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Wikipedia and copyright

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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, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 13:14, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

I have additionally removed copyright plot descriptions from In The Name Of Our Father, Foreign Gods, Inc., Riot Baby, and War Girls. It is very important to write these in your own words — do not copy from other websites. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 13:21, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021

Your edit to The Winter of the Witch 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. DanCherek (talk) 20:12, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@DanCherek: I needed a precise summary of the book (after reading it) and I got a source for it. I made my own words from it. This is what the source gave me: "The Grand Prince is angered, he therefore, chose allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever and determined to spread chaos. Caught in-between the lines of war, ruins and chaos is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders." Seriously, you should re-check. If you’re using a bot, then I believe it probably needs a little tweaking. Reading Beans (talk) 20:18, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Source: [1]

The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever and determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of the conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders.

Your addition:

On The Winter of the Witch the Grand Prince is angered, he therefore, chose allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever and determined to spread chaos. Caught in-between the lines of war, ruins and chaos is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders.

Overlapping portions are highlighted in bold. Do you see how that is an unacceptable amount of copying from the source? You need to write the plot descriptions in your own words (and be careful not to avoid close paraphrasing as well). There is a bot that checks for copyright violations, but each case is reviewed manually before action is taken. Similar issues with close paraphrasing at The Girl in the Tower (novel), A Spark of Light, and The Book of Two Ways (novel), by the way. DanCherek (talk) 20:28, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Sighes. Wikipedia is hard. LoL. Either ways, thank you. I’ll write my OWN words tomorrow (morning or night). Thank you for the alert tho. It’s appreciated. Peace. Reading Beans (talk) 20:31, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, and thanks for your work on these articles. DanCherek (talk) 20:34, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for In the Ditch (novel)

On 1 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article In the Ditch (novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that In the Ditch (1972) is based on the experiences of writer Buchi Emecheta, and deals with the systemic violence faced by working-class women in Britain at the time? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/In the Ditch (novel). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, In the Ditch (novel)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For finding knowledge gaps related to African novelists, and making sure that articles exist where they should be! Keep it up! Sadads (talk) 13:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Also if you are looking for inspiration, I generated a list of African novels that are also in other language Wikipedias at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticlesNeeded/African novels. At one point I was also going through the Heinemann_African_Writers_Series trying to get at least those covered (since they are so widely internationally taught, because of their European publication. Sadads (talk) 13:41, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Sweet! Thank you for this. I have some few list of novels to create and also, this list will help me in creating more articles (instead of thinking) faster. And also, thank you for the recognition. It is very much appreciated. Reading Beans (talk) 14:40, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Totally, I think not having to "find" the articles that need to be worked on is one of the ways that a lot of us make the process of creating content more efficient. The automated list only includes novels that already have a Wikipedia article in another language -- if you remove that criteria there are about 20 more candidates in the SPARQL query. Let me know if you want me to generate that one. Heinemann probably has you covered, though, in terms of enough content to keep you busy, Sadads (talk) 16:49, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Oh yes! That would be more sweet! Reading Beans (talk) 15:07, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi thanks for creating Esther Montelius which I’ve just reviewed. When translating material from another wiki, it’s important to attribute it properly which we do by adding a translation template to the talk page. You’ll see I’ve done this for you - you can copy this and use it on future articles you create. If you need any help with anything please leave a message on my talk page. Happy editing! Mccapra (talk) 04:24, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Obi Nwakanma moved to draftspace

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Ways to improve Wole Talabi

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dandy Jackson Chukwudi

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Alright. No problem. It is all fine! --Reading Beans 12:17, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Creating a page for Africanfuturism is a really good idea!

When I created the page which re-directed to Afrofuturism, I didn't think, at the time, there was enough to support the term as it own page. However, with the sources you have there for that page, its definitely a good start. Even a search I just did pulls up all sorts of results, some of which might be helpful. --Historyday01 (talk) 14:45, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you @Historyday01, the page seems to have been notable from the start. And thank you for creating the redirect in the first place. It has also helped me improve some pages such Third Generation of Nigerian writers. The page can be brought to good article status if a collaborative work is done on it. --Reading Beans 15:20, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

I agree, the collaborative work on it is key.--Historyday01 (talk) 15:22, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

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Whoops! I saw someone who added it, all I did was copy and edit, but I'll change it now. Thank you for the heads-up. --Reading Beans 18:57, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

OkadaBooks moved to draftspace

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Alright, thank you. I'll try to develop it soon (I hope.) --Reading Beans^{Talk to the Beans} 21:57, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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Alright, thank you. I'll probably move to draft next time. Thank you. --Reading Beans^{Talk to the Beans} 06:53, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

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		For the hard work you do in the Nigerian literary space! Well done!

Princess of Ara 10:11, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Princess of Ara, the recognition is much appreciated. One Nigeria. --Reading Beans^{Talk to the Beans} 06:47, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bikash Meraglia

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Hi, thank you for the heads'up. --Reading Beans^{Talk to the Beans} 17:07, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks!

I saw your clean up and move at Olusola Momoh. Just wanted to let you know that I moved it to user space because one of the students in my class had submitted at AFC before I assessed for notability. Besides, we were meant to commence article creation next week. She’s one of the precocious ones. Regards!
Princess of Ara 14:23, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

It's all fine. I knew you had a reason for moving it to a space that wasn't the main space, just wanted to lend a hand whenever I can. And... You're welcome. I would have joined the class but I barely get time these days, due to my work. --Reading Beans^{Talk to the Beans} 02:25, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Ways to improve Prison Stories

Hello, Reading Beans,

Thank you for creating Prison Stories.

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Of the references, the second is hijacked, the third requires registration, the fifth does not reference this book, and last is a primary source. Here is some advice: What is needed are references from significant coverage about the topic of the article, and independent of it, in multiple secondary sources which are WP:RS; that is your guide. You may also read WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources. A more comprehensive guide is WP:SOURCES ... Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact referred to, that meet these tough criteria is likely to allow this article to remain. Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the topic is not suitable for inclusion. Kindly do the needful. Thank you.

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Ways to improve Naija No Dey Carry Last

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More references are needful for this article. The second reference is an interview: this is a PRIMARY reference. The third citation - the book is not referenced. You need significant coverage for notability. See WP:THREE

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