User talk:Dnkowalski

This user is a student editor in Widener_University/POLS_215_Environmental_Politics_and_Policy_(Spring_2018) .

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Hello, Dnkowalski, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Copying content

Since content produced by the US federal government is not subject to copyright, it's acceptable to use their content in Wikipedia. However, when you do so, you need to clearly mark the content as copied from their website otherwise it looks like you are trying to pass their work off as your own (which would constitute plagiarism). Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template {{PD-notice}} after your citation. I have done so for Clean Water State Revolving Fund. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:09, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]