User talk:Rburnett12

West Midland Safari Park
Thank you for adding information about this park. However, Wikipedia requires that the information presented NOT be your own research or observation while at the site (please read WP:OR), and the it be verifiable in an external and reliable source (please read WP:Verify). Please cite the information that you are adding -- at least by placing the URL from which you are getting the information in square braces ( [ ] ) after the text, so that someone else can come through and create proper citations. Please note that leaving a URL in an edit comment is not a reference -- it needs to in the text of the article. Thank you. Don Lammers (talk) 17:02, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

I have now reverted part of one of your edits. Direct copies from a web site may or may not be copyright violation, but they ARE plagiarism. Neither is allowed on Wikipedia. Please desist copying the West Midland Park web site, or ALL of your edits may be reverted. Don Lammers (talk) 18:20, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Stop Now
Stop copying chunks of text from the West Midland Safari Park Website. You need to rewrite IN YOUR OWN WORDS, not just wholesale copy things. Not only is copying plagiarism and violates copyright, but it leaves an article sounding line an advertisement (which is exactly what a website is supposed to be). This is an encyclopedia. Before proceeding, please read WP:OR, WP:COPYVIO, WP:PLAG, and Terms of use. Don Lammers (talk) 23:17, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

May 2012
Your addition to West Midland Safari Park 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. — Cactus Writer (talk) 01:58, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

West Midland Safari Park Citations
Although you are not allowed to directly copy and paste (as you have obviously figured out from previous messages), Wikipedia requires that you cite your sources so that the information can be verified by other editors and readers (see WP:VERIFY). This goes hand in hand with the No Original Research policy (see WP:OR), which essentially means you cannot include information that is based just on your own knowledge of the facility (this is very hard for people associated with the subject of an article). Please cite the aditions that you are making, even if it is just to put the URL in square brackets (I can turn them into proper citations). Information that is not verifiable may ultimately be removed. Don Lammers (talk) 11:46, 17 May 2012 (UTC)