Yhh57

May 2018

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Fulton Street (Brooklyn). Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Please stop adding your personal opinion to this article, no grandiose statements like what was the best building at the time belong without a valid, reliable citation. Also, please familiarize yourself with the substantial difference between a bus and a subway. JesseRafe (talk) 15:48, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your additions to the Fulton Street (Brooklyn) article included passages copied verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:11, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Copyright/plagiarism

Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material that closely paraphrased or took material verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. This 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. Something else to take into consideration is that only content released by the Federal Government is routinely released into the public domain - each state has its own policies on whether or not to release material into the public domain, with most states choosing to not release material into the public domain. From what I can see, New York retains a copyright that is not compatible with Wikipedia.

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) 13:21, 31 May 2018 (UTC)