Fidjeri

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Fidjeri! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

• Limited quotation: You may only copy or translate a small portion of a source. Any direct quotations must be enclosed in double quotation marks (") and properly cited using an inline citation. More information is available on the non-free content page. To learn how to cite a source, see Help:Referencing for beginners.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:52, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Improperly sourced statements regarding 2024 World Aquatics Championships

Hello, I'm Peloneous. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Doha, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. I have also removed the identical statement added to 2024 Summer Olympics whose citation was to a non-existent page on the Qatar Tourism website. Thank you.

Overlinking

Hello, I partially reverted your edits to Salman of Saudi Arabia as you added links to things that should generally not be linked; countries, especially common ones such as the ones you linked (China, Japan, Pakistan, etc.) should generally not be linked to, as described in MOS:OL, as well as dates, including the link you added to 2015. There is a reason those pages were not linked to before, and please take a look at the MOS conventions on what generally should and should not be linked. Thanks. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 23:26, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Zamzam Well. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. See MOS:OVERLINK. Please do not link country names. You have been warned about this previously. CodeTalker (talk) 17:34, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

October 2024

Hello, I'm Frost. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Qatari involvement in higher education in the United States have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Frost 11:53, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

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