User talk:Forsaken84

April 2017

Your addition to Ian Gibson (comics) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. The text added to this article seems only superficially paraphrased from the Guardian article. McGeddon (talk) 12:49, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Quotes from Gibson himself are obviously fine, it just looked like most of the rest was inappropriately close paraphrasing - that second paragraph is mostly verbatim ("The image provoked a wave of protests and was quickly removed from the Expo website after Rebellion, which publishes 2000AD comic and owns the rights to Halo Jones, expressed concerns over the image"), and the one after that repeats a lot of the Guardian's structure as well. By all means add it back in your own words.

Looking at the edit again, you should also avoid adding any further personal interpretation of events ("obviously tongue in cheek", "many did not see the humour", "dismissed the outrage by saying") and just present the statements as they're given in the source.

File:Halo_portrait.jpg actually isn't on Commons, it's hosted on Wikipedia under a strict Fair Use rationale for its appearance in the The Ballad of Halo Jones article. If we want to use it on Gibson's article, the image page needs another rationale explaining how it would meet WP:NFCCP on that article - which it may well do, if we're sure that there aren't any other examples of Gibson's work that we could use instead. --McGeddon (talk) 21:57, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it up. The only real problem remaining is that we shouldn't be quoting individual commenters, per WP:USERGENERATED (otherwise anyone could post a comment on a news article and then come over to Wikipedia to add "a Guardian reader commented..." to whichever article), so I've cut that bit.

Looking at the article as a whole, whree full paragraphs about a minor controversy might be considered undue weight - we're saying more about it than the entire rest of Gibson's career! It might be a good idea to trim the new section down a bit, or if you're a Gibson fan, to flesh out the "Biography" section some more. --McGeddon (talk) 07:57, 14 April 2017 (UTC)