User talk:BishheartElsie

Your edit to Democracy
We appreciate your contributions to the Democracy article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. For this reason your edits have been reverted or removed. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the information in your own words, if you do please remember to cite your source(s). For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thanks, -- Jim Douglas (talk)  (contribs)  09:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I responded on Talk:Democracy, but the short answer is yes, lists can be copyrighted. But even if it was ok for us to include that list, it's too much for an encyclopedia article. We just want to summarize the information, not include it verbatim. That seems like an excellent article to reference in the external links section, and information from it can probably be used to improve the article. But we can't (and don't want to) include the complete list. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs)  09:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)