User talk:Abbyxlee

This user is a student editor in Portland_State_University/Byzantine_Art_(Fall_2017) .

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Samee was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Paris Psalter instead.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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sami ^talk 14:10, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Abbyxlee, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! sami ^talk 14:10, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Abbyxlee, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and 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 the 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 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 the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse 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 must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also 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. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 15:57, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright/plagiarism notification

Hi Abbyxlee, I received a notification that you had posted content taken from another source, specifically this website and this journal article. All content is considered to be held under a copyright that is non-compatible with Wikipedia unless it's clearly stated otherwise, as in a public domain or compatible Creative Commons license. As far as I can tell, both of these websites are not compatible. I've left you some information about this above under my main account. You must rewrite the content in your own words. Do not closely paraphrase from the original text, as this is still seen as a copyright violation.

Since this is the second time that you have posted the content, I will unfortunately have to let your professor know about this. It looks like the changes you made to the content were fairly minimal or there was no change at all. I'm sorry, but this is not acceptable on Wikipedia and I need to make sure that you're aware that continuing to post copyrighted content to Wikipedia can lead to you getting blocked from editing. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:05, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Abbyxlee, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

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More generally see WP:MEDHOW
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Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removed content

I saw that your content was removed again as plagiarism from Paris Psalter by Bradv . I did a check and found two phrases that were taken from an outside source. It also looks like you kept the captions for the images, which while not a copyright violation per se would still show up on a detecting sweep. These captions are also something that would not be seen as overly pertinent on Wikipedia because of how very specific they are. Captions on Wikipedia typically contain a brief description of an item like "Isaiah between Night and Dawn and the Ode of Isaiah." Anything beyond that would be seen as too specific for Wikipedia's purposes. Those are details that would likely belong on the Wikimedia Commons page for the images, but not in an article caption.

Something that I noticed while I was going through this was that some of the content looked to be written as original research or phrased as a viewpoint. For example, the term "beautifully illustrated" is something that's considered relative. While you and I would see the illustrations as absolutely gorgeous, another person may not and some may even see it as the article being in favor of that art style and Christianity. As far as original research goes (ie, things you came up with on your own) would be things like this:

"The assumption that it is a copy remains ambiguous, but there is no confusion that the MS stands at the head of a long line of smaller and later books that mimic its body of illustration. "

" The discovery that images such as David composing the psalms surrounded by personifications were clearly derived from Greco-Roman wall painting led 19th-century scholars to date the manuscript to the early 6th century."

There were also things accompanying the images that did not have sourcing. The gist here is that these are not only unsourced, but they're also unattributed - content like this must be attributed to the person who came up with them or it will come across as a personal interpretation of the material.

I'm going to wait to see what Bradv has to say about the copyright issues, but if there was more in there than the two phrases I found, you do run the risk of getting blocked from editing for repeatedly reposting copyrighted material. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:41, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Paris Psalter (January 12)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SeraphWiki was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Paris Psalter instead.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Paris Psalter and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Paris Psalter, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and save.
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SeraphWiki (talk) 06:42, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]