User talk:Alen232

July 2020[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Fauna of England into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Lord Belbury (talk) 13:13, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it looks like this all came from https://wikitravel.org/en/England ? Although both Wikipedia and Wikitravel are CC-licenced wikis, they take a very different writing style. The content there is a useful starting point, but shouldn't just be copied across word-for-word to Tourism in England, especially without saying where you took the text from. --Lord Belbury (talk) 13:24, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

England tourism[edit]

All sounds good. You're free to use the wikitravel text as a starting point, but it will need to be rewritten to take into account some of Wikipedia's policies. The key ones probably being:

WP:SUBJECTIVE - Wikipedia articles should be neutral and objective, they shouldn't praise things subjectively (so no "England is a beautiful country...")
WP:TONE - articles need to be written in a formal voice, the kind you'd expect an encyclopedia to take (not "London is already the most touristy city in the whole world")
WP:VERIFY - any surprising claims need to quote a reliable source (if London is the world's top tourist destination, where are we getting that from?)

I'll keep an eye on things and contribute what I can. I rolled it back to the previous version of the article for now. --Lord Belbury (talk) 13:40, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you clarify where you're copying this text from, just so other editors can check it's okay to do that? It looks like you're taking it from https://wikitravel.org/en/England, but some of the text crops up in a few different places online, by now. --Lord Belbury (talk) 15:06, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]