User talk:Arquelao10

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Paul Kagame
I have removed your changes to the article about Paul Kagame for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it had been copied word-for-word from an online newspaper and so was a breach of that newspaper's copyright. Copyright issues are taken very seriously on Wikipedia - you can't just copy material from elsewhere, you have to put it into your own words using the website/book/whatever as a source. Secondly, even if the material had been free from copyright issues, it was still inappropriate for the article - only a limited amount of it was about Kagame himself, and the points about Spain's extra-territorial jurisdiction being very extensive is irrelevant for the article about him. It was written in the style of a newspaper, not that of an encyclopaedia. Best wishes, BencherliteTalk 10:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I have again removed your changes, I'm afraid. The material was written in poor English and was put in the lead of the article, which is meant to be a summary of the rest of the article.  I suggest that you explain at Talk:Paul Kagame what you think needs to be added to the article, and then if people agree with you a way can be found to do that.  BencherliteTalk 11:53, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Arquelao10, and let me also welcome you to Wikipedia.
 * Thank you for your contribution to the Paul Kagame and Rwandan Genocide articles, but as says, there were some issues with this text. It would be great if you can help contribute to these articles, but it has to be in keeping with the core policies of Wikipedia. Have a read of these pages: WP:COPYVIO and WP:NPOV. The first concerns Wikipedia's copyright policy; in writing an article, it is not legally acceptable to copy text directly from other sources - the text you copied concerning the Spanish indictment seems to come directly from here. WP:NPOV is regarding Wikipedia's neutrality policy, in particular the section called "Due and undue weight". If you read the article about Paul Kagame, it details everything about it from his early life through his military career, and on to his vice presidency and presidency. In the context of all that, the indictment by the Spanish judge is a relatively minor thing, particularly as no action has actually been taken on it since it took place six years ago. It therefore would be "undue weight" to give a whole paragraph to that in the lead section of the article. If you think that one or two sentences need to be added on the subject somewhere in the article, and you can identify the appropriate section for that, it might possibly constitute "due weight". The best way to discuss things such as that is to go to the talk page Talk:Paul Kagame and discuss them there. Thanks,  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 18:09, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * which had been occupied by a French-led United Nations force as part of Opération Turquoise. {sfn|Dallaire|2005|pp=474–475} http://www.veritasrwandaforum.org/dosier/resol_auto_esp_06022008.