Alicemarron

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:19, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Quotes and close paraphrasing

Hi Alicemarron. Your edits to the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 article triggered the plagiarism checker, I think because you used a lot of wording from the Act itself. (You can see the report here.)

Anything that's not your own words needs to be clearly marked as a quote, even if you're quoting from the Act itself. And anything you do quote should probably have some level of commentary around it - lengthy quotes that aren't the subject of commentary run into problems in terms of copyright. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:53, 19 February 2021 (UTC)