User talk:Annamarkelin

This user is a student editor in Butler_University/Conservation_biology_(Spring_2023) .

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Hello, Annamarkelin, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article issues[edit]

Your additions to the Women in STEM fields included text that was copied verbatim from your source and not marked as a quotation. For copyright reasons, your additions had to be removed. In addition, the text that you did mark as a quote was overly long. Since it was marked as a quote, it wasn't plagiarism, but it is likely to still be a problem from a copyright perspective.

Everything you add to Wikipedia should be written entirely in your own words. Quotations should only be used where the precise wording significantly improves the reader's understanding of the topic, and even then, it should rarely be more than 3-5 words. The quote you added was long, and the content could easily have been rewritten entirely in your own words.

I recommend that you revisit the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before making additional edits. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:52, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]