User talk:Julisymmons
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[edit]Hello, Julisymmons, 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) 02:48, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Addressing plagiarism
[edit]When you find plagiarism, the first challenge is to ensure that it's real. A lot of websites copy from Wikipedia, so simply finding material copied verbatim elsewhere on the web doesn't guarantee that the content on Wikipedia was copied from the other source. If it's a printed book or journal, then it's less of a judgment call, though it never hurts to look into the article history to figure out what the article looked like when the book was published. (You can also use archive.org to estimate how old content on a website may be.)
Small amounts of verbatim copying can just be removed. Don't call it plagiarism though, in your edit summary, if you're concerned about upsetting people - call it "verbatim" or "word-for-word", or "close paraphrasing". Larger amounts need to be removed from the page history, and this can be a pretty involved process. Follow the instructions on the {{Copyvio}} template. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:32, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Unsourced additions (probably copied from somewhere else)
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Please do not add or change content, as you did at Bat, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 17:22, 21 April 2017 (UTC)