User talk:MJHistory1995
Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello MJHistory1995, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Soultone Cymbals 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) 13:55, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
September 2017
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This is your only warning; if you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory content into an article or any other Wikipedia page again, as you did at Idaho Falls High School, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. I have no idea what game you are playing, but you cannot insert content in any article saying some was convicted of a crime without a source. The fact that this exact same content, word for word, was also previously removed from Skyline High School (Idaho) makes this obviously vandalism. The fact that the rest of your edit history is adding back a copyright violation that I had previously removed and changing my username on an IP editor's talk to "Schlong" makes this harassment. John from Idegon (talk) 22:37, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
- If you cannot edit civilly without harassing other editors, your editing privileges will be revoked. —C.Fred (talk) 23:22, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 23:24, 14 September 2017 (UTC)