Twirlsie17

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Hello, Twirlsie17, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:19, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

This cat is notorious vicious murderer of helpless chimpmunks

James Axwell (talk) 18:50, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Welcome to the class! Good luck! Youngauthorkat (talk) 18:55, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Your addition to Dreamcatcher has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:00, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

You might also want to read the article on St. Joseph's Indian School before using them as a source. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:01, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Dreamcatcher, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Commercial sites with unsourced, promotional content and newsletters that copied some unsourced blurb off the Internet are not WP:RS. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Your addition to Dreamcatcher has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Once again you tried to add content from a page that is clearly copyvio. Ironically, the copyvio goes both ways. A good bit of the unsourced text on the commercial site you cited as a source is actually lifted from the WP article in question. Then you copied more from that page and put it here, resulting in a blatant copyvio. Once again, your additions have to be hidden to protect the site. This is your final warning. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:26, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Explanation of "copyvio"

Hi, Twirlsie17. It's a catch all way to say copy and pasted from a site that does not allow content to be re-used freely (which is most sites on the internet and most text). I don't see the content of the edits because they have been deleted but that will happen if you start by copying text and then editing from there rather than creating summaries in your own words from scratch. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, that is good to know and very helpful. Twirlsie17 (talk) 18:55, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Let me know if you need a hand. Remember that if someone reverts you, your changes are still shown on the dashboard and still count toward your grade. If you engage on the talk page they'll usually explain what is wrong. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:53, 20 April 2016 (UTC)