User talk:Sagnique
December 2018
[edit]Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Indo-Aryan peoples. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Fylindfotberserk (talk) 10:09, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Good day, Sagnique. In the article on Chicken Tikka Masala you removed the United Kingdom as a potential place of origin of the dish, depite citations from several reliable sources asserting this as a possibility, and you asserted that the dish comes from India without providing any proof. Please note that information in Wikipedia should be backed up by references. Simply changing content because you believe it to be so is not sufficient - evidence is required. Kind regards, Guffydrawers (talk) 10:46, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
[edit]Hello Sagnique, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to List of sovereign states by date of formation 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. (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 the 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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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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:13, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
October 2019
[edit]Hello, I'm RegentsPark. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Mughal Empire, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. regentspark (comment) 22:00, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Mughal Empire, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. regentspark (comment) 22:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
December 2019
[edit]Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Anti-Hindu sentiment, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 23:43, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
February 2020
[edit]Please do not attack other editors, as you did at WT:INDIA. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Please update your comment and remove the insults directed at User:Harshil169 DBigXrayᗙ 17:19, 17 February 2020 (UTC)