Posting articles from other websites
Part of the registration process to become a member of TWF was to read and agree to a set of rules.
Following a call from PerthNow Sports Editor, Maxine Brown - I would like to draw your attention to this snippet of the forum rules which you all agreed to:
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Originally Posted by Forum Rules
When posting in the forums please refrain from posting non-original articles in their entirety rather post a summary with a link to the source web site, or the name of the publication the article was taken from.
Firstly - no, I am not in trouble (not yet at least) and Maxine was lovely to speak with and very reasonable on the phone.
When posting articles from other sources to which you do not have rights or permissions to duplicate in full - especially local sources whom we love and support - please only post a portion of the article, and provide a link which readers may follow to read the complete article.
As we all know, Cameron Shepherd has been knocking up some prose for PerthNow this season. Then PerthNow 'powers that be' check their web logs to see how popular Cam's articles have been. Lo and behold, no one is reading them as they all come to the font of all that is Rugby in Western Australia, nay Australia and read them here. End result, Cam gets sacked! No more Cam's Column for anyone.
So, when posting an article - just the first couple paragraphs or enough to get peoples interest. When replying, you can quote relevant portions of the original article in your post, just no copying articles in their entirety.
When you do post article abstracts from other sites, please try and use the following format.
Use the article title as the thread title - copy the first couple paragraphs or if you feel inclined and abstract of the article with no dates, times, authors, links or images - just the text.
At the foot of the post paste the URL to the original article - preferably with the text "Read More..." as the link (which can be achieved by wrapping the url in URL tags - eg. [URL=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23740963-5005401,00.html]Read More...[/URL] but for those that may find this a challenge - just the URL is fine!
I've edited the latest Cams Column article as an example here:http://twf.com.au/showthread.php?t=16714
Many thanks, as you were!