User talk:EK33159

Welcome!
Hello, EK33159, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Sustainable landscaping
Hi there. I'm sort of tearing through the articles on agriculture, mostly trying to delete bad content, ended up here (was working on Landscape-scale conservation until I saw the confusion with the word "landscaping"). I saw your remark at the above article and completely agree, in this subject matter science is being swamped by special interest groups with tenuous understanding of what they're on about (grrr), but my solution here is to merge four articles (including Sustainable landscape architecture and Sustainable planting) under the title "Sustainable gardening": all these articles are essentially about the same thing, and after deleting unsourced opinions and moving misplaced text to the correct articles there will be little left of the original prose. I prefer the word "gardening" to landscaping as gardening is less ambiguous and I think treating the two words as synonyms is an Americanism and is confusing the rest of the world. This will mean ripping your assigned article apart. Comments welcome at talk page of Sustainable landscaping, or here, whatever. I wait a bit to give you time. Cheers,  Leo Breman (talk) 16:20, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Avoiding plagiarism and copyright violation
Hi EK33159, I wanted to let you know that one of your contributions to Sustainable landscaping were undone because you copied text directly from a source. Copyright laws require that content added to Wikipedia must be phrased in your own words to avoid infringing on other's intellectual property. Even if a source is adequately cited, in most instances, it cannot be added verbatim to an article. Please review our training for Plagiarms and Copyright Violation. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:07, 28 October 2019 (UTC)