User talk:ShaniceTillery

Specifics Regarding Carolyn Finnley

Does anyone know how long Carolyn Finnley backpacked across those countries/continents? ShaniceTillery (talk) 15:41, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Choice of topics

Hello! I see you've chosen climate change for your assignment. This article is a WP:featured article, which means it's been quite thoroughly vetted by the community, and will be difficult to improve for new editors. The climate change Wikiproject has a table of articles by how important they are and what quality they have. I suggest you choose a high-importance or top-importance C-class articles instead. Femke (talk) 16:22, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

That sounds like a viable option. Thank you! ShaniceTillery (talk) 22:52, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Femke is right. Anyway perhaps you have enough on your plate already with biome and tundra - if not how about one of these https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Climate_change/articles?quality=Start-Class&importance=High-Class ? Hope you enjoy your editing - let us know if you get stuck or would like any tips Chidgk1 (talk) 18:41, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

That sounds good. Thank you for your help! ShaniceTillery (talk) 22:52, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

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

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Thumbnail Wawa+on+Stage+and+mic.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Thumbnail Wawa+on+Stage+and+mic.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a copyright violation of https://www.onsf.uconn.edu/rhodes/ and has no credible claim of fair use or permission. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello ShaniceTillery! 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.

• 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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.
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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. Whpq (talk) 20:46, 9 February 2024 (UTC)