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The kitten on my page is not mine, it was a photo posted by a former student. Mosterbur (talk) 00:27, 23 January 2018 (UTC)Mosterbur

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:35, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

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Mosterbur (talk) 02:04, 8 February 2018 (UTC)Mosterbur

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Hi MTkachuk, I am Nicole I played soccer but now I am retired! Now I am focused on graduating from New England College in May! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Niccotrone (talk • contribs) 20:34, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Neutrality

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Revised definition

Neutrality means being indifferent and unbiased about a specific topic.

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We define good, as a source that is accurate and unbiased. Some good sources are google scholar and anything that isn't giving an opinion and that can be proven.

Sources that should be excluded from Wikipedia are biased blogs, certain magazines, and some newspapers (obscured). Also exclude blogosphere and vanity press books Some blogs, magazines, and newspapers give opinions rather than facts. Many of them tend to be biased.

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It matters who edits a Wikipedia because not everyone provides accurate or reliable information. The Wiki Ed Foundation partnerships have changed who authors Wikipedia pages by making people make accounts and they can keep tabs of who posts and edits what.

Article issues

One of your additions to the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders article include passages copied verbatim or nearly verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. For copyright reasons, the entire contribution was deleted. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello MTkachuk, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders will be 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.
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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 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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mosterbur (talk • contribs) 20:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)