User talk:Wikfresh

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Hello, Wikfresh, 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 discussion 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! Haploidavey (talk) 22:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Wikfresh - you've probably noticed that I've reverted your addition to Hermes, and have given some of my reasons in the article edit summary (this will be visible when you go to the article's history). Please, don't let this put you off editing that article or any others. It might help you to study the links in the Welcome message above, particularly those relating to: Primary and Secondary sourcing for articles: the use of commentary by reliable secondary scholarship as a digest of primary material: organisation of material: and how to provide citations in an acceptable Wikipedia format.

You might care to look through some of Wikipedia's better articles on ancient Greek and Roman deities - some provide particularly good models for any editor. This brings me to the other reason I reverted your edits: they conflate Roman Mercury and Greek Hermes, as if completely interchangeable. Strictly speaking, they're not, even if many translators (and quite a few primary sources, especially Roman literary sources and even - now and then - some Wikipedia editors) imply they are. If you'd like to discuss this further, I'd be happy to offer further input here, or on the article talk-page. And again, please don't let this put you off! Regards. Haploidavey (talk) 22:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Copyright infringements and Wikipedia
More seriously, the material you added seems to be a straightforward cut & paste from theoi.com. Cut & paste into Wikipedia from books and other websites is not allowed - it infringes copyright law. Please read WP:COPYOTHERS. Haploidavey (talk) 22:57, 28 May 2011 (UTC)