Vishal dd

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Hello, Vishal Dharanidhar, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Pilaf did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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September 2020

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Pilaf. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. This content is not written in an understandable, clear, encyclopedic manner and does not constitute an improvement to the encyclopedia. It might be best if you identified your sources on the article's talk page and allowed other editors to determine whether any content warrants being added to the article. Thanks. Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:22, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Vishal Dharanidhar! Your additions to Kebab have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) 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.

• 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. 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.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. All other images must be made available under a free and open license that allows commercial and derivative reuse to be used on Wikipedia.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• 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. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. GirthSummit _(blether) 13:46, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

More on copyvoi

Hi - I've just looked through your contributions so far, and I see that almost all of them are copying content from sources into our article. I have even seen you reinserting copyright material after another editor has removed it. Please understand that you must not do that - it is a breach of our WP:COPYVIO policy. We definitely appreciate your work in finding sources, but any content you add to the article must be written in your own words - we summarise and paraphrase sources, we do not copy from them directly. I don't want to put you off contributing, but please understand that if you continue to add copyright violations, your account will be blocked from editing. Thanks GirthSummit _(blether) 14:01, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Should I rephrase the contents in the articles before posting?? Is that what you meant?? Vishal Dharanidhar (talk) 15:26, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Vishal Dharanidhar, yes, at a minimum, you need to rephrase, but for longer chunks of test simple rephrasing might not be enough (see WP:CLOP). Our content should be written in our own words - we take information, not wording, from sources. GirthSummit _(blether) 15:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. Now the deleted content in Kebab that I added, should use (") to show the citation without rephrasing it or should I completely rephrase it without copying it?? Vishal Dharanidhar (talk) 15:42, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Vishal Dharanidhar, completely rewrite it in your own words. The only reason we would put something in quote marks is when we are quoting a particular person or source. For example, if we were writing about a movie, you might say something like describe by the film critic Barry Norman as "an excellent example of the film noir genre"; when we're just taking a fact from a particular source though, we put together our own sentences based on the information contained within the source. GirthSummit _(blether) 16:11, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. Vishal Dharanidhar (talk) 16:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Vishal Dharanidhar, you're welcome. Feel free to reach out if you're ever unsure. GirthSummit _(blether) 17:53, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi I was wondering why my edits are getting reverted even though I have provided reliable sources in this page,can you look into it?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilaf Vishal dd (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2021 (UTC)