User talk:Lweiland

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Hello, Lweiland, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:00, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution issues

As I mentioned to you in my reply to your email, this edit included an extensive section that was taken verbatim from the EPA document you cited. Since the document was produced by the US federal government and is not subject to copyright, this isn't a copyright violation. However, without quotes or specific attribution, this was flagged as a plagiarism issue. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have added {{PD-notice}} templates to the citations so that it's clearer to the reader that these are quotations from the documents and not original prose. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]