DOHill

Hi, I noticed that you're fairly new to editing wikipedia (less than 50 edits). I just want to make a request that you fill in an edit summery for your edits (something like "added link to Pure plant oil" or "fixed link"). That makes things a lot easier in case someone is looking through the history to try to fix something or trace back a series of edits later on. Thanks for the contributions and happy editing. NJGW (talk) 21:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Just letting you know before someone get's their goat up about it. NJGW (talk) 18:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:43, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

• Please do not cut and paste content directly from other sources. This is a violation of copyright. Thank you. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Ways to improve "Seed Savers Network"

Thanks for creating "Seed Savers Network", DOHill!

Wikipedia editor Kieranian2001 has tagged the page as having some issues to fix. In addition, they wrote this note for you:

interesting, more references and links useful

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Speedy deletion nomination of Seed Savers Network

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A tag has been placed on Seed Savers Network, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Avoiding copyright problems

Hello, and welcome. 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 a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Wikipedia: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.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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 visit me at my talk page. Thank you. Stephen! ^Coming... 16:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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