Freyachun
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:10, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Freyachun, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Health implications of environmental policy have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
- 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 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. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:40, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Clean Water Act
editHello, we appreciate your efforts to contribute to the Clean Water Act article. Please review your edits at Clean Water Act#Construction grants program. The construction grants program, created by the 1972 CWA, was replaced with State Revolving Fund program in 1987. See the 'Title VI' section in the article. You did not provide a full citation for the reference that you listed (it should identify the primary source--author, date, journal--not "ResearchGate"). However, I found that it was published in 1999. It is essentially a historical study, and is now rather dated. It does not necessarily suggest how the CWA financial assistance programs work today, since their structure has changed significantly. I recommend that this "Construction grants" section of the article should focus on the current CWA financial programs--State Revolving Fund and WIFIA--or be deleted.
Please also note that the EPA "Environmental Justice Strategy" needs a citation.
Thank you. Moreau1 (talk) 16:56, 27 April 2017 (UTC)