Talk:Billy Howton

Copyright problems
This article was blanked as part of a WP:CCI. Copying and close paraphrasing issues have been confirmed related at least to this source.

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There were other passages highlighted by the Duplication Detector. The article has been reverted to an earlier version, as it will require a thorough rewrite to eliminate copyright concerns. Other sources may be involved as well.

Wikipedia's copyright policies require that the content we take from non-free sources, aside from brief and clearly marked quotations, be rewritten from scratch. The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for writing that may help avoid these issues. The article 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". Alternatively, if the material can be verified to be public domain or permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:37, 11 December 2011 (UTC)