September 2021

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Mathematics education in the United Kingdom have been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 12:19, 10 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

  Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to State-funded schools (England), as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Gab4gab (talk) 21:24, 10 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hello again, I have noticed that you continue to mark edits as minor that are not. For example, this edit, that added and removed content in the article was not minor. Please take the time to review Help:Minor edit. It is a minor issue but it is helpful to other editors when you mark your edits correctly. Thanks. Gab4gab (talk) 10:49, 11 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

howdy. Will stop doing this and make sure to fully explain my edits from now on. Thanks for the nice alert :)

  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Independent school, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. You removed a few paragraphs with an edit summary of "unsourced context", which looks to be in error as nearly all of the content there is sourced with footnotes. Lord Belbury (talk) 13:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Lord. Will not do this in future.

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Academy (English school), you may be blocked from editing. Galebazz (talk) 20:58, 17 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Copying licensed material requires attribution

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Hi. I see in a recent addition to State-funded schools (England) you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible OGL licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 16:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Ty. Will do this in future.

Removing the unsourced section from the Donations section on the Animal Jam page

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Hello. I am JennilyW. I realized that in this edit you removed the unreferenced section template from the Donations section. I added that because that section had no sources while the other sections did. Can you tell me why you removed it? 🎧⋆JennilyW♡🎶 (talk) 22:52, 12 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Perhaps it is best to add a source to ensure the information is correct?

There are some guidance available on maintenance template removal. Among other things it says editors should remove maintenance templates after the issue they raise is resolved. An exception being if the template was placed in error. There can be sections that don't require any citations. However claims such as "In 2014, Animal Jam Classic raised $200 million for charity." should always be supported by a citation. Gab4gab (talk) 00:05, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Interesting. Sorry, must've missed that.

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  Hello Jim113232! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

  • 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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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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. (copied from https://www.woodfieldprimary.org.uk/copyright-notice) Thank you. firefly ( t · c ) 06:39, 17 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Noted ! Thank you.

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  Your edit to State-funded schools (England) 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. — Diannaa (talk) 12:32, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

September 2021

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content.
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 ~~~~}}.  Hut 8.5 17:48, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sockpuppet investigation

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An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jim113232, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Lord Belbury (talk) 17:35, 27 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Blocked as a sockpuppet

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Lam312321321 per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lam312321321. 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 ~~~~}}.  ~TNT (she/they • talk) 03:44, 30 September 2021 (UTC)Reply