User talk:Emavila123

This user is a student editor in California_State_University,_Los_Angeles/Anthropology_4710_Introduction_to_Linguistics_(Fall_Semester) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:42, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article issues

HI. Your additions to the Ayutla Mixe article include passages copied verbatim from your source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. For copyright reasons, your entire contribution had to be deleted and subsequent contributions had to be hidden. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:51, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also pinging Raul28th and Michelle MR since this impacts their contributions as well. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:53, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I wanted to give a bit of explanation:

Content should be re-written in your own words whenever possible. Avoid closely paraphrasing, as this can be seen as a copyright/plagiarism issue. If you do use something verbatim, it's very important to attribute it clearly and mark it as a quote. So for example, if we quote the statement "The rain in Spain is mainly in the plain" we need to attribute it ala 'According to Henry Higgins, "The rain in Spain...".'

Now since you're trying to use examples, this will need to be attributed a little differently - you can do this by making a statement before the examples along the lines of:

In his book Title John Smith listed the following as examples:

You can do this with each example by stating something like

Smith listed the following as examples of (different type of grammar)

It does have to be attributed and source, however keep in mind that if we list something without attribution and clarification that it's a quote (so to speak) then it's a copyright violation even if we included the source. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:05, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]