User talk:Elvisq00

Welcome!
Hello, Elvisq00, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Copyright/plagiarism
Hello, I received a notification that you copied content verbatim to your articles. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes.

Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:40, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi! With your content, you must write it in your own words. You also want to be very careful about what sourcing you use. For example, the Odyssey is a student news website and doesn't undergo the type of editorial oversight that Wikipedia wants of its sourcing. The Balance is also kind of iffy - since this does brush against the world of psychology it would be better to go towards academic and scholarly sources. You also want to be extremely careful when it comes to popular media covering studies - they may not be out to deliberately misrepresent the data per se, but they are often more aimed at getting people to read the article than on accuracy. They also may not be 100% familiar with the topic, so they may unintentionally misrepresent something because they aren't super familiar with the content in the study. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)