Copying from Wikipedia

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  1. #1
    Hi Im new here.

    Will google ban my website If I copy a paragraph from Wikipedia? I'm talking about 50 - 100 words. To be more specific, will it ban just the page where the information was placed that was copied from Wiki, or will it ban the whole website? (like the whole domain )

    Thanks in advance.
     
    qboi84x, Jan 17, 2006 IP
  2. sachin410

    sachin410 Illustrious Member

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    #2
    Neither.

    Google wont ban you if you have 50-100 words of duplicate content, but if it's just 50 - 100 words , why dont you rewrite the paragraph in your own words?

    If you are worried about copyright violation, put it as a quote (stating the source as Wikipedia.).

    http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html
     
    sachin410, Jan 17, 2006 IP
  3. qboi84x

    qboi84x Member

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    #3
    Ok,

    Thanks a lot man
     
    qboi84x, Jan 17, 2006 IP
  4. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    #4
    All Wikipedia requires is a link back to the site and license.
     
    Nintendo, Jan 17, 2006 IP
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  5. relixx

    relixx Active Member

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    #5
    with or without a nofollow tag? :p
     
    relixx, Jan 18, 2006 IP
  6. latehorn

    latehorn Guest

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    hehe, they might get pissed for that :)
     
    latehorn, Jan 18, 2006 IP
  7. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    #7
    Well, copying from anything is not good :D
     
    maldives, Jan 18, 2006 IP
  8. libertines

    libertines Peon

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    #8
    just re write section, will not take long and then you do not have to accredit to wikipedia (no outbound links!)
     
    libertines, Jan 18, 2006 IP
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    sunchy Active Member

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    Nice answer.
    Help me a lot ;)
     
    sunchy, Jan 18, 2006 IP
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    In the time it has cost you to start and follow this thread you also could have rewritten the Wikipedia article....
     
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    relixx Active Member

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    Lol, ouch :p
     
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    Notting Notable Member

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    All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

    basically:

    The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.

    This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software.

    We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
     
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