User talk:Geno3245

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the American garden spider article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Australian Matt 09:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I've got to agree, there. I honestly do appreciate your efforts to contribute, but copying text from other pages can get Wikipedia itself into legal trouble (especially from copyrighted pages, and most/all pages are copyrighted). Feel free to engage in fair use of other websites, though -- use parts of them as references, paraphrasing some sections into your own words without lifting out the page's whole content, and then cite the pages appropriately. I'm dropping off a welcome message, here, that should offer you some other information, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Luna Santin 10:23, 3 July 2006 (UTC)