UnoriginalDreams

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Hi, UnoriginalDreams, and welcome to Wikipedia! I've written some guidelines for past students in your class, which you might find helpful. They're at User talk:Futureclass. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page (User talk:Voceditenore), or place {{helpme}} here on your talk page, ask your question, and another editor will come along to help. You might also be interested in WikiProject Classical music, which has various guidelines for articles in this area and a discussion page where you can ask advice from editors experienced in writing articles on classical music and related subjects. Happy editing and best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 05:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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Hello wiki-world! I am in need of some help. I am working on creating an article about my choir, Coro Allegro. I have a handful of articles from the Boston Globe in PDF format. These articles are now part of the Archive section of the Boston.com website. The full articles are not available to the public without a fee. Can these be used as sources regardless? Should I not include links to the articles if they will lead to a dead end for some? Any advice/answers would be much appreciated. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.61.47.250 (talk) 15:33, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, you can use these sources and you should link them. Anyone should be able verify your claims, but that doesn't mean it has to be easy for him. See WP:SOURCEACCESS. Also, it seems you forgot to log in when adding this question (I assume you are User:UnoriginalDreams). You can edit Wikipedia even when you are not logged in, but being logged in has some advantages. Svick (talk) 16:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Whoops. Yes, it was indeed User:UnoriginalDreams posing the question. Thanks so much for your quick response. I appreciate it, and am glad to be able to use the articles!

{{help me}} I have another question in regards to these articles. The website is listed as http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=print for 5 different articles that I have. Should this be the source cited? Or should I somehow include the author, Boston Globe, date printed, and page number and section info? One example would be an article titled "This 'Casey' Doesn't Strike Out" written by Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe Arts section, page B7, on May 14, 2001. Help would be appreciated. Thank you! (UnoriginalDreams (talk) 02:21, 15 December 2009 (UTC))

The website you linked to says “Your search session has expired”, so it's not useful. But if you had a correct link, you should certainly use that, and also write information about the article. The best (but not the only) way to reference something is to use one of the citation templates. In this case, you can use the code {{cite news | title = This 'Casey' Doesn't Strike Out | first = Richard | last = Dyer | newspaper = [[Boston Globe]] | page = B7 | date = May 14, 2001}} that will show up as:

Dyer, Richard (May 14, 2001). "This 'Casey' Doesn't Strike Out". Boston Globe. p. B7.

If you have an website address to that article, add the url parameter to that template: {{cite news | title = This 'Casey' Doesn't Strike Out | first = Richard | last = Dyer | newspaper = [[Boston Globe]] | page = B7 | date = May 14, 2001 | url = http://example.com/article}} that renders as:

Dyer, Richard (May 14, 2001). "This 'Casey' Doesn't Strike Out". Boston Globe. p. B7.

Svick (talk) 02:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Coro Allegro

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Coro Allegro, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.coroallegro.org/about_us. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.

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{{help me}} I just changed the Mission Statement section of the Coro Allegro article. It is still a direct quote, but is now cited. Is this sufficient? Am I able to remove the Copyright information from the page now? Guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks! (UnoriginalDreams (talk) 02:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC))

It might be best to reword or summarise the article in your own words, taking care to adhere it to Wikipedia's policies, especially verifiability and neutral point of view. Wikipedia tries to use free content whenever possible, for legal reasons. —Dark 02:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Not quite. Use of copyrighted text must be for an encyclopaedic purpose, such as for criticism. Therefore, unless you can find a way to analyse or otherwise encyclopaedically use this text, you would be better off summarizing it, or only quoting brief portions. Intelligentsium 03:01, 15 December 2009 (UTC)