User talk:KiwiNova

I reverted the content and citation you added to Taino because the source you cited was a self-published article uploaded to ResearchGate, which has been deprecated as unreliable. Some articles that have been uploaded to ResearchGate may be cited in a WP article if they have previously been published in a journal that has been accepted as a reliable source, in which case the citation is to the journal article, with a courtesy link to the ResearchGate copy of the article. - Donald Albury 16:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @Donald Albury oh, sorry honestly, I just thought that research gate was like academia.edu and only hosted credible papers 😔 KiwiNova (talk) 17:02, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Nope. Anybody can upload anything to ResearchGate. It is still possible to find something useful there, but you have to verify that the article/book chapter/etc. was originally published in a reliable source. Another thing to watch for is copyright status. Some sites display content that is in violation of copyright, and we cannot link to such sites. Donald Albury 17:20, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Donald Albury Whoopsie. Btw, on the subject of copyright, a bunch of works on the first nations of the Caribbean and Florida have been added to the | Florida and Caribbean open book series. Can figures from those works be uploaded to Wikimedia? KiwiNova (talk) 17:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Figures, maps, charts, etc that are in copyrighted works are assumed to be themselves under copyright, unless they are explicitly marked as being in the public domain or under a suitable free license. Reproductions of older works may be an exception. I have uploaded to Commons a copy of part of a facsimile of a map drawn by Bernard Romans in 1775, which was published by the university press in a book in 1975, but that was because it was an unaltered facsimile of a 200-year old map. If you have any doubt about whether a figure, etc. is under copyright, ask for help. You can create your own figures, etc., but they have to be your own work, and not a tracing or such of the original. I have done that a few times (see here), but I am not an artist, and am not familiar with graphics programs. Donald Albury 18:24, 4 June 2024 (UTC)