User talk:Emperorvenz

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Hello, Emperorvenz, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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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Boxing and BoxRec
Hi! I saw that you copied from BoxRec - this posed an issue for a few reasons.

The first dealt with copyright. The website is incredibly vague about what copyright it uses, as it gives off the impression that it has some content locked under a restrictive copyright while other content may not even be theirs and puts the onus on the person adding the material to clear any copyright concerns. There's no universal statement akin to what Wikipedia does, so we have to assume that their copyright doesn't allow for material to be copied, adapted, and used for any purpose.

The second is verification. Since the site allows anyone to add content and doesn't do any sort of fact checking, we can't guarantee that the material is accurate at any given point in time. As such, this site would not be considered a reliable source.

I've removed the content - I don't think that this was a case of plagiarism per se, but you should also be careful. It's best to write things out in your own words and if you're copying from a place that does allow for free adaptation and sharing, even for commercial purposes, you need to attribute this in the edit summary when adding the material to Wikipedia. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2020 (UTC)