User talk:96.55.153.186

Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. El_C 06:07, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

January 2023

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Persecution of Copts, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Fragrant Peony (talk) 13:32, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

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January 2023

Please take some time to familiarize yourself with what Wikipedia is and is not, what constitutes a reliable source as well as other content policies. Thanks. M.Bitton (talk) 16:58, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Can you please explain why you're ignoring the above advice? M.Bitton (talk) 17:16, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello 96.55.153.186! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• 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. 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.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 15:11, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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March 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Hunayn ibn Ishaq, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 07:04, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Your edit to Persecution of Christians has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 22:54, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

@Diannaa: I'm not sure the message is getting through, I'm afraid. Iskandar323 (talk) 08:19, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Please don't add quotations; here at Wikipedia we write our own prose

Hello 96.55.153.186. I am Diannaa and I am a Wikipedia administrator. I see that in this edit summary you seem to be saying that you don't actually know how to write your own prose and is expecting others to do so on your behalf. That's not helpful, and creates extra work for others. Besides, adding excessive or over-long quotations is a violation of our non-free content policy. Short quotations are allowed, but only when absolutely necessary.

To sum up, I know that writing for Wikipedia is hard, but pasting quotations into our articles is not a good substitute, and only makes work for other editors. It's not helpful; it's the opposite of helpful. There's more information on this topic at WP:OVERQUOTING. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 11:38, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Christian influences on the Islamic world

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Christian influences on the Islamic world, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 23:08, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Stop spamming pages

You just bombarded three different pages [1],[2],[3] with identical, anecdotal material from the 1600s. This is not good editing towards building useful encyclopedic summaries of material. Please stop referencing random extracts from primary sources and actually find useful secondary sources that discuss the topics you are interested in (Christian persecution, etc.) that use those terms. This will also help you avoid WP:SYNTH. For instance, just asking people to pay tax (jizya) is not self-evidently persecution, so has no automatic place on an article about persecution; what you need is a secondary source stating that the tax, in the context, amounted to persecution. Iskandar323 (talk) 07:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

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