User talk:Kathleen Shaw

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April 2019
Your addition to Mary Groves Bland has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. Blythwood (talk) 13:09, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

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Kathleen Shaw (talk) 15:08, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

I worked on Mary Groves Bland with a group. I was not trying to violate copyright information. I cited my sources in the references section. I only stuck to the facts. I don't have the source material at this time. I am not sure I want to continue this project. I will contact the people who put the meeting together.

Kathleen Shaw (talk) 15:08, 7 April 2019 (UTC) Kathleen Shaw
 * Hi Kathleen, as the person who deleted your edit, I thought I should respond., intentionally or not, was substantial or complete copies of the texts of copyrighted sources. Wikipedia doesn't allow this: you cannot copy and paste in entire paragraphs of someone else's work: you should link to them as a formatted citation, and write the article in your own words. Perhaps sometimes it may be helpful to quote a sentence or two if absolutely necessary, but really most of the time that's only needed if the source is not online and/or difficult for normal readers to access. There is no need in writing a Wikipedia article to copy and paste the entire text of an article to include as a reference–you should fill out a citation form to link to it, just as there is no need to include every fact in a Wikipedia article that is present in a source. This is also good etiquette for writing on the internet generally; by linking to other peoples' work you give them the chance to develop their reputation and the opportunity to earn money through ad revenue which can fund their work. Many websites copy text from Wikipedia for various purposes believing it to be 'free', so we must remove copyrighted content immediately to prevent this. Hope this clears things up and isn't too discouraging. (As a quick explanation, I’m interested in understanding how contributors at editathons learn about Wikipedia, which is why I came across your edits.) Blythwood (talk) 15:41, 7 April 2019 (UTC)