User talk:Af462

Welcome!
Hello, Af462, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Your contributed article, C Riley Snorton


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, C Riley Snorton. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – C. Riley Snorton. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at C. Riley Snorton. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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Plagiarism
Hi, I received a notification that you had used content taken from another sources, specifically Snorton's staff bio. This is seen as plagiarism, as you are using the content in a way that makes it appear like you wrote the content. Even if you were to include the source as a citation, this would still be considered plagiarism - it would also pose a copyright issue, as all material is considered to be copyrighted unless otherwise specified. We can only use small quotes of content, clearly marked and sourced. I would like for you to re-review the training module on copyright and plagiarism before proceeding further. I also have to ping your professor so they know about this as well. 

I also wanted to leave you a quick note about the draft - I made some tweaks to the content aside from removing the content mentioned above. I changed the BET link to a sentence in the lead, as it helped to explain what the link is about and made the link into a source. I also wanted to note that the review listed at the publisher page is actually a book blurb and not a review. A book blurb is a short 2-3 sentence statement that the publisher has requested from the writer specifically to use to promote the book, typically on the book cover or on the dust pages in the book itself. It's something that was intended from the start to be positive and to sell the book and its author, so it's a primary source at best and not the type of thing that should be in a Wikipedia article. What you need to look for are reviews like this, which are typically found in academic journals and databases. With academics in general, try not to use Google search results since a lot of these will be primary or unusable for notability and/or information for one reason or another. I do think that Snorton should pass notability guidelines, so you picked a good person to write about. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:58, 10 March 2018 (UTC)