User talk:MissesX

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Previous edits

In this diff, you state that you have previously edited. Your account is new, and what apparently is your IP has no older edits, so if you have any other accounts, you should disclose them. Thanks. Home Lander (talk) 21:38, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Original research?

You wrote “It may also be the true clues the common tribal name” but that appears to be your opinion. As editors it is our role to represent sources meeting WP:RS and we shouldn’t add our own ideas. See WP:NOR. Also, the link you gave isn’t sufficient to meet WP:VERIFY. You need to link to a specific page. Doug Weller talk 07:55, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced or badly sourced material

Most of what you are adding seems to have no sources. I see you've used a thesis submitted as partial fulfillment of an MA - I used to mark such theses and they definitely are not sources we would ever use. Doug Weller talk 14:02, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello MissesX, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Tolowa 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.

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Your addition to Ahtna 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. — Diannaa (talk) 14:37, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

June 2021

Hello, I'm Netherzone. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Hi, please add a reference to a reliable source for the (translated) Pueblo names you added to Santa Clara Pueblo. Material like this needs to be sourced. You can add the edit back if you add a citation. Thanks! Netherzone (talk) 17:01, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Wasco-Wishram, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Hello again, I noticed that you also added unsourced material to the Wasco-Wishram article, I have tagged the material with a "citation needed" maintenance tag. Please add a citation (reference) to a reliable source, it's encyclopedia policy to do so. If you are unfamiliar with how to create a reference, I highly recommend the Tutorials that are available (it's linked in my message above.) You can also ask for help at the Teahouse or the Help Desk. All content must have a reference, especially thinks like place names! Also, you edit removed a reference - it seems that you accidentally removed the code for a reference to the sentence just before your addition. I added it back along with a maintenance tag for the citation. I'll leave the tag there for a few days so you can look for a citation in a Reliable Source. See WP:RS and WP:CS. Thank you. Netherzone (talk) 17:13, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding the source for the article Wasco-Wishram. When you find the time, do you think you could add citations to the other unsourced material that you have added to other articles? Otherwise there's the risk that your contributions could be deleted. Thanks in advance. Netherzone (talk) 17:42, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Umatilla language into Umatilla people. 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. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 23:41, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]