User talk:Utriflin

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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Utriflin! Your additions to The Witches of Eastwick (film) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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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. — Diannaa (talk) 23:27, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Reliable sources and BLPs
Hi there - I'm Girth Summit, an administrator here. Please take a moment to take a look at WP:RS, which discusses identifying reliable sourcing, and WP:BLP, which documents our policies on editing articles about living (and recently deceased) people. To be clear: biogossip.com is not a reliable source, and should never be used to support any assertions here. Thank you. Girth Summit  (blether) 12:46, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

August 2023
Hello, I'm Doniago. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Dian Fossey seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 12:48, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Coyright violations
I refer to your edits here:. Please read WP:COPYVIO, WP:COPYPASTE and WP:PARAPHRASE. You have only made very minor edits to the text you added, and copied and pasted other parts directly, such as the following text:
 * "The film's star, Bruce Willis, at the 1997 Cannes festival both to launch the film and a branch of the Planet Hollywood burger franchise he co-owned"

This is directly copied and therefore a copyright violation. While you did modify "made a splenetic attack on Variety's reviewer Todd McCarthy" to "announced a prompt retort to Variety 's McCarthy", you needed to modify all other parts of the text as well, not just these few words. While you can copy short direct quotes by placing them in quotation marks, that does not apply here. You placed the text 'saying critics were ignorant parasites, out of touch with public taste and had no influence on the success or otherwise of movies' into quotes and attributed it to Willis, however, the source you cited does not give that as a direct quote from Willis. It does not place the text in quotation marks, which strongly indicates the author of the article is summarizing Willis' comments, rather than directly copying them, meaning this is also a copyright violation.

In order to to add this information with due weight and without copyright violation, an appropriate summary of what you tried to add may have been simply "Willis responded to McCarthy's review by saying critics were ignorant parasites who were out of touch with public taste." The fact Willis is the film's star has already been clarified and really does not need to be mentioned again even if it wasn't a copyright violation, the fact he co-owned Planet Hollywood is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, and his final comment on critic's influence is not relevant to the topic at hand either. The article you cited is about critic influence, but this Wikipedia article is not. I have decided not to salvage anything from the source at all though for reasons including the fact it is not clearly a direct quote from Willis but rather a second-hand summary, and the section you added this to is about critical response of the film itself, and actor opinions of those reviews aren't overly relevant. Damien Linnane (talk) 00:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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