User talk:Mpscharf

I appreciate the effort you have made to improve the article at Le Conte's Sparrow. However, I have reverted a couple of changes that you made to it. I restored the bolding of the title of the article in the first sentence, as this is prescribed by the Manual of Style at MOS:BOLDTITLE. More importantly, I removed a sentence which you had copied directly from the Web site http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Le_Contes_Sparrow/lifehistory. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. I have not had an opportunity to compare your additions to the article to other sources, but if you have copied other material that you added to the article, then I urge you to remove such material and replace it with your own words. Please note that even paraphrasing copyrighted material may be considered a violation of copyright. If you have any doubt about whether a source is under copyright, it is best to assume that it is unless you can definitely establish that it is not. In any case, any substantial amount of material (often, even just part of a sentence) copied from any source, whether or not under copyright (i.e., plagiarism), must be given as a quote. If I can be of any help to you, please contact me on my talk page. -- Donald Albury 10:24, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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