Miajgoldberg

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:59, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Deaf Bing

Hi! I wanted to respond with more information, as promised via email. Here are my notes and my thoughts on what's going on:

• First and foremost, stop re-adding the content to the article. Once material has been challenged, it's important to stop and discuss the removal with the person(s) removing it, in order to determine why it's being removed and what can be done to resolve the issues. Re-adding the content can be seen as disruptive rather than helpful.

• This needs sourcing to back up the claims, specifically coverage in places like academic and scholarly sources, newspapers, and the like. Self-published content is typically not usable for sourcing as it often doesn't have the editorial oversight needed for sourcing. Sometimes self-published sources can be usable, but they would need to be routinely cited as reliable sources by other reliable sources. As such, we can't create our own sourcing. We can create videos to illustrate sourced content, but we can't use those videos as sourcing. (On a side note, in order for us to upload these to Commons the videos need to be marked with the Creative Commons license option on YouTube.)

Keep in mind that not all sourcing is reliable - for example, SignOnConnect shows up in a search but wouldn't be usable since we can't really verify who writes the content or their editorial oversight, plus the site offers service for sale so that may pose a large issue as well.

• You also need to be very, very careful when it comes to general claims such as "Deaf people tend to hug more than Hearing (American) people." The reason that this is an issue is because it's generalizing a very large, diverse group of people. Any general sweeping statement like this must be attributed to the person making them, as this is something that would likely be contested.

• Wikipedia uses neutral third person, so we can't use "we" or "you" in the article.

• Rather than make a large list of things that fall within the term "Deaf Bing", it would be better to summarize the gist of what Deaf Bing is.

• Don't direct people to go to another page for more information - this poses a large issue with neutrality.

Now something to take into consideration is that since this is a relatively new term, there may not be enough coverage to really justify a large section. This tends to be the case with most neologisms, even those that seem to be in wide use. At the moment I would recommend leaving this out - no worries about your grade, as this won't impact your grade. Also pinging @MrOllie:. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Deaf culture article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text—which means allowing other people to modify it—then you must include on the external site the statement: "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike".

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the Help Desk. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Courtesy ping to @Shalor (Wiki Ed): Crow^Caw 18:46, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you Crow - I've gone ahead and deleted the reversions with my main account. Miajgoldberg, taking material verbatim or closely paraphasing material is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Re-adding the content - as I now realize that some of the prior posts also contained copyrighted content - can lead to you getting blocked from editing.

Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:57, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Title of deaf bing article

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