User talk:68.157.29.52

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Hi! I notice you've added lots of material to various nation articles, but much of it has been removed by me and others mainly because it looks like it was copied from some place else. We have to be on the safe side with regard to copyrights to avoid getting Wikipedia in legal trouble. If you could explain where the information is from, whether you wrote it yourself or what sources you used, that would clear things up and be great. You can explain your edits in the Edit summary and you should also cite your sources in the article. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or simply edit this page and respond here if you so prefer. Thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience. Hope you understand. Shanes 21:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] References on Wikipedia

I moved your message to User:Shanes to his or her talk page. See User talk:Shanes. If you want to communicate with someone on Wikipedia, their talk page is usually the best place to do it. You can also add messages here, since Shanes has said that he or she will watch this page, and I will also see any message you put here.

To briefly answer your question about how you place references: it may differ slightly from one article to the next, because Wikipedia has used difference reference methods at different times. You should follow the reference method already in use for each article. The most common method, and the one used at Tuvalu, is to place a reference at the end of the relevant statement as follows: <ref>Squires, N. April 1, 2006. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4864748.stm Testing time for tiny Tuvalu]. BBC News URL Accessed 2006-05-13</ref>, where the <ref> and </ref> tags are delimiters for the reference. This will produce a superscripted number in the text, with the material between these tags appearing near the bottom of the article. See Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Footnotes for much more information.

If you haven't already looked at Wikipedia:Introduction and Wikipedia:Tutorial, you'll probably find them helpful too.-gadfium 00:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation

Hi. I've deleted some of your additions to Western New Guinea -- they are copied verbatim from Fox Country Watch. These pages all have a copyright notice © Copyright 2005 CountryWatch.com. All Rights Reserved. I didn't delete your earlier edits, so if these were copied they'll have to be deleted too. You can read about the Wikipedia policy on copyrights at Wikipedia:Copyrights. -- Ngio 22:47, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Further

A look through your contributions suggest your are copy and pasting large amounts of information without proding references. The three I have looked at so far, Western New Guinea, East Timor and Kiribati, have all had copyright material copy and pasted from [1] and other country pages on this site. I'm about to report this to the admin notice board for comment. Also, where are you copyig the 'Balance of Payments' sections from? regards --Merbabu 01:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

This user appears to have moved to 70.152.248.166 (talk • contribs) and Longjohn3 (talk • contribs).-gadfium 19:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)


I have blocked this account for 24 hrs for the string of copyright violations (see User talk:Longjohn3 for more information). Please do not continue such edits when the block expires. Georgewilliamherbert 03:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issues

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Georgewilliamherbert 04:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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