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Happy editing! Cheers, Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 04:59, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

Your edit to Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus 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. In this edit all the text you added was copied from the source. Hemantha (talk) 07:57, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

@Hemantha: It's 13 words. Does 13 words, (barely half a sentence) really constitute plagiarism/copyright? Perhaps if I changed the word expunged to expelled that would be a reasonable enough paraphrase. Whatever the case may be, please let me an appropriate way to implement this information into the article. Thanks. Sumsshire (talk) 16:01, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

If the policy doc isn't enough for you, various admins have commented that even single sentence copied from copyrighted sources without proper attribution is a violation. I don't have the time to dig up, you can search or consult any admin/experienced editor you wish to. Changing one word is not enough as the policy docs linked in the above template make clear. Do go through those articles. Hemantha (talk) 16:17, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Suthasianhistorian8 per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Suthasianhistorian8. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  GeneralNotability (talk) 20:47, 30 May 2022 (UTC)