User talk:Slmathews

Welcome!
Hello, Slmathews, 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.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:34, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

New message from Shearonink
The usual practice is that if someone changes your edit back to the previous version you are supposed to engage them on the article's talk page, not just revert the material again with no discussion. Please take a look at the three-revert rule. Shearonink (talk) 04:17, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Plagiarism vs. attributed quotations
Slmathews, thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. In connection with the message posted by Shearonink above, the problem of WP:PLAGIARISM at Wikipedia is a serious one, and all editors should be vigilant for occurrences of plagiarism wherever they occur; so thanks for watching out at Year-round school in the United States. You may have been a bit too vigilant, in this case; editors are permitted brief quotations from copyrighted material when it is quoted and attributed in-line, and meets the conditions of WP:FAIRUSE. If in doubt, either remove it and go to the article Talk page to explain what you did, or ask for help from your Wiki Ed content expert, Shalor, or post a question about it on your own talk page, and add the token  somewhere in the message, and someone will respond to you soon. Hope this helps, and happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 05:50, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! I can second this - definitely feel free to reach out and ask if you're unsure if something is plagiarized or not - or if you find your edits reverted. It's always better to discuss reverted edits than to try to restore the edits. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:13, 1 November 2019 (UTC)