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:Do you realise that you were copying "nowiki" markup and an unbalanced "code" markup around your last few unblock requests? No one will see them if you do this. I have repaired your requests so the most recent one is correctly formed.-<span style="font-family:cursive; color:grey;">[[User talk:gadfium|gadfium]]</span> 18:49, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
== New unblock appeal ==
<code><nowiki>{{unblock|reason= Earlier in January, an Administrator said that in order for the block on me to be lifted a reviewing Administrator would need to be certain that I understand how copyright works on Wikipedia. To do this I needed to respond to the following questions in my next unblock appeal. I’ve included below the questions, along with my responses to each of them. I hope my answers are correct and sufficient, and that I have demonstrated a good enough understanding:
• What is copyright?
According to Wikipedia, copyright refers to a kind of intellectual property providing creators of original works or other owners of the secured legal right to perform, copy and disseminate creative works. Wikipedia’s text is copyrighted automatically and formally licensed to the public under various liberal licenses.
• How is Wikipedia licensed?
Wikipedia is freely licensed, with most of its text released under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA). This means that the information can be reused as long as any derived work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License or the GFDL. Editors are required, for instance, to provide author attribution.
• Why is copyrighted content not allowed on Wikipedia?
Because producers of creative works are granted copyright to prevent their material from being duplicated by others.
• Under what circumstances can we use copyrighted content?
When Wikipedia is able to gain permission to do so under certain circumstances. The Wikimedia Foundation’s licensing policy, for instance, allows for the adoption by projects of an exemption doctrine policy that allows for the use of non-free content. An exception to this is Wikimedia Commons.
• How do you intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future?
By ensuring that none of the information I add in future is copied directly by any source, while also avoiding close paraphrasing. I will also keep myself updated with Wikipedia’s copyright policy.}}</nowiki></code>
[[User:Zictor23|Zictor23]] ([[User talk:Zictor23#top|talk]]) 20:08, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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