User talk:Lyla407
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West Lake Hangzhou
[edit]Hello Lyla407, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to West Lake has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
- 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 a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Wikipedia: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 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 designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
- In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk 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 without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in 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. Rincewind42 (talk) 05:59, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
External links
[edit] Hello, I'm Rincewind42. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page Chengdu, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Additionaly similar links have been removed from West Lake, Qiandao_Lake, Tongli, Namtso, West Ujimqin Banner, Lusheng, Shui Xi, Paeonia (plant), Dongjing Meng Hua Lu (Dreams of Splendor of the Eastern Capital), Shennongjia, Mount Qingcheng, Zhongnan Mountains, and Dunhuang Rincewind42 (talk) 08:16, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Stop posting links to chinatouradvisors.com
[edit] Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Wuyi Shan. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Likewise the articles Mount_Sanqing and Mount Heng (Hunan) have had similar links removed Rincewind42 (talk) 16:22, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Copying text form other websites.
[edit] Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Rincewind42 (talk) 16:25, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
December 2013
[edit] This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Grape Valley, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. SummerPhD (talk) 21:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Do not add copyrighted material or link to commercial websites
[edit] This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, as you did at Datong, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.
Your addition to Datong has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
-- Rincewind42 (talk) 16:22, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:26, 22 December 2013 (UTC)