User talk:Thespecialistguy

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Hello, Thespecialistguy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Vsmith (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Srinivasa Ramanujan into Autodidacticism‎. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Vsmith (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

OK, now explain a bit: I do agree that Ramanujan was an autodidact and should be mentioned in that article (if he isn't already), however rather than copying a paragraph into a rather inappropriate place in the article - why not add a brief bit about him a bit further down in the section with a link to his biography article and a reference supporting the content (who says he was an autodidact - besides you and me). Vsmith (talk) 13:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)