Skosaveach

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June 2017

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Hate speech, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Bakilas (talk) 07:37, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi! Your edits to Hate speech aren't really about hate speech but about the broader subject of hate crime of which hate speech is only a subset. The information and statistics might be confusing to readers. For that reason I intend to remove them from Hate Speech, but I suggest that you add them to Hate crime instead. Sjö (talk) 08:09, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Help request

Hi Skosaveach. I'm happy to help, but can you give me some more details about what you need help with? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Skosaveach, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Fake news have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or 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 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 can, but please follow the steps in 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) 21:28, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

• Hi! Please be more careful about this in the future! I would like you to review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:36, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Images and permissions

Hi! I wanted to ask you to update the information for File:Hate_Crimes_in_2015.jpg at Wikimedia Commons. The reason for this is that when you uploaded this, you claimed that this was your own work - however the image appears to have come from a different source. From what I can gather, it looks like it was probably created by the FBI. While this would place the item in the public domain you still need to show where you found the image in question.

One of the reasons for correcting the license is to ensure that the image won't get deleted for being uploaded with the wrong permissions. Another is to ensure that the image in question falls under a compatible copyright. For example, while an image of an info graph created by the FBI would fall within the public domain, the graph would most likely be considered copyrighted if it was created by someone else because it was something they created based on the data released by the FBI. The main reason, however, is to give credit to the original source. I hope that this all makes sense - copyright can be a little difficult to navigate with images, honestly.

Let me know if you need any help! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:46, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

• I just noticed that you uploaded this screen grab of the PolitiFact website. Please be extremely careful of this since I'm not sure that screenshots of websites are permitted as uploads except under specific circumstances. I've asked about this on the Wikimedia Commons copyright help desk to get some clarity on this.

I'd like for you to go through the tutorial for uploading images since you're interested in uploading - it's a short tutorial and overall it can be very helpful. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:59, 22 June 2017 (UTC)