User talk:Profrap

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Steven Millhauser

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Steven Millhauser, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=1564781798 and http://books.dalkeyarchive.com/book/each_book/352, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! DoctorElmo 18:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article not plagiarized

Having looked at the Powell's Books site, I believe that the text in question is that which reads:

"Steven Millhauser is perhaps one of modern American fiction's most elusive characters ..."

That line is a QUOTE from my article, and not the other way around.

Has no one considered the possibility that the Powell's web author quoted from the wikipedia?

Many people quote the wikipedia without attribution, which, in the sense of the wiki's goals, should be totally kosher, I believe. However, what is to prevent anyone checking the wikipedia for originality to, having seen a quote elsewhere, suddenly ban the wikipedia article as plagiarized?? This, it seems to me, is very likely to become an increasingly serious issue over time.

Profrap 00:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Profrap! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current 385 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Sten Nadolny - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 23:16, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]