User talk:Mackbishop

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Hello, Mackbishop, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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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Sparks Middle School
I undid your edit to this article, and modified your talk page comment.
 * 1) Don't delete existing material on the talk page. Talk pages serve as a record of previous discussions, and the template messages are there for a reason. See WP:TALK
 * 2) Describe what changes you are making in an edit summary.
 * 3) Don't remove the existing sources from an article.
 * 4) Don't remove wikilinks from the article unless there is a valid reason.
 * 5) Provide actual sources for your material, not cryptic comments such as (film). We need to be able to verify the material. I suspect that some of what you wrote falls under WP:OR or WP:SYNTH but I won't be able to tell untill you orovide properly sourced additions.
 * 6) It's generally not a good idea to make massive changes to multiple sections all in one edit. It's not against any rule, but it makes it difficult for anyone to undo part of your edit, and you may end up losing entire edits where some of the material was actually OK. Meters (talk) 22:50, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't want to chase you away, and I understand and appreciate that you are trying to improve the article. Read the link previously provided to you on how to add sources and try again, but in smaller chunks. Remember that Wikipedia reports what other sources say about the subject, not what we think or synthesize from the sources.
 * Oh, and don't refer to the subject by his first name. The full name is used the first time he is mentioned, and after that he is referred to by his last name (unless there is the possibility of confusing him with others mentioned, which there isn't in this article). Meters (talk) 23:01, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * An IP editor removed the photo you uploaded from the page. I've nominated it for deletion at Commons. You cannot upload a photo to Commons that you downloaded from the net. To be on Commons, or en.Wikipedia, material must be copyrighted on a share and share alike license. The photo in question has all rights reserved by salon.com, the site you downloaded it from. They own it in every sense and you have no right to release their license.  This is a serious issue. Please do not do it again. John from Idegon (talk) 18:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Your addition to Sparks Middle School shooting 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. See above. If you get blocked for copyright violation issues, you're going to have a very difficult time making your grade. Stop uploading images that you do not own. John from Idegon (talk) 15:30, 24 October 2016 (UTC)