HAHA2424

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Hello, HAHA2424, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:36, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Afro-Surrealism

Hi @HAHA2424, I saw your edits to the Afro-Surrealism page were reverted. Keep in mind content that you add to Wikipedia needs to be summarized in your own words. Lengthy quotes aren't allowed on Wikipedia because it becomes a copyright concern. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:05, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

That's actually completely wrong. See Wikipedia:Quotations#Copyrighted material and fair use, and the rest of that page. A couple of actually quite short block quotes are not reproducing a "substantial portion" of the original work and are in no way a copyright issue. Otherwise we could not have blockquoting at all, (except of public-domain works), but of course we actually use it quite extensively in reality.

The issues with HAHA2424's quoting were only threefold: long quotations (longer than about one long sentence) belong in block quotation markup (see MOS:BLOCKQUOTE); quotations have to be properly attributed (WP:Citing sources), but these were missing various bits of information in the citation template; and long quotes do not belong in the lead section. There were other issues with that edit, like incorrectly claiming that the quoted speaker was American, but these have been fixed, and I have restored the material in cleaned up form (and fixed a lot of other issues at that page, though it still has serious unencyclopedic-tone problems). For one thing, it is about time that someone else had some voice in that ariticle other than Miller.

Aside from those quibbles about the quoting technicalities, it is possible that the quotations in question are too obtuse, kind of a combination of philosophy and poetry, for the average encyclopedia reader, but that's a matter for discussion on the article talk page (perhaps the quotes could be trimmed a little?) – not for blanket reverting with a completely false claim that it's against our copyright policies. That goes for both of you: Brianda (Wiki Ed), Spintendo. The first of you has not been herr long enough to be lecturing other editors about policy, and the second has been here way more than long enough to actually understand the policy in question.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:15, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:HAHA2424/Arabic calligraphy

Hello, HAHA2424. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:HAHA2424/Arabic calligraphy, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 04:06, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:HAHA2424/Arabic calligraphy

Hello, HAHA2424. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Arabic calligraphy".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:11, 15 June 2024 (UTC)