User talk:CtMh67810

This user is a student editor in Indiana_University_of_Pennsylvania/Composition_I_-_Writing_Wikipedia__(Spring_2019) .

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Hello, CtMh67810, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:11, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tone, copyright/plagiarism[edit]

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.

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.

As far as tone goes, keep in mind that sections like 'fun facts' are seen as too casual for Wikipedia, which employs a more formal writing style and format. I know that some of the other content in the article was casually written, however part of that was because it was actually plagiarized itself from another source, Cooper's Royal Academy biography. I've reverted all of the edits since they all contained copyrighted material (most of which wasn't added by you). Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:21, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]