User talk:Hfrankl

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Hello, Hfrankl, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:48, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Neutral editing

We are going to have a problem at Clean Power Plan if you continue to introduce one-sided issue driven material. Please review WP:NPOV for important guidance on this bedrock Wikipedia principle. - Bri (talk) 16:58, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback Bri! Just to be clear, this account is actually run by a group of students and we are all contributing to the page. Our goal is to be as objective and neutral as possible. We understand that this is a process and look forward to your continued feedback. Hfrankl (talk) 22:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

I have asked the WikiProject Education team to contact you. - Bri (talk) 22:50, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

A reply from WikiEd was expected by now but I should tell you right away that sharing accounts is not allowed under the WP:ROLE policy. We need accountability for your intellectual property among other things. "This account is actually run by a group of students" is against that. Please make sure that each individual has an individual login. - Bri (talk) 14:47, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Accounts should only be used by a single person, and our resources are geared to direct students to set up their own accounts, and register separately on the Dashboard. It is not OK to share an account.

@Bri: - I thought someone had replied already. My mistake. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:27, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Article problems

Your additions to the Clean Power Plan article include passages copied verbatim or nearly verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, your entire contribution has to be deleted. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:42, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Hfrankl, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Clean Power Plan have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• 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. (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 information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:00, 18 April 2017 (UTC)