User talk:Ishan98

Welcome

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, asking me on my talk page or ask a question on your talk page. While using talk pages, sign your posts by adding "~~~~" at the end.

Since you've shown some interest in editing topics related to India, we hope you'll stay and add content to India related articles. Consider joining WikiProject India or watchlisting India related discussions (for example, Noticeboard for India-related topics). Again, welcome! Ugog Nizdast (talk) 01:51, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:Vishnu Som.jpg

For more information, see Wikipedia:Image use policy. You've uploaded this image stating it's your own work. Could you provide more information? The photo looks like it's directly from a television broadcast of him reporting, which would make it a copyright violation unless the channel (NDTV?) would give the necessary permission for free use of it. Note that this image will likely get nominated for deletion by anyone due to lack of information. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 01:51, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Ishan98, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to NDTV India have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:15, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]