Kelli1714

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Speedy deletion nomination of Timothy Hopkins

A tag has been placed on Timothy Hopkins requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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From Talk:Timothy Hopkins

Information for this article was compiled from 3 seperate sources as noted on the article itself. It is not in copy write infringement as it abridges all of the information I was able to find in my own words. Thank you, Kelli1714 (talk) 08:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Upon review, the article is an almost verbatim copy of http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/spectrum/1999_Apr_28.HISTORY.html, with only extremely limited attempts at paraphrasing, that results in what is called a close paraphrasing. This still constitutes copyright infringment.

Close paraphrasing is a risk inherent when copy / pasting text from other sites and then attempting to rewrite it. The editor doing this will end believing to have rewritten the material, persuaded that no issues exist anymore, but to the later reviewer, the source remains visible clear as day.

In this case, more than 90% of the article still borrows sentences wholesale from the source.

In accordance with the precautionary principle governing our copyright policies, we cannot keep unlicensed third party material on display, this is the reason why the article was nominated for speedy deletion.

I would like to suggest you rewrite the article, in your own words, in your userspace and then request a review at WT:COPYCLEAN before moving it to article space. To minimize the risk of reproducing the present situation, I've found that it helps tremendously to act as if the copy / paste function hadn't been invented, and to simply summarize the sources you have into one single text that is entirely your own.

If you need any help, you can create a new section here and place {{helpme}} below it, someone will be along shortly to assist you. Alternatively, you can also leave me a message on my talk page. Best, MLauba (talk) 09:05, 13 October 2009 (UTC)