User talk:Nokoshi

October 2011
Hi Nokoshi; in rewriting the article about your father you created a number of problems which will require attention: You appear to have violated copyright laws by copying text from http://www.umass.edu/fac/media/Taiko.pdf.; have supplied no references; and raised the likelihood of conflict of interest. Please read WP:COPYVIO, WP:RELIABLE, and WP:COI. You may want to restore the previous version, and add to it slowly, not with copied text, but with content that may be reliably sourced. Thanks, 99.137.209.90 (talk) 21:30, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Reply October 18
Hello; The info you provided is very helpful. I was not aware that a part of my segment violated copyright laws. Apologies for that. I've read over all the wikipedia links you provided me as well as multiple others, and have a few questions. If I reference http://www.umass.edu/fac/media/Taiko.pdf on the page, will I be able to use the first few paragraphs of the page? They writers of http://www.umass.edu/fac/media/Taiko.pdf as well as the organization are close family friends of ours. For the segments such as "awards", "lectures", "recordings'', etc. These were all given to me verbally by my Father. How do I go about properly referencing these segments? Also, I have read over all the "conflict of interest" section, but I am unable to identify which part of the page implicates conflict of interest. Thank you. (Nokoshi (talk) 13:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC))

Copyright violations at Tiger Okoshi
I have reverted the additions you made to this article last October, because they were taken verbatum from this website. The wholesale copying, or even close paraphrasing, of works that are not demonstrably in the public domain are forbidden on Wikipedia (see WP:COPYVIO and Close paraphrasing). If you have any questions, please let me know on my talk page. - Running On Brains (talk) 21:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * In response to your above question "How do I go about properly referencing these segments?", see Referencing for beginners, but remember that you must write all text on Wikipedia in your own words: copying and/or paraphrasing is against the rules. Again, feel free to ask me if you have any more questions. - Running On Brains (talk) 21:36, 27 April 2012 (UTC)