User talk:Gecko177

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Copying licensed material requires attribution

Hi. I see in a recent addition to Abortion in the United Kingdom you included material from webpages that are available under an Open Government 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. 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) 15:06, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have also today added the required attribution, at Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 23:17, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 2023

Your edit to List of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea 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) 17:10, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Dianaa Gecko177 (talk) 18:18, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following text, I hope, should cover the use of the content which I provided in the edit for this article:

"Missing Migrants Project by International Organization for Migration (IOM) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means that Missing Migrants Project data and website content is free to share and adapt, as long as the appropriate attribution is given."

See footer text at https://missingmigrants.iom.int

I would be grateful if your decision could be reconsidered. Gecko177 (talk) 18:24, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for August 1

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Abortion in Europe, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Abortion in Ireland.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:07, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

September 2023

Hi Gecko177! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. What you added, contents from a charity, in Special:Diff/1176450012 absolutely was not a MINOR edit. Graywalls (talk) 20:28, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Gecko177 (talk) 16:52, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Homelessness in Europe (November 4)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Zxcvbnm were:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
reliable
secondary
independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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The comment the reviewer left was:

The fact that it's a list largely sourced from one place goes against WP:NOTDIRECTORY. If this is really an article about the concept of homelessness in Europe, it could use more prose, and to put the data into a prose format.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:01, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks

I noticed you were editing some health-related articles recently, and I wanted to say that a bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. You're welcome to join us. It's also a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style. Feel free to put the page on your watchlist, or stop by to say hello some time. If you're interested in finding other groups, let me know what your favorite subjects or articles are, and I'll see if I can make a recommendation. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:29, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

Your edit to Anglicanism 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) 14:03, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Diannaa - I'm genuinely trying my best to learn how Wikipedia works, and no infringement was intended. Your patience would be appreciated. Gecko177 (talk) 17:59, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Homelessness in Europe

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 08:08, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Homelessness in Europe

Hello, Gecko177. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Homelessness in Europe".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:53, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

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