User talk:KarenPolka

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mean Mary (October 29)
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 Whispe ring  03:09, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mean Mary (November 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 78.26 was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 04:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Talkback
78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 15:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello KarenPolka, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Mean Mary have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here.


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January 2018
Your addition to Draft:Mean Mary has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:13, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

I was still editing and not ready to submit yet. I copied content from a MS Word doc that Mean Mary gave me to use. I was trying to paraphrase and delete sentences so as to not infringe on copyright, even though the owner gave me the doc I copied from. You were not meant to see it till I wanted your advice on how I was doing so far. Can I please have all that editing I did yesterday back? Sorry for the misunderstanding. I will read up on what you need from owner of copyright to make it free for all or whatever you call it. Thanks. KarenPolka (talk) 04:44, 25 January 2018 (UTC)Karen

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mean Mary has been accepted
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