User talk:50.242.253.145

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello 50.242.253.145, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here.


 * 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 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 Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) 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.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Translation. See also Copying within Wikipedia.

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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:59, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

September 2018
Your addition to Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has been removed, 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 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&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:51, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

March 2019
Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 year for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * If this is a shared IP address and you are an uninvolved editor with a registered account, you may continue to edit by logging in.

I do not understand what content caused this block, please elaborate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.242.253.145 (talk)
 * As your question is not an unblock request, I've removed that formatting. You added copyrighted content to Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. 331dot (talk) 18:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

What material are you referencing? Nothing I added was copied, and it was all cited. And this is an unblock request.
 * You asked a question about your block, which is not the same as requesting to be unblocked. I will ping  for an explanation. 331dot (talk) 20:21, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I removed copyright material you had copied from the following webpages:
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/mission/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/fair-housing-and-community-development-project/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/stop-hate-project/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/voting-rights-project/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/special-litigation-and-advocacy-project/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/election-protection/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/economic-justice-project/
 * https://lawyerscommittee.org/project/educational-opportunities-project/

I blocked the IP, because the only activity from this IP has been to add copyright material to Wikipedia in violation of our copyright policy. A block was chosen rather than another warning, because two previous warnings had been issued. Since the IP seems to be stable rather than dynamic, I chose a block length of one year. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I have only had access to this IP for 4 months, so the last warnings did not go to me, this is the first I am hearing of that. Now that I understand the specifics of the block, I won't repeat that error. Would you be able to unblock this IP? Thank you for explaining.
 * You are free to make a formal unblock request per the instructions in your block notice. 331dot (talk) 15:14, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, please let me know if I am doing it wrong.