User talk:Rachelmesser149214

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Happy editing! Fettlemap (talk) 16:02, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Embassy (cigarette)[edit]

Hi Rachelmesser149214! I have undone your edit to Embassy, as i suspect that the use of the "s" was not a spelling error but intended for the article, since it is about a British topic. Please don't take the fact of the reversion as criticism, as it is merely an attempt to maintain the high quality we aim for. If i can help in any way, please let me know. Happy days ~ Lindsay^Hello 06:13, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

English spelling[edit]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Maesteg, 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.

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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. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 20:06, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you[edit]

Rachelmesser149214 I wanted to stop by and thank you for your bold edits in the Washington Post article. Well done! That sea of blue was so distracting and made the article unnecessarily bulky and difficult to read. I have more work to do on the article and have not reviewed all of your edits, but your removal of links jumped out at me right away and I wanted to waste no time in thanking you. All the best. MarydaleEd (talk) 23:04, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mirrors[edit]

Thanks for contributing to the article Dissolution of the monasteries. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 12:00, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit reversion[edit]

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. S Philbrick (Talk) 13:53, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedits[edit]

Thank you for your copyedits. I looked at both Guimaras and Buffalo, Minnesota (which was in my watchlist), and I have a few suggestions:

If a word is linked in the lead, it can be linked again in the body. Additional links are unnecessary. See MOS:OL.
Numbers zero to ten are written out.
Avoid placing two linked words next to each other. See MOS:SOB.

Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:58, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Glossary of audio terms (March 21)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from https://www.audioholics.com/how-to-shop/audio-terms-and-definitions, https://www.headphonesty.com/audio-terminology-definition-glossary/. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Glossary of audio terms may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:35, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Rachelmesser149214! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:35, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Factory reset protection (FRP) (March 22)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by AngusWOOF was:

This submission is not suitable for Wikipedia. Please read 'What Wikipedia is not' for more information.

The comment the reviewer left was:

This reads like a how-to manual and needs better context. Also may want to check with WikiProject Google or Talk:Android (operating system) on whether this needs its own page.

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AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 15:54, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issues at 50 Signs of Mental Illness[edit]

Thank you for your additions to this article, but they were too closely copied from this source. This kind of superficial modification from the original text is called close paraphrasing. I sometimes find it helpful to read the source material, then try to summarize it without directly referring to it (of course you can look at it afterwards, but this might help avoid the temptation of using the same or substantially similar phrasing).

Given these issues and the ones noted by Sphilbrick above about copyright additions to Banana Kong, maybe it would be best to get some more general editing experience before reviewing additional CopyPatrol reports? DanCherek (talk) 16:35, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of Pokémon[edit]

Regarding [1], if you make a large copy edit then I suggest to not make other substantial changes in the same edit to reduce the risk of the whole edit being reverted by somebody who disagrees with the other changes. I don't know enough about Metapod to have an opinion on those changes. The copy edits look good with one frequent exception: You changed "It's" to lowercase "it is" at the start of a sentence many times. Maybe you used case insensitive find-and-replace. [2] had the same issue. Due to this I'm hesitant to restore your versions but if you try again with better casing then I will support you. You can link MOS:CONTRACTION in your edit summary to show others that you follow the manual of style. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:40, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have posted to the other user at User talk:Blacephalon#Contractions. Thanks for your effort, I hope you stick around a little longer on these lists. I have been thinking about doing something like you but I may never get around to it. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:47, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Factory reset protection (FRP)[edit]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 14:06, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Amanita boudieri[edit]

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February 2024[edit]

Your addition to Chinese zodiac has been removed or altered, as it closely paraphrases the source. Limited close paraphrasing or quotation is appropriate within reason, so long as the material is clearly attributed in the text, however, you may use external websites or printed material only as a source of information and not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Copying the material with only minor changes verges on copyright violation, which is not acceptable on Wikipedia. Such content cannot be hosted here for legal reasons.

Two exceptions:

If you own the copyright to the text, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
If have permission from the owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.

Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. I don't say this to scare you, since you seem to be genuinely acting in good faith, but just to convey how serious it is. Thank you.

Secondly, this edit was marked as minor but shouldn't have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia: only superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you.

— W.andrea (talk) 02:53, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CopyPatrol[edit]

Given that you are receiving warnings about copyright violations as recently as last week (and pretty much as soon as you came off a long hiatus), please hold off on patrolling others' edits at CopyPatrol until you have more experience with editing and a better understanding of the copyright policy. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 21:06, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]