User talk:Howrde1

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Hello, Howrde1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 17:23, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
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Summarize, don't plagiarize
Your addition to Alchemy has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. I was going to try to explain that you need more than one citation for each paragraph, but I see you just copied and pasted this article without any alterations. Do NOT do that. Summarize, don't plagiarize. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:23, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * An example of how to add information to articles:
 * The first few paragraphs of Crisciani's Alchemy and medieval universities could be summarized as:
 * Alchemy was not formally studied nor institutionalized, due to the experiential (as opposed to theoretical) nature of its study. However, alchemy and Scholasticism were not completely separate methods of study.
 * This summary doesn't use any words from the original text. The first citation include the author's name, the article name the journal's name, issue number, and date, and its publisher, as well as a legal link to the article.  The second citation includes enough info to locate the first citation.  If we were to also cite another work by Crisciani, it would be necessary to include the name of which book in each citation.
 * Regarding links to sources: never link to scribd, as the articles there are either self-published and fail our reliable sourcing guidelines or are copyright violations. University websites (such as for the Crisciani article) are usually reliable.  Google books is a great resource for university published works, though many other books it hosts fail our reliable sourcing guidelines.  Ian.thomson (talk) 17:39, 13 May 2014 (UTC)