Talk:Henry H. Riggs

Close Paraphrasing
This article Harry H. Riggs may be a problem under our copyright policies, since the text seems very closely paraphrased from the sources. While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation – including both structure and language – are. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following:
 * "Worked on translating the Kurdish Gospels into Arabo-Kurdish text with a Kurdish Scholar"

The article says:
 * "Henry Riggs, who was interested in Kurdish ethnic studies, worked on translating the Kurdish Gospels into Arabo-Kurdish with a Kurdish scholar"

There may be other passages that similarly follow quite closely.

As a website that is widely read and reused, Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously to protect the interests of the holders of copyright as well as those of the Wikimedia Foundation and our reusers. 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.

As a website that is widely read and reused, Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously to protect the interests of the holders of copyright as well as those of the Wikimedia Foundation and our reusers. 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. So that we can be sure it does not constitute a derivative work, this article should be revised to separate it further from its source. The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism". --AbstractIllusions (talk) 04:41, 21 October 2013 (UTC)