Ksiksiksi

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Ksiksiksi, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Baj Singh have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 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 the 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.
• 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 the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• 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 in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:18, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

August 2018

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Banda Singh Bahadur, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. NitinMlk (talk) 22:54, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

To add to this, please read WP:RS -- you cannot cite Wikipedia itself as a reference. Random blogs such as therationalhindu.com of Wikipedia mirrors such as ipfs.io are not acceptable sources either. Also, please note that Wikipedia is not a platform to promote your caste. utcursch | talk 14:42, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did on Bhai Mani Singh. This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. utcursch | talk 17:48, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Rajput. You *will* be blocked if you persist in adding unsourced content and/or removing sourced content. Bishonen | talk 11:10, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for persistently adding unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Dhyan Chand. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  utcursch | talk 14:10, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Kachwaha. - Arjayay (talk) 09:37, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Greetings- you seem to have a lot of useful things to say- but are having difficulty finding the best way to do. Arjayay is very experienced and very helpful- if you ask him on his Talk page. I always tell new folk that a wikipedia edit comes in three parts- an interesting fact, a reference and then an explanation of what you were trying to do, in the edit summary box.

• For the moment- type the interesting fact on the article talk page- not the main page. Put as much of the reference as you can between <ref></ref> tags and then type{{ping|Arjayay}} can you help me or transfer this to the main article. Thanks.
• Type a little about yourself and your interests on User:Ksiksiksi- It is easier help someone if we know a little about them.ClemRutter (talk) 18:08, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

This source added by just copies an old version of the English Wikipedia article, and even cites "En wikipedia org" as a reference at the end. It is not an acceptable source per WP:CIRCULAR. If your only objective is to promote your caste, Wikipedia is not the place for you. See WP:NOTHERE. utcursch | talk 13:34, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

You obviously have no interest in making any contributions here except promoting your caste. You have already been informed about what sources are considered reliable and what are not, but you continue to add castecruft to the article with dubious sources. Please consider this as your final warning: if you want to add the caste bit to article again, please propose your source on the article's talk page for others to validate it. If you continue to add the caste with dubious sources to the article, you will be blocked indefinitely. utcursch | talk 16:14, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Once again, you added the claim that Dhyan Chand was belonged to "Bains gotra" using his autobiography as a citation, although that book doesn't even mention the word "Bains". Next time, you will be blocked indefinitely. utcursch | talk 17:18, 11 October 2018 (UTC)