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Copyright violation in Oklahoma State University School of Fire Protection and Safety
editHi. I'm afraid the Oklahoma State University School of Fire Protection and Safety article you contributed to has parts which are very closely paraphrased from http://firesafetyalumni.com/Docs/OSU_History_Mary's_Theses.html. This can be a problem under both our copyright policies and our guideline on plagiarism.
While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation – including both structure and language – are. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following:
The source says: "Modern firefighting, as we know it, began in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London in 1666. That fire, which ravaged the city for five days, left 373 acres of ashes on which stood thirteen thousand homes and eighty-seven churches as well as other structures. Dr. Nicholas Barton, who rebuilt many of those homes, guaranteed to replace a house of his construction destroyed by fire. In that manner was born the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. Other cities, especially those in the American colonies, learned from London’s disaster and began to organize companies of firefighters, to experiment with firefighting equipment, and to pass and enforce fire prevention laws. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin founded the first successful fire insurance company in America, the Philadelphia Contributorship, known from its fire mark as the Hand-in-Hand Company."
The article says: "Modern firefighting erected from aftermath of the great fire of London in 1666.[6] That fire ravaged the city for five days, left 373 acres of ashes on which had stood 13,000 homes and 87 churches. From this disaster, the Phoenix Fire insurance Co. came into existence. Other cities, especially those in the American colonies, learned from London’s disaster and began to organize companies of firefighters, to experiment with firefighting equipment and to pass and enforce fire prevention laws. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin founded the first successful fire insurance Company in America, the Philadelphia Contributorship."
This is an example; there are other passages that similarly follow quite closely.
As a website that is widely read and reused, Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously to protect the interests of the holders of copyright as well as those of the Wikimedia Foundation and our reusers. Wikipedia's copyright policies require that the content we take from non-free sources, aside from brief and clearly marked quotations, be rewritten from scratch. So that we can be sure it does not constitute a derivative work, this article should be revised to separate it further from its source. The essay Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".
Please let me know if you have questions about this. --StarryGrandma (talk) 03:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
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editHi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/History of Oklahoma State University School of Fire Protection and Safety, a page you created has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace. If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements. If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13. Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 03:44, 14 August 2013 (UTC)