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Close paraphrasing of sources

Hi there!

I've just reviewed the page John Groeber, which you created. Thanks for contributing it to Wikipedia! I'd never heard of him before, and I feel like I've learned something today. :)

One thing I noticed while I was reviewing the article is that many sentences and pieces of the article were very close paraphrases of the sources -- either using sentence fragments exactly with some of your own words around them, or replacing one or two words from the sentence, or splicing two sentences together and rephrasing a few words. (At least, I found a few instances of that sort of thing from the sources I could consult directly, and my "gut instinct" for a few others says there's probably a few I couldn't catch -- there are a few sentences that 'sound' different than the others, as though they're someone else's words and not your own.) Copying and close paraphrasing of sources is against Wikipedia policy. Even if you rewrite a sentence so it's not using the exact same words as the source, it's still usually too close to the source for Wikipedia to use it.

I noticed that most of those close paraphrases were scholars' critical reaction and analysis of Groeber's work. If you think that a particular passage is important enough to include it -- and I agree that critical reaction and analysis of Groeber's architectural work is probably important enough to include some of it -- you can quote small bits of it exactly, being careful to put the quote in quotation marks and cite the quote to the source you're quoting from. The best thing to do, though, is to find reliable sources that talk about the impact Groeber's work has had, or analyze it, and then summarize those analyses and cite them to the source.

--rahaeli (talk) 08:18, 6 June 2014 (UTC) Thanks Rahaeli, I was just trying to get a viable page started because there is a lot of interest in Groeber in certain parts of the world. Over time the wiki will evolve I am sure.

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