User talk:Guanyin Bosatsu

December 2017
Your addition to William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:44, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

OK, point taken. The paragraph on the Bungalow was compiled from primary sources, but I also synthesized aspects of Halton's paper, which I have now included in the citations. I have also cited Halton's paper in the text. Please advise what else should be done. I presume that history itself is not someone's intellectual property? Guanyin Bosatsu (talk) 15:47, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * If you're relying on Halton's paper, then you'll need to cite that in the text, rather than just listing it as a reference at the end of the article. You will also need to paraphrase more thoroughly, as your addition was very similar to the original. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:52, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Very well, but where can I find the text that you have deleted so that I can make a direct comparison? Has this now been completely expunged?
 * It's here, but will be deleted from the history shortly. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:07, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

OK. I have spoken to Halton and he tells me that he is quite happy for aspects of his paper to be synthesized by me on Wikipedia. What do you need from him?

I speedy reply would be nice.
 * You don't need the author's permission to cite his work, but you can't copy it word-for-word unless you put it inside quote marks (and even then, you can only quote short sections). The best thing to do is to paraphrase the material thoroughly. See WP:COPYQUOTE and WP:NFCCEG for guidance on what you can do. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:23, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

OK. I assume that the possibility of discrete original pieces of research arriving at the same or similar conclusions is accepted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guanyin Bosatsu (talk • contribs) 16:37, 22 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Firstly, Wikipedia does not publish original research. Secondly, the possibility of discrete original pieces of research arriving at the same conclusions in the same words is vanishingly small.  Thirdly, please remember to sign your messages. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:47, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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