User talk:Medanielweaver

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; however, please remember the essential rule of respecting copyrights. Edits to Wikipedia, such as your edit to the page Dipterygium, may not contain material from copyrighted sources unless used with permission. It is almost never okay to copy extensive text out of a book or website and paste it into a Wikipedia article with little or no alteration, though you can clearly and briefly quote copyrighted text in the right circumstances. Content that does not comply with this legal rule must be removed. For more information on this, see:
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To elaborate, on 9 June 2022, you made these two edits to the page Dipterygium. I believe you did those in good faith and were trying to help, and your desire is appreciated! But, unfortunately, there were several problems with them. The biggest was that you did a direct copy and paste from the source, thus it was a copyright violation. The citation you gave was minimal, and it did help avoid it to be complete plagiarism. You may want to check out some of the Wikipedia guidelines and policies. The links above should give you a place to start.

Please also note that since that time, the page Dipterygium has been changed to be a redirect to another page because Dipterygium is a taxonomic synonym of another genus. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 08:16, 30 December 2022 (UTC)