Talk:Master franchise

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COI Question

Is it not a copyright violation to quote an article or text without referencing it?

The text of this article is almost word for word quoted from the csfinvestment.com site.

Wiki: "owning the rights to develop a franchise system within a geographical territory" csf: "owning of the rights to develop a franchise system within a territory"

Wiki: "The master franchisee assists the franchising company in developing the territory in exchange for a share in the royalty revenues and franchise fees that are generated from operations within that territory." csf: "The Master Franchisee assists the franchise company in developing the territory in exchange for a share in the royalty revenues and franchise fees that are generated from operations within that territory."

Wiki: "benefits from a proven track record, brand name, and a successful operating system" csf: "have a proven track record, brand name, and a successful operating system"

This is a clear copyright violation. I'm not the copyright holder, onwer of the site, or any kind of investor of that site, I just hate when people violate copyright. I'll contact the copyright owner to contact wikipedia directly. Until then, I'm going to keep reverting so that the article complies with copyright laws. 98.17.83.229 (talk) 14:25, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First of all most of the stuff was gleaned from an Entrepreneur Magazine article on the subject, not the spam link you keep adding. Second of all I would suggest you please understand as the one who added the material, you are the one who has created the COI problem. I have been trying to minimize that stuff by copy editing the crap you added, and remove the link to a blatant commercial site. Most of what you added was already in the Entrepreneur article any ways. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 17:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First of all most of the stuff was NOT gleaned from an Entrepreneur Magazine article on the subject, it was copy and pasted from the site whose reference are being removed. If one were to do a simple search on each and you'll find that not only the are many sentences word for word the same as csfinvestment site, as I stated in my first discussion post, these same sentences contain terms that are not used in the entire Entrepreneur Magazine article. Making use of content and not making correct references is in violation of Wikipedia policies WP:V and guideline WP:Cite.

Second of all I would suggest you please understand that you are making an incorrect assumption thinking that I added the material. Also, by stating that, "[I was] the one who created the COI problem" and "the crap [I] added", you are making a direct personal attack that does not address the content of the article in violation of Wikipedia policies WP:PA, Wikipedia:Civility and guideline Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines.

To address the issue of the original author "created the COI problem", please explain. An author that creates a text, then copies that text to a separate site, such as Wikipedia, and then makes cites their own original text is in full compliance of copyright law. Removing that reference, however, creates a copyright issue.

I will continue reverting these edits until the article complies with copyright laws.

152.16.10.191 (talk) 17:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]