User talk:BigCatShadow

Welcome!
Hello, BigCatShadow, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Lurcher. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:30, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello BigCatShadow! Your additions to Bergamasco Shepherd have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) 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.


 * 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. 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.
 * We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
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 * 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 described at Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation.

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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:31, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi! I just want to emphasise that this is really important, a fundamental and unbreakable rule of this project. With a very few rare exceptions, everything you write here must be expressed entirely in your own words. If there's any other page where you've copied material from non-free external sources, please mention it here on this page so that I can clean up. Many thanks for fixing my mistakes at Lurcher yesterday! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:38, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for informing me about everything, I had no idea. Will take me a while to learn all the basics, but thanks a lot for linking them, it's very useful.
 * Indeed I copied and added some infos on other dog breeds before, but I already removed all myself.
 * And no problems! Hope I replied in the right place, it's a bit confusing to orientate on Wiki for now. BigCatShadow (talk) 18:35, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * BigCatShadow, you answered in the right place – normally, we continue a conversation wherever it began (unless that was completely the wrong place, of course!). Thanks for letting me know about the other pages – actually I'd already seen them. Everything's cleaned up now (you'll find that you can no longer see some of your edits, they've been hidden because of the copyright problems). So, you're ready to embark on phase two of your Wikipedia life – good luck! I'm happy to try to answer any questions you may have, but I'll also leave you an invitation below to a forum for new users. May I offer you one bit of unsolicited advice? Please read both our general page on what sources to use, and the page specific to dog articles. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:20, 25 May 2021 (UTC)