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  Hello. In a recent edit, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

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Wikipedia and copyright edit

  Hello Lrtwiki! Your additions to Draft:Ambrosio Flores 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.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ambrosio Flores has been accepted edit

 
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Guisit River (August 23) edit

 
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Guisit River (August 23) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by TheBirdsShedTears was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 08:36, 23 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

August 2021 edit

  Your edit to Teófilo Yldefonso 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) 11:56, 23 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Guisit River has been accepted edit

 
Guisit River, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

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September 2021 edit

  Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as 2016 in Philippine law and politics. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 22:11, 10 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

  Your edit to 2017 in Philippine law and politics 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. This is your final warning. Further violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy will result in you being blocked from editing.Diannaa (talk) 10:56, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: John C. Law (September 19) edit

 
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Blocked edit

 
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If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  — Diannaa (talk) 13:11, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

I have blocked your account, because in spite of repeated warnings, you continued to add copyright material to Wikipedia in violation of our copyright policy. You cannot resume editing until you provide a statement describing how copyright applies to Wikipedia, show that you understand our copyright policy, and make a commitment to follow it in the future.— Diannaa (talk) 13:11, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

 
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Request reason:

Hi Diannaa! I believe you have my account blocked due to my alleged continuous edits made this month of September 2021, the latest being in the BSA (The Software Alliance) article. I wish for my account to be unblocked because of the following reasons: 1. My latest edits that were flagged for copyright violation are made in the public domain and made by the government of the Philippines. My contributions to that article are from the Press Release made by the Optical Media Board of the Philippine Government, published at the government website. According to the Copyright Law of the Philippines, "No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines." (Sec. 176, Part IV, Chapter IV, IP Code). After publishing, I immediately added "{{PD-notice}}" at the reference made, to be clear that the information came from a non-Copyright item from the government of the Philippines. 2. I have been also flagged from my previous edits, specifically from my edits whose references are from Philippine news sources. Please note that news and "other miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information" are also items that are not copyrighted in the Philippines. (Sec. 175, Part IV, Chapter IV, IP Code) I do understand that I may have provided some items from non-Filipino news sources, but majority of your flagged items from me is from Philippine news sources. Note that they are not from an editorial/opinion points of view, but of items of press information. 3. I understand that there may be conflicts between the Copyright laws in the Philippines and in Wikipedia's policies. That's why I complied immediately to the previous flagged items from government sources with "{{PD-notice}}" to imply I never intend to violate copyright laws. Having said all of these points, I appeal to unblock my account from editing, as I am also an ardent supporter of free information. Also, if I may suggest, to fully review first the pertinent copyright laws of other countries besides U.S. before making any sanctions. It is disheartening and discouraging for editors of other nations, like me, to be flagged by supposed copyright violations not applicable to the material. With all respect Lrtwiki (talk) 19:53, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Accept reason:

You are correct - the source webpage is public domain and is marked as such. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 20:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the quick response Diannaa! Moving forward, perhaps I'll respond quickly as well to flags to prevent miscommunication and a probable escalation of issues. Lrtwiki (talk) 20:21, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

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November 30 edit

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No worries. I thought the link to the existing Wiki articles are enough. Thank you for the reminder, I'll add the citations. Lrtwiki (talk) 10:06, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

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