User talk:Daniel Paul Joseph

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Daniel Paul Joseph, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Beavercreek High School 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.


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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. ''You cannot simply copy material form copyrighted sources. And please read wp:minor.'' Thank you. Meters (talk) 18:25, 8 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:RS also. Meters (talk) 18:29, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Sidecar (cocktail), as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". ''and on Beavercreek High School. Did you read WP:MINOR the first time I told you to? And did you read WP:RS when I asked you to? Stop making unsourced changes and calling them minor. And contradicting a cited source is not a minor edit. '' Meters (talk) 19:05, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks like I left the first pointer to RS at the same time as you made the edit to Sidecar (cocktail)... Meters (talk) 19:14, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Beavercreek High School, you may be blocked from editing. ''Stop doing this. Your change is unsourced, it contradicts the cited source, and it is not a minor edit.'' Meters (talk) 20:38, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
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 * If the restaurant name is spelled wrong then provide a reliable source for the new spelling. Otherwise we're going to stick with the spelling that is used in the reference that we already cite. Meters (talk) 21:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)