User talk:Tmenai

Welcome!
Hello, Tmenai, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using 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! JFHJr (㊟) 17:48, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
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Avoiding copyright problems
Hello, and welcome. 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 Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

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 visit me at my talk page. Thank you. JFHJr (㊟) 17:48, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Vik Muniz
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Vik Muniz. Thank you. JFHJr (㊟) 17:48, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed it when copy/pasted from change history... Thank you. I'm reading all changes you've made, it helps me to learn writing better on wiki.

Conflict of interest
Hello, Tmenai. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Vik Muniz, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations.

To be clear, you appear to have cited your own writings in the article, including an in-flight magazine article hosted on your own domain. Please refrain from editing pages whose subjects have a direct connection to yourself, and please refrain from citing to yourself at all. Thank you. JFHJr (㊟) 18:03, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Your edit summary
Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the article Vik Muniz has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Thank you. JFHJr (㊟) 18:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

help me Adding "Documentary"
Trying to add below. I see other page using imbd as a source so please let me know this meets reference guideline.

removed code, made them in Sandbox as suggested. added Infobox to Sandbox.


 * IMDB is not a reliable source, especially for biographical content about living persons (see WP:BLPSPS). Its use on other pages does not make it OK. In fact, if you are inclined, you can probably remove it if you notice its use in other living persons' biographies. Best of luck. JFHJr (㊟) 18:49, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

JFHJr., Thank you for your help.

Vik Muniz
Hello again. I noticed you recently edited the Muniz article to add content without any supporting cites in several places. I also noticed you added information in the personal section, along with a cite to a Brazilian tabloid; the photograph and caption you cited to do not even mention most of the information you've added. You've also added birth place and residence without any supporting cites. You've also continued to refer to this subject in a non-encyclopedic tone, using his first name. This is not the first time you've made these kinds of problematic edits. Please stop adding information that is not supported by a reliable source. Thank you. JFHJr (㊟) 15:31, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Copyright violation
Your addition to Vik Muniz has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article 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. To be clear, you inserted material in this edit that is a clear cut/paste copyright violation of this source — you didn't even take out the hyphenation from the line break in that source. This isn't your first blatant copyvio, and as you're apparently some kind of journalist, you should definitely know better. Stop please. JFHJr (㊟) 20:15, 6 December 2012 (UTC)