Talk:John Thomas Finch

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Feedback from New Page Review process[edit]

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: I've replaced the original text with a new text, added an extra source, and added some standard features for an article on a scientist: an authority control tag linking to their work on library catalogues, a defaultsort tag so he appears indexed under 'F' for 'Finch' not 'J' for 'John' and basic information like places he worked at. I'm also adding some relevant categories, and will look at backlinking him from articles featuring papers he wrote if I have time

Unless you have authorisation from at least the Royal Society and perhaps also the article's authors (this point is legally complicated as it depends on their contract, and you might need to put in a template indicating use of borrowed text–contact me if you need further info on this point) we can't simply use a copyrighted text. If drafting an article it's really best to type it out totally separately from the source, rather than taking a copyrighted document and editing it to make a Wikipedia article–you always end up with an article that copies the sequencing and shadows the phrasing of the copyrighted text, as discussed e.g. here, and often has incoherency and grammar mistakes owing by the editing..

Blythwood (talk) 18:45, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]