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Happy editing! All the Best — Chuck ^Talk 05:24, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to The Legend Beautiful has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. Plot descriptions cannot be copied from your sources, including official sources and IMDb, unless these can be verified to be public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. They must be written in original language to comply with Wikipedia’s copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:35, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The plot summary is a hybridization of excerpts from the two reviews I cited, with some of my own editing/language (~10-15%). By my understanding, given the age of these reviews (1915), both have long since fallen into the public domain. PickledCookies (talk) 00:53, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, as I had my eye on filling in a few more silent film stubs from this general era, I would like to know what exactly I can do to avoid being flagged in the future while still availing myself of public domain resources?

The message makes reference to me using material from imdb, which is incorrect as I was sourcing directly from the reference material cited elsewhere in the article. However, I can see that one of those sources was also used to populate the imdb plot summary. I’m assuming there is some level of automation in the flagging process, and that detection of shared language on imdb is what precipitated this flag.

If so, I can simply avoid adding plot summaries to articles where the associated imdb page utilizes the same (public domain) sources for plot descriptions. PickledCookies (talk) 01:30, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the mistake. The plot summary was almost an exact match from the one at IMDb. But it is also very close to the one at https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy/movingpicturewor23newy_djvu.txt. It’s okay to copy from public domain sources as long as you provide attribution. This lets our readers know that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it’s okay to copy. Do this by adding the template {{source-attribution}} after your citation. I have done so for the above article. If you copy it exactly rather than including a modified version, you might encase it in a block quote template. Thanks for your patience. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:13, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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