User talk:Professor Chaos 56b

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Copyright violation
Professor Chaos 56b: looking at Randy Stradley, I discovered that in your first edit to the article, you inserted text copied from one of the sources that were already footnoted, this author profile at Chattel House Books. Copying text from almost anywhere on-line is a copyright violation, because it is presumed (and usually stated) that text is copyrighted. There are extremely few examples of copyright-free text, such as publications of the US Government. Saying where you got the information from is also required, but is not enough; you must summarize it in your own words. (In this instance you did not even do that - the footnotes you inserted were all to other sources.)

Copyright violation is a serious legal matter, particularly because Wikipedia's contents are free for anyone to re-use. But it is serious in any form of publication, on-line or off. Please read this page for a more detailed explanation.

Don't do that again. Put it in your own words—summarize it—and footnote it to where you got the information. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:11, 7 September 2016 (UTC)