User talk:MightyPepper/Archive 1

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Welcome to Wikipedia, MightyPepper! Thank you for your contributions. I am EricEnfermero and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello MightyPepper, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Activation syndrome 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.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk 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 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. Thank you. EricEnfermero (Talk) 23:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Grammar problems, reliable sources

Hi MightyPepper -

I noticed that you are adding lots of information to medical articles. We appreciate your help, but you are adding information from a lot of low-quality sources such as www.alternativetreatmentsfor.com. See Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)#Choosing_sources. In medical articles, it is very important to use trusted information from websites or journals that have a reputation for accuracy.

I also noticed that your English grammar is difficult to understand sometimes. Wikipedia has encyclopedias in many, many languages. Would you consider making your edits in the Wikipedia of your native language instead? EricEnfermero (Talk) 08:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:36, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

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