C0915033

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello C0915033, and welcome to Wikipedia. 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. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 15:53, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Spider web. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Zefr (talk) 15:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Glue ball (spider web)

Hi, there are many reasons why the article you created under the title "Glue ball (spider web)" isn't ready to be put into mainspace. When you are a new editor, it's best to create new articles in Draft space (i.e. with a title beginning "Draft:") and then ask a more experienced editor if it's ready to move to mainspace. I moved your article to Draft:Glue ball (spider web).

There are good points about the article; the referencing is thorough, for example.

You need to read up about editing Wikipedia. Some issues that need to be addressed include:

• Is this worth a separate article or should it just be added to Spider web? Why is it notable enough for a whole article?
• There are factual errors. the key part for capturing a prey is ball-like glues coated on the spiral silk is true only of ecribellate spiders' webs. Cribellate spiders' webs don't contain glue droplets. The Zschokke (2003) article you cite says clearly that "the gluey coating on viscid silk may be the best single character to define the Araneoidea, the superfamily that includes all ecribellate orb-weavers and the comb-footed spiders". Orb-webs are not "invisible".
• There are errors of English and odd English. What does "the glue on the spiral line form changes" mean? Does it mean "the form of the glue on the spiral line changes"? "a water" is wrong. "the phosphate lost from the glue ball" – "the phosphate is lost from the glue ball"? What does "The action of the fixed prey of the glue ball can effectively prevent the prey from escaping" mean?
• There are errors of layout and style. For example, see WP:REFPUNCT.
• The image needs to be re-done so that it can be viewed on a small screen, e.g. a tablet or large smartphone. It's too wide; it would be better to arrange the individual images in two rows, or else keep them as separate images and display them one under the other.

If I can help, please say so here (adding {{ping|Peter coxhead}} means I'll be notified) or leave a note on my talk page. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Glue ball (spider web)

Hello, C0915033. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Glue ball".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Lapablo (talk) 14:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)