User talk:AncientWalrus

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, AncientWalrus. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page GISAID, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 15:14, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; however, please remember the essential rule of respecting copyrights. Edits to Wikipedia, such as your edit to the page GISAID, may not contain material from copyrighted sources unless that text is available under a suitable free license. It is almost never okay to copy extensive text out of a book or website and paste it into a Wikipedia article with little or no alteration, though you can clearly and briefly quote copyrighted text in the right circumstances. Content that does not comply with this legal rule must be removed. For more information on this, see:

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Thank you @Diannaa! I have edited Wikipedia before, created my first article almost 20 years ago. Could you please clarify whether your comment is related to anything specific you noticed in my edits to GISAID? It appears like you think I have violated copyright. Is that correct? Or is this message written to everyone? AncientWalrus (talk) 15:25, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Content you added was a match for text in https://www.nature.com/articles/442957a/. Please see the CopyPatrol report. Click on the iThenticate link to see the matching content. — Diannaa (talk) 15:29, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you - this would have been useful to know in the first place! I will have a look at it!

Is that why some edits are deleted? That's a shame - can you restore the edits that did not match the text? Like the categories I added for example AncientWalrus (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you - I see, so I need to paraphrase more. Good to know. Sorry for the hassle. AncientWalrus (talk) 15:41, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Manual of Style/Images not heeded

With respect, your edit here seems to have thoughtlessly ignored the instructions at MOS:IMAGES, to "find better images and improve captions instead of simply removing poor or inappropriate ones". Please take care to actually follow the guidelines rather than just wield them about. - AppleBsTime (talk) 04:56, 29 March 2023 (UTC)