User talk:Connorrdickinson3

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Hello, Connorrdickinson3, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Hi! First off, I'm excited to see that you're continuing to edit - that's fantastic! Let me know if you have any questions about editing!

I did want to let you know that I had to remove your edit, as the HRW website license doesn't allow for its content to be posted to Wikipedia. It is a Creative Commons license, but it doesn't allow for commercial use or any derivative use - something that Wikipedia would require. With Creative Commons licences the big things to look for are as follows:


 * ND: This is non-derivative use, so anything with this license cannot be altered from the source. Anything with this could only be used as quotes or marked passages in a new work or shared verbatim in its entirety.
 * NC: This is non-commercial use. Wikipedia allows content on its website to be used freely, even for commercial purposes.

This is honestly an easy mistake to make - I've done this myself, to be honest, under my main account - I used something from a source that either didn't allow derivatives or commercial use - or both. I can't really remember, but it's how I learned about this part of the CC licences.

Other than that, I did want to make a few more notes. The first is to be careful of spelling variants by country, as some countries spell things differently. When it comes to articles about specific countries the general rule of thumb is that it will follow the spelling rules of that country. Finally, be careful about sourcing. HRW isn't a bad website at all, but always exercise caution when it comes to advocacy and awareness websites and organizations. It's not that they are going to lie, but part of their goal is to gain attention. As such, the claims and data may not be as exact as if it was written by a scholar in an academic journal. Although I would be remiss if I didn't say that most awareness and advocacy organizations and websites do have their detractors who will claim that the material has a strong bias - the HRW actually has had enough criticism to where it has its own article. With this I would say that if you are going to use the site it would be best to attribute the claims to them. I do see where you attributed them to the criticism, but with anything that could be controversial it's best to attribute the claims to them as well.

I hope this all helps and definitely stay in touch! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:21, 5 February 2020 (UTC)