Dzkk9
Joined 5 August 2023
Latest comment: 9 months ago by Yngvadottir in topic Welcome!
ANI edit
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. JMWt (talk) 17:36, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Dzkk9, thanks for joining us and for trying to add to the information in the encyclopedia. Unfortunately, you made several mistakes.
- Don't sign in article space, only on talk page messages and noticeboard posts.
- You must say where you got all your information (almost always done by making a footnote with <ref> and </ref> tags). That's why articles have "References" sections and is one of our basic rules, verifiability. At the top of the editing window that I am typing in now (it may be in a different position for you; I use a different skin from the default), it says: "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources."
- It also says at the top of my edit window: "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted." Never copy from the sources you are using. Wikipedia is publication, so copyright violation is a serious legal matter. Just because something is on the internet does not mean that it is not copyrighted; it is unless it explicitly says it isn't, and the "fair use" exemption for academic discussion does not apply to Wikipedia. Much of the text of your expansion of Kingdom of North Sudan is taken from this Daily Mail article. I appreciate that you put some of it into your own words, but all text you add to Wikipedia, except for clearly marked quotations, must be in your own words (summary is almost always the best way to do this). I see someone has now asked an administrator to "revision delete" your two edits to that page, which I was planning to do myself.
- "Anybody can edit" includes others being able to change or remove what you write here (again, except for on talk pages and noticeboards). That's what a wiki is, and is covered by the legal notice that is under my edit window, again maybe somewhere else for you: "By publishing changes, you agree to the Terms of Use". Your expansion of the redirect into an article can be found through your contributions page and through the history page for Kingdom of North Sudan: until it gets "revision deleted", here is the page as you left it (I got there by clicking on "00:21, 6 August 2023"). It turns out that you were re-expanding something that there had been a consensus to delete: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingdom of North Sudan. Sometimes editors will disagree with something you do. But your work is almost never lost from the history of a page, and as you have now discovered, we have noticeboards and other discussion spaces where editors talk through disagreements. There is also a talk page associated with almost every page (sometimes it is a red link and has to be created for discussion to start there): Talk:Kingdom of North Sudan exists but is now disused because the page is a redirect; Talk:Bir Tawil is now the best place to discuss.
I hope this clears up some things. You've had a rough start here, so I am going to make a new beginning below this with a "welcome template" with links to how we do things; both pages where you can read information about our rules and guidelines and help pages with resources for new editors. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:52, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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