User talk:Alexan.thomas

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Thank you for signing up! Kerry (talk) 13:18, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

June 2019
Your addition to Bulli, New South Wales 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 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. IamNotU (talk) 16:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi Alexan.thomas, in addition to the copy-paste of material I noted above, I've noticed that many of your edits in the past couple of months, like this one:, are close paraphrases of the source you have cited. That means that you have taken someone's text, and changed some of the wording, but it is still quite similar and recongizable if you compare the two. All contributions you make must be original and written in your own words. Your efforts to help improve Wikipedia are appreciated, but please be sure you have read and understand WP:PARAPHRASE and WP:PLAGIARISM before you continue making any more edits. Thanks for your understanding. --IamNotU (talk) 16:29, 16 June 2019 (UTC)