User talk:Martypost

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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Martypost, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to World Marathon Majors have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Your 27 July edit to World Marathon Majors added material directly copied from a press release issued the previous day. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 07:45, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Reverted additions to the Berlin Marathon Wikipedia article / "...the largest behind a new world record since the August 1958 European Championships..."
Dear Martypost,

I took a look at the additions you made to the Berlin Marathon article on 21 Sep, 2018. Your additions were reverted by Nalana4 "...overly informal and specific. This sort of info would be best left on 2018 marathon page. Language such as "epic" is out of place...." Nalana4 did a good job, but I wouldn't neccearly say, it was too specific, because most of the time, to be specicfic is what Wikipedia is really about. First of all, everthing added to an article needs to be properly sourced.

This part sounds interesting to me: "..." the largest behind a new world record since the August 1958 European Championships with a gold medal time of 2:15:17.6 followed by the silver medalist in 2:20:50.6 ..." Could you please tell me, where you got this kind of information? Could you please provide a proper source?

Regards, Da Vinci Nanjing (talk) 15:30, 10 October 2018 (UTC)