User talk:Stscooter

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February 2014
Hello Scottlovessue, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Nephilim has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Copyvio from or a site with the same content. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 08:57, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

About reliable sources
Please do not cite wikis for fan made games. Wikis are almost never accepted as reliable sources because WP:RS almost always forbids "user generated websites" and "personal websites" (the exceptions being so rare and specific it's best to not even bother). Resources for fan games (as well as fan fiction, fan resources for professional entertainment, other amateur art, and indeed any entertainment site) would only be appropriate for information about the game. If "Blacken the Day" became notable enough to warrant its own article (which is unlikely), it would be appropriate to mention that Nephilim appear in Blacken the Day in the Popular culture section of the Nephilim article. It is not an academic source, however.

A good way to spot academic sources is to stick with published books, particularly those published by colleges or publishers who specialize in academic works. Google Books is a good resource for these, as are local libraries (both public and collegiate). Ian.thomson (talk) 16:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Edits to Michael Sweet
I reverted your edits because they deleted links and templates. I'm not sure if it was intentional or because you were editing from a mobile device. Walter Görlitz (talk) 09:18, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Definitely not intentional; my apologies! Thank you, Walter. Scottlovessue (talk)scottlovessueScottlovessue (talk)

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Edits to Campus Rape
Campus rape

I have reverted your addition there because it is based on a page from crisisconnectioninc.org, which is too unreliable and too local for representing those data as general statistics on wikipedia. Please argue your case on the article talk page instead of reinstating the addition. Materialscientist (talk) 07:04, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Agholor
Sorry, an explanation should have been given. The reason I removed it is because preseason games are generally not considered notable enough for inclusion in an article.--Yankees10 16:59, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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August 2016
Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Campus sexual assault. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Plagiarism, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:30, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Diannaa. There's a lot to learn here. -Scott scottlovessue

Diannaa, can you check the page now to see if I did it right? -Scott scottlovessue

October 2021
Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Michael Sam. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Specifically per MOS:BLPTENSE, the lead sentence for a living person should be in present tense. —Bagumba (talk) 15:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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