User talk:Valwen
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[edit] Welcome
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[edit] Owlbear
I saw your edits to the Owlbear article, but they read very much like they had come right out of the books, and that's not acceptable on Wikipedia, as it violates WP:C. You may have rewritten it some, but not enough to use fair use exceptions or anything. So I reverted them. I do appreciate your attempt to improve the article, but you need to distance your words more from the original source. Mister.Manticore 16:42, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but I do have to revert those changes again. Several of the sentences you used are right out of the Monster Manual, or the d20 SRD. At most, you changed the order of the words. As an example, take "The few adventurers who have survived encounters with the dreaded owlbear claim to have glimpsed of a bestial madness surging in their red-rimmed eyes." which compares to a similar sentence in the monster manual. The only thing you changed was adding "the few" and creatures to "the dreaded owlbear" . That's a copyright problem, not to mention a style issue. Since you did remove the reversion, I'm going to add it to WP:CP as well. Mister.Manticore 20:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
