User talk:Benard Ifeanyi Odoh

Benard Ifeanyi Odoh;

Welcome to Wikipedia!
Greetings Professor Odoh, and welcome to Wikipedia! It sounds like with your knowledge and experience, there's a lot you could contribute to Wikipedia. If you want to look at articles related to your background and experience, maybe you might want to look at or join WikiProject Geology, the Earth Sciences section, the WikiProject for articles on Nigeria or that on energy and oil? Let me know if you have any questions.

However, I'm sorry but an article on you isn't quite right for Wikipedia - it's not really a site for writing about yourself but about things you know about. Here's a link to the policy on this. Maybe you want to put this content on your user page, or on another website, like LinkedIn or your faculty webpage? I'm going to put a standard explanation of this below. Let me know if you have any questions. Blythwood (talk) 18:15, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, Benard Ifeanyi Odoh, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created was Benard Ifeanyi Odoh, which appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Blythwood (talk) 18:16, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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February 2016
Your addition to Benard Ifeanyi Odoh has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  Super Mario  Man  ( Talk ) 20:14, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted, as you did at User:Benard Ifeanyi Odoh. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:.  Super Mario  Man  ( Talk ) 20:57, 6 February 2016 (UTC)