User talk:Mfisch29

Welcome![edit]

Hi Mfisch29, I am also a student editor looking to peer review your article on Mass racial violence in the United States let me know where your edits are as I don't see them on here. Lschwendy (talk) 21:40, 9 March 2017 (UTC)Lschwendy[reply]

Hi, Mfisch29. I would like to peer review your article, but I can't seem to find any edits. Reply back if they are there. Madelinedietrich (talk) 13:19, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Mass racial violence in the US[edit]

Hi - I'm Doug Weller, an experienced editor here. I meant to do something about this earlier today. I'd appreciate it if you'd stop adding to this article until I can further review it. I have a couple of concerns. One is that I'm not convinced that [1] meets our criteria for sources at WP:RS and WP:VERIFY. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great site. But is is a personal website written by Todd Villeneuve, who isn't an academic and doesn't claim to be one. He's basing his website on good sources I'm sure, but it's not suitable for us.

The other is that a lot of the writing is easily recognisable as being paraphrased from the website, and that isn't allowed here. I need to check it again, but I may have to remove some of completely, not just from the article but from the history. (I'm an WP:Administrator and can do that). I'm going to post a notice to this page in a minute explaining the issues. I'll get back to you tomorrow. Doug Weller talk 16:59, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Mfisch29, and welcome to Wikipedia. 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.
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 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.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
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 can, but please follow the steps in 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. Doug Weller talk 17:00, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Again, please stop[edit]

I've had to delete a number of your additions as I explained above. There are two other problems. One is that most of the article is a list, and most of those on the list already have their own articles. I don't think there's a need to go into detail in this particular article and indeed I believe it detracts from the article. But more than that, the linked articles are in each case the main article for that subject, so any material added should reflect that article. See WP:SUMMARY. One further point while I'm here, if you ever copy text from one article to the other, you must note that in the article you're copying to, usually by an edit summary saying "text copied from article. That't the only way we can trace who added what to an article and is required to avoid copyright violations. Thanks. I hate wrecking your hard work, but I did ask you to stop. I haven't removed it all, I left a couple of your last edits. Doug Weller talk 18:16, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]