User talk:Skymhnty

Hello, Skymhnty and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help one get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are interested in learning more about contributing, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Red Director (talk) 17:47, 26 October 2018 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Skymhnty. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Drive Increaser, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 20:51, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Junior Science Talent Search Examination - extensive data

Hello Skymhnty, thank you for your efforts to create and improve this article. However, Wikipedia articles are only supposed to provide a succinct encyclopedic overview of a topic, providing only information about its most noteworthy significant facts. Extensive secondary internal information, data, schedules, and other similar day-to-day information are usually not added. Such extended information should be hosted on the topic's own website, or in additional specialized sites and literature (see also WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:NOTDIRECTORY among other editing guidelines). I hope I could clarify this aspect, but please feel free to ask me or post at WP:Teahouse if you need any help with Wikipedia-related questions. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 09:45, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Junior Science Talent Search Examination

Thanks for creating Junior Science Talent Search Examination.

A New Page Patroller Graeme Bartlett just tagged the page as having some issues to fix, and wrote this note for you:

independent references - eg newspapers are good

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can reply over here and ping me. Or, for broader editing help, you can talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:22, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Your edit summary question

Hello Skymhnty, I'll just answer the question here. Communicating via edit summaries is a bit sub-optimal ;). Of course you can ask me at my user talkpage anytime, if you need help with something Wikipedia-related. To the actual question: I think a pure text logo doesn't add a lot to the article in this specific case. But it's not a big deal either way - if you think it's useful, no problem to keep it. GermanJoe (talk) 14:03, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to P. J. Hyett. Serols (talk) 19:41, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Skymhnty, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to FIITJEE have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 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 the 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.
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• 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 must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also 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) 12:47, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Block evasion

This user has engaged in block evasion as Tuwein and has threatened to continue evading the block unless we ignore the violations of WP:SOCK and WP:EVADE. This happened in January, 2019. --Yamla (talk) 19:26, 17 January 2019 (UTC)