User talk:Fatfingers

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Hello: I see you've added articles about two of the Stainless Steel Rat novels. However, they appear to consist only of the intro to the The Stainless Steel Rat article, and the (copyrighted) publisher's blurb to the novel. Because of Wikipedia's copyright policy, we can't use articles where the substantial part of the original content is someone else's copyrighted material, so I've redirected them to The Stainless Steel Rat, which has a short description of each of them.

However, if you'd like to write a longer article about any of these novels in your own words, please feel free; they'd be welcome here.

Thanks for citing the quotes: that's the right thing to do in all cases when a quote is made. Quoting publisher's blurbs is generally considered OK if they constitute only a small part of an article, since it falls under the fair use exemption: please see Copyright policy for more on this. However, where possible, we'd prefer your own words -- literal quotes should only be used where other alternatives will not serve the purpose required. -- Karada 11:32, 14 March 2006 (UTC)