User talk:Mackmaine17

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16:02, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

July 2016[edit]

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as CIA activities in Guatemala. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 16:01, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I see you are still not adding the required attribution for public domain materials. It's simple to do; just add the template {{PD-notice}} as part of your citation. If you fail to do this, your edits could face removal as being a copyright violation. Please let me know if you still don't understand what to do or why we have to do it. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 23:31, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Final warning: Please start doing this immediately, or you risk being blocked from editing. — Diannaa (talk) 19:26, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Mackmaine17, 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 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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The welcome is sent as there are numerous low edit user edits on the cia articles with obvious limted understanding of wikipedia.

The PD notices - to repeat the previous messages - go inside the reference/cite tags being used, not in front. JarrahTree 12:48, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It appears whoever you folks are - you have not been given any training in what wikipedia is about. Your inserted paragraph has nothing to verify the assertions = you need WP:RS or otherwise your claims are WP:OR and must be reverted. JarrahTree 12:59, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]