User talk:Munnings83

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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Munnings83, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

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. Thank you. Stroppolo talk 21:02, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Copying text from other sources
Hi Munnings. Thank you very much for trying to work within the rules - I notice that you're being very careful to use quotation marks and cite references when you copy text from other places into International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. Unfortunately, I need to tell you that while yes, that doesn't break our copyright violation rules, it's still running afoul of Wikipedia's non-free content policy. Wikipedia articles are intended to contain original and/or freely-licensed prose. Non-freely-licensed prose may be used in small amounts, but only when there is or can be no equivalent free prose. Or, to try to put it into layman's terms, you can only copy-paste someone else's non-free licensed work when the quote itself, using the quote's specific words, is necessary to the topic. In all other cases, we expect people to write original prose for Wikipedia articles. In this case, you seem to just be constructing an article by copying various other writers' words into the article, but unless there's reason to believe the topic cannot be understood unless those exact quotes are displayed verbatim, you will need to write the article in original words. You can use those other documents as sources for thoughts, but not as sources for the words you use. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:39, 24 June 2014 (UTC)