Talk:Marlene Clark

Copyright problems
This article relies far too heavily for creative content on its primary source,. Not only does it heavily mine quotes, problematic under our non-free content policy, but it uses verbatim and minimally altered supporting material from the source. For examples, consider the following:

These examples demonstrate a reliance on the organization and the creative language of the source. While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation – including both structure and language – are.

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 a few brief and clearly marked quotations in accordance with WP:NFC, be rewritten from scratch.

The article has been replaced with a notice of these copyright concerns that includes directions for resolving them. If the material can be verified to be compatibly licensed or public domain or if permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution. If you can resolve it that way, please let me know if you need assistance with those directions. Otherwise, so that we can be sure it does not constitute a derivative work, this article should be rewritten; there is a link to a temporary space for that purpose in the instructions which now appear in place of the article. 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". --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)