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The history section has been rewritten following a stated copyright infringement. I noted originally that no 'bot' regarded the text as an infringement. Rosser Gruffydd 09:00, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi. :) I appreciate your working on this (I found out about the issue at
the copyright problems board talk page), but I'm afraid that this article continues to closely paraphrase in a way that is not consistent with Wikipedia's practices. For an example of close paraphrasing, consider the following:
The cobwebs usually came from Agelenidae "Funnel-Web" spiders, whose webs were gathered, layered and wound to form a delicate fabric. The material for the two library portraits, in particular, was then stretched over cardboard to make an oval window mat.
The article says:
The cobwebs used for the 16th century Austrain example came from Agelenidae funnel-web spiders, whose webs were gathered, layered and wound to form a delicate fabric, then stretched over cardboard to make an oval window mat.
To make the problem more clear, I have bolded content that is precisely copied, although some words have been removed.
For another example, the same source says:
One painting depicts Phillipine Welser (1527-1580), a celebrated beauty who secretly married Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol and settled near Innsbruck in Schloss Ambras.
The article says:
Philippine Welser (1527-1580), was a celebrated beauty who secretly married Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol and settled near Innsbruck, living in the Schloss Ambras.
Again, I have bolded content that is precisely copied, although a few words have been added. Even the comma, which is grammatically correct in the source, is copied to the derivative.
While facts are not copyrightable, creative elements of presentation - including both structure and language - are. We are not able to copy from external sources except in very limited circumstances; see
Wikipedia:Copy-paste. Creative content such as this copied from non-free sources must be presented as direct quotations, used in accordance with
non-free content policy and guideline.
The essay
Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues. The article
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".