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My edits to [[Historical inheritance systems]] were an appropriate and much needed improvment to the article. I was addressing concerns made on the article itself (with templates) and on the talk page. I explained my edits on the article talk page and I would appriciate if you would discuss any problems you have with them there rather than blindly revering everyone who made any edit since you did. This behaviour looks a lot like [[WP:OWN]] to me, so you should be careful to explain yourself and gain consensus rather than forcing your version. [[User:Sarahj2107|Sarahj2107]] ([[User talk:Sarahj2107|talk]]) 08:06, 31 May 2014 (UTC) |
My edits to [[Historical inheritance systems]] were an appropriate and much needed improvment to the article. I was addressing concerns made on the article itself (with templates) and on the talk page. I explained my edits on the article talk page and I would appriciate if you would discuss any problems you have with them there rather than blindly revering everyone who made any edit since you did. This behaviour looks a lot like [[WP:OWN]] to me, so you should be careful to explain yourself and gain consensus rather than forcing your version. [[User:Sarahj2107|Sarahj2107]] ([[User talk:Sarahj2107|talk]]) 08:06, 31 May 2014 (UTC) |
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I invested much time and effort writing this article for free, perhaps if you could understand that you wouldn't vandalize my article. It is you the one who is blind, for you destroy my article without realising how rude it is to ruin someone else's hard work and how will that person feel about it. If you are looking for a simpler article, perhaps you should go somewhere else. It is my intention to heighten the intellectual level of people, not to adapt to their intelectual mediocrity. Mentally challenged people like you destroy the world by making everything "user-friendly", thus destroying culture and wisdom and turning all people into fools who can hardy think and learn. I won't let you vandalize my article anymore; I have copies of this article and I will superimpose them over your edits if you make many modifications. I hope everything is clear to you now. |
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I have already multiple times requested to split this article into multiple articles! When are you going to start with that? The Banner talk 16:05, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. I'm just letting you know that this article reads like a research paper. It is far to intricate, detailed, and failing in encyclopedic tone for a single encyclopedia entry. Please note that although referenced to sources, we do not accept WP:Original Research. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:21, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- Hello, welcome to wikipedia. If you want help structuring/trimming this article (if not original research) do let me know, I will help you.--Andrea edits (talk) 13:42, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi gain. I notice that you reverted 8 lines of links. I only did this because the article is on list of 'too many wikilinks'. Banner at top of article explains the issues with the article. Whilst I was trying to offer help, I saw no comment there/here/my talk page. I understand that you feel reporting my actions is reasonable, no hard feelings on that. I will however withdraw my offer for future help on the article.Good luck with finishing the work.--Andrea edits (talk) 06:11, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with others that this article is far too long and detailed. It would be really helpful if you could cut it down to a readable length.----Ehrenkater (talk) 14:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hello, welcome to wikipedia. If you want help structuring/trimming this article (if not original research) do let me know, I will help you.--Andrea edits (talk) 13:42, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Ansegam, and welcome to Wikipedia. :) User:Cirt asked me to take a look at your question, and I just wanted to speak to you about our copyright policies.
It is, indeed, possible to infringe copyright without knowing it - copyright infringement isn't a matter of intention, and copyright can be infringed even if you mean no harm. I am not a lawyer and am not able to give you legal advice, but I have volunteered in copyright work on Wikipedia for some time and I have some experience with it outside of Wikipedia.
As a general rule of thumb, under the U.S. law that governs Wikipedia, you may infringe copyright if you substantially use somebody else's intellectual property in a manner that is not "excused", as by fair use. Users who do not live in the United States are bound to follow U.S. copyright law by our Terms of Use and local copyright policy, but they are also subject to the laws of the area where they live. For instance, a user from Germany once uploaded some copyrighted pictures to Wikipedia under our "non-free content policy and guideline", but he wrote me telling me that he had gotten into trouble with the owner of those pictures, who was also German, because that use was not legal where they lived. For your own safety, it's a good idea to review the copyright laws in your own country to be sure that what you do here is legal there. We do have some articles on copyright laws in various countries (for instance, Copyright law of Germany), but we can't guarantee that they're accurate. They may make a good starting point, but I would check out the sources they cite as well.
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- Good paraphrase is not always easy. :) Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing discusses how to achieve it.
I recommend reading Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the policies and guidelines it links to.
Glancing at Systems of social stratification, I can see the concern. It looks like you have connected together a lot of quotations with not a lot of material to support it. I would recommend you go into that article as soon as possible and convert most of that to paraphrase, using direct quotations only occasionally when the exact words of the author are important. It is not "original research" to paraphrase what other people have said, as long as you stick to their meanings (not their words!) and don't try t make it mean something new.
In terms of your other articles, please review them to see if you have always marked the content you copied and if that copied content conforms to what you see at Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked documents. Please consider whether any paraphrasing you have already done meets Wikipedia:Plagiarism and Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.
If you do this - and clean up anything that doesn't conform - you should be conforming with policy, which is intended to keep you compliant at least with U.S. law. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:13, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks very much, Moonriddengirl, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 15:46, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Moonriddengirl! I reviewed my article "Systems of social stratification" and I found that most of the content I paraphrased was available for free in the Internet -I mean, those works were publicly available for those who wished to read them. I also paraphrased books which were not free; however, I paraphrased those passages that could be read in Google Views of those books, so I think I didn`t publish anything unfree. The only exception are two short sentences from an study made by Adam Kuper about the Sotho people, and of course I marked the two short sentences I was paraphrasing. I hope this means I am not infring any copyright. Thank you very much for your help. :)
- Hello, Ansegam. I'm afraid that it is a common misunderstanding that because something is found on the internet, it is public domain. This is not true - under the U.S. law that governs us, all content is copyrighted immediately upon creation and remains that way until copyright expires (usually 70 years after the author dies) unless it is ineligible. We can use content that is ineligible, like content that is published by the U.S. government (although not all government content is ineligible) or that has been explicitly licensed or released for use by its authors. The vast quantity of what you find on the internet does not count.
- Being free of charge is a very different thing from being free of copyright! For instance, Wikipedia itself is free of charge, but it is not free of copyright. People are allowed to copy things from Wikipedia, but only if they meet the terms of the license. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:17, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
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Historical inheritance systems
My edits to Historical inheritance systems were an appropriate and much needed improvment to the article. I was addressing concerns made on the article itself (with templates) and on the talk page. I explained my edits on the article talk page and I would appriciate if you would discuss any problems you have with them there rather than blindly revering everyone who made any edit since you did. This behaviour looks a lot like WP:OWN to me, so you should be careful to explain yourself and gain consensus rather than forcing your version. Sarahj2107 (talk) 08:06, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
I invested much time and effort writing this article for free, perhaps if you could understand that you wouldn't vandalize my article. It is you the one who is blind, for you destroy my article without realising how rude it is to ruin someone else's hard work and how will that person feel about it. If you are looking for a simpler article, perhaps you should go somewhere else. It is my intention to heighten the intellectual level of people, not to adapt to their intelectual mediocrity. Mentally challenged people like you destroy the world by making everything "user-friendly", thus destroying culture and wisdom and turning all people into fools who can hardy think and learn. I won't let you vandalize my article anymore; I have copies of this article and I will superimpose them over your edits if you make many modifications. I hope everything is clear to you now.