User talk:NewsIndustryFan60

Welcome![edit]

Hello, NewsIndustryFan60, 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 edits to the page Jim Watkins have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of 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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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello NewsIndustryFan60, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Jim Watkins 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.
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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. Tiptoety ^talk 22:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Once again - everything you just added to that article is a direct copy/past of this and is a copyright violation. Please do not add it again, your account will likely be blocked if you do. Additionally, Wikipedia is a factual Encyclopedia, not a vanity site. Please attempt to be neutral when editing articles. Thanks, Tiptoety ^talk 01:44, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your question at the Help desk[edit]

	Hello NewsIndustryFan60. Replies have been posted to your question at the Help desk. If the problem is solved, please place {{Resolved\|1=~~~~}} at the top of the section. Thank you!
	Message added on 15:32, 8 February 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{helpdeskreply}} template.