User talk:Larsonbrinker

Welcome!
Hello, Larsonbrinker, 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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Copyright/plagiarism
Hello, I received a notification that you had posted content that had previously been published elsewhere to your draft article, specifically from this source. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. 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. Even if this was in the draftspace, you still need to make sure that you avoid posting content taken from elsewhere. Also be careful about close paraphrasing, as this is also seen as plagiarism.

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. I'll also ping your professor,. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:57, 10 April 2018 (UTC)