User talk:Eco-Ants

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! TonyBallioni (talk) 04:31, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Eco-Ants, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to MC4 connector have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:31, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Please have a section describing the polarity and how to wire correctly
Hi Tony,

Yes, I didn't put a reference, but I did substantially change the text, and I rewrote it in my own words.

I am an electronics engineer and I thought it was important that there was a section on the correct usage of MC4 connectors. It is most important that the MC4 page talks about the polarity of the plugs, AND how to wite then in series OR parallel.

It is sad that you place more importance on political correct behaviour, than on correct engineering information. Ants Field

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Yes, I didn't put a reference, but I did substantially change the text, and I rewrote it in my own words.

I am an electronics engineer and I thought it was important that there was a section on the correct usage of MC4 connectors. It is most important that the MC4 page talks about the polarity of the plugs, AND how to wite then in series OR parallel.

It is sad that you place more importance on political correct behaviour, than on correct engineering information. Ants Field

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Eco-Ants (talk) 06:04, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Review of copyright
Hi, I'm about to go to bed, but before I signed off, I did look at what you had put into the article. Unfortunately, it is nearly a word-for-word copy, and the areas where it differs it is a close paraphrase, which is still a copyright violation. Unfortunately I will not be able to restore the content. The message above contains details on how to write to avoid plagiarism and copyright violations. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:15, 20 October 2017 (UTC)