User talk:Geodiidae

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Geodiidae, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Geodia barretti 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 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.
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.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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. — Diannaa (talk) 20:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

April 2016

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted.

Please take this opportunity to be sure you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. — Diannaa (talk) 03:11, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Geodiidae (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I now understood copyright rules after having had them explained to me with a fellow Wikipedia editor. Being a relative newbie on Wikipedian I admit I did not fully understand copyright rules on the articles I was trying to edit, furthermore as some of these articles are part of my own research field and I was sometimes the main author of the scientific articles used as a source to edit these articles on Wikipedia.Geodiidae (talk) 14:37, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Procedural decline: no response to the question below. Please, make new unblock request once you are ready to answer the question. Vanjagenije (talk) 23:50, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Just to make sure that you indeed understand copyright now and don't just say you understand (that unfortunately happens!), please give a short summary of how copyright is relevant to your edits on Wikipedia. Huon (talk) 22:35, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New unblock request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Geodiidae (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have once again read and fully understood copyright rules on Wikipedia. I also understood that I can only cite and not copy my own scientific papers (which was part of the problem that lead to my being blocked). Also I was mislead by the fact that the scientific papers by other authors I copied to Wikipedia were in fact licensed under Creative Commons (in this case from the academic journal PLoS ONE), which made me think I could freely copy parts of it directly on Wikipedia, always citing the authors, of course. Geodiidae (talk) 20:55, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

I am unblocking your account, as you understand and intend to follow our copyright policy in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 09:48, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]