Digisus
November 2017
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Hello, I'm Domdeparis. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Decentralized application, 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Domdeparis (talk) 17:49, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
A belated welcome!
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Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Digisus. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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Again, welcome! Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:31, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Digisus! Your additions to Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 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.
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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up User:Whpq I am familiar with copyright but deemed a list and a few descriptive sentences no creative enough to be copyrightable (eg there is not much to rephrase), and in addition the amount of text to be small enough to apply fair use... But sure, IANAL. Digisus (talk) 12:55, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
- The standard at Wikipedia is not fair use, but rather non-free content which is stricter than just fair use. -- Whpq (talk) 13:35, 15 December 2022 (UTC)