ArmanMia828
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Wikipedia and copyright
editHello ArmanMia828, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Rohingya flag 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.
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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. 💵Money💵emoji💵Talk💸Help out at CCI! 14:58, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Arakanese
editHi. I don't have a particularly strong opinion here, but as far as I can see the word "Arakanese" in English normally refers to the Rakhine language. In no way does this imply that the Rakhine are the only ethnic group in Arakan, it's just how things are called. See for example the Indonesian language: it is only one among a very large number of languages of Indonesia; calling this language "Indonesian" is not part of any sort of ethnic hegemony conspiracy.
Yes, grave injustices have been committed against some language groups in Arakan, but our job here on wikipedia is to describe and document them (using sources), not to attempt to redress them by redefining the meaning of English words like "Arakanese". I'm not saying that we shouldn't attempt to do that in real life: if anything, I'd be in favour of switching over to "Rakhine" when writing outside of wikipedia. But we can't do that on wikipedia: the encyclopedia simply follows usage in sources, it shouldn't attempt to spearhead changes.
If you would like to rename the Arakanese language article, you should propose it for discussion, you can't just copy and paste its contents to the new title (that's bad for a number of reasons). For how to propose a renaming, see WP:RM#CM. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 22:32, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
- OK, so you've ignored all the advice you've received and continued to make a mess of Arakanese language and the related articles. I'm afraid I don't have much more to say. – Uanfala (talk) 01:43, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. – Uanfala (talk) 01:43, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thank you for your recent contributions to Rohingya-related articles. Hopefully more editors like you can help expand Rohingya content on Wikipedia and spread awareness of Rohingya people and culture. Cheers! GeneralAdmiralAladeen (🖊️) 05:56, 9 October 2019 (UTC) |
Ways to improve Rohingya Language Academy
editHello, ArmanMia828,
Thank you for creating Rohingya Language Academy.
I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
Thank you for your new article on Rohingya Language Academy, but most of the sources used are currently non-functional and were associated with the academy itself anyway. Please use more reliable sources to verify that the academy is notable. For pointers, follow the links in the notice at the top of the page.
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Nomination of Rohingya Language Academy for deletion
editThe article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rohingya Language Academy until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.