User talk:Cwanless

March 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Christian views on environmentalism, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 20:13, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion of your edits at WP:ANI
Please see WP:ANI. (GF means good faith). Doug Weller talk 20:17, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Copyright
Hi Cwanless, I saw that had reported at the noticeboard that you needed a bit of advice, so I checked out your edit to Autodesk Inventor and I agree with him, you evidently copied most of the text. (I'm not sure where you got the sentence about forward compatibility.) I've reverted your edit because, since Wikipedia is publication, it's extremely important for us not to infringe on others' copyrights. Especially since everything in Wikipedia is free for anyone to reuse in any way, for example by selling books made up of our articles. That's one reason we need to cite sources for everything (the other is so that readers can check and perhaps read more if they want to), but it also means that apart from very limited quotations clearly marked as such, we have to summarize the information in our own words. It's not free of copyright just because it's on the internet. This page gives more detail.

That may well have been a useful addition to the page, but I don't know anything about the topic. Can you sum it up in your own words and footnote it to the Autodesk Knowledge Network, or wherever you got it from? Yngvadottir (talk) 02:00, 22 March 2020 (UTC)