User talk:Arson McFire
Page move
[edit]Hi Arson, please don't move pages into your sandbox like you did with Critical thinking. We try to keep articles outside of userspace pages, although you're free to work on a duplicate of the article in your userspace. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:52, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Copy that. Thank you. I meant no harm. Trying to do the copy so I wouldn't hose up the article. Hosed it anyway. Arson McFire (talk) 20:39, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
worked on updates to the Critical Thinking article. Left draft in the sandbox --Arson McFire (talk) 23:32, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
October 2013
[edit]Hello Arson McFire, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Critical thinking has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without 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 a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Wikipedia: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.
- 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 without attribution. If you want to copy 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. http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1120.aspx Logical Cowboy (talk) 19:14, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
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Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Critical thinking. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Logical Cowboy (talk) 13:43, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
November 2013
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Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Critical thinking. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You added a lot of material to this article. It's unclear where it all came from. Your own head or some source? Anyway, according to policy you have to clearly identify sources, otherwise you are not improving the encyclopedia. Logical Cowboy (talk) 17:16, 3 November 2013 (UTC)