User talk:74.213.48.38

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello 74.213.48.38, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones 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 Wikipedia: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.

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 cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help: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 Wikipedia: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 the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse 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 Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia: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 leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — 🎄 Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I added this on your User talk page as well --- I wish to clarify your misunderstanding that led you to delete my restoration of a large passage of the controversy section. I was restoring this passage, which Baidelan had deleted in December 2019 for shaky reasons (see the "Cleanup" section of the article's talk page). Furthermore, this passage was not copied and pasted from the allreaders.com message board to Wikipedia, rather it was the reverse, this passage was written for and published on Wikipedia, and then copied and pasted from Wikipedia to the allreaders.com discussion. Look at the date stamp of the message containing the passage on the allreaders message board - 4/11/2011. Now go back and look at the version of the page on 4/6/2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aline_Griffith,_Countess_of_Romanones&diff=422724632&oldid=422724569

(I apologize, I am rusty at harvesting diffs)

As you can see, the complete passage was on Wikipedia 5 days BEFORE it was on allreaders.com. It's original to Wikipedia, so can stay on Wikipedia (if we had to delete everything on Wikipedia that had later been copied from Wikipedia and used somewhere else, we'd be in a real pickle :) ) 74.213.48.38 (talk) 21:51, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020

Your addition to Texas cichlid has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 11:02, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The text you deleted from Texas cichlid as a “copyright violation” of an aquabid.com posting from 2018 was NOT an instance of me copying from Aquabid, actually, Aquabid copied that text from an older version of Wikipedia. If you will look at this version of the Wikipedia page from March 10, 2009, that predates the Aquabid.com posting by NINE YEARS, you will see that the Aquabid.com website copied this text from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Texas_cichlid&diff=966818306&oldid=276314010 Some time between when Aquabid copied this text and now, the text was removed from the page, though it was good information that was properly sourced.

I really wish you’d be more careful when removing something as a copyright violation and then warning the editor, because this is the SECOND TIME you have mistakenly claimed something I wrote was a copyright violation this year (first was on the Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones page). Whatever bot or tool you are using to find potential copyright violations is obviously flawed and you should be wary of using it without double-checking from now on. 74.213.48.38 (talk) 16:03, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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