Bridget1957
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Medical articles edit
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Reference errors on 29 March edit
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April 2015 edit
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. DMacks (talk) 16:36, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
@DMacks:Hello! Sorry, I am a new user here. Regarding the information that is under copyright violation, will it be considered acceptable if I use the same information, but rewrite using my own words? Thanks!Bridget1957 (talk) 16:41, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
- Writing in your own words is the way to go, yes. Not even a single sentence can be copied directly, and "just changing a word or two" is not sufficient either. Take the ideas and state them yourself. DMacks (talk) 16:44, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
@DMacks: Thank you for your help and feedback, I will work on fixing that as soon as possible. Sorry about this once again. Bridget1957 (talk) 16:56, 24 April 2015 (UTC)