User talk:Beaches.boats.mtns

January 2020
Hello, I'm CorbieVreccan. Your recent edit(s) to the page Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama appear to have added incorrect information, so they have been removed for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. - CorbieVreccan ☊ ☼ 23:56, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

CorbieVreccan, I'm not sure which of the information that was posted you found to be incorrect? I'm updating this as part of a study on "diverse" Indian heritage as opposed to the existing power structure in that area.

The original article seemed to be filled with 1 side of that so I went to the actual source myself to research this. Written was the basic results of that research on what has been a sometimes contentious topic in the Native American community. I believe that more then one view can be heard especially if someone has taken the time to research it.

For my sources I used a State Government Website (footnoted), Primary/Original Source Documents (The Actual Quarterly Newsletters from the Tribe), Interviews both telephonic and in person of Tribal members and leadership, visited the Annual Festival myself (along with hundreds of others), obtained photographs (both ground and aerial) of the tribal lands. I'm not sure how much better the research can get than that and merely referencing someone else's work is actually considered inferior research in academic and media circles. With that in mind I hope you'll reconsider putting the research results back up, or at a minimum advise specifically as to what you believe to be incorrect.

thanks for taking the time to help keep Wikipedia relevant.


 * [[Image:Copyright-problem.svg|30px|link=|alt=Copyright problem icon]] Your addition to Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama 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. Thanks for letting me know about the gov. page, as it led me to check for the copyright stuff. Your edits also blanked sourced content from the page. Please read up on the basic policies of Wikipedia, which I will include in the next post.  - CorbieVreccan ☊ ☼ 20:50, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for taking time to share information on copyright. I used the information from the .gov website based on my belief that .gov websites (https://www.usa.gov/government-works) were generally open to copying and use elsewhere. (however, I likely failed to use quotes although I footnoted the source) If you feel I should rewrite it not to directly quote the site or add quotes to identify the exact wording copied let me know as I wanted to fairly put forth the material from the .gov website. Can you send me back the material I originally submitted so I can make the changes you've requested and resubmit. THanks so much for your guidance.

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