User talk:Vincentmsexton

September 2023
Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as American Women quarters. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Plagiarism, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. '' Thanks for contributing to American Women quarters, but you may not copy and paste content from other websites to Wikipedia. Please summarize information in your own words rather than putting longer paragraphs in the article. In this instance, the summaries should be relevant to the coins and their specific designs – more in-depth biographical information is available in the honorees' linked articles and doesn't need to be on this page.'' Reywas92Talk 22:17, 25 September 2023 (UTC)


 * well, thanks for deleting all my hard work...if you knew it was public domain why not just attributre it while it was there? Vincentmsexton (talk) 08:46, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I guess this template didn't convey it properly: the point wasn't just the lack of attribution, but that (a) this article is about the quarter series, so multi-paragraph biographies are not needed here when there are links to their full articles (b) this was written in the voice of the Mint, not Wikipedia's, so the language style/format was off; even if cited properly, it's better to rephrase it in encyclopedic tone (c) copy-and-paste isn't really hard work; although public domain content may be used, it's not appropriate to just paste it in like that unless necessary. Reywas92Talk 14:06, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks for your opinon, i am disabled, so this is in fact hard work. thanks again for the blanket deletion. Vincentmsexton (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * i feel that if instead of doing a blanet deletion, maybe you could have given me a day or two to fix it...or maybe even assisted me in 'fixing' it. why not try the collaborative approach? Vincentmsexton (talk) 09:57, 27 September 2023 (UTC)