User talk:Widy9

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Hello Widy9 and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 16:21, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. I noticed you were concerned with copyvio and did some constructive work to remove copy and paste issues (Gatwick_Express), thanks. Lucas559 (talk) 19:39, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

July 2015

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Copyright on Wikipedia

Hello, Widy9.

Investigating the copyright concerns flagged at Thomas Harrison (minister), I see your note at its talk page. The DNB can be used, as it is public domain. I'm afraid the material marked was not taken from the DNB, though, but rather too closely followed The Encyclopedia of Virginia. This content is not public domain by age, and we cannot retain material from that source without verification that it is public domain or compatibly licensed.

For an example:

Encyclopedia of Virginia content	Article text
In April 1645 Thomas Harrison, the Puritan minister of the county's Elizabeth River vestry, was charged with criminal nonconformity "for not reading the booke of Common Prayer and for not administering the sacrament of Baptisme according to the Cannons and order p[re]scribed." Harrison was well liked by the parish, and had been unanimously approved by the vestry five years earlier, but certain influential members of the parish opposed his nonconformity.	In April 1645 Harrison, the then Puritan minister of the Elizabeth River Parish (Virginia), was charged with criminal nonconformity "for not reading the booke of Common Prayer and for not administering the sacrament of Baptisme according to the Cannons and order p[re]scribed." Harrison was well liked by the parish, and had been unanimously approved by the vestry five years earlier, but certain influential members of the parish opposed his nonconformity.

I realize that you cited your source, but unfortunately this alone does not permit us to copy or closely paraphrase it. We can use explicitly marked quotations from our sources, as long as we have good reason such as those set out at the non-free content policy and guideline, but aside from brief and clearly marked quotations used transformatively, all information we take from non-free sources must be put into our own words and structure.

If you can verify that this material is public domain or compatibly licensed, we can certainly make use of it, just as we do the DNB, so long as it is attributed similarly to denote that we have closely followed the source. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:00, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]