Talk:Gong Zai Mian

This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Tip: Anchors are case-sensitive in most browsers.

This article links to one or more target anchors that no longer exist.

[[Instant noodles#Hong Kong]] The anchor (#Hong Kong) is no longer available because it was deleted by a user before.

Please help fix the broken anchors. You can remove this template after fixing the problems. | Reporting errors

Merger proposal

I propose that Gong_Zai_Mian be merged into Instant_noodle. The content in Gong_Zai_Mian article adds a limited amount to what is already explained in the context of Instant_noodle. 101.164.16.5 (talk) 05:18, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. It's also the same thing, just in another language (WP:CFORK). And... considering the copyvio and all the unreferenced text (and the one cited text is not supported by the reference), I wouldn't even bother to merge it rather than just redirect/delete it to be honest. --Cold Season (talk) 04:06, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing copyright issues

This article began as a copy of [1] and remains an unauthorized derivative work of that source. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following:

The common method for cooking these noodles is boiling them in water and then frying them before adding other ingredients to it.

The article says:

The most popular method for cooking these noodles is boiling them in water until seems to be mushy, then frying them before adding other ingredients to it.

I have added bold to show where content is copied exactly. What's been done here is changing a few words and adding a few words. This is not an acceptable form of paraphrase on Wikipedia.

There are other passages that similarly follow too closely.

Doll Noodles were a type of instant noodles introduced in Hong Kong in the late 1960’s. The term is now used for all brands of instant noodles sold in Hong Kong.

The article says:

Doll Noodles were a type of instant noodles introduced in Hong Kong in the late 1960s by Winner Food Products Ltd. The term is now known for all brands of instant noodles sold in Hong Kong.

Again, adding a few words and changing a few words is not "rewriting" for the purposes of eliminating copyright problems.

While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. So that it will not constitute a derivative work, this article should be rewritten. 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, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

Alternatively, if the material can be verified to be public domain or permission is provided, we can use the original text with proper attribution. Please let me know at my talk page if you have questions about this. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:12, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]