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Happy editing! Austronesier (talk) 09:56, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Kmerion! 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.
• 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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

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. Austronesier (talk) 09:56, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thx! I'll be careful;) Kmerion (talk) 10:15, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Everything you add to Wikipedia should be summarized completely in your own words, if it's not presented as a quote. Please don't copy and paste, even if it's just a sentence. DanCherek (talk) 19:08, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

@Kmerion: Don't be discouraged by this, but try to bring the "message" of the source across, not its words. Your additions are very welcome as long as they conform to our strict copyright rules. Here's another helpful guideline that wasn't included in my first templated message: Wikipedia:Plagiarism. –Austronesier (talk) 19:40, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much.❤ There is a lot of good information in a Wikipedia:Plagiarism page. Kmerion (talk) 01:16, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry. I thought it would be okay..😢 Kmerion (talk) 01:12, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Caution

You have introduced the same text (“…The archaeological problem with that theory is that, contrary to the claim that there was no rice farming…”) into at least three different articles. I’m going to revert all of them. If you want to restore it to *one* of them then (assuming no copyright violations) by all means do so; and cross-link. Thanks. Nick Levine (talk) 06:27, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi.😀 Is it against the rules to contribute the same text in different articles?😲 If I find the same text, can I delete it?😦 Kmerion (talk) 15:52, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

@Nick Levine: I see it differently. Especially when Kmerion just added similar texts to near-identical things that were already there. Kumar's fringe hypothesis had been added all over the place by I don't know who, and @Kmerion did a great job in presenting a source that calls out that it's fringe. They could by no means imagine that duplicating content is not quite best practice. NB not quite bad practice, but IMHO nothing worse than that. I can mention dozens of editors with 50,000+ edits (uhm, no wonder, actually) who "expand" articles by doing copypastes and obviously never think about redundancies, forking etc. as long as the do they attribution thing. I'm absolutely with you, but I'm worried about the potential of discouragement. Let us kindly tutor an editor who apparently cares about the quality of information that we provide in Wikipedia and is willing to listen.

@Kmerion, another small thing: check our policies about blogs in WP:SPS. Asya Pereltsvaig is a subject-matter expert, so this is borderline ok, but material from peer-reviewed books and journals is the main choice of sources here for scholarly topics.

Almost agreeing with @Austronesier here: I do think that copying same text to multiple articles is poor editorial practice. Maybe if these articles all warrant identical clarification then it’s a sign that perhaps some of these articles should be merged? Cheers, Nick Levine (talk) 03:29, 15 June 2023 (UTC)