User talk:Erica.lucks

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Hello, Erica.lucks, 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) 21:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to give you some feedback on why your content was removed by Mean as custard.

It looks like you took a large quote from this source. This poses a potential issue of plagiarism since it isn't very clear that this was meant to be a quote. I believe that you meant the bolding to serve as an indication of a quote, however even then this poses an issue of copyright, as the quote is quite sizable. In order for a quote to be seen as fair use we need to be able to justify its use - basically we need to be able to show that the content can't be summarized in our own words and that the quote is important enough that if we did summarize it in our own words, that we would lose something in the process. I don't know that the quote is really necessary to take verbatim. Also, the blog isn't a reliable source so it's not a good place to take a quote from. The blog has no evidence of an editorial process or anything to show that it's routinely viewed as a reliable source by places like academic and scholarly journals. Even if the content looks right, it's still a question of ensuring that the source is reliable - it's much better to use a stronger source.

The other issue with the content was that it was unsourced. All unsourced content can be challenged and removed from an article.

I hope that this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:21, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]