Padmini.krishna

Copyright violations in sandbox

Hi, I've recently been reviewing your contributions and I just wanted to alert you to the fact that I removed some content in your sandbox that was copied from web sources. This kind of contribution to Wikipedia is unacceptable, even in your sandbox page, and even if you change the words slightly. Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste and Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Additionally, whenever you use a source, you must reference it using the <ref> tags as described at Wikipedia:Citing sources. Additionally, you should be careful not to use sites like associatedcontent.com as a source, because the people who write articles there are not experts and nobody reviews their work, so they often say things that are wrong. Please keep this in mind, and also be more careful to write articles only in your own words. I left alone a couple parts that you copied, but summarized in your own words - these are acceptable. Thank you. Dcoetzee 21:26, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I got your message. As I indicated above, you must list every source that you used while creating your article. Currently your sandbox does not list any sources. To list a source, put your cursor after the fact or facts that you got from that source, click the "Cite" above the edit box, then select a suitable citation template from the "Templates" drop-down box. Moreover, it isn't enough to just change the words around - you must re-write the facts in your own words, from scratch - I recommend doing this by typing directly into the edit box without looking at the original sources. Even discussing things in the same order as the original source is a bad idea. Dcoetzee 01:51, 1 November 2011 (UTC)