User talk:Dr Kaine Grigg

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Hello, Dr Kaine Grigg, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle 13:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale (May 4)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from http://www.academia.edu/9236656/Development_and_validation_of_the_Australian_Racism_Acceptance_and_Cultural-Ethnocentrism_Scale_RACES_Measuring_racism_in_Australia. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly exists under a compatible licence and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Fiddle Faddle 14:00, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Teahouse, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! Fiddle Faddle 14:00, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Dr Kaine Grigg, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Draft:The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale 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 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 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.
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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 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. In addition, Wikipedia is not the place to publish your doctoral thesis material nor to seek to create your reputation. Please also read WP:ACADEME. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 14:01, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale

Draft:The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale was deleted as a copyright violation. The deleting admin's name is there for you top see when you click the red link. But it is a copyright violation, so no-one is going to give yo a copy of it.

In addition, assuming you are the author of this thesis, you already have the text. Apart form anything else, the text is in the link that you copied and pasted the text from. You can get it from there any time you wish. But you may not paste it here. It doesn't matter if you are the author or not, unless the work is licenced for onward free use.

But Wikipedia is not the place to promote your thesis, nor your academic reputation. WP:ACADEME will start to let you understand why this is so. Wikipedia only records that which is already notable. Fiddle Faddle 13:51, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]