Talk:Algae DNA barcoding

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Olle Terenius (UU) in topic Copyright problem removed

Copyright problem removed edit

  Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108793 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agnes_Bouchez. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

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Just to get this clear. The material discussed in this entry comes from PLoS ONE, the world's largest scientific journal. All publications in PLoS ONE are licensed under creative commons and this is described in the article referred to above as: "This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.". If the article is cited, would it still be impossible to "closely paraphrase" the material as you claim was done? I.e., was the removal of this material correct? Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 21:37, 29 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
Per WP:COPYOTHERS, CC-BY material can be used on Wikipedia but obviously requires attribution. You'd do that with either Template:Free-content_attribution or Template:OA-attribution. (Since it's only a couple of paragraphs, summarizing or reformulating it might be easier?) ST47 (talk) 20:55, 31 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
Are you saying that the attribution in the form of leaving the reference to the article in the open access journal is not sufficient? I would consider removing all the revisions by Vedu888 as a bit drastic if it is only a choice of mode of attribution that is different from your suggestion above. Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 19:10, 18 April 2019 (UTC)Reply