Cbizzy2313
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:11, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
7-MAY-2019
editI understand that you are a student working on this article for a class of yours. The edits you've made have triggered a copyright warning, and unfortunately the text you've added has been removed. I'm going to leave a standard copyright notice for you below, which explains our policies on using copyrighted text. Please feel free to continue editing the article in question, and make any additional changes to the article as you wish. I would only ask that you make special effort not to add copyrighted text. The information may be added only as long as it's placed in your own words, and uses your own phrasing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page or to reach out to your campus ambassador. Thank you for editing here, we appreciate your help! Spintendo 23:37, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello Cbizzy2313, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to International Obesity Taskforce 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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Copyrighted material
editPlease don't reinsert the copyrighted material. Please start from scratch, using your own words to summarize what sources say. I'd also reccommend seeing how other articles here on Wikipedia are written, they all use a similar encyclopedic tone. Sentences such as "There is a better way to live your life, a healthier life", "NO CHEAT DAYS", and "There is obesity everywhere and it just keeps growing" don't quite fit.
You can also focus on writing about what the IOTF has done, you can just link to the article Obesity instead of listing the health risks.
You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, it's very easy or even automatic to add full citations if you're citing a webpage, you just need the URL.
Thank you :) – Þjarkur (talk) 00:32, 8 May 2019 (UTC)