User talk:Shoegazergirl

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:38, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Copyright and plagiarism on KEXP-FM
Thank you for contributing to KEXP-FM. Can you try again but write original prose? When you copy-paste paragraphs from a source without clearly indicating that you are quoting someone else's work, it's plagiarism. In addition, copying from historylink.org violates the copyright license they use, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. Wikipedia does not accept content that has the non-commercial restriction, nor the restriction that no one may reuse, remix, or build upon the content. Essentially HIstory Link has a more restrictive open license than Wikipedia. You can definitely cite History Link, but not copy their words.

In almost all case, the best thing is to write original prose, without copying or close paraphrasing. If you have questions, I can help, and there are many other volunteers who will help you. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:45, 4 February 2021 (UTC)