User talk:Syedaa123

This user is a student editor in University_of_New_Haven/English_1112-27L_(Spring_2018) .

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Hello, Syedaa123, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 03:11, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright/plagiarism[edit]

Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material that closely paraphrased or took material verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Something to note is that it's fairly rare for states to release content into the public domain - the federal government does, but most of the states do not. In the case of the SPD, their work looks to be copyrighted with all rights reserved, meaning that it cannot be posted to Wikipedia.

Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:54, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]