Talk:Ronald Shiffman

Copyright issues
Copyright violation was the result of pressing save accidentally while meaning to see the preview to check format. The copyrighted text has been removed.
 * Hello, User:Jourdan Sayers. I appreciate your working further on this, but I'm afraid that copyright issues did persist. For example:


 * These are two of the more extreme examples of persisting copying, but there are a number of others.


 * Content is copied from other sources, too. For instance, the article used to say, "The journalist Jack Newfield once wrote that Shiffman “has saved more New York neighborhoods than Robert Moses has destroyed.”" The source says, " The journalist Jack Newfield once wrote that Mr. Shiffman “has saved more New York neighborhoods than Robert Moses has destroyed.”" The only difference between the two is the word "Mr." While we can copy what Newfield said, the way that the journalist described it is copyrightable content, too, and cannot be freely reproduced.


 * 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 brief and clearly marked quotations, be rewritten from scratch. 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".


 * Please let me know if you have questions about this; you can reach me by pressing the "talk" after my username. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:42, 3 July 2014 (UTC)