Talk:Western Yar

Paraphrasing concerns
I'm afraid that some of the content in this article followed too closely on non-free sources for us to license the content under CC-By-SA and GFDL.

For example, consider the following example from the article:

The source says:

There were other passages that similarly followed too closely.

While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. I have removed the content for now. So that it will not constitute a derivative work, it should be more thoroughly rewritten. 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. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:59, 6 May 2010 (UTC)