User talk:Ktikm7
Ktikm7, you are invited to the Teahouse!
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Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Ktikm7, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Keeladi 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. utcursch | talk 05:55, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
- Please do not copy-paste large quotes into Wikipedia articles. There is a separate project for quotes: Wikiquote. utcursch | talk 13:19, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
May 2017
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Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Keeladi, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Wikipedia is not a collection of quotes: please use Wikiquote for this purpose. Also, copy-pasting verbatim text from other sources is considered as copyright violation. utcursch | talk 02:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
- Please don't make the same edits from other accounts or IP addresses. This is considered as sockpuppetry, and can get you blocked.
- Instead of copy-pasting text from other sources, please write things in your own words -- that will actually take less time and effort in simply repeating your copy-paste edits. utcursch | talk 15:23, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
- If you continue to this from different IP addresses, you will be blocked. Instead of wasting time in repeatedly copy-pasting content from other sources, please spend 5 minutes paraphrasing it in your own words. utcursch | talk 14:21, 9 May 2017 (UTC)