User talk:JillyJee

Although some prefer welcoming newcomers with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.

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Recent edit reversion

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:09, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

Your edit to Children of Virtue and Vengeance 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. DanCherek (talk) 03:31, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Are you using ChatGPT or another online tool to attempt to paraphrase copyright text? If so, please stop doing that immediately. DanCherek (talk) 03:43, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

May 2023

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 at the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  DanCherek (talk) 01:48, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Blocked for continuing copyright issues at articles such as The Mechanics of Yenagoa where your addition was obviously derived from here. DanCherek (talk) 01:49, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

It is regrettable that I was prohibited on Wikipedia because I was contributing to a project that helps develop Nigerian authors and novels on wikipidedia, and throughout the course of this effort, I violated Wikipedia's copyright policy several times, for which I accept full responsibility. I've been familiarizing myself with the Wikipedia copyright policy and policy on how to use non-free content over the last few days, and the lesson has been learned.

So, in the future, I'll be careful not to violate copyright policies or other policies that will cause me to be blocked. I apologize and accept full responsibility for my actions, and I vow that this will not happen again. JillyJee (talk) 10:18, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm okay with unblocking you for a second chance, but before I do that, can you confirm whether your previous edits involved the use of any automated paraphrasing tools? You were editing quite rapidly, in some cases adding long and detailed plots in only 2 or 3 minutes. DanCherek (talk) 16:19, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I did use automated paraphrase programs to alter some articles, but not all of them; nonetheless, I know better now and will not do it again. JillyJee (talk) 08:06, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I've unblocked now; please be careful going forward. Generally, it would be helpful to only add plot summaries for books that you have actually read, and to summarize in your own words without directly referring to other sources at first. This might help avoid the temptation of using the same or substantially similar phrasing. DanCherek (talk) 13:23, 10 May 2023 (UTC)