User talk:Alisonsheppard

Welcome!
Hello, Alisonsheppard, 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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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Alisonsheppard, and welcome to Wikipedia. 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. Doug Weller talk 18:16, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Copyvio attributed to another source
User:Shalor (Wiki Ed), see "Green subsidies paid to the renewable energy sector are then not only unnecessary, they even reduce efficiency by distorting the decisions of energy producers without contributing to the internalization of environmental externalities.

I guess it's possible that the sentence is in that source, but is identical to text [www.cesifo.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp3185.pdf here]. Interestingly enough, the paper it was copied from points out that "Such an argument has currently been brought forward by, e.g., Johnstone (2003) who argues that the mix of policy instruments ': : : will be at best redundant and at worst counterproductive", and that's the source given.

I have taken Dirty Subsidy to Articles for deletion/Dirty Subsidy where it's been suggested it be merged with Dirty subsidy from which a chunk was copied. Doug Weller  talk 18:29, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Alison, I have a few notes. The first is that you took content verbatim from a paper hosted on the CESifo Group website. This is seen as plagiarism and a copyright issue, even if you use the original source as a citation. Unless the material is clearly marked as being in the public domain or held under a compatible Creative Commons license, always assume that something is held under a copyright that would prohibit it from being posted verbatim to Wikipedia. Even if it is marked as such, it's always best to re-write content because in most cases it's either too non-neutral or too technical for the layman writing style Wikipedia prefers. I want you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright before progressing further.
 * Also, on Wikipedia you can use material from another article but you must always attribute the source article in your edit summary. However in this situation you took it from the existing article on the same topic - with existing articles you need to merge in your material as opposed to creating a new article, as new articles that duplicate an existing topic will only get merged and either redirected or deleted.
 * Another note concerns citations. I researched the sentence above and from what I can see, the confusion may have come from Johnstone being mentioned in a footnote. While his work was used as a source for the overall paper, the material in the paper is entirely the work of its authors, Thomas Eichner and Marco Runkel, so attributing the sentence to Johnstone is incorrect because he didn't write it. He had an influence on the paper and certainly the sentence, but the sentence was written by people building on his work. There's no need to show where Eichner and Runkel got their concept from, as an article should only summarize what others have written. You wouldn't need to cite Johnstone unless you're taking something specifically from one of his works.
 * I hope that this helps explain things! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Dirty subsidy and Articles for deletion/Dirty Subsidy
Please note that unless there's some evidence that this is a specific term -- as defined -- that is actually being used as such, both Dirty subsidy and Dirty Subsidy are going to be deleted. Yes, it's well-sourced, but the sources are in support of an argued premise -- a neologism -- not summaries of the use of the specific term. Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, documents existing usage, not promotes new ones. --Calton | Talk 03:09, 17 April 2018 (UTC)