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October 2017

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from one or more pages into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The text has been removed as it is unsourced,tweak but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 07:23, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hi again, Tom. I see you have again been copying Wikipedia material without proper attrobution, per User:Doug Weller above, despite previous warnings from User:Diannaa. You did attempt to give attribution here, and I give you credit for that, but it wasn't sufficient. Diannaa showed you in this post (which you have now removed) how to do it so that it complies with our rules for proper attribution. Another thing, also, is that you tend to move text that is not very relevant in the new place. Your move of text from Jian Yang (politician) to Chinese New Zealanders is an example of that — it's out of place and not highly relevant. I've removed it. At the very least, it would need some context (as well as proper formatting).

The text you added to four articles today including Amine Gemayel is a copyright violation from Sputnik News. (You had already added the same to Lebanon–Syria relations in September.) And again, the text doesn't fit in most of the places you put it. I have blocked you indefinitely as a serial copyright violator. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bishonen | talk 09:34, 12 October 2017 (UTC).

Tomwalker89 (talk) 09:37, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

unblock | reason=I'm Sorry I didn't know. I really love using Wikipedia. I will stop doing these mistakes. Tomwalker89 (talk) 09:38, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Tomwalker89 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

if you block me for a day or a week I would and will understand but forever? No. Tomwalker89 (talk) 09:42, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I've changed my mind, because the text that was added to Amine Gemayel and other articles was a direct quote, via Wikileaks. I've unblocked, but please consider the other things I said. If you persist in lifting text from Wikipedia articles and putting it into other Wikipedia articles (where it often doesn't go very well) without correct attribution, you will be re-blocked. Bishonen | talk 11:17, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

• Seriously, how did you not know after all the warnings? And also, you keep adding stuff that simply doesn't fit. I'm afraid that looks like a competence issue. I'm also a little concerned that it takes a block to make you speak civilly[1] or to respond at all. But I will leave it to the reviewing admin. They may agree to shorten the block. Indefinite doesn't mean infinite. Bishonen | talk 09:52, 12 October 2017 (UTC). PS: and now I've unblocked, see above. Bishonen | talk 11:18, 12 October 2017 (UTC).

Thank You, God bless You. Tomwalker89 (talk) 11:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

I will NOW start doing Attribution for the pages Now. Tomwalker89 (talk) 11:28, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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And of course never add text to sourced text unless your text is backed by the source. Doug Weller talk 13:11, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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• Bishonen, Doug Weller, please see this. Tomwalker, you are WAY too close to the source; you need to take a lesson in paraphrasing. Moonriddengirl, I know we have an online tutorial on this--can you point the way? Drmies (talk) 14:31, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Bosnian war

I removed part of your additions, I hope this explains why. Basically the source you added is accusing the Saudi of sending money to Al-Qaeda, through a Bosnian 'cover charity', but it does NOT say that the money went to any AQ activities in Bosnia. I also removed it from the 'foreign fighters' article since it was about weapons/money rather than about 'fighters'. Pincrete (talk) 20:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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