User talk:Brendalazarev

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Hello, Brendalazarev, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The Wikipedia Adventure (a fun interactive editing tutorial that takes about an hour)
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 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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 * Simplified Manual of Style

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 you can  to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! We are so glad you are here! Jim1138 (talk) 07:53, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Brenda, my name is Eliza. I hope your semester is going well.

Article problems
Your additions to the Baby boom article include passages copied verbatim or nearly verbatim from this source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. Although the material was taken from a US federal government source (which means that it isn't copyright) you did not indicate the source, and appear to be presenting someone else's work as your own contribution. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:08, 25 March 2017 (UTC)


 * You have once again added material copied verbatim from this source. Repeatedly inserting copyright material can get you blocked from editing Wikipedia. Trying to pass someone else's words as your own is also plagiarism, even if you cite the source. This is unacceptable. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:19, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Re:Message on Adam's talk page
Hi! I'm going to be helping out with Adam's work load, so I thought that I'd post a response to your post on his talk page. It looks like you were concerned about how to begin editing on Wikipedia after completing the training.

You've edited on a couple of articles, Baby boom and Demographics of Haiti, so it looks like you are aware of some of the basic mechanics of editing. The "what" of what you should add to a page and where can sometimes be a little tricky, especially as there are so many areas where you can edit. The sky is pretty much the limit with places to add, as there are so many.

I did notice that you have added content from other sources to both articles you edited. You added content from here to the Haiti article and from here for the Baby boom article. Please do not do this unless the source material has been published with the appropriate copyrights (ie, public domain, open source, or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, among others). This can also be seen as plagiarism of a sort because the way it's added gives off the impression that this is your own work. I would recommend that even if the source content has a compatible license, that you re-write the content in your own words, as this can help with your writing skills and often tends to be easier in the long run.

Also, please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 07:57, 28 March 2017 (UTC)