User talk:QuiteCurious

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Hello, QuiteCurious, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:07, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... I'm not sure if I am doing the editing correctly. I have copied and pasted some info from the Iris Johansen page, but not sure if this is being done right. Please advise. Thank you!

QuiteCurious (talk) 15:43, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@QuiteCurious:, thank you for your question but no, that is definitely not how we do things on Wikipedia. Cutting and pasting content from other websites is also known as a copyright violation, and Wikipedia has policies against such violations. Posting copyright violations can get your account blocked. Please remove the pasted information from whatever article you added it to as soon as possible. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:36, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ (contrib) I did not add anything to any article, but I am trying to make a draft in my sandbox. Any original content that I am trying to add info to has been noted as copied from Iris Johansen, and then in bold I am showing my changes. Again, nothing has been added to the article (this is ALL in my sandbox).QuiteCurious (talk) 18:42, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@QuiteCurious:, your sandbox still counts as your contributions to Wikipedia. When you created your account, you agreed to follow the Terms of Use laid down by the Wikimedia Foundation (this site's owners). All content you contribute to any site owned by the Foundation is required to be freely-contributed by the copyright owner, who then agrees to license it to the Foundation. Wherever you have placed any copied content, you are violating that copyright and those terms of use. You can add simple facts, such as book titles, but you cannot add copyrightable content you are not the original author of. I hope this helps. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:50, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ (contrib), Alright so I hopefully corrected what I had in my sandbox and just added the missing information with my thoughts in bold. Is this correct or am I still failing? (Thank you for your responses by the way).QuiteCurious (talk) 21:43, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@QuiteCurious:, its no problem. Every editor here started out as a newbie, after all. I took a look in your sandbox and I have some feedback. First, though, a general note about conversations with other editors: To ping another editor in your responses, simply typing the @ symbol doesn't do anything. To do that, you actually need to type {{reply|"the other editor's name"}} (including the curly braces and pipe character). So I type {{reply|QuiteCurious}} and you get notified. I don't see any problems with the additions you are indicating you intend to make. That said, I don't think they go far enough. The Iris Johansen article has a note at the top that identifies three issues that other editors have noticed with the article. Your edits would address the third (the updates) but the article still needs more information from secondary sources. You can find out more about what would be considered good sources at Identifying Reliable Sources. I hope this helps. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:47, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ @Eggishorn: Got it, thanks for your feedback.

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Please help me with... How do I get peer reviewed from assigned Wiki Ed staff? The person Shalor (Wiki Ed), does not seem to have a talk page... please advise. Thanks!QuiteCurious (talk) 21:16, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

QuiteCurious (talk) 21:16, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. User talk:Shalor (Wiki Ed) exists, and wouldn't that be the place to post your request? {{repeat|p|3}}ery (talk) 21:22, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Pppery: thanks for the response.