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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 23:08, 4 October 2023 (UTC) reply

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Swaddled Infant Votives. This is known as a " cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:51, 7 December 2023 (UTC) reply

thank you. WikiTikiTavi63 ( talk) 11:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Your edit to Mater Matuta has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 05:08, 14 December 2023 (UTC) reply

I have reworked the section that was removed. Paraphrased in my words and added inline citations from more than 1 source. I would appreciate it if you would take another look at the section. If you have suggestions, I would appreciate the feedback. I believe I have resolved and learned from the plagiarism offenses. I am trying to work my way out of the black mark that has become associated with my work. User:Red-tailed hawk I would appreciate more feedback from you and User:Cynwolfe as well. I would like to work my way back into your good graces and get the tag removed from the Mater Matuta page but I need feedback. Thank You WikiTikiTavi63 ( talk) 03:17, 31 December 2023 (UTC) reply

I'm going to start a discussion on Talk:Mater Matuta, so that we can keep this sort of discussion in one place. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 20:14, 31 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello WikiTikiTavi63! Your additions to Swaddled infant votive 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.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 04:49, 14 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Just as a note, I'm not sure that you meant to copy-paste the exact text from page 227 this journal article into the live version. If you're planning to work on that, and plan to rephrase the text, it's a better practice to do the paraphrasing in an offline draft; we can't host copy-pastes like that. If there are other copy-paste instances that I haven't found, I would kindly ask that you kindly revise them so that they are appropriate paraphrase.

That being said, I've enjoyed reading your article. It seems to be of good prose quality, good tone, and adequately cited. I'm hoping that we can move past the above growing pains, and that you'll stick around as an editor after your class is done. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 05:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC) reply

I did not. plan on it no.... and I had intended to only add 2 paragraphs. and thought I had added inline citations to Dr. Grahams article. Thank you very much for your input WikiTikiTavi63 ( talk) 09:23, 14 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Hi! Yes, you had added the two paragraphs with an in-text citation. That isn’t quite enough when writing one’s own content; in general, we have to either describe what the cited authors wrote in our own words or we have to use quotation marks/a block quote to indicate the provenance of the words (see WP:PLAG for more information).

That being said, as far as I can tell, you’ve done this sort of thing for most of the article already. And the article is quite good—much better than the sort of work I normally see from newer editors. If you were to add the information back to the article, and were to put it in your own words when doing so, you would make the article better.

Please don’t be discouraged by all of this; you seem to have a knack for writing, and I would be very happy to see you stick around on Wikipedia and grow as an editor.

— Red-tailed sock  _{(Red-tailed hawk's nest)} 20:43, 14 December 2023 (UTC) — reply

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Hispala Faecenia, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Theroadislong ( talk) 16:17, 4 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Thank you. I will, respectfully WikiTikiTavi63 ( talk) 17:45, 4 January 2024 (UTC) reply