User talk:Brother.martin.is.terrifying
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Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Brother.martin.is.terrifying, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Advance payment have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of 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 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:24, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
- Hi - I received a notification that you had posted content on Wikipedia that had previously been published elsewhere. Please do not do this, as this can be seen as a copyright violation and plagiarism, even if you added the source as a citation at the very end. You should always write content in your own words, even if you believe that the content falls under a compatible license - or perhaps especially because of this, as you can't always guarantee this. For example, while the name "Investopedia" gives off the impression that its content would be licensed under a Creative Commons license similar to what Wikipedia uses, this isn't the case as the site's content is actually held under a copyright that would strongly prohibit its use on places such as Wikipedia. Even when the content is held under a license that would allow you to repost the content here, it's best to re-write the material anyway because not only would it help you learn, but this way you can also guarantee that the content would fit into Wikipedia's other guidelines, like it having a neutral point of view.
- I would like you to go over the module on plagiarism before proceeding further, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:04, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hello, Brother.martin.is.terrifying, 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.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:33, 25 October 2017 (UTC)