User talk:Tignyx

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Tignyx, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village 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.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources 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. Thank you. – Gilliam (talk) 05:29, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village
Hi Tignyx. I'm sorry to have reverted your edits to Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village when your contribution seemed to have improved the article. Please continue to work on this article, but what you write must be in your own words. "The few remaining members of the meeting house wished to have the building preserved" was taken directly from, a copyrighted site (© Copyright 2015 Ohio City Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) Do feel free to use that site as a reference, but copy/pasting and/or close paraphrasing of copyrighted material is not permitted. I'm also available if you need any help improving this article or adding references.– Gilliam (talk) 18:50, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Understood. But I am not the final authority on what is or is not allowed in articles. Feel free to return to Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village and click 'Undo' on my latest reversion, and I will not stand in your way. However, I think it would be better to simply revise anything you copy/paste from external websites.– Gilliam (talk) 19:24, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Carry on. I won't bother you about it again.– Gilliam (talk) 19:48, 17 August 2015 (UTC)