User talk:Dudeman1961

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Yngvadottir (talk) 19:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dudeman1961: Thanks for adding SS City of Chester to Ships lost in San Francisco! I was about to do so when I saw that you had already added it. And I must apologize for the late welcome - you've been here quite a while. However, it is very important not to violate copyright by cutting and pasting. Footnoting the source and making a couple of changes, the way you did with the L.A. Times text, doesn't solve the problem - if it looks vaguely similar, it's a violation, and you had left entire stretches of text unchanged. Summarize in your own words when you aren't using quotation marks or a blockquote. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)