made it impossible to continue filming. They became increasingly nervous and suspicious, fearing bad repercussions. Kristiina Pervilä, the Finnish producer, contacted influential people in cultural, civil servant, military, and political circles, attempting to get hold of the constantly growing number of new, additional official filming permits. They managed to continue shooting, but the details had to stay confidential to avoid putting anyone at risk." "The directors of the cadet school began to make it impossible to continue filming. They became increasingly nervous and suspicious, fearing bad repercussions....Kristiina Pervilä, the Finnish producer, battled for the ever-increasing number of new, additional official filming permits, calling on influential contacts in the cultural sphere, in the military, in political circles - including the Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament) - and among civil servants responsible for the issuance of accreditation credentials to journalists in the Caucasus region. They did manage to continue shooting the film, but the details must remain confidential to avoid putting anyone at risk."(Production History)

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If you can't verify that the sources are not copyrighted, you can only copy a little. You have to clearly mark what you copy as a quotation, and you need to have good reason for copying it. See our non-free content policy and guideline for more details on quoting copyrighted text. Otherwise, you need to put the information that you take from these sources into your own words. Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing has some suggestions for doing this. The article Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

Because the content you added borrowed so heavily from its non-free sources, it has had to be removed from the article. It is good information, though! I hope that you or somebody else will rework it so that it is compatible with our copyright policy. The article most definitely would benefit for it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:40, 24 November 2010 (UTC)