User talk:Havelr
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Hello, Havelr, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:37, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Feedback on contribution[edit]
Hi @Havelr:, I have undone this edit of yours to Entertainment Software Rating Board because you copy-pasted content from a source, which is not allowed, as this is plagiarism. A few things:
- take (or retake) the dashboard training on plagiarism and copyright violation [1]
- In addition to being copy-pasted plagiarism, I would have undone your contribution even if it were put in your own words because you provided no citations. Per WP:BURDEN, if you change or add content of an article, then the burden of proof is on you to support your edits with citations to reliable sources.
- Take or retake the dashboard training on adding references here [2]
It is very important that you do not add plagiarism to Wikipedia. Repeatedly doing so can result in the loss of your editing privileges. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:19, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
@Elysia (Wiki Ed):, I understand the plagiarism part. I thought adding a citation next to the heading of the column would be a suitable substitute for adding the same citation next to every row under that column. I would've cited the same source around 30 times. I understand now that I should have added the citation next to every line. Is it okay to recreate the table, but change the 'Description' column by adding my own words instead of copying the description and adding the correct source to each line?
- I apologize, I didn't see that there was a reference in the header of the table. It would be acceptable to recreate the table using your own words. If you look in the above table, they have a reference for every row of the table, so that would likely be expected if you were to add a table to this article. It is not terribly onerous to reused citations, though. When you click "cite," you have an option to click the "re-use" tab where it shows all references in use in the article and you can select a reference from this list. That way, you don't have to type it in every time. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)