User talk:Killian James
May 2017[edit]
Welcome![edit]
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Edits on other's User talk pages[edit]
FYI, Ordinarily you leave the messages, and don't delete them. They may later be archived. Usually its is up to the individual user what they want (or not) on their WP:User pages. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:48, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright[edit]
Hello Killian James, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Mercy College (New York) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of 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.
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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) 15:16, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
May 2017[edit]
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Mercy College (New York). Please do not copy and paste content into Wikipedia again. This is considered a copyright violation and is against Wikipedia's terms of use. For more information please see the details above this warning TonyBallioni (talk) 02:17, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Jews article[edit]
- Killian, please do not re-add material which is unencylopedic. Please read the entire article first. Thanks! Irondome (talk) 22:06, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Please do not edit war and by mindful of the Three revert rule. Use the talk page to gain consensus for your edit. El_C 22:07, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
3RR warning[edit]
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. El_C 22:10, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
June 2017[edit]
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Jews. You are WP:EDITWARRING without attempting discussion on the talk page. See WP:BRD as best practice. Irondome (talk) 22:09, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
"Advertising" tag on University of Queensland article[edit]
Hi Killian. I'm a bit puzzled as to why you feel that those two phrases in the lead of this article ("UQ is consistently ranked first for business administration, mining engineering and life sciences in Australasia" and "admits the majority of its state's", according to your edit summary) are promotional or advertising in tone. The former of these statements is linked to three separate citations, two of which are independent of the subject - being Times Higher Education and Shanghairanking.com - and the latter is cited as well, admittedly to a UQ source rather than anywhere else. Per the policy on WP:NOTADVERTISING, "Information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery", which I submit that those two phrases are. If the lead had said something like "UQ is the best university ever and all the smart kids go there", I'd agree with you, for example. Perhaps there's a reword that you and I could agree on? Happy to discuss here, on my Talk page or on that of the article. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:31, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
June 2017[edit]
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