User talk:Idealigic

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ITN recognition for 2019–20 Lebanese protests

On 23 January 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2019–20 Lebanese protests, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 01:04, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Avoid close paraphrasing

Nice to see all your contributions at Late-2019 Sudanese protests! :)

A request, though: please have a look at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. The way that sentences and phrases are written in media sources are generally not quite appropriate for the context of a Wikipedia article. If pieces of sentences really are written perfectly, then quotes should be used. But in practice, you need to seek out the factual type pieces of information claimed by the source and write them in a way that makes sense here on the Wikipedia. If you're a bit uncomfortable in English, don't worry: it's better to write in wrong English rather than using copy/pastes from the sources. Other Wikipedians will (sooner or later) tidy up the English if they think it doesn't sound smooth enough; it will be easier for them to do the tidying (copyediting) if they do not have to check all the sources to remove copy/pasted material.

A computer screen + keyboard make it easy to copy/paste; but that's a bad idea here, except for "quotes" (or reference titles). Your only safe option for Wikipedia (or original writing) is to type out sentences yourself, after thinking of the meaning of what's in the sources.

Again: please read through Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing: other Wikipedians have put in a lot of effort to make that a good guide. Boud (talk) 00:08, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the advise Boud, will try again now that I've read these guidelines. Idealigic (talk) 11:32, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Iranian politics general sanctions notification

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Vanamonde (Talk) 16:57, 7 May 2020 (UTC)