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editHello, VictoriaR1997, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Plagiarism/copyright violation
editHi, I received a notification that you had used content taken from another source and used it in a Wikipedia article. Please be aware that you can only do this if you are quoting the source and even then, you can only do this in small portions. In this case you had taken material from Mashable and posted it without any true changes to the article for the Dakota Access Pipeline. Although you did add the source as citation, this is still seen as plagiarism and a copyright violation on Wikipedia and as such, I had to delete the addition.
I would like you to review the module on plagiarism before proceeding further, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:58, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
October 2017
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Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Acroterion (talk) 01:47, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
- Don't copy text into your sandbox or anywhere else. If this happens again you'll be blocked. Please take this policy seriously Acroterion (talk) 01:48, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Your account has not been deleted
editWhich is why you and I can still post here.
In addition to the links in the welcome message - which you should really check out while exploring wikipedia - you can play through the Wikipedia adventure, which is aimed at younger users, but which I (approaching 40) found really helpful. The initial warnings about plagiarism you have encountered so far might be a bit off putting but let me reassure you that appropriate contributions are most welcome here and it is every editor's hope that you and your classmates will continue to collaborate constructively on the project. It's absolutely essential when contributing, to use reliable sources and (as you are already aware) you can't copy text from them, but must write it in your own words.
Finding a balance between sticking to the verifiable sources while not just making stuff up is one of the challenges which most new users find it difficult to tackle to start off with. That's why I've made some blue links in this post, which link to info on some of the issues you've encountered so far. Thanks very much! Edaham (talk) 03:13, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Use this code to generate a list of all your sub-pages
editentering the code: {{list subpages|VictoriaR1997|User}} on either your talk or user page, will generate
Pages with the prefix 'VictoriaR1997' in the 'User' and 'User talk' namespaces:
| VictoriaR1997 |
Sandbox
editPlease read the replies that we made to your previous request a few days ago. We can't restore your sandbox because it contained extensive copyright violations. Acroterion (talk) 02:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)