User talk:GameKnight3435

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello GameKnight3435, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Troy Area School District have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:50, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Copyright

Ok thanks I’m kinda new to this I appreciate your guidance GameKnight3435 (talk) 13:47, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Concerning bracket usage

I noticed the addition of curly brackets ({{}}'s) that you added in this article here. I removed those brackets since it just tried to link to a non-existent template (read this or this to find out more). Sorry about the small notice, I hope you enjoy your the rest of your day! StaringAtTheStars (talk) 17:28, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello, I'm North Shoreman. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to American Civil War have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 20:47, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey

The Gettysburg Adress Had A Major impact on the war and it Rallied the union and Dedicated The Gettysburg National memorial cemeteries opening Tyler (talk) 12:41, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

If we look at the edits that you made, you removed a lot of stuff from the article that was needed (most significantly the {{mdy}} tag and the {{Infobox military conflict}}). If you are going to remove a lot of stuff like this and add anything else, you should first talk about it in the talk page of the article and see what other editors think about it. It also appears you just copy and pasted the whole speech from another source, which may break WP:CV101. Or, maybe you copied it from here, I'm not too sure. StaringAtTheStars (talk) 16:32, 28 September 2018 (UTC)