Talk:Russell Davis (writer)

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The robot is in error, the material is not original on the goodreads site, which merely copied it from his website at blogspot. I'm sorry if the robot thinks that listing his pseudonyms is not legitimate; I suppose maybe I could list them in a different order. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 22:03, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The bot quite probably picked up "He has written and sold over 20 novels and more than 30 short stories in many genres", which is minimally altered from "He has written and sold over 20 novels and more than 30 short stories in virtually every genre". While this is only one sentence and certainly "de minimis", it does need either to be rewritten or placed in quotation marks in relevant portion in accordance to Wikipedia's copyright policy. We can't copy text verbatim from previous publications otherwise unless it is uncopyrightable, and there is sufficient creativity in this phrase to warrant copyright protection. I'll revise the sentence and clear the copyright notice. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:48, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]