User talk:Gabrieldberg

Sierra Nevada Batholith
Hi Gabrieldberg, I reverted your addition of text from Tanya Unger's webpage on the batholith, as it was a verbatim copy. Please read WP:COPYVIO to understand why it's not possible to just copy text (even where the text is attributed). Citing a source avoids plagiarism, but without paraphrasing the source's content, you are still violating copyright. I would have no problem with the source being added back as an external link, but any text needs to be your own. Mikenorton (talk) 15:58, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi MikeNorton,

Sorry about that. I'll be careful next time. I'm new to editing Wikipedia and hence I didn't know the rules. Any idea where I can get started and which pages do I generally start with? Wikipedia offered me few pages to edit and it stopped. I would love to edit the pages which Wikipedia thinks I should get started with. Gabrieldberg (talk) 17:43, 20 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Thats's fine - one of the first articles that I wrote back in 2007 (wackestone - still a stub) was tagged as a copyright violation within five minutes - problem is that the definition was virtually identical in all sources, but after a bit of paraphrasing it was OK. As to where to start - there are more than 5 million articles out there and many more that deserve to be written. There are a number of ways of finding needed articles or content e.g. look at Requested articles, choose an area of interest and/or expertise and get started, look at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles and follow the instructions, join a WikiProject - see WikiProject Council/Directory and look for tasks there. If you would prefer to work on existing articles, there are many out there without references, particularly biographies of living people (BLPs),which are in urgent need of sources. These are just a few suggestions. If you have any questions, just leave me a note on my talk page User talk:Mikenorton. Also try out the Teahouse, specifically intended to help out new editors. Anyway, good luck! Mikenorton (talk) 10:09, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the links. It looks like a terrific place to get started :) Hopefully, I can give back something to the community Gabrieldberg (talk) 20:42, 21 March 2016 (UTC)