User talk:Hus66

Paraphrasing for Wikipedia
Hello, User:Hus66.

I happened to notice that you had added some content to the article Percy Sillitoe. It seems like very useful information, but unfortunately the language was very closely paraphrased from. While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation – including both structure and language – are. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following:
 * Sillitoe followed where Col. Hall-Dalwood had led and made important innovations like adding P.C. Pat Geraghty who was 6ft 5in tall and could pick up five tennis balls in one hand.

The article says:
 * Sillitoe followed where his predecessor, Col. Hall-Dalwood, had led and made important innovations like adding P.C. Pat Geraghty to the hardman Police unit, who was 6ft 5in tall and could pick up five tennis balls in one hand.

The source says:
 * In his autobiography “Cloak Without a Dagger” captain Sir Percy Sillitoe gave this insight into human nature:

The article says:
 * In his autobiography Cloak Without a Dagger captain Sir Percy Sillitoe gave this insight into human nature:

There are other passages that similarly follow quite closely.

Such close paraphrasing is not permitted under our copyright policy. As a website that is widely read and reused, Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously to protect the interests of the holders of copyright as well as those of the Wikimedia Foundation and our reusers. Our policies require that the content we take from non-free sources, aside from brief and clearly marked quotations, be rewritten from scratch.

If the material can be verified to be compatibly licensed or public domain or if permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution. If you can resolve it that way, please let me know if you need assistance with those directions. Otherwise, so that we can be sure it does not constitute a derivative work, the content has had to be removed until it is rewritten in original language.

The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

Please let me know at my talk page if you have questions about this. You can also leave me a note here, but if you do please add  (curly brackets and all) so that I am sure to see it.

Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC)