User talk:Ericshirey03

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We look forward to your contributions to the community! --Steelviper 09:51, 3 January 2007 (CST)

Copyrighted Content?

Your recent book reviews contributions appear identical to copyrighted works such as this one. Are you the author of those works, or do you otherwise have permission of the author to report their work here? Thanks. --Steelviper 09:51, 3 January 2007 (CST)

Hey, if you could stop contributing for a moment, we'd appreciate it if you could address the copyright concerns. The content of this site falls under the creative commons license, and the content added needs to be your own (or be fair use, or have permission from the author). If you continue adding the copyrighted reviews we may have to block you from contributing until the copyright concerns have been addressed. --Steelviper 10:16, 3 January 2007 (CST)

I believe that since I have given proper credit to the site that this was taken from, it would be covered under fair use. i also emailed the author just to make sure he was alright with it.

A few cited quotes might fall under fair use, but the wholesale copy almost surely wouldn't. (Though Peter Farago is our copyright expert around here.) Thanks for contacting the author. We could definitely post a link to his site (external links), but unless he gives permission for us to use his content we probably should remove the actual text. If we do get permission to copy his work wholesale (which would be very generous), we might want to consider revising the prose to be more encyclopedic (just the fact, ma'am) rather than having bias. Any good review is going to have bias, but we're looking more for the facts (like the plot points, etc.) Thanks for responding, and for taking the initiative in contacting the author. --Steelviper 13:46, 3 January 2007 (CST)

yeah - i'll stopu posting his entire articles and just put part of it with a link to the whole review, etc. sorry about that. if i hear back from him, i'll let you know.

Feedback on Rewrite

Outstanding job on the review rewrite. Much more neutral and covers the material. Make sure to use your own wording wherever possible, but it looks good. You might want to go ahead and wipe out the plot points section (that's pretty extensive), but you can mention that a review that covers the plot points in detail can be found at that link in an "External Links" section below the book summary. If you need a hand doing that, let me know. --Steelviper 14:40, 3 January 2007 (CST)

And if the plot points are kept, or at least in part, the dashes should be replaced with stars to create bullet points --Serenity 14:49, 3 January 2007 (CST)