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March 2015

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Gerardo Machado, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Yamaguchi先生 16:24, 19 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Battle

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Rather than tag Battle of the Hotel Nacional of Cuba of October 2, 1933 for deletion, I have move it to User:Jorgec1027/sandbox. Do no even think of moving it back until it is a properly formatted and, more importantly, properly referenced article. Also why do we need the date in the title - how many other battles have taken place in the hotel? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 17:51, 19 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hello. It looks like you are copying and pasting material from old New York Times articles into Wikipedia. This is a a copyright violation and cannot be done. You must rewrite any information you add in your own words. The only bits that can be produced verbatim are quotes. In some cases the material you added used terms like 'last night' that make no sense in the context of an article on a historical event. Number 57 09:25, 19 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

I can't see the original NYT article, so I have no idea if you have copy pasted it – if you didn't – and only the quotes are copied word for word – then it should be fine. However, I would point out a few other issues with what you've written:
  • Don't refer to people as "Dr Gomez". Just refer to them as "Gomez"
  • Use sentence case in headings (i.e. don't capitalise every word unless it's a proper noun)
  • Don't use ampersands (&) in headings
  • Don't use ’ – use ' instead
  • Don't leave a space at the start of a paragraph, or it turns it into basic text.
  • You need to add {{reflist}} to make references appear in the references section
  • If you have used a reference in the text, you do not need to write it in the references section, it will appear there automatically
  • If you use the same reference more than once, use the code <ref name=NYT> the first time you use the reference, and then when you use it again, you only need to put <ref name=NYT/> and not the rest of the text.
  • There is no need to repeat numbers in brackets after writing them out.
  • Biographies should be chronological. The text jumps around from him being the son of X and Y, to who he married, then back to where he was born etc. It doesn't read fluently
There were also quite a few grammatical and syntax errors that needed correcting, so it might be advisable for you to use a spell and grammar checker. I've cleaned the article up to what it might be expected to look like. Cheers, Number 57 20:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

More copying word-for-word

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While I cannot see one of the sources you used in your recent additions to 1905 Cuban general election, I can see that you have copied some text word-for-word from this one ("The Peace Commission made a finding that the [Cuban] Congressional elections of 1905 were so tainted with fraud as to render them illegal"). You were told above that you must rewrite text in your own words (adding 'Cuban' in the middle of the sentence is not rewriting the text) – you can only copy word-for-word if you do use the text as a quote.

Please consider this a final warning. If you continue to copy paste material from other sources into Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing until you can make it clear that you understand you cannot do this. I cannot view the Fitzgibbon source, but if you have copied any material from that word-for-word, please edit it as soon as possible. Number 57 18:28, 27 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I meant to have the final part of the text above regarding the Peace Commission as a quote, namely "were so tainted with fraud as to render them illegal." I apologize again for that oversight.

In your recent edits you have now resorted to simply adding all the text as quotes, which is not an really acceptable answer to your desire to copy/paste from other sources. Please rewrite it in your own words.
Also, the text you added to the 1908 article contradicted text already in the article (such as the voter turnout). Number 57 15:01, 3 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
You may not have noticed, but there is already an article on the 1918 elections at 1918 Cuban parliamentary election. But as per the above, please do not copy the quotes you have added to the draft. Thanks, Number 57 15:03, 3 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

I'll make more of it in my words. Regarding the 1908 election, I understand new edits contradicted the text already in the article with respect to the voter turnout. I simply did not wish to delete what someone else had cited, though so I was unclear as to what was best to do there.

Usually if you find information that contradicts that already in an article, the best thing to do is to start a discussion on the talk page to try and determine which source is more likely to be correct. Cheers, Number 57 15:08, 3 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: 1918 Cuban biennial election (March 3)

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