User talk:Kainoasa

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Hello, Kainoasa, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Kamapuaʻa
Hi there! You recently created a new article, Kamapua'a, by copying content from Kamapuaʻa. I changed your article to a redirect to the main article so that all of the content is kept in one place. It's very confusing to readers and editors where there are multiple articles on the same topic, so please keep any edits about Kamapuaʻa on the existing page, rather than creating a new one. You can learn more at WP:CFORK. Thank you! Mcampany (talk) 20:11, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Now that I've looked more at the Kamapua'a article, I noticed that you copied some content directly from Martha Beckwick's book on Hawaiian Mythology. This is NOT ALLOWED. It is a copyright violation. I've removed the content and replaced it with the content that was there before. Please do not replace it without rewriting it in your own words. Mcampany (talk) 20:34, 9 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, which pages of the book was it copied from - I wasn't able to easily find it with the Google Book version. I need to know so I can report this to the instructor. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, It's on page 202, the whole first paragraph under "Legend of the Kamapua'a family". Thank you! Mcampany (talk) 19:13, 10 May 2019 (UTC)


 * , thank you for pointing it out! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Copyright/plagiarism
Kainoasa, per the above conversation I saw that you very closely paraphrased this book, to the point where it was a clear copyright violation. While the original mythology is not copyrighted, the way that Beckwith summarized it in her book would be, as this was her own summary of the events. I can see where the mistake may have come from so I don't think that this is a case of plagiarism per se, but it is still very much a copyright issue. Please be more careful in the future.

Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:24, 10 May 2019 (UTC)