User talk:Wikiclass emc

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Handling non-free content

Hi. I appreciate your contribution to Talk:Peripheral nerve reconstruction/Temp, but unfortunately, rather than revising the content so that it was not a copyright problem, you seem to have restored the copyrighted content verbatim. For example, User:Plastische erasmusmc had written:

Natural tissues have various advantages over artificial materials. They less toxic, more likely to be likely to be biologic and provide a support structure to promote cell activity.

You altered this to read:

Natural tissues, including autologous tissue grafts, possess several advantages. Natural materials are more likely to be biocompatible than artificial materials, are less toxic, and provide a support structure to promote cell adhesion and migration.

The source says at page 302:

Natural tissues, including autologous tissue grafts, possess several advantages. Natural materials are more likely to be biocompatible than artificial materials, are less toxic, and provide a support structure to promote cell adhesion and migration.

This is not an acceptable method of handling previously published content on Wikipedia. You can only import previously published text if you can verify that it is public domain or compatibly licensed with our license. Even if it is, you must acknowledge that you are copying content to comply with our guidelines on plagiarism. If it is not public domain or compatibly licensed, you may use brief excerpts of text if these are clearly marked as quotations and used for good reasons such as those set out at non-free content policy and guideline. Otherwise, you may use the information, but not the creative structure of the original, which includes language but also may include selection and organization of material. (See Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.)

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Beyond your addition, the temporary remained unusable, as it had not been rewritten from scratch but retained many of the creative elements of its sources. The article and the proposed rewrite have been deleted. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:30, 20 November 2010 (UTC)