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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:52, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
@WikiDan61: Thank you Dan for your message, I hope to educate more people when adding or editing wikipedia pages. I already edited a page of "Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia", however you have reverted it for copyright reasons? Why is this? I do not understand.
- It appears that the text you added to the page was copied directly from this source. That is not allowed at Wikipedia. The links above give a pretty clear explanation of the relevant policies. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:50, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
@WikiDan61: Thank you yet again for your reply. That is me on the forum who posted that topic (see the name Pavlos, and my username Pavlos as well), thus I wrote that all myself, I am a collector in Ancient Greek coins. How does wikipedia deal with these kind of things? It is no plagiarism and I only try to educate more people in the topics of Ancient Greek coins. Do I need to proof something? Thanks in advance.
- My best advice is not to copy the text verbatim, but instead to summarize the points made on the forum. I don't recall if you cited any sources in your original edit (it has since been redacted so I can't review it), but if you did not, and this information is based on your own research, that also is not permissible. If you did cite reliable sources, then I encourage you to restore your edits. You might also try appealing to the editor who redacted the text, pointing that you retain copyrights to the content written there, based on its Terms and Rules. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:39, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
- I am the admin who redacted the content. As WikiDan61 suggests reprinting text verbatim is not a good idea. It doesn't matter that you retain your copyright from another site, the same applies here on Wikipedia - we all retain the copyright on our contributions, the difference being that here we automatically re-licence those for reuse under the cc-by-sa-3 licence - the problem is that we can't prove that you and the contributor on cointalk are the same person. I've absolutely no reason not to suppose that you are but I can't prove that. There are two easyish options. The first is for you to email Wikipedia as outlined at WP:DONATETEXT. The second, and easier imo, is to simply rewrite the content so that it isn't a direct copy. Obviously it should still include the sources (which need to be expanded to make the content more verifiable) but reword the text. Nthep (talk) 15:03, 2 July 2020 (UTC)