User talk:IrmaWinston

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Blythwood (talk) 00:08, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for editing with Black Lunch Table! Please reach out if you have any questions!

Heathart (talk) 21:22, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello IrmaWinston! Your additions to Nadia Huggins 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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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. – Hilst [talk] 22:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello Hilst – thank you for your comments. The material I quoted was in fact written by me for an article for Caribbean Beat and is in the public domain and available for use once the Caribbean Beat article is quoted as a source, which it is. That notwithstanding, I understand Wikipedia's guidelines and I can and will reword my words for here so that they are not so similar to what I originally wrote. As part of my update, I edited the exhibition list but I see that those edits have been removed. Can you please advise as to what the issue was with that listing? I thought that they were correctly cited and linked. Looking forward to hearing back so I can work on the page again. I will also need to look to see if there is a record of the edit as there was a bit of work that went into it. Thanks again. IrmaWinston (talk) 17:46, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello. The Caribbean Beat article has no indication that it is in the public domain or licensed under a free license (as explained in WP:DONATETEXT). The edit for the exhibition listing was deleted because the copyrighted material from the previous edit was still present. As for a record of the edit, you could ask Whpq, the admin who performed the RevDel, to undelete it for you. – Hilst [talk] 18:35, 23 January 2024 (UTC)