User talk:Sehgalshiv

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Sehgalshiv, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page All Is Well (film) has not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 23:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

August 2015[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at All Is Well (film), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Diffs: [1] Though I'm sure you mean well, you need to brush up on our guidelines for what constitutes a reliable source. Not every new reference is a good reference and this site looks like a blog to me. Please be aware that box office values are all estimates. The fact that one site reports a slightly higher estimate doesn't mean that it's any more accurate than another site's estimate. Also, in these edits you introduce personal analysis about the film's potential for success, and comparisons to other films, which are predicated on the false assumption that box office values are facts, which they are not. See the recent discussion at the Indian cinema task force for more info. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:56, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Sehgalshiv, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Brothers (2015 film) 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 Help: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 or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate 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. Diff: [2] Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:30, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

August 2015[edit]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to List of highest-grossing Indian films. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Diff: [3] This change needed to be referenced per the obvious embedded note. Your introduction of the addatoday.com reference is unsuitable, as you have already been told, because we don't include unreliable blogs as references. We need sources that have a clear reputation for fact checking, like a major news periodical. IBT, Times of India, etc. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:15, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to Brothers (2015 film) 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 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Diff: [4] Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

September 2015[edit]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for repeated submission of copyright violations and submission of content improperly supported non-reliable sources, as you did at Welcome Back (film) in these edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:12, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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