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Hello Bastaco!

Hello Bastaco, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I see you have received some notes on your talk page before, but they were from "bots". I am an actual person, a long-time editor, not a piece of robotic software :). I see that you started on Wikipedia on 31st of August. I also see you have started numerous new articles on marine species of flatworms, and now also a species of nudibranch. I am part of WikiProject Gastropods, and so I noticed your new nudibranch article, which was listed for me by a bot. I also looked back at your user contributions to see what else you have done so far. Thank you for your enthusiasm and your contributions, it is nice to see an enthusiastic new editor, but... I have to point out at least one important problem, the same problem that was mentioned in the bot messages you have already received.

I have to explain that on Wikipedia we are not allowed to copy and paste text from other sites, almost all of which are protected legally by copyright. Even if you change the wording a little bit, that is not enough; it is still plagiarism. If you would like to use information from another site such as for example the Sea Slug Forum, you have to read their text, make sure you understand it, and then write it yourself from scratch, making sure the wording does not come out the same, or closely similar.

I say this because if you can't help us fix them, we may have to delete your new articles or at least "gut" them. Sorry about that. Please feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Thanks. All good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 13:44, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for your note on my talk page Bastaco. Remember that the copyright problem is not only with this sea slug article; I believe that the same problem exists in all of the articles you have started so far since August 31st 2012. I know it is not easy at first working out how to write a description differently from the way that the reference did, but if you try hard, you will learn quite quickly how to do this. All of us faced and overcame this same problem when we started on Wikipedia. Remember that the description in a Wikipedia article does not have to be in compressed prose. The description you write does not have to be shorter or the same length as the source you are using; it can of course use more words than the description in the original source.

But I also wanted to say that it is also not appropriate to use long quotations instead of re-writing the information. I do understand why you thought this might be OK, but saying that something is the reference for the info is not an excuse to more or less copy from it.

It seems that English is not your first language, so it is probably harder for you to totally re-write descriptions than it is for some others of us. I would like to point out that you can create stubs that do not include descriptions and habitat information. You could leave that for someone else do do later. But in the meantime we have to do something about the articles you have already created.

By the way, when you leave a note, please give it a heading and also please sign your name by making 4 of these "~" at the end of your note. Thanks! Invertzoo (talk) 14:36, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A new note on Thuridilla lineolata and Thuridilla gracilis

Hello Bastaco, I see you made two more sea slug stubs. The first one, Thuridilla lineolata, well, I just now fixed up in a whole bunch of ways to make it read OK. You will see the improvements I made to it if you look carefully to see how it is now, and how it compares with the second one. That one, Thuridilla gracilis, got tagged with a lot of criticisms at the top, which are in fact an accurate account of what was wrong with both of these stubs as you had left them. It's not easy at first to know what to do here on Wikipedia and how exactly to do it, but it would be good for you, and save the rest of us a lot of work, if you can learn how to make your stub articles more or less OK on the first go-round. Actually I generally recommend that new editors do not start writing articles right away, but spend a few months learning the ropes by editing other people's work before they start writing articles. I don't mind showing you how to do a few things, but I think perhaps you might need more help than I can offer right now, so I am showing you this notice.

Hi Bastaco. I've noticed that you've been having a few issues in your first few edits here. Wikipedia can be a steep learning curve to start with. I wondered whether joining the Adopt-a-user program might make things easier for you? Adopt-a-user pairs new users with experienced editors to help them learn the ropes.

You can find a suitable mentor by asking anyone from the list of adopters, or you can place the code {{subst:dated adoptme}} anywhere on your user page.

You seem to me to be an ideal adoption candidate, a keen, enthusiastic editor who just needs some help with some of the more esoteric areas of Wikipedia. If you feel that's not for you, no problem; just ignore this message. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 02:32, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A new reply to you

Thanks for your reply Bastaco. I fixed up both articles so they are now up to scratch, but it was quite a lot of work for me. I see there is another one you have done which I will also need to fix up I guess.

The next time you create a new article, it might be best for you to use our extremely helpful Article Wizard. That will ensure you get the article right in almost all respects right away.

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3. If you feel you must write new articles by yourself, try cut and pasting a pre-existing article on a similar species and then just customize it to the species you are dealing with. Either that or follow another article very closely in terms of the way it is formatted, what categories it used and so on. Do not make more headings than you need to.

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6. After you have saved, check the Blue links you have created in order to be sure they actually do connect to what you want them to, because sometimes there are surprises!

Good luck Bastaco. Let me know when you need help or when you want me to check new articles you have made. If I don't talk to you before your long trip, I hope it goes really well! Invertzoo (talk) 16:44, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Bastaco

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

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