Kcorder

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April 2014

Hello, Kcorder. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article American Scientist, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Katieh5584 (talk) 19:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

I would love to do this but everytime I try to edit different sections, it goes back to square one! This is ridiculous!

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as American Scientist. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. Katieh5584 (talk) 19:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

I reverted it because it has been copied from the website.Katieh5584 (talk) 19:09, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you.Katieh5584 (talk) 19:15, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Good editing practices

Please describe your reasoning for changes in the wp:edit summary. If possible, such as with the Managing editor, add a link to where it can be verified. People want to be able to verify information on Wikipedia. So, significant edits need have their content cited using reliable sources. See verifiablity. This means that information must be published, and presumably vetted, by reliable groups and individuals. What you should do is to locate a source that supports the edit you wish to make. Then add a citation to that. Peruse wp:welcome to learn about editing Wikipedia. You can also visit the Teahouse for information and assistance. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a note on my talk page. Welcome and Happy editing! Jim1138 (talk) 19:16, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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