User talk:Panther999

Hello, Panther999! talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! JesseRafe (talk) 18:04, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply ] Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Tip of the day Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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I got a message that says I refuse to communicate? There's no question. What am I doing wrong?Panther999 (talk)

If you saw that message in the edit summary, then you would've seen the one prior that said you need to use "ref tags" which look like <ref></ref> to put your links for references, not just throwing random URLs all over the article. I also directed you here, where you already had a welcome message with links and instructions for beginners, and I then added a second one with even more links. At this point you disregarded all those messages and continued as previously, which prompted my additional edit summary which you noticed. Please take the time to explore Wikipedia! But if someone takes the time to fix a mistake you un-knowingly made and takes the time to explain how not to make it going forward, but you keep doing it you're way, that's kind of annoying. I'd suggest slow down your editing and explore some of the links on this page and maybe edit in the sandbox some until you get a feel for the ins and outs. JesseRafe (talk) 19:03, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Panther999, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double
  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. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) 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.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is
  Wikipedia:Copy-paste
  .
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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, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:51, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to see what I did that you say violated copyright, but I can't seem to view that edit. I don't copy-paste content from other sources. Can you help me view this? --Panther999 (talk) 16:34, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]