Talk:Bomb plotter gets life

I'm a bit concerned about this article as it has identical and very similar paragraphs to the sources and other articles on Google news. The first sentence seem to be distinct or nearly distinct. The rest, para-by-para:

WN: Barot is wanted by the U.S. on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. and in Yemen.

BBC: Barot, a former Hindu who converted to Islam, is also wanted by US authorities over charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the US and in Yemen.

WN: (Edmund-I added that, it was originally Mr Lawson) Lawson, prosecuting, said Barot wrote a book published in 1999 called The Army Of Madinah under the name Esa al-Hindi, in which it said Barot converted to Islam at the age of 20.

According to Google news, this paragraph is identical to an E Canada Now article which I cannot open:

Mr Lawson, prosecuting, said Barot wrote a book published in 1999 called The Army Of Madinah under the name Esa al-Hindi, in which it said Barot converted to

WN: The judge told Barot: "This was no noble cause. Your plans were to bring indiscriminate carnage, bloodshed and butchery first in Washington, New York and Newark, and thereafter the UK on a colossal and unprecedented scale."

BBC: The judge told him: "This was no noble cause. Your plans were to bring indiscriminate carnage, bloodshed and butchery first in Washington, New York and Newark, and thereafter the UK on a colossal and unprecedented scale."

WN: A witness testified that while at Camp Hudaybiyah, run by the Al Jamaah Al Islamiyah group, Barot was instructed in small arms training, mortars, basic explosives handling, navigation and jungle patrolling.

BBC: A witness testified that while at Camp Hudaybiyah, run by the Al Jamaah Al Islamiyah group, Barot was instructed in small arms training, mortars, basic explosives handling, navigation and jungle patrolling.

Sarah Ewart (Talk) 16:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Response
I am quite new to all this and apologise for having caused an issue.

I have rewritten the report and hope that it is now OK

I had understood that matters of fact - such as what people said - were not copyrighted. Hence my use of verbatims. Obviously I am still confused about this.

Fentonrobb 20:39, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * some useful things to remember while writing an article
 * use multiple sources to gather information
 * write that information in your own words
 * verbatim copying of quotes, and only quotes is ok. if the quote is made exclusively to one news source, then attribute it in text - eg. "Speaking to the Washington Post, Goofy said, 'I never smoked pot. Ever.'" if the quote was made in a public forum, in-text attribution is not needed.
 * the organisation of the information and the expression of the ideas in a wikinews article shld not closely follow that of any of the sources.
 * &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 21:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)