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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:09, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Copyight infringement and plagiarism

Hello Elizabethwhite11, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Frank L. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of 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 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. (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.
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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, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:03, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Frank L. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act

I have some feedback for you about your new article, Frank L. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. A good start but it needs some work before it can be a full-fledged Wikipedia article. In order to make sure your draft meets the basic requirements of a Wikipedia article, please review the sections on article layout in the Editing Wikipedia brochure (pages 7-9) and the checklist on page 15. Be sure to avoid unintentional plagiarism. It's very easy to accidentally write text that is far too close to the original source, and I edited one of your sentences that I thought resembled the original phrasing too closely. If paraphrasing doesn't work, it's okay to quote short passages word for word as long as those words are within quotation marks and properly cited. The training module Sources and Citations will help you with the proper format for creating inline citations. Please let me know if you have any questions. Rob (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

''Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc. v. United States Atomic Energy Commission''

Comments:

The following sentence has a passive tone, can be edited. "Concerned about the plant's potential impacts to the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, scientists from Johns Hopkins University analyzed the potential impacts the plant would have on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem."

You probably only need one citation @ end of paragraph since if the entire paragraph is from the same source.

Pvorapharuek (talk) 18:48, 6 December 2016 (UTC)Pvorapharuek

Speedy deletion nomination of Frank L. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act

A tag has been placed on Frank L. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

There is no "Frank L. Lautenberg..." but instead, there is one "Frank R. Lautenberg..." and the topic exists at Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

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