User talk:Accerniglia
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Hello, Accerniglia, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:22, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Copyright problem on Vegaphobia[edit]
Your additions to the Vegaphobia article include passages copied verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. For copyright reasons, your contribution was deleted. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hey, you've added it back in again... in a nutshell, we don't get to copypaste content from books, because the book authors get rightly annoyed...Joe (talk) 09:12, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, I received a notification about this. This poses not only a copyright issue but also one of plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I want to thank Diannaa for posting a link to the module - I would like for you to review the plagiarism module as well.
- I also want to note that you should not re-add your content if someone removes it - you should always discuss this on the article's talk page or on the person's user talk page. While there are cases where people will remove content for mischief, it's far more likely that there's a valid reason for its removal such as tone, sourcing, or in this situation - copyright and plagiarism issues. Never re-add content that has been removed for copyright or plagiarism reasons, as this is something that can lead to a block. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:45, 30 April 2018 (UTC)