User talk:Demosthine

Foreign body (novel)
The book is notable, but you wrote the article by putting together section directly copied of plot summaries on the web. this is not permitted, and I removed that section. . You may want to replace it by a brief plot description of your own, written from scratch, without copying or even Close paraphrase any web or print publication.

Wikipedia takes copyright seriously. We are a resource using a free license, and we do not reprint material that is not published under a free license, or original material contributed under such a license. As it says right under the edit boc "Please do not copy and paste from copyrighted websites – only public domain resources can be copied without permission." For an explanation, see WP:Copyright.

I need to alert you that if you continue to do this, you are likely to be blocked from contributing. Please check what you have been writing in your user space, User:Demosthine/Brian S. Pratt, to make certain that none of this is a copy or paraphrase either. We do not permit it even in user space. If you wish to use short quotations from the book or a review, make certain they are in quotation marks, with a complete bibliographic reference, and do not exceed the minimum length necessary--one sentence is usually about right. The summaries there show every sign of being copied just like this one was. If you do not replace them promptly with your own original work, that page will need to be deleted. I shall check up in a week or so to make certain.

In addition, Wikipedia articles need references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. for books or authors, this means published book reviews from magazines or newspapers. Book jackets are not an acceptable source, nor summaries on amazon or elsewhere on the web. Any librarian can help you find them for popular books--but it is often very easy yourself using Google New and Google News Archive.  DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 24 February 2012 (UTC)