MoetDaPoet
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Hello, MoetDaPoet, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright edit
Hello MoetDaPoet, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Sexual sadism disorder 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. gnu57 19:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 edit
Your addition to Sexual sadism disorder 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. -Crossroads- (talk) 20:48, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Sexual sadism disorder edit
Hi, I saw your email and took a look at the page. Here are the reasons why the content was getting removed:
- It looks like a part of the content was taken verbatim or closely paraphrased from other sources like this one, which poses an issue with copyright and plagiarism even if you use the original citation as a source. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks.
- Some of the content was unsourced, which poses an issue with verification. Make sure that you pay really close attention to the module on editing health and psychology related topics. You may want to read over the [[WP:MEDRS|Wikipedia page about the guidelines as well, to supplement this.
- One of the concerns was that the material was written like a response to the topic and original research. Avoid phrases like "it should be noted" and "that said", as this will make content seem like original research, since it comes across like we as individual people are making judgement calls about what's important or what should be read.
The best thing to do would be to re-write the content in your own words and to make sure that we're only summarizing the content and not including judgement call statements. I can help you with this. Until then, don't post anything else to the article - we should work on this in your sandbox and then post to the article's talk page to get it reviewed, given that there were so many concerns. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:09, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- I wanted to add one last thing - I saw that you were repeatedly copying from other places over a fairly long period of time, then reposting content despite being repeatedly warned. I must impress upon you that it's extremely important that you not do this again or you will almost certainly be blocked from editing. It's also very important that we are careful to avoid plagiarism when we do any draft work as this can still lead to a block. I can't stress this enough. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:30, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Copyright/plagiarism edit
Please stop reposting content you copied from external sources. This is seen as plagiarism and a copyright issue even if you were to include the original source. Reposting this material will only run the risk of you getting blocked from editing. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:51, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
- I also want to note that if you repost this content again you will almost certainly receive a short block from editing. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)