LokayaWC

I was granted permission to use the information from Professor Anderson. Kindly stop deleting my assignment. Your unwarranted reaction will cost me my grade.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:LokayaWC/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:LokayaWC/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.iaoed.org/index.php/fellows/item/34-lorin-w-anderson. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello LokayaWC! Your additions to Draft:Sandbox have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) 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.
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• 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, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:47, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi! You may not add non-free content from external sources into Wikipedia until and unless permission from the copyright owner has been received, verified and logged by the Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team. There are instructions above on how to go about achieving that; in almost all cases it is much easier all round to just write new text based on the available sources. We do not, can not, allow any editor to violate our WP:copyright policy, and do not rely on verbal claims of permission. If you again do so you risk losing your editing privileges.

Do I understand that you are trying to complete an educational assignment? If so, who is your course instructor? – I will need to talk to him/her. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:56, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

What content in my post is non- free content? Who must the Professor contact to verify he gave me permission? Why must you contact my course instructor?

Additionally, I did not use information from the "copyrighted link you stated" however given that that post was made before mine I can understand why my work was listed as "copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the owner's copyright license". I wish to assume we both got the information from the same source. I am currently reviewing the copyright guidelines.

AfC notification: User:LokayaWC/sandbox has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:LokayaWC/sandbox. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 18:47, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 18:48, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Please have your instructor contact us

Hi LokayaWC, I'm LiAnna with the organization Wiki Education. We support university instructors who assign their students to edit Wikipedia, as it appears your instructor asked you to do. We provide trainings and support to help students avoid the problems you're having right now. PLEASE ask your instructor to stop this assignment and instead reach out to us: teach.wikiedu.org for guidance. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:31, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for stepping in here, LiAnna (Wiki Ed), much appreciated! I asked (in vain) above for the name of the course instructor; I wanted it so that I could ask that person to ensure that students are properly taught our basic policies (most particularly that relating to copyrights, but also WP:V and WP:NPOV) before they are asked to make any edit to the project. Unfortunately these education schemes are all too often both a massive timesink for experienced editors and profoundly disappointing for the student. That is, in my opinion, invariably the fault of the instructor. Sending children to edit here without preparation is about as likely to succeed as sending to them to a hospital, opening up a patient's head, and saying "This is a brain; operate on it!". Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:22, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Justlettersandnumbers, I will agree that education projects lacking proper guidance are a disaster — but just so you know, we at Wiki Education do support more than 700 courses and 14,000 new student editors, with only a handful of problems, each year! So it definitely is possible to have positive educational outcomes; you just need to make sure the assignment design is appropriate for Wikipedia, students are taught the rules and guidelines adequately, and there is support for them when they run into problems — all of which we provide. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:14, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi LokayaWC. I left a comment for you at User talk:LokayaWC/sandbox#Contested deletion yesterday which touches on some of the same things mentioned above by LiAnna (Wiki Ed) and Justlettersandnumbers. I think it's great that your professor is trying to use Wikipedia in their class, and there's lots of support made available for professors and students who are involved in such projects. However, Wikipedia isn't really a free-for-all where anything goes, and students often find themselves quickly having problems when their professors themselves aren't very familiar with how Wikipedia works. Wiki Education has a lot of dedicated editors like LiAnna who enjoy helping professors and their students navigate Wikipedia and help professors effectively incorporate Wikipedia editing into their class assignments. At the same time, Wikipedia also has lots of dedicated administrators like Justlettersandnumbers who have been tasked by the Wikipedia community to keep things running smoothly and take action to ensure content is in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Everyone has a learning curve when they start out editing Wikipedia since there's lots of stuff going on and lots of things to figure out; so, mistakes are inevitable and expected. There are still "rules", though, that all editors are expect to do their best to follow and special allowances aren't going to be granted to professors and their students just because there are possibly class grades involved. As I posted above, the Wikipedia community expects mistakes and will help try and sort them out; at some point though, the Wikipedia community is going to expect that we learn from the mistakes we make and do our best to avoid repeating them. Those who are able to do this often end up becoming very productive Wikipedia editors; those who don't, however, often find themselves constantly having problems and even formally sanctioned in some way. So, try and explain all of this to your professor and ask them to contact Wiki Education for assistance. The sooner they do this the better for them, you and your classmates. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:06, 7 October 2021 (UTC)