User talk:Thalia101

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Hello, Thalia101, 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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African Court of Justice and Human Rights
Hi Thalia, I received a notification that you had taken material from elsewhere, specifically this, this, and african-court.org. 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. Also be careful with anything written by an organization or governmental arm, as their work isn't always automatically released into the public domain. 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. I'll also ping your professor,. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, aside from this, the material also had issues with sourcing - you need to have in-line citations to back up claims and quotes to show where they were taken from and to also help verify the material. You also need to be careful of tone, as you need to avoid wording like "we" - things that would be fine in an essay but not really here. It looks like you've worked hard - your edits are still in the edit history. What I want you to do is to go back and reference the material properly and to re-write the material in your own words. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:36, 2 April 2018 (UTC)