User talk:Eapanus

July 2017
Your addition to Eliot Higgins has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Stickee (talk) 06:37, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

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Asking permission...
No problem. TY for the Barnstar.

If you stay here long enough you find niche areas that you like. I tend to specialize in Greek Letter Organizations, but I've dabbled in a lot of areas. As for asking permission, probably not worth it, *but* in general for Wikipedia copying word for word isn't worth it. In most cases, put the information in the reference into your own words. There are cases where blockquotes can be added (for example, sometimes it may make sense in congressional testimonies). If you'll point me to the text that you think should be in the article, I can certainly give you advice.

I took a look at the user who reverted you and removed the copyright violation on Eliot Higgins, he seems pretty experienced and seems to somewhat specialize in the current middle east and terrorism, so it doesn't surprise me much that it was (presumably) on his watchlist, and that he did the removal. Go ahead and respond here, just put a colon as the first thing on each paragraph to indent it and end your response with  (except with the space in between them removed). That generates the signature... Naraht (talk) 00:17, 14 July 2017 (UTC)