Talk:Tunnelling mud crab

Copyright problem

This article has been revised as part of the large-scale clean-up project of a massive copyright infringement on Wikipedia. Earlier text must not be restored, 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. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously.

For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter, here and here, as well as the the cleanup task force subpage. Thank you. --Geronimo20 (talk) 08:38, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Is it possible to point out the original source ? The links given talk about copyright violations related to a "Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand " - surely that book does not have descriptions of crabs. Shyamal (talk) 11:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. Powell is the reference which applies to a lot of the copyright issues, but not this one. You can clean this article up yourself if you look at the online references provided in the article itself, and appropriately paraphrase what was originally written there. I apologize for not stopping to do this myself, but with thousands of articles to stabilize, it is not so much an issue of laziness as exhaustion :) --Geronimo20 (talk) 12:31, 13 April 2009 (UTC)