User talk:LakeT

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If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Wikipedia:Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code {{helpme}}; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 11:30, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May 2010[edit]

Your addition to Copyright has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Public domain, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you.

Judicatus | Talk | Contributions

13:10, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Your addition to Public domain has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:13, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

can you give me some more time ot finish my addition to the article? please that would be more helpful than your ironic coments.--LakeT (talk) 13:16, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid not, copyrighted material may not be added to Wikipedia unless you have verifiable permission from the authors. While some of your work is only a close paraphrase, much of it remains nearly word-for-word from the sources. If you wish to include this material it needs to be rewritten (preferably from scratch) before you add it to the articles. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, I appreciate that you are trying to improve the articles, and using well-formatted and good citations to do so, but Wikipedia's copyright policy is not something that we can overlook, even in the short term. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:28, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:39, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded on the noticeboard. ╟─Treasury Tag►assemblyman─╢ 13:49, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Public domain. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. ╟─Treasury Tag►estoppel─╢ 14:18, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copying content[edit]

Hi. I appreciate your attributing your source here, a requirement of our licenses, but did want to point out that it requires just a bit more. Our contributors are guaranteed at minimum a direct link to the source article. You may not have encountered this yet, but you can link within edit summaries quite easily. See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia for more information, but no need to worry about it here; I've supplied the necessary attribution.

Meanwhile, I am concerned that you still may be paraphrasing too closely, as per previous comments and my note at Talk:Plagiarism. As I explained there, Wikipedia does not dismiss de minimis concerns. Really, we can't; what might be easily brushed aside in a single instance can become a pattern of negligence if repeated across multiple articles. This is one of the reasons why our copyright policy requires that content be reformulated in your own words, unless you use brief clearly marked excerpts. I have not reviewed all of the sources that you used here, but I do see enough to leave me with concerns that you are not rewriting completely in your own words. For examples, consider this text you added:

The Lords had traditionally been hostile to the booksellers' monopoly and were aware of how the doctrine of common law copyright, promoted by the booksellers, was used....

With the source's:

The Lords had traditionally been hostile to the booksellers' monopoly and were aware of how the newly promoted doctrine of common law right was being manipulated....

Consider:

...strike a more appropriate balance between the interests of the author and the wider social good

with the source's:

...strike a more appropriate balance between the interests of the author and the wider social good

In order to comply with our copyright policies as well as Wikipedia:Plagiarism, please be sure to rewrite content completely unless you are quoting it. I have not removed the content, but would ask you please to revise these passages and any others that you may have copied or closely followed. You have certainly added a lot of good information to these articles, but we do have to request that you follow Wikipedia's conservative approach to previously published content. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:31, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late response, I am not sure if I actually wrote these sections, though I moved them from the main copyright article. I can have a look at it.--LakeT (talk) 17:17, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]