Talk:Dave Sharp

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http://www.davesharp.org
http://www.hardtravelers.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by MaxLondon (talk • contribs) 13:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation?

Instead of destroying someone elses hard work, why not post the suspected reasons for copyright violation here? It's no wonder people are leaving WP by the truck load with all this red tape. Trevorsem (talk) 13:55, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Although Wikipedia encourages anyone to contribute, the founding principle of a free encyclopedia is that it only uses freely licensed text. In the case of Dave Sharp, the article contained text copied directly from a webpage at Dave harp.org which was copyrighted two years before the Wikipedia article. Here are a couple of examples of direct plagiarism that it included:

The article read:

In the mid 1970s, Sharp formed various experimental punk rock bands, often based in the area around Rhyl where childhood friend Nigel Twist was now living.

The source read:

In the mid-70s, ...Sharp formed various experimental punk rock bands, often based in the area of North Wales around Rhyl where childhood friend Twist was now living.

The article read:

Dedicated to live music and particularly to the acoustic form, he found it a venue to explore his musical influences..

The source read:

Dedicated to live music and particularly to the acoustic form which Dave adored, he found it the perfect venue to explore his musical influences.

Because of the substantial plagiarism, it was necessary to delete the text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. This not only protects the entire project from legal action, it also protects the hard work of the original copyrighted author. If you have any questions regarding the copyright violation, feel free to ask. Further information is found at WP:COPYVIO and WP:PLAGIARISM. — CactusWriter | ^needles 16:09, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In that case the WHOLE of Wikipedia is plagiarised and needs to be removed?!? I'm done with Wikipedia. Too many people with nothing better to do, but being jobsworths. Someone else needs to finish this article off, perhaps the Wiki Police may find time... (208.51.151.2 (talk) 14:35, 11 December 2009 (UTC))[reply]