User talk:Gini Garbick

Welcome![edit]

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February 2016[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 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. 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi--despite your good intentions, you may not post content that is a copyright violation, not text that's clearly unencyclopedic in tone. Thanks, 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Steve Perry. Your edits have been or will be reverted or removed.

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Note: The content you are adding appears to be highly promotional; please note that encyclopedic content should be written to maintain a neutral point of view. Also, a copy/paste of content from another site represents a copyright violation. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:59, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Gini Garbick[edit]

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A tag has been placed on User:Gini Garbick, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://ginigarbickdesigns.com/gini/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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It appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. (See section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:40, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Persistent copyright violations and promotional edits[edit]

Hi Gini Garbick, I understand that you're new here, but despite repeated reversions of your edits and explanations of their inappropriateness, you've continued to post copyright violation and unacceptably promotional content, both in article and user space. Please read the site's guidelines, as posted above. If these edits persist I'll ask that your account be blocked. Thanks, 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 13:30, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, I have requested assistance. An administrator will review your contributions. 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 13:38, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Gini Garbick, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Steve Perry 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. If you copy/paste material into an article again, you may be blocked from editing without further warning.. Please follow these instructions if you are the owner of the copyrighted content, and do not insert it again until ownership is verified. Thank you. Katie^talk 18:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Commenting on the above ... as I mentioned at User talk:Barek#Steve Perry, material added to the article must be supported by reliable published sources. Your self-published fan-site would not meet the threshold of being a reliable source for purposes of Wikipedia content.

If you can locate a reliable source for the material, please also note that content in our articles must be written from a neutral point of view, omitting puffery and promotional wording. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:11, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 19:55, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]