User talk:Jane Schofield

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:58, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the kind welcome! I’m so excited to be an editor and can’t wait to learn my way around. I’ll definitely check out the pages you recommended and am looking so forward to learning more. Thank you again! :) 99.22.175.19 (talk) 00:54, 16 July 2023 (UTC)Jane Schofield[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Jane Schofield! Your additions to The Magic Pills have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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. 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.
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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Deauthorized. ^(talk) 23:15, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for letting me know! This is the first article I’ve written a lot of text for, and I’m still getting familiar with the rules. I appreciate you letting me know and will go back and fix it! :) Jane Schofield (talk) 00:37, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I took a quick look and, yeah, it's better. Thanks for fixing this, but in the future the copyright issue template should be left up, as copyright violating revisions need to be removed from the history page. Deauthorized. ^(talk) 04:39, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay! I’ll remember next time. Thank you! Jane Schofield (talk) 11:10, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023

Hi Jane Schofield! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 21:06, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for letting me know! I didn’t realize. I will definitely be aware in my future edits! :) Thanks again! Jane Schofield (talk) 21:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]