User talk:MarialeegRVT

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April 2024
Your edit to Swimmer puppy syndrome 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the rather totalitarian tone of this pre-written message. To clarify a bit: it's not OK to copy even limited amounts of non-free text from external sources into this project unless it is clearly identified as a quotation – it's against our copyright policy to do so, and such copied text is routinely removed and hidden from view. If you think there might be other pages where you have done the same thing, even on a small scale, would you kindly mention them here so that they too can be cleaned up? Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:53, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I now see that you were warned about this by in 2020. Please take extra care to write entirely in your own words from now on – another problem of this nature might lead to a loss of editing privileges. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:59, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't know how to message you re: another article you have been editing. Specifically the veterinary dentistry article. How can I message you properly? I don't use this platform very often and I have spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to contact you. MarialeegRVT (talk) 15:27, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * was this edit a quotation/copy of the article? Traumnovelle (talk) 02:22, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Are these also copied?  Traumnovelle (talk) 05:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Please respond, even if you don't remember if they were copied or not. Traumnovelle (talk) 22:36, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Cat massage
MarialeegRVT, you wrote on my user talk-page: "The added content was the rewording of the existing paragraphs to sound less colloquial and more encyclopedic; no additional information was inserted. Please take a moment to review the revision and you will find that the history corroborates this". Could you please identify in this revision of that page the content that you were trying to rephrase? And explain why you rewrote it using content from here? To help you understand why this is a problem, here is a comparison of your addition to the page with the text of the source:

I've left a similar comparison of your edit with the source text at Talk:Veterinary dentistry. I've said before that I find all this deeply disappointing; it's beginning to look as if we will need to check every single one of your 1700+ edits. I've spent more time than I wanted to looking into this today, and will have to look further tomorrow. It'd be helpful if you could acknowledge that you understand why such edits are unacceptable in this project, and how you plan to avoid making any more of them in future. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I was referring to my edit on cat massage re: the rewording of the paragraph. I am not able to see that edit anymore so I don't know how to show you it was just a grammar update. I could see it yesterday though. Look, I was just trying to be helpful and make veterinary articles on Wikipedia better. I thought as long as I was citing the source, then I wasn't doing anything wrong. I am sorry for creating work for you - it was unintentional. I won't edit anything again, even if the block is removed. This has all been very upsetting for me and I don't want to fight about it. It was an honest mistake and I have gotten the point. Any physical sources I ever used are listed in the reference sections of the articles, so I don't think I can be of any further assistance in the investigation. Honestly, just go ahead and delete every edit I ever made. I give up. Take care. MarialeegRVT (talk) 16:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission, as you did at Veterinary dentistry. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:53, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * MarialeegRVT, I'm afraid that there's just too much evidence – both in your edits and in your discussion of them – that you don't understand our copyright policy well enough to be allowed to continue to contribute here, so with great regret I have suspended your editing rights.
 * I intend to request a contributor copyright investigation of all your edits to date, with clean-up where required. However, I recognise that your purpose here has always been to improve the encyclopaedia, so I want you to understand that 'indefinite' does not mean 'permanent'. I will be pleased to unblock your account once the investigation is complete, provided that you can by then demonstrate clear understanding of our copyright policy. In the meanwhile, it would be very helpful if you would identify for us where you have copied content from external sources into our pages, and where from. You're in a much better position to do this than many of us who do not have unlimited access to veterinary textbooks. Please let me know if you'd be prepared to help with this; if so, I'll post a list of articles to be checked on this page for you to work from. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:12, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

CCI Notice
Hello, MarialeegRVT. This message is being sent to inform you that a request for a contributor copyright investigation has been filed at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions to Wikipedia in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:22, 27 April 2024 (UTC)