User talk:Rionagh

August 2016
Your addition to Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Pam D  11:04, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Your email to me
Thank you for your email. The place to discuss a Wikipedia article is the talk page of the article itself. If you look at the recent history of Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond you will see that it was threatened with Speedy Deletion because a software tool showed that 95% of its wording was identical to the paper by Ashdown-Hill and Carson. It was quite clear that it was you who had added most or all of this copyright-violating text. By reverting to the version before your edits I went back to a legal version of the article.

By all means improve the article, step by step, but using your own words. You must never copy other people's words, or even make a close paraphrase: you should put their information or ideas into your own words and cite the other author's work as your source. I'm sure that the same applies on French Wikipedia. Pam D  13:02, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


 * You agree that your grasp of English is "not exceptional": perhaps you would do better to contribute your knowledge of Irish history to the French wikipedia instead. I've just noticed that you apparently copied from other sources apart from the Ashdown-Hill/Carson paper, because you left a reference "[9]" in your text but it doesn't correspond to reference 9 of their paper. Please, again, read and understand Wikipedia's rules about Copyright. You must contribute to the encyclopedia using your own words, not by copying and pasting sections of other people's work, which is theft. Pam  D  13:20, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I note that you have contributed a lot to the French article on the same person. I hope that you have used your own words throughout, and not translated either the English Wikipedia article or the published works of historians. Pam D  13:24, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I am worried about the French article: it looks as if you have translated the English Wikipedia article almost in its entirety, without any acknowledgement. If this included any wording added by other editors before your work, then this is another breach of copyright. Pam  D  13:34, 25 August 2016 (UTC)