User talk:Patrickkyeiwiki
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[edit]Hi Patrickkyeiwiki! I noticed your contributions to Stephen Opuni and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.
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Happy editing! StarryNightSky11 ☎ 20:34, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks. I will look at the resource links you have suggested. Patrickkyeiwiki (talk) 20:44, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
August 2023
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Hello, I'm SamX. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Dozy Mmobuosi, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Sahara Reporters, as a citizen-journalist organization, does not meet the standards required for sources that support controversial claims about living people. — SamX [talk · contribs] 20:15, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
- Alright thanks for the information. Patrickkyeiwiki (talk) 20:29, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Patrickkyeiwiki! Your additions to Dozy Mmobuosi 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.
- 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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
- We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
- If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
- 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 must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.
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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — SamX [talk · contribs] 20:15, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Technology. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 15:58, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
September 2023
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Your edit to Elsie Addo Awadzi has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 11:38, 14 September 2023 (UTC)