User talk:Amechifrank

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Hello, Amechifrank, 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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Copying
I wanted to make a quick note - the first sentence of your new draft was lifted directly from the USA Today source. This would be seen as plagiarism and a copyright issue on Wikipedia, so please be careful and make sure that when you write your content that you're doing it in your own words. Unless otherwise stated, always assume that previously published content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:09, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Using the source as a citation doesn't resolve the issue of plagiarism and copyright, as most work is released under a copyright that isn't compatible with Wikipedia. If anything else in the draft was taken from an outside source verbatim, it needs to be re-written. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:29, 19 July 2018 (UTC)