User talk:Lostinthemix18
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[edit]Hello, Lostinthemix18, 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) 17:24, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
Copyright/plagiarism
[edit]Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes.
Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:58, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
Response
[edit]Hi! Sorry for the late reply -this weekend was really hectic for me. As far as as the material goes, what you need to do is re-write the material in your own words. Something I tend to recommend is to take notes on what needs to be added (in your own words) and then write the content based on your notes. I saw that you tried to re-add the content and it was removed by the admin Diannaa, who has paraphrased some of the content while removing the rest. Please be more careful about this in the future, as you should absolutely not re-add copyrighted material to an article, as it will only result in the material getting removed. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:08, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
- Hi - when it comes to the material you'll need to write it in your own words. There's no real way around that. As far as quotes go, keep in mind that while you can use some quotes, extensive quotes typically aren't usable under the fair use guidelines. The reason for this is that it's much harder to justify using large quotes as these can most often be re-written in your own words and in most cases aren't so important that not including them would be detrimental to the article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:57, 10 July 2019 (UTC)