Talk:Silent Partner (book)

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I was directed here from a link on Stephen Frey's author page. This book does not appear to have anything to do with Stephen Frey. What's up? --209.177.229.33 14:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issue

The text added by User:Hughey (see diff) is copied from a CBS article. Marking it as a reference doesn't make it okay. I originally removed the text and provided a warningon the user's talk page. The text was added again days later. I reverted the addition and left another note on the user's talk page. The user then reverted the removal marking it as vandalism and leaving a vandalism warning on my talk page. -- Whpq 15:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

This page needs work. Simply using the Undo and delete buttons is not going to fix the problem. Hughey 15:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Adding copyrighted text does not improve the article. In fact, it violates wikipedia policy. -- Whpq 18:32, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Text from Showbuzz

Copyrighted text from CBS Showbuzz article has been added to the article. Removal of the text has been reverted multiple times. 13:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

This is an easy one. The majority of the article is directly, word for word, from the CBS article. That by definition is a copyright violation. I've added the {{copyvio}} tag to the article. Let an admin with experience sort it out. Pairadox 04:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

There are multiple sources for these quotes from Dina Matos McGreevey. She has been on the talk show circuit talking to everyone from Oprah on down. People all over the world have heard her speak these words. They are in the public discourse for sure.Hughey 17:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

A large number of quotes strung together don't make for a good encyclopedia article. So having them that many of them in the article is dubious to begin with. But in this particular case, you copied the text of the Showbuzz article word for word. That's an infringement of copyright. -- Whpq 17:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Even if it's a copyvio of content that is largely quotes strung together, it's still copyvio, and has no place on wikipedia. If there are multiple sources for the quotes, source the quotes and write about them, don't cut'n'paste a source that writes about them. DMacks 17:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Admin review of copyvio: I have reverted to a non-copyvio version. Hughey, about 3/4 of the text you copy/pasted in was NOT quotes, it was CBS' text surrounding them. Those words are copyright CBS; don't put them back in. --Alvestrand 06:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)