Talk:Joseph Rodney Moss

Copyright issue
There is NOT a copyright issue here. There are only so many ways to say that a person went to a certain college, for example. Mere coincidental phrasings that overlap when describing bullet-point information is NOT a copyright violation. For example, in the George Washington article, it might very well say "George Washington was the first president of the United States." That same exact sentence has admittedly appeared in countless textbooks for years and years. Reciting the same objective, biographical fact on a Wikipedia page is NOT a copyright violation.ProfReader (talk) 18:38, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that I don't agree. For example, compare the start of the second paragraph of the of the article with the presumed source:


 * I see no difference, though some phrases were chopped out in subsequent edits. Later we find:


 * added content from the Spartanburg Herald-Journal:


 * That, I'm afraid, is much too close to the original. The article needs to be thoroughly checked, and is listed at WP:CP for that reason. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:05, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Rewrote Article in Own Language
I've rewritten the article to remove copyvio while keeping the meaning, and have removed the copyright violation template. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:13, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * And now the article is being improved. See, it wasn't that hard.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:47, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your efforts, but I'm afraid it's not quite that simple. :/ The reason for the process is to avoid creating derivative work issues. We cannot follow the source that closely. This is why the process requires rewriting from scratch. If you would care to rewrite the two sentences I've removed, you would be welcome to do so. Please be sure to put them in your own words and structure. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:05, 30 December 2014 (UTC)