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Hello ArbCom, I notice you have removed my edits on the Cody's Books page. I sourced all the content from the Cody's own book, a history of their own store, so I am wondering why you have removed the passage. Please can you explain? I have never had any connection to the store myself but went totally by what is in their book. Balance person (talk) 07:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles must be written in the author's own words, and your addition about 1968 was directly copied and pasted from https://kids.kiddle.co/Cody%27s_Books which is a modified quote from page 3 of Cody's Books: The Life and Times of a Berkeley Bookstore. Please see WP:COPYPASTE and WP:QUOTE for rules. If direct quotes are used (which doesn't seem necessary in this instance) they must be properly attributed. Ekmz (talk) 16:04, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

The parts I added are in my own words. I have the original pages of the Cody's own book on the history of their store with me. I have copied and pasted nothing. The link you gave to kids.kiddle.co does not have anything in it related to my part of the history section. I cannot understand why you think there is. Balance person (talk) 16:47, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ekmz, I think you are misreading the diffs. The section beginning "Cody's served as a first-aid station..." was not added by Balance person; it existed in the article before their recent edit, and still existed in the article after your reversion. It was in fact added by @Classicfilms in this edit in 2008. CodeTalker (talk) 18:31, 30 May 2024 (UTC)