Talk:George Washington Gift

Re witten section
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Asiaticus  (talk • contribs)  18:14, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello. I'm afraid that your proposed rewrite is not yet consistent with Wikipedia's approach to copyrighted content. For example, your copyrighted source says:


 * Prior to its blanking, the article said (bolding copy-pasted content; italicizing close paraphrase)


 * Your proposed rewrite says:


 * With respect to the proposed rewrite of the first sentence, every word is taken from the source, simply rearranged.


 * While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. So that it will not constitute a derivative work, problematic sections of the article should be rewritten (as you were told in the directions you were left above) in the temporary space that is now linked from the article's front. Rewriting from scratch helps to avoid creating derivatives, while overwriting pasted content, as you did here, can lead to unacceptable practices such as replacing a few words with synonyms (rapidly becomes quickly) or simply moving around blocks of text. The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting 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.


 * Please let me know at my talk page if you have questions about this. Otherwise, I or another administrator will revisit the article in a week to see if a usable rewrite is provided in the proper place. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:17, 24 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Content from this source has again been removed. It must not be restored. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:19, 12 October 2012 (UTC)