User talk:ShamsiSide.up

October 2023

Hello, I'm LizardJr8. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Criticism of Hamas, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. LizardJr8 (talk) 20:54, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I was just about to add the source. Adding it now. Sunshine SRA (talk) 20:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sunshine SRA! Your additions to Membrane occupation and recognition nexus 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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. One of the studies you copied from is suitable licensed, so that text is fine, but you still need to attribute. Thank you. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 01:08, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you ARandomName123, much appriciated.

Checking the changes now. As you can tell I am new here, so may I ask how do you know if a study is suitable licensed? and by attribution you mean refrain from coping the text but use it as a reference? Thank again! Sunshine SRA (talk) 21:32, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If it says something along the lines of "Content on this website is released under CC-BY-SA" it should be fine to use or copy, though you will need to give attribution. Attribution usually means a template like Template:Creative Commons text attribution notice in the references section. For example, in the study in my comment, there's a copyright section that says

© 2020 Sajko et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Creative Commons Attribution License can be replaced by anything at WP:COMPLIC and it should still be fine. Further information on copyright (ex. US gov works, super old works) can be found at WP:COPYRIGHT. Please note that this does not prohibit the use of copyrighted material as references, it only prohibits copy-pasting and close paraphrasing of text from copyrighted material.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask me by pinging me using {{re|ARandomName123}} or at the Teahouse. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 22:25, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I really appriciate the explanation, thank you @ARandomName123 Sunshine SRA (talk) 22:23, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, happy to help! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 23:08, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for taking the time to welcome me!

Looking forward to become a great Wikipedian Sunshine SRA (talk) 20:41, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Anhydramnios

Thanks for starting an article on anhydramnios; it has some really useful referenced content. I wonder whether you'd noticed oligohydramnios, to which it is closely related. Might these two pages be better discussed together? I note that many of the references discuss both reference together, and the definition in the lead seems to overlap. Klbrain (talk) 19:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi ShamsiSide.up. Thank you for your work on Anhydramnios. Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for adding this new content. It's so helpful, that I think that it's better placed on the broader topic page of Oligohydramnios, of which it is the most severe form.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Klbrain}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Klbrain (talk) 16:03, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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