User talk:Ckiedais

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Circular source

Hi. I noticed your edit to Charles Proteus Steinmetz here. Unfortunately, "American Inventors Center" seems to be one of many copiers of Wikipedia content, and can therefore not be cited as a source, per WP:CIRCULAR. That is, the page at that site is mostly a verbatim copy of the Wikipedia article. I'll be following up on why they are doing so apparently without attribution required by Wikipedia's license. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 02:59, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

P.S. Note, BTW, the "Complete article available at this page" at the bottom of the page, which links to the Wikipedia article (without mentioning Wikipedia by name). —[AlanM1(talk)]— 04:38, 4 December 2019 (UTC)