Josh097

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February 2021

Your edit to HAL TEDBF 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. Copied from https://euro-sd.com/2020/06/news/17468/indian-government-approval-for-tedbf/ - Ahunt (talk) 18:25, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Do I restructure it and write it in my own words? Josh097 (talk) 18:51, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes. This is from our resident Copyright guru, User:Diannaa

...Here's some useful/basic information regarding our copyright expectations written in plain English. Content has to be written in your own words and not include any wording from the source material. One thing I find that works for me is to read over the source material and then pretend I am verbally describing the topic to a friend in my own words. Stuff should also be presented in a different order where possible. Summarize rather than paraphrase. This will typically result in your version being much shorter than the source document. There's some reading material on this topic at Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing and/or have a look at the material at Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words. Check out the links in the menu on the left for some exercises to try. Or study this module aimed at WikiEd students.

Regarding what to include when adding to articles, what we do is use our sources as a source of information, and then write fresh prose using our own words. Don't write from your own knowledge; summarise what other people have written in reliable sources. Cite your sources. Wikipedia is hard to learn, so sorry, but I hope you stay and enjoy helping — Diannaa (talk)

(It's so good I felt I shouldn't paraphrase it!) BilCat (talk) 22:06, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Josh097 (talk) 22:14, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai medical cases chart

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai medical cases chart has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 09:42, 19 February 2022 (UTC)