User talk:Jane Emily

Welcome to Wikipedia
Hello, Jane Emily. Thank you for your additions to the Serial killer article. In seeing your edits to that article, I also see that you are a new Wikipedia editor (at least under your current username). Thus, in case you need it, I give you this list in order to help your editing here:


 * 1) What Wikipedia is not, which summarizes what belongs in Wikipedia and what does not;
 * 2) Neutral point of view, which describes Wikipedia's mandatory core approach to neutral, unbiased article-writing;
 * 3) No original research, which prohibits the use of Wikipedia to publish personal views and original research of editors and defines Wikipedia's role as an encyclopedia of existing recognized knowledge;
 * 4) Verifiability, which explains that it must be possible for readers to verify all content against credible external sources (following the guidance in the Risk disclaimer that is linked-to at the bottom of every article);
 * 5) Reliable sources, which explains what factors determine whether a source is acceptable;
 * 6) Citing sources, which describes the manner of citing sources so that readers can verify content for themselves; and
 * 7) Manual of Style, which offers a style guide—in general editors tend to acquire knowledge of appropriate writing styles and detailed formatting over time.

These are often abbreviated to WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:RS, WP:CITE, and WP:MOS respectively.

Also, you need to always sign your comments when "talking" on Wikipedia talk pages. To sign your comments, all you have to do is type four tildes beside them.

Take care, and welcome to Wikipedia. Flyer22 (talk) 19:24, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Reusing copyrighted text
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I'm afraid that the material you've added to the Serial killers article has had to be removed and will need to be rewritten if you wish to include it. While you've scrupulously cited your sources, you have used the language of your sources in a manner inconsistent with our copyright and non-free content policies. For a few examples, the sentence that begins, "In pre-modern villages individuals knew one another by name, and often had deep..." is entirely taken from. The phrase, "a defining attribute of serial killers is that they prey on strangers" is also from that source. The sentence that begins "Strangers are candidates for potential victimization" is his and most (if not all) of the paragraph on Media.

You have also evidently copied content from Male Series Homicide. While I cannot see the entire source, a mechanical infringement detector pulled up the following text from it: "...households with only one person) manifested positive relationships to the incidence of serial killers operationalized in terms of where they most often..." This was precisely duplicated in this edit.

While our policies permit the use of brief quotations if clearly marked and attributed and if used for good reason (some of which are set out at WP:NFC), most of what you contribute to Wikipedia needs to be written completely in your own words (see Close paraphrasing for some suggestions on doing this). Even if you are acknowledging that the ideas are his, you cannot use his words to describe them except in brief quotations. If you have questions about this, please let me know at my talk page, which can be reached by following the "talk" link after my username. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:06, 29 May 2010 (UTC)