User talk:Davidepedroli

Welcome!
Hello Davidepedroli, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. RL0919 (talk) 17:49, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Copying text
It appears that you copied or moved text from William Edward Hickman into Ayn Rand. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to make a note in an edit summary at the source page as well. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Additionally, there have been past discussions at Talk:Ayn Rand that led to details about Hickman being removed from the article. If anything about him belongs in it, I don't think it would be the lengthy passage you copied, but something much briefer. --RL0919 (talk) 17:54, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't the Hickman page attribute as required itself? I believe it does! Also, we'll agree to disagree on the length of the passage - it is ABSOLUTELY relevant to her philosophy. If you want to change it, go ahead, but this should be mentioned and linked within the document!


 * The attribution problem is that you haven't credited the material from the Hickman article to the Wikipedia editors who created it. You should read the page I linked to. Also, if you keep adding back this material when others remove it, you are likely to find yourself blocked for edit warring. --RL0919 (talk) 18:05, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

--Edit warring? What the hell are you people doing?!--


 * If you aren't familiar with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, you might want to do a bit of reading before you start (or in this case continue) editing controversial material. The intro page link in my welcome message above goes to the basics, and in the circumstances you should read the pages on copying, edit warring, and blocking policy as well. We have rules for dealing with disputes among editors, and just adding the same material over and over when other editors disagree is not the way to handle things. --RL0919 (talk) 18:18, 19 April 2011 (UTC)