User talk:Junkers D.1 J7

Welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope to see you around. You made a tremendous contribution to the Junkers D.I article however I had to undo it, and here is why.
 * 1) We have a standard format for aircraft pages (see some A or B class articles for examples, Curtiss-Wright CW-14 Osprey follows this format.
 * 2) The information box must remain in the upper right corner.
 * 3) There must be a short introduction to the subject at the beginning. Nationality, configuration, role, special features and period, and if the rest of the page is really long, a short summary of key points. The table of contents should still be visible unless it had a long and varied history.
 * 4) Every entry, every claim must either be common knowledge (of which almost none of this is) or referenced to reliable sources. To add a reference, after the line of text, you add  , and include the book in the reference section at the bottom. I find this biography template is the easiest to work with -  . Other forms of the template cover magazines and web pages (less suitable generally). Blogs and discussion boards can't (ever) be used as sources. For information on almost any template, type template: and the name of the template in the search box, and that will give you all the forms and fields, as well as links to alternate templates that may be more suited to specific uses.
 * 5) Only the information that is directly pertinent should be included, not the entire back history of Junkers - instead a link to the Junkers company and a short summary is all that is needed there.
 * 6) This is an encyclopedia, not a book. Not a monograph or a magazine article. The breathless hurrah hurrah greatest designer in the world style is not appropriate here in the slightest. We strive for a neutral point of view - and avoid certain words that prevent that, which you used a LOT. That doesn't mean it has to be dry, but superlatives are generally avoided unless you have multiple sources making the exact statement, and even then it should be couched in neutral terms. This will take some practice.
 * 7) Your contribution included factual errors, as Junkers was not the first to use metal in an aircraft - he may have been (possibly) to dispense with fabric. Breguet, Voisin and others had been building metal framed aircraft long before he started, and those advancements in aluminium - much of that was the work of Dornier, whose construction system wasn't based around duplicating the same wood and fabric structure in metal, but rather was inventing the stressed skin structures we use today. Junkers' system was ultimately a dead end, and almost no aircraft built within the last 50+ years has used it.
 * 8) Finally, we cannot use text copied from elsewhere, regardless of what licence it was published under - copyright violations are avoided at all costs, and that also applies to using just one source - multiple sources are required. Cheers,&#32;- NiD.29 (talk) 19:02, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Junkers D.1 J7, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Junkers D.I have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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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. — Diannaa (talk) 18:57, 2 May 2020 (UTC)