User talk:OddPittsburgh

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Thank you Hmich176. This was very helpful! OddPittsburgh (talk) 12:45, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello OddPittsburgh, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Jim Delligatti have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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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. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:42, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Delligatti edit

I see your edit summary explaining that the material came from McDonald's own wiki.

On a positive note, I want to commend you for providing a detailed edit summary. I see that you are a new editor and very few editors know enough to use the edit summary feature which can be very helpful. For example, had you failed to include an edit summary I would've simply undone your edited and moved on. However, you tried to explain what you were doing so let's discuss to see if there's a chance it's appropriate.

You mentioned that the source is the company wiki. It is rare that a wiki would qualify as a reliable source. I tried accessing one of the links but it came up as a dead link for me. I didn't try all of the links, so perhaps I tried the wrong link. Could you identify the source of the material so I or someone else can check to see if in fact it qualifies as a reliable source?--S Philbrick (Talk) 20:46, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]