Hello, Laurent de Lyon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction and Getting started
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson ( talk) 17:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
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Ian.thomson ( talk) 17:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Laurent de Lyon, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to
Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without
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 a cited source. 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. Two points - one is that we can only use about 220 words from any one source. Secondly, you copied directly with no quotation marks. Thank you. Doug Weller ( talk) 10:20, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
This is your only warning; if you
vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at
Stormfront (website), you may be
blocked from editing without further notice.
Doug Weller (
talk) 11:48, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Please stop your
disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at
Stormfront (website), you may be
blocked from editing. Your edit summary was misleading as it suggested you removed only material about Breivik, and did that despite the fact that the New York Times source said he was a Stormfront user (which so far as I can see means member, someone registered to use the website - Stormfront isn't an organisation but a website/forum) The material about the SPLC study was sourced not just to the SPLC but to other clearly reliable sources.
Doug Weller (
talk) 11:54, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
- I've replied at the article's talk page. Your comment about Breivik being banned is irrelevant to the fact that you removed material that isn't just reliable sourced, but sourced to several independent reliable sources (one mention in a reliable source isn't necessarily enough to support inclusion in an article). Doug Weller ( talk) 12:07, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Laurent de Lyon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction and Getting started
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
- How to create your first article
- Simplified Manual of Style
You may also want to take the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia.
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson ( talk) 17:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
- "Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
- Always cite a source for any new information. When adding this information to articles, use <ref>reference tags like this</ref>, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable).
- We do not publish original thought nor original research. We're not a blog, we're not here to promote any ideology.
- Primary sources are usually avoided to prevent original research. Secondary or tertiary sources are preferred for this reason as well.
- Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment).
- Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. Real scholarship actually does not say what understanding of the world is "true," but only with what there is evidence for. In the case of science, this evidence must ultimately start with physical evidence. In the case of religion, this means only reporting what has been written and not taking any stance on doctrine.
- Material must be proportionate to what is found in the source cited. If a source makes a small claim and presents two larger counter claims, the material it supports should present one claim and two counter claims instead of presenting the one claim as extremely large while excluding or downplaying the counter claims.
- We do not give equal validity to topics which reject and are rejected by mainstream academia. For example, our article on Earth does not pretend it is flat, hollow, and/or the center of the universe.
Ian.thomson ( talk) 17:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Laurent de Lyon, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to
Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without
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 a cited source. 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. Two points - one is that we can only use about 220 words from any one source. Secondly, you copied directly with no quotation marks. Thank you. Doug Weller ( talk) 10:20, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
This is your only warning; if you
vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at
Stormfront (website), you may be
blocked from editing without further notice.
Doug Weller (
talk) 11:48, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Please stop your
disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at
Stormfront (website), you may be
blocked from editing. Your edit summary was misleading as it suggested you removed only material about Breivik, and did that despite the fact that the New York Times source said he was a Stormfront user (which so far as I can see means member, someone registered to use the website - Stormfront isn't an organisation but a website/forum) The material about the SPLC study was sourced not just to the SPLC but to other clearly reliable sources.
Doug Weller (
talk) 11:54, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
- I've replied at the article's talk page. Your comment about Breivik being banned is irrelevant to the fact that you removed material that isn't just reliable sourced, but sourced to several independent reliable sources (one mention in a reliable source isn't necessarily enough to support inclusion in an article). Doug Weller ( talk) 12:07, 27 September 2015 (UTC)