User talk:Smarae

Welcome!
Hello, Smarae, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 05:54, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

March 2017
Your addition to Debbie Allen 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.  City O f  Silver  15:06, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Hi! I thought I'd explain why the content was removed and why you are getting warned about plagiarism.

In a nutshell, what happened is that you added took content from this Biography.com article and added it to the page for Debbie Allen with this edit. This is seen as a copyright violation, as the Biography.com article is copyrighted to that particular company/website and as such, cannot be copied wholesale. It is also seen as plagiarism because although you did link to the Biography.com article as a source, it was added in a manner that made it seem like it was your own work.

A good rule of thumb is to always re-write the content in your own words, as this will not only help take care of any concerns about copyright or plagiarism, but it will also give you good experience in re-writing and summarizing content. It may also give you the opportunity to write something more neutral, as sometimes content taken from another website or source might be written in a favorable (or alternatively unfavorable) tone about the subject. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:45, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)