User talk:Ubcstudent1234

Welcome!

Hello, Ubcstudent1234, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Happy editing! jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:48, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Office

You like The Office, too, I see, from these edits. :) Note how much easier it feels to add info to Wikipedia about, say, a TV series, and it's perhaps no surprise that pop culture is better covered than (say) literature. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 04:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Valdes 1999?

Hi, I see you are citing a source you call "Valdes 1999" in your edit here.

Could you put the full reference somewhere in the article. And also you may need to include page numbers etc. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 20:25, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Ubcstudent1234, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to The House on Mango Street 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.

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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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.
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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. — Diannaa (talk) 17:37, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issues

Good morning @Diannaa:.
My group and I were attempting to add onto this article, and shape it more, as a school project. We were trying to cite where it was necessary. We will paraphrase more, and put the content into our own words.
Thank you,

Good Article Nomination

I have just added The House on Mango Street to the list of "Good Article" nominations. I will try to get someone to review it in the next few days. But note that there is still work to be done, not least on fixing some of the references. Note for instance where instead of a page number we have "??." Whoever reviews the article will probably have other suggestions to make, too. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 10:48, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]