User talk:Roshawnk

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Hello, Roshawnk, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Copyright/plagiarism
Hi, I received a notification that you had taken content from other places. One of these came up as Wikipedia and the other portion looked to have come from this and this. You can copy from other Wikipedia articles as long as you attribute them when you post the work to the page, however when it comes to other places we can't copy material over unless we're certain that it's released under a Creative Commons license that allows this. (Even then, it must be attributed properly.)

With copying material, even if you include the original source as a citation it's still seen as a copyright and plagiarism issue. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please do not repost the content without first reading over the plagiarism and copyright module. I think I determined where the material was taken from - it looks like it was taken from the slavery article verbatim, without you attributing it in the edit summary at all. Attribution is extremely important when copying between pages on Wikipedia as it otherwise poses an issue of copyright, as Wikipedia does allow for its work to be freely copied and adapted, but attribution must be given. Aside from this, there's also an issue of posting content from a general page to one that is more specific, in this case it is focused more specifically on the 21st century as opposed to the history of slavery as a whole. While the basic causes will likely be the same, there's still a question as to whether or not there are other, more current things that would also play into the causes of modern day slavery. It's also good to review the content to make sure that it's up to date - for example, the figures for modern day in the slavery article that you copied over were taken from a source dating from 2008, so the source is over 10 years old. That's not going to be current data, as the data set used may have been an older one (ie, from 2006-2007 or earlier). This is why copying verbatim isn't always a good idea and it's important to review things before posting them. I've removed the content for the time being. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:54, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Hi, I understand what is happening here, I once removed the causes section but I recently added it back. The information I placed was already there, I didnt really change anything. If you would like you can talk to my professor, I explained it to him better. Roshawnk (talk) 14:06, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Copyright/plagiarism
Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material that was taken verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes.

Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:49, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please do not do this again. This marks the second time. If this continues you run a serious risk of getting blocked from editing by an admin. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:50, 13 May 2019 (UTC)