User talk:Josephine Dong

This user is a student editor in Georgetown_University/Communication_Technology_and_Organizations_(Spring) .

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Hello, Josephine Dong, 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) 21:46, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism and copyright

Hello, I received a notification that you had posted content that took material verbatim from this blog source to your article. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even though you included 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. This will also help deal with issues of promotional tones, as the blog was written to promote WeChat and as such, didn't fit Wikipedia's neutral tone guidelines.

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. In this situation, the blog's content is licensed under an extremely limited copyright that prohibits its use on Wikipedia or sites like Wikipedia. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:21, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]