User talk:Katja9 10

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Hello, Katja9 10, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] plot summaries

Thanks for your work on Wikipedia's movie articles! However, please don't copy plot summaries from imdb (or other sources). Wikipedia's content needs to be licensable under the GFDL, and unless you were the one who originally wrote those plot summaries, we need to respect their copyrights. Thanks! Steve Summit (talk) 16:34, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 3% for major edits and 14% for minor edits. (Based on the last 111 major and 14 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 19:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whoah, nelly!

Thanks again for your energetic contributons, but if I can make another suggestion: pick a couple of movies you know well, and write something new and original about them. We're going for quality here, not quantity. If someone could get the same information about a movie (cast list, plot summary, trivia/goofs, etc) at imdb, there's no need to have a redundant page here. (And of course we can't cut-and-paste any of that other information here, either.) Thanks for trying to paraphrase the plot summaries, but it would be better still if you could write them from scratch. Steve Summit (talk) 19:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I have to disagree with Steve a little here. We have a rule against writing original things, called "no original research", so you should only be making contributions that you can back up directly by reference to another site. Also wikipedia is for everyone, not just people with the internet who can access the imdb, so duplicating information is not a problem as long as the topic is reasonably important. Of course, copyright is a problem for us, so please use your own words when you write. Kappa 03:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)