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FreeNOS edit

 

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Copyright problem: FreeNOS edit

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as FreeNOS, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://freecode.com/projects/freenos, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:40, 20 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

I'm very sorry, but your rewrite is still very similar to the original. For example, I've taken the first couple of sentences from the source and the corresponding text for the article and highlighted the exact duplication.
Source Article
FreeNOS is an experimental microkernel operating system for learning purposes. The system is very experimental, yet it currently supports virtual memory, simple task scheduling, and interprocess communication (IPC) FreeNOS or Free Niek's Operating System is a microkernel-based Operating system written for learning purposes.[3] The system is very experimental, yet FreeNOS currently supports: Virtual memory ,Simple task scheduling ,Inter Process Communication (IPC)
This highlighting may make the problem more obvious. The new version uses all of the words from the original except two - "experimental" and "it". It uses them in the same order with just a few additions and some superficial changes. While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation – including both structure and language – are. Content on Wikipedia that is based on copyrighted sources must in almost all cases be put into your own words and structure, except for limited explicit quotation used for valid "fair use" reasons. Please see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing for some ideas about how to write content to avoid this issue.
I wish I could help you rewrite the material, but I have limited ability to do so with so little information there and without more understanding myself of what FreeNOS is. For a layman, I'm afraid the article is not very informative as it is. Perhaps if you tried writing it as if explaining it yourself to non-technical people, that would help address the problem. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:02, 24 July 2014 (UTC)Reply