User talk:Ikoneto

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Wikipedia. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.Peter Rehse (talk) 19:14, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Ernest Ibok Etim-Bassey, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 23:46, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Ikoneto, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Ernest Ibok Etim-Bassey has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 03:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Repeated addition of unsourced content
Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Ernest Ibok Etim-Bassey. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Melcous (talk) 04:44, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Ernest Ibok Etim-Bassey. ''Not only is the content unsourced, but based on the tone and word choice, it feels like it may have been copied from another website, likely in violation of their copyrights. I strongly suggest that you do not add the text back to the article again; if you feel strongly that it should be added, please explain at Talk:Ernest Ibok Etim-Bassey or here why you think it should be added and what reliable sources it's based on.'' —C.Fred (talk) 23:41, 15 June 2016 (UTC)


 * You're right back to doing what you were warned about before. You must add sources when you add material. —C.Fred (talk) 02:28, 16 May 2020 (UTC)


 * And columns or first-hand accounts are not reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 03:05, 16 May 2020 (UTC)