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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:34, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Your additions to the Preimplantation genetic diagnosis article include passages copied verbatim or nearly verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. For copyright reasons, some of your contribution was deleted. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:14, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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While marking something as a quote should avoid plagiarism, it's still an infringement of copyright. A certain amount of copyright infringement is acceptable for critical discussion, but that's fairly limited, and Wikipedia's standards are higher than than the minimum permissible under the law. I would keep quotes below a full sentence.

I noticed a few other issues with your addition - you included the sandbox template (the purple one). You should avoid copying that. You also described US regulations as "inadequate". That seems like an opinion or a conclusion, not a universally accepted statement of fact, so you need to attribute it to a source. When you're writing in Wikipedia's voice, you need to be careful about how you make statements that appear to be opinions. Wikipedia shouldn't say the regulations are inadequate, someone else should, someone reputable. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Try saying "According to ..." and make sure that there's a reference after the sentence. If there are several people or agencies who have talked about this, try using more general language "Several [...] have concluded that..." but make sure that the sources you cite support this. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:26, 4 April 2019 (UTC)