User talk:KylaMcKenzie24

Paraphrasing
I've reverted one of your additions to the article Demographics of Haiti with this edit because you paraphrased from the source material too closely. What this means is that the content that was added was largely the same, with only minor changes. This is still seen as a copyright violation on Wikipedia and can be seen as a form of plagiarism. It's something that in many cases is unintentional because there's only so many ways to rephrase content, but it's still something that you really need to be careful about.

Here's an example of the paraphrased content, with the identical material in bold.


 * In fact, many Roman Catholic symbols and prayers have blended with voodoo rituals and traditions to make for a unique and typically Haitian religion. (original content)
 * Many Roman Catholic symbols and prayers have blended with Voodoo rituals and traditions to make for a unique religion amongst some Haitians. (your content)

In this you rephrased the content slightly but it's still largely identical. The trick with this is to think of a new, creative way to rephrase the claim without it being too similar. Here's an example of what you can do:


 * Some Haitian citizens mix portions of Roman Catholicism and voodoo into their religious practices, making it distinctively different and unique.

This gives the general gist of what the source said, but changes the content up enough to where it's not identical. In any case, I'd like you to look over the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. I'm also going to ping here since he was editing the same page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 05:01, 29 March 2017 (UTC)