User talk:JC Benthos

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Royal and Clark 1960

Hi JC Benthos, What is the full reference you are using? We need to format it correctly. Was this text taken from another publication? If so, is it available or a copyright violation? Thanks --Gene Hobbs (talk) 17:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. I am a bit new at this, citation is: Natural Preservation of Human Brain, Warm Mineral Springs, Florida William Royal and Eugenie Clark American Antiquity Vol. 26, No. 2 (Oct., 1960), pp. 285-287 (article consists of 3 pages) Published by: Society for American Archaeology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/276213

I have a copy of the article and a personal PDF file. Probably still under copyright. JC Benthos (talk) 20:26, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!

I went in and formatted that reference properly and reused it. Take a look at my method there and that should help with the other reference that I did not know. One of the links you provided did have a copy of the full text article so that is now linked.

The last paragraph was a copyright violation. I took the time to re-write and wikilink some terms but it would have to be removed if someone else did not feel like doing the correction. I probably need to check your other additions but with some luck, you will give editing another try soon. ;)

There is also quite a bit of opinion in the style. Saying things like "Col Bill Royal turned the academic world of archeology on its ear", is not very encyclopedic so it will need a reference to an "authority" on the subject to remain in the article (which you may be but we don't know who you are). It will get tagged with something similar to what you see in the first paragraph soon (or removed outright depending on the editor).

Thanks again and please keep editing! We need all the help we can get! --Gene Hobbs (talk) 21:34, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violation material removed

I have reverted your edits to Warm Mineral Springs (spring), as the first two paragraphs were definitely in violation of the Wikipedia policy at Wikipedia:Copyright violations, as they were copied from copyrighted material (at [1]), and the next two paragraphs were likely to also be copyright violations. Copying copyrighted material which has not been freely licensed into Wikipedia is treated very seriously. Please remember that any material that you contribute to Wikipedia must be free, i.e., in your own words (not copied or closely paraphrased from somewhere), in the public domain, or under a free-distribution license such as CC-BY-SA. While everything that you contribute to Wikipedia must be verifiable from reliable sources, it cannot violate copyright on the source material. -- Donald Albury 00:40, 28 November 2011 (UTC)