User talk:73.174.72.143

Thank you, and something to be aware of[edit]

Thank you for adding to the List of video games with LGBT characters article! You already did a great job with the table and citation formatting in your edit, and I fixed some minor issues with quotation marks and italics.

However, I noticed that the character description was directly copied-and-pasted text from the Variety article into the Wikipedia article. While copying the quote from the character was OK, as that was within the context of quoting the character / fictional work, directly copying the surrounding phrasing without using quotation marks to indicate that is was the exact wording of the source is not OK, as it is akin to plagiarism.

This is not meant to be a discouraging message, it's just that we take copyright very seriously on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, just click the blue Reply text to respond to this message, and I'll be happy to help you! QuietCicada (talk) 00:02, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this, and thank you for bringing this up. I didn't know how to put that in there to make it obvious it was a quote from the article. Any answer to how to proceed when this is the case to just bring the article quote into the entry would be helpful. 73.174.72.143 (talk) 21:26, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Usually, something like

Writing for A Magazine, Jane Doe called Ping Pong for Fools "the greatest book in existence".^[1]

would be good, as the prose clearly indicates the author name (Jane Doe), publication (A Magazine), and what phrasing is a direct quote from the source ("the greatest book in existence").

In general, directly quoting a whole paragraph or more of a source is too much.

For facts (eg. Ping Pong for Fools: Revised Edition was published in 2002), you do not need to write "According to Website, Ping Pong for Fools: Revised Edition was published in 2002.^[1]". Writing "Ping Pong for Fools: Revised Edition was published in 2002.^[1]" is fine.

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I hope this was helpful. :) QuietCicada (talk) 21:49, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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