Devonian Wombat ( talk) 01:54, 28 August 2023 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for developing Cascadia-related content. There is a history of Seattle meetups at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle, if you are in the area and interested. Bluerasberry (talk) 17:17, 28 November 2023 (UTC) reply

Hey - that is awesome - thank you! CascadiaWikimedian ( talk) 01:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC) reply

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This is wonderful - thank you for this heads up and instructions. I'll definitely use this in the future. ! CascadiaWikimedian ( talk) 02:25, 4 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello CascadiaWikimedian! Your additions to Bioregion have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Thank you again. Very sorry about that, and this is very helpful. I will absolutely read up on this and include CascadiaWikimedian ( talk) 06:27, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

And yet. Please stop adding copyright violation content. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:E004:1418:F10B:6EBF ( talk) 03:23, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll work to correct it. I feel like you can just highlight that, and I'll go work to fix. It's a big article, so I'll go through and clean it up. I've been working on it, but obviously didn't catch everything. CascadiaWikimedian ( talk) 03:33, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Let's review--what do you mean when you say "I've been working on it" when you appear to be the one adding copyright violation content? Am I missing something? 2601:19E:4180:6D50:E004:1418:F10B:6EBF ( talk) 03:36, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I've been working really hard on the bioregion article and page for the last several weeks. Diana just shared that copyright notice a couple days ago, on March 26th, and I've just started to go back and review, because I hadn't been aware of the policy. I've also been working to shorten the quotes I've been using so they fall in line with the Wikipedia policy. CascadiaWikimedian ( talk) 03:42, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

With this edit a half hour ago [1] you added text copied from sources like [2] and [3]. You're not "cleaning up", but continuing to contravene a basic policy of which you were notified more than two days ago. I'd add that WP:COI is likely, but first things first--an administrator will hopefully clean up again and decide whether sanctions are appropriate. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:E004:1418:F10B:6EBF ( talk) 03:49, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Sorry. that is definitely my fault. it felt like that was a better place for the material I had added, rather than the bioregion article. I didn't realize there was still copyright material, but I see now I was mistaken. I'll keep trying clean up that article, to remove any additional material that shouldn't be there. CascadiaWikimedian ( talk) 03:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC) reply