Talk:Philip B. Gordon

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Copyright problem[edit]

This article has been tagged as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) It will likely be stubbed after one week unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Major contributions by contributors who have been verified to have violated copyright in multiple articles may be presumptively deleted in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations.

In this particular article, we do find close paraphrasing from the online newsletter. For example (bolding added):

Source Article
When Father Gordon became the first American Indian in the United States to be ordained a priest in the Catholic Church, he ordered the war drum and peace pipe made so he could present them to Me-sa-bi, his childhood playmate. When ordained a priest, Gordon ordered a war drum and peace pipe made so he could present them to Me-Sa-Bi ("Giant") his childhood friend

If this were the sole problem, it would be easily repaired, but unfortunately there is a history of taking text from print sources here, and this article relies heavily on an inaccessible print source. In such cases, rewriting the article may be our only remedy, unless somebody has access to the book who can verify that the language does not copy or closely paraphrase it.

Interested contributors are invited to help clarify the copyright status of this material or rewrite the article in original language at the temporary page linked from the article's face. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]