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Happy editing! LouisAragon (talk) 22:41, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

al Rashid

Hey bro. I'm here to tell you that, the family section of the page of Abbasid caliph Harun-al-rashid looks like a mess. Now it's extremely difficult to find out name of a wife/concubine and her respective son/daughter with Harun. The list view was better and easier to read. Misplaced Pages is supposed to help people read and understand easily. Can you change it back or make it a better list? Hope you understand my point. Thank you. Ishan87 (talk) 13:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

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The page Qabiha has been speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This was done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appeared to be a direct copy from https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474423199-008 and See https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en/?id=101071141. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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July 2023

• You've received several previous warnings for copyright issues and attribution issues. Along with the above G12, I also removed content you copied from The Abbasid Caliphate: A History p. 231 into Sayyida Zumurrud Khatun. If you want to be unblocked, you need to commit to not from copying from sources in your future editing and demonstrate a better understanding of copyright. User:Moneytrees/Copyright blocks contains some advice on appealing this block. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 04:59, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

  Moneytrees,

  I will commit myself not to copying from sources in my future editing and demonstrate a better understanding of copyright. I am sorry for making this mistake.

  I hope you will accept my apology Sir. Homo sapiens History (talk) 08:37, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

  I will commit myself not to copying from sources in my future editing and demonstrate a better understanding of copyright. I am sorry for making this mistake.

  I hope you will accept my apology Sir, please remove my indefinite block. Homo sapiens History (talk) 10:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

  I am sorry for making this mistake. I will never do it again. I hope you will accept my apology Sir, please remove my indefinite block. It will be your most kindness. Homo sapiens History (talk) 19:11, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

  While I believe you have meant no wrong and I accept you apology, I need to be more certain that you will not copy and paste material in the future. Answering the questions at User:Yunshui/decline copyvio is a good to demonstrating understanding of copyright. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 02:33, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

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  We should never use material (text) to Misplaced Pages if we think that doing so may be the copyright violation of wikipedia.

  • How do you intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future?

  I will make sure that I am using sources that are permissible under wikipedia copyright policy. I will always avoid book sources. I will only use sources that are free to use on wikipedia without any copyright violation issues. Homo sapiens History (talk) 07:48, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

  Sir, please check my answers. Homo sapiens History (talk) 21:19, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

  Check my answers Homo sapiens History (talk) 21:29, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

• To be clear, there’s no issue with you using book sources. Looking through your work, if anything your referencing is pretty thorough. The problem comes from you copying text from your sources into articles. You can only copy from sources if they are very very old (In the Public Domain) or if they are released under a license that allows reuse (the vast majority of sources aren’t). Misplaced Pages is the “free” encyclopedia, so content added to it cannot be copied from “non-free” sources, among other things. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 22:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

  @Moneytrees

  I once again apologise for the mistake.

  Sir, Will you unblock me? Homo sapiens History (talk) 00:29, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

  Sir, Will you please unblock me? Homo sapiens History (talk) 06:28, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

  Sir, Will you please unblock me? Homo sapiens History (talk) 08:43, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

• Homo sapiens History, are you familiar with the concept of paraphrase? You seem to understand what copyrights are, but not how to write an encyclopedia without violating copyrights. What we do is to summarize sources in our own words, also known as paraphrase. Everything we write needs to be 100% our own words, yet reflect the meaning given by the sources. Some editors, especially those who do not master English very well, fall into the trap of too close paraphrasing: the text still resembles the source text too much. We should neither copy text, nor paraphrase it too closely, but write completely new text. Yet that new text has to convey what the sources are saying. If your English skills are not good enough to completely reword what a source is saying, it's better not to write anything at all.I know that this is what you have for the most part been doing: most of your edits are 'gnoming' edits, which generally do not introduce new text to articles. Yet I think that it is problematic to edit an English-language encyclopedia if you don't have the skills to paraphrase English-language sources. It will too easily lead to problems, not only with copyright, but also more generally because your editing is not based on sources: edits like this or this seem to be purely based on your personal knowledge about these subjects. This is a good example where you make a lot of gnoming edits but also add an inappropriate, unsourced and non-neutral introduction (this is not the type of thing reliable sources write about the subject) which needed reverting. As far as I recall, your editing has always been like this: you do good stuff, but you also create a lot of work for other editors to clean up after you.Is it possible for you to attend some kind of English writing course, or to improve your English writing skills in some other way? I think that in the long term, this is needed for you to become a productive editor here. At a very minimum, I think you should commit to not adding new text to articles until you have learned how to paraphrase sources. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 11:34, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

  I have to agree with the advice @Apaugasma gives above-- understanding Misplaced Pages's copyright licenses is one half of the battle. From there, you'll need to change how you write and avoid copying from sources. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 03:27, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

  Sir, Will you please unblock me? Homo sapiens History (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

  Not at this time, to be clear. You should read the above advice from Apaugasma and consider it well. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 16:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

  @Moneytrees

  How will you know I took his advice? Homo sapiens History (talk) 16:25, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

  You could say something other than “please unblock me”, or respond to what he’s said and interact with him further. You could also write some example text on your talk page that would be an example of what your new article edits would look like. Additionally, you could use the appeal template above, which would let other admins weigh in on your unblock. You don’t just need to ask me for an unblock. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 16:32, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

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I am sorry for making this mistake (copyright issue). I will never do it again. I hope you will accept my apology and you will remove my indefinite block. It will be your most kindness. You can read above comments to have understanding of my case. Homo sapiens History (talk) 08:24, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

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