User talk:Higginsal

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National varieties of English

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Decades

With regard to your recent edits to 1920s and other articles, please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Years and longer periods and MOS:DECADE, and refrain from adding apostrophes to decade names. Thank you. Hertz1888 (talk) 02:23, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Your contributed article, Living arthropod

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Living arthropod. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Arthropod. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Arthropod. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Higginsal, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Whistle Pops have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here.

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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. NeilN ^{talk to me} 01:07, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Badges and an intro to lots of other things

You might want to try The Wikipedia Adventure. It explains a lot of stuff about Wikipedia, and it gives you badges for completing it. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Higginsal! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Warning signs of drug use

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A tag has been placed on Warning signs of drug use requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://drugfree.org/article/look-for-warning-signs/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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March 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content.

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 ~~~~}}. NeilN ^{|talk to me]]} 23:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can be unblocked if you explain in your own words how you violated our copyright policy and how you will change your editing to adhere to it in the future. --NeilN]] ^{talk to me} 23:07, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[[User talk:NeilN (I cannot edit on my page. How can I answer if I can't edit on my page?)

Seeing you posted the above, why do you think you can't post here? --NeilN ^{talk to me} 00:09, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]