User talk:Mcnamaraer

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 * Hi Mcnamaraer! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 19:28, Thursday, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Mcnamaraer! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 19:34, Thursday, September 6, 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Mcnamaraer, 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.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:02, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Response
Hi! What type of information are you looking to add to your userspace - are you looking to make a copy of an article? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Copyright and plagiarism
Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material that closely paraphrased or took material verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. 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.

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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:37, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I saw that you added content to the article that was taken from this page. The page has its content marked as "Some Rights Reserved", however it doesn't specify whether the site uses CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or a different copyright that would not be compatible with Wikipedia. It looks like the website is an open access source, however open access doesn't always mean that it can be copied to Wikipedia - the two key things are that the license must allow for derivative work and for it to be used commercially. Basically, aside from the license allowing people to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, it must also allow people to adapt or change the material (ie, edit and change it on Wikipedia) and allow it to be used for any purpose, which includes commercial purposes. I'm not entirely sure that the Ancient History Encyclopedia allows for the commercial and derivative works. I'll look into this and let you know, but until then I would not add any of this to Wikipedia. In general I would strongly, strongly recommend that rather than copying work to Wikipedia, that you write it in your own words, since then the copyright status of the work becomes less of a major point. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:16, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Found the license they use - they use a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which means that we can't use it on Wikipedia because it cannot be used commercially, whereas anything added to Wikipedia needs to be able to be used commercially. I'm sorry that you had to learn about the differences of Creative Commons licenses the hard way! Here is an outline of what Creative Commons licenses can be used. I've titled the page as images, but the guidelines apply to other types of content as well. Of course if you're ever unsure of what copyright a page uses, you can always ask me to dig it up - I've gotten a little good at looking for this since it's not always easily visible or found. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:24, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

could you maybe look into my sandbox and let me know if my phrasing now works? (only for 1-5)

Response
Hi! With what was similar, I can send you a copy of the reports I received. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:36, 16 November 2018 (UTC)