User talk:Lostinnh
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Happy editing! —C.Fred (talk) 00:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
September 2023[edit]
Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Isaidnoway (talk) 01:16, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
- Also, don't use bare URL's as references, liked you did at Reggie Lewis. See Help:Referencing for beginners.01:18, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
November 2023[edit]
Hello Lostinnh! Your additions to Sadiq Khan 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. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Thriftycat Talk • Contribs 03:52, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
- I find it quite interesting that I never received all these rules before this time about editing on Wikipedia, even though I have made other additions to several other pages, some of which were copy and pasted from articles. Why is that? Now that I made additions to two muslim politicians pages, both are taken down due to some very strict rules that am sure are not adhered to in most of your pages. Selective rule adherence I might suspect. Isn't this really about politics or protecting muslim minorities? I find it hard to believe I am the first to try to add the true and factual content I did to both Khans and Yusafs pages. Why not add it yourself?
- Lastly, your threats of blocking me from editing are pathetic and laughable. You need me, and people like me, much more than I need this occasional hobby. This started for me by correcting the endless grammatical errors of your writers/editors, and more recently, adding some content. I did not mind learning what a "bare URL" was and improved in that area. Not sure I will or want to jump thru your selective "hoops" of editing, as I am sure you randomly enforce it. You folks at Wiki need to do a better job to rid the well-deserved label of liberal bias. Lostinnh (talk) 22:59, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
- First of all, thanks for your edits! Editors like you are indeed very important to Wikipedia, and I guarantee that you will not be blocked from editing unless you repeatedly and seriously violate our policies. I do have a question, though: what other pages have you added copyrighted material to? These need to be removed immediately. Copyright is a serious issue that can affect the legal integrity of Wikipedia. You can learn more about it from the links I added up above.
- I assure you that I am not intending any political bias--the pages I check are merely random. I didn't mean that anything you added was false or malicious. All of your additions that I removed were from excellent, reliable sources, so feel free to add them in your own words. Cheers! Thriftycat Talk • Contribs 00:51, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Your edit to Humza Yousaf has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Thriftycat Talk • Contribs 18:29, 25 November 2023 (UTC)