User talk:1tooba1

Walnut origin
Thank you for your contribution to Walnut. Unfortunately you failed to cite any references that make this content verifiable. See Verifiability and Citing sources.

Your contribution is very similar to text in this page: www.nuthealth.org/walnuts. Did you copy or paraphrase it from there, or from another website or book? Generally it is not allowed to simply copy text from elsewhere - see Plagiarism.

If you wrote the text you added then please cite sources for your facts. If you copied it then please repair it or remove it. Verbcatcher (talk) 01:58, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Your new version is better, but still uncomfortably close to World Edible Nuts Economy By S. P. Malhotra.


 * Your section only discusses the Persian walnut, so either the section title should reflect this, or you should add similar material on the black walnut. Earlier the article names J. regia as the Persian or English Walnut, it would be clearer if your paragraph repeated this, as this species may be better known as the English walnut.


 * Your last sentence is unclear: The parent tree od Eureka was grown from seed reputedly shipped from Iran, and PI 159568, a parent of Sunland and Serr, was grown from seed collected in Afghanistan. Are Eureka, Sunland and Serr different cultivars? if so then say so. What is PI 159568? Perhaps you should delete this sentence as it may be too technical for an encyclopedia article. Verbcatcher (talk) 10:45, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * On further inspection, the current section is a word-for-word copy of the text in your cited reference:
 * It is not acceptable to directly copy from a book in this way, particularly if you do not make it clear that you have done so. You need to write your own words, using facts from sources like this book.


 * However, you have benefited Wikipedia by identifying this book and citing it on this page. If you don't have the time, skills and confidence to write a new paragraph based on this book then please list the book under Further reading at the bottom of the article. Someone else (possibly me) might then expand the article based on this source.


 * (P.S. I'm not anyone special in Wikipedia. I only picked up on your contribution because I recently edited this article.) Verbcatcher (talk) 18:01, 25 May 2014 (UTC

Copyright problem: Walnut
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Walnut, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m40zQ1J7tjYC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=%22native+to+the+mountainous+terrain+of+northern+Afghanistan%22&source=bl&ots=GF_q7wwgKU&sig=T9WocApM_Fk1SCnuwFwzvSGA7gY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2MWBU8fsLYub1AWz4IDwCw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22native%20to%20the%20mountainous%20terrain%20of%20northern%20Afghanistan%22&f=false, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Verbcatcher (talk) 15:07, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, 1tooba1, and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you will stick around and enjoy editing.

I notice that some of your first attempts to contribute to the article Walnut were marked as problematic. In your earlier edits, you added good information, but you didn't cite any published sources, which is necessary so that readers or other editors can verify the content. In your later edits you cited the book World Edible Nuts Economy, but that content was a very close paraphrase or even a copy of sentences from the book. Copying material from sources that are protected by copyright is actually against the law, so any additions like that have to be removed.

The thing you have to do is to summarize ideas from reliable sources in your own words. I know that it is confusing – you have to get ideas from published sources, but you can't copy words or sentences from them – but with practice it gets easier.

There is a list of frequently asked questions about copyright that you might find useful. You might also be interested to see Introduction. If you have specific questions you can type them right here on your talk page and then add Help me above the question. Or if you prefer, you can ask me at my talk page, but I might not have the answers.

Good luck, and happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 03:40, 6 June 2014 (UTC)