User talk:Dmarie9

Copyright violations
Do not reinsert the copyright violating text into Jerry Duplessis again. If you do, you will be blocked from editing.&mdash;Kww(talk) 01:31, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * No. The text is too close of a copy of the sources. Articles have to be written using facts from sources, not just slightly reworded.&mdash;Kww(talk) 10:29, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Blocking
It's certainly possible to write articles without being blocked. People do it all the time. Get information from multiple sources, decide what's important, and write it down in your own words. Don't copy sentences from sources, and don't use any single source to form your structure. The problem with the article on Jerry Duplessis is that the information is all taken from http://www.bassplayer.com/printpreview.aspx?articleid=4800 and any sentence that isn't a direct copy is a close copy. Things like changing "Born and raised in Croix-des-Bouquets, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Duplessis grew up to the sounds of native Rara music and the blend of Creole, Spanish, and U.S. “cowboy” music he heard in church." to "Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis was born and raised in Croix-des-Bouquets, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He grew up to the sounds of native Rara music and the blend of Creole, Spanish, and U.S. “cowboy” music he heard in church." is plagiarism and copyright violation. The structure and 90% of the words in the original source have been kept.&mdash;Kww(talk) 01:14, 18 August 2011 (UTC)