User talk:Nursingcasestudy

Copyright concerns
Regarding your recent additions to Food desert, much of the text you are adding is clearly copy-pasted from another text, given the formatting and the like. This is clearly not something you are sitting down and typing out now. Instead, it is obviously taken verbatim from another source. Verbatim copying is not something that is allowed at Wikipedia. I appreciate the expansion you are attempting at the food desert article, but it needs to be original text (with proper citations, of course) and not something which was previously published elsewhere. Please see Copyright violations for a more comprehensive policy on this topic. -- Jayron 32 17:07, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * (moved from User talk:Jayron32)
 * Hi Jayron!
 * I received a message regarding my edits to the Food Desert page, indicating concern of copyright infringement. I have made many changes to this page on a separate external word document over the past few weeks, and I am now sitting down to make my edits on the page directly. All of my changes are backed up by references and all of the writing is my own work, but it has been deleted before I have the chance to finish my editing, and include these references to support my work. I understand that it may seem like I am copy and pasting, but it is all my own work copied from an external document that I have spent a lot of time on. Could you please give me the appropriate time to finish these edits and then review the page? I am a first time editor, and I am finding this very frustrating considering the time I am putting in. Additionally, if you have any suggestions in the editing process, please let me know. Thank you.

Nursingcasestudy (talk) 17:40, 17 November 2017 (UTC)nursingcasestudy
 * Hey, Nursingcasestudy, thanks for responding. I've moved your response here so we can keep the discussion in one place.  I hope you don't mind.  I will keep an eye on this talk page to respond to you so you can just keep discussing this here.  Thanks for clarifying, that fixes some (but not all) of my concerns regarding your additions.  If what you say is true, that's totally cool, it just looked very suspicious at the time.  The other conern that I had, which I hadn't mentioned before, was that some of your edits replaced (rather than added to) existing text in the article already; this work by others did not look like it was a problem and I don't know why you removed it, see here for example where you pasted in your own text, but in the process removed an entire section of well-referenced and well-written text already in the article.  My suggestions going forward would be as follows:
 * 1) work on formatting your footnotes according to house style (see Help:Referencing for beginners for more information) first before pasting text into Wikipedia. If you want to work on Wikipedia itself, you can do so in a personal "sandbox" page that allows you to play around with formatting.  See USERSUBPAGE for information on how to do that.
 * 2) Leave existing, well-referenced and well-written text in the article and try to work your new text around the existing text, if the existing text is not a problem. If the existing text IS a problem, please explain any large-scale removals on the article talk page.
 * I hope that helps some. If you have any technical concerns with how to do any of that, or if you need any additional help, just let me know!  -- Jayron 32 17:50, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for answering my concerns. I will be working today to add in the sections I have created. For now, I won’t delete anything the previous author has written but in the end, it may be redundant. At that time, maybe it would be helpful if you can look at it and see if it is worthwhile to delete what is already there. Thank you again! Nursingcasestudy (talk) 18:17, 17 November 2017 (UTC)nursingcasestudy
 * Sounds good! Let's wait until everything is in there before we deal with redundancy.  We can start to combine and pare down redundant text, lets put it all together first before we decide what to cut back.  -- Jayron 32 19:33, 17 November 2017 (UTC)