User talk:Dchicago

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Edit Summaries
Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. —  Spike Toronto  00:24, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

December 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Major League (film) has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you.  TwistOfCain  (talk) 00:22, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in this edit to Hendrix in the West. Inappropriate links include links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that serve as advertising or promotion. Thank you. —  Spike Toronto  00:25, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Copypasting
Hi, I noticed a number of edits you made in the past have been adding phrases directly or very closely lifted from sources:
 * Wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Charlene Wittstock from
 * Death of Caylee Anthony from
 * Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge from (changed the tense)
 * Wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Charlene Wittstock from
 * Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton from
 * Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton from
 * Maria Shriver from
 * Peter Falk from

Since not all of your edits are of this nature, I assume these were innocent mistakes. Please note that per Wikipedia's policy on copyright violations: "... material copied from sources that are not public domain or compatibly licensed without the permission of the copyright holder (unless brief quotation used in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline) is likely to be a copyright violation. Even inserting text copied with some changes can be a copyright violation if there's substantial linguistic similarity in creative language or structure (this can also raise problems of plagiarism)."

You need to be careful when taking material from a source and placing it on Wikipedia. You must summarize source material in your own words. - Yk3 talk ~ contrib 20:06, 5 July 2011 (UTC)