User talk:Ohyeawakeup

May 2011
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Hypatia, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:53, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Your addition to Maria Gaetana Agnesi has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. 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. Also, it is generally considered rude to just rewrite an entire article from scratch without discussing it on the article's talk page first. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:23, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Maria Gaetana Agnesi, you may be blocked from editing. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:33, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

An explanation of how things work here
In general, it is a bad idea to remove any factual information. There are guidelines for doing so, but right now I recommend that you just not remove anything that's true or has a source. Also, whenever you add something always cite a source for any new information, using, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable). Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment). Ian.thomson (talk) 01:39, 2 June 2011 (UTC)