User talk:Zyxrq
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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Zyxrq! Your additions to East Germany have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 12:08, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Revert in article East Germany
Hi Zyxrq,
it's always a harsh feeling for a newcomer to be reverted, as I have done to your recent contribution in the article East Germany. Please don't take it personally, but instead use it as a learning experience.
You already posted a similar Flag Proposal section before, and were reverted by User: Diannaa for reasons of copyright violation. That is why Diannaa posted the above information "Wikipedia and copyright". I can't exactly compare your newer version to the previous one, since that was completely removed from the page history, but it seems pretty similar to what I remember.
There are more problems with your post than just copyright issues. For one, you don't cite a single source for your text. Please read the guidelines on citation in order to better understand why this is required, and how to do it. Just linking a few words internally to other Wikipedia articles is not a replacement for naming your external sources.
Secondly, your whole first paragraph about the black-red-gold flag applies equally to the West German flag after 1949. In the article East Germany it would be more appropriate to write something about the differences of those two flags, i.e. the state symbol which was later added to the East German flag. But there is already a whole article called Flag of East Germany, so that would be redundant in the main article; it is enough that this article is linked to from the main article East Germany.
Your second paragraph on the timeline of proposal, approval and implementation has more merit, but again, it needs citation. Also, you have placed it before the heading "History" as its own major heading, which is not appropriate. It could be placed in the history section somewhere under the subheading 1949 establishment.
Update: While I was writing this, you have reverted my revert. This is not good; we call that an edit war, which can get you into trouble if it continues. It would have been better for you to discuss my revert first, either on my talk page, or on the talk page of the article itself. Since I have now posted here, you can also discuss it here. Please do that in the future, instead of engaging in edit wars.
You have also since added a citation which links to this article – which is good, but which also reveals again, that you are copying verbatim from external sources, which is a copyright violation. Please read carefully what Diannaa wrote to you about that in the section above. And then either address all our points yourself, or be prepare to see your edits deleted again soon. With kind regards from --Sprachraum (talk) 01:39, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
P.S.: Another aspect of your current text that is not ideal, are some sentences which have the more conversational style of a blog. Read WP:Encyclopedic style to learn how to improve that. --Sprachraum (talk) 02:12, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of GDR proposed flag Black-white-red
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About your talk page
Hi Zyxrq,
you are well within your rights to blank your own talk page, instead of archiving the posts. But if you delete posts by other people which are only one or two days old; posts that tried to give you helpful pointers as a new Wikipedia user, it can create the impression that you are resistant to advice from others. I know from your post on my talk page, that this is not the case. But by deleting the Welcome which User:Peaceray posted for you, you are also deleting a lot of links meant to help you navigate the still unfamiliar Wikipedia landscape. The two posts on copyright issues by User:Diannaa were also meant to help you understand why you can't just copy/paste copyrighted text from external sources into Wikipedia. As were my pointers about your edits in the Article East Germany. So keeping these posts for reference until you are a bit more assured as an editor is not a bad idea.
By blanking your talk page, you haven't permanently deleted the content; every post can still be recreated from the page history. So if you didn't intend to delete everything; no problem, we can help you get it back, if you don't know how to do that. --Sprachraum (talk) 20:16, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks I do want to get the pages back but I'm not sure how to do it, ps thanks for looking out for me Zyxrq (talk) 21:15, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
- Happy to help. As you can see above, I have restored all the earlier posts that were on your talk page. This is easy to do, because they are all still contained in the page history. So even if you ever delete something accidentally, it can always be restored. The only exceptions are administrator actions like the removal of copyright violations; those cannot be restored from the history tab – see for example the history tab of East Germany, where your recent edits are still shown in the list, but are not restorable.
- You could still delete sections you feel are not needed anymore, but a better method is to archive them. If you would like to have an archive for your user page, but feel daunted by the linked possibilities and methods, I or someone else could help set it up for you.
- P.S. Another small tip: You may have noticed that our conversation now has Indentations, which means it is visually easier to see where one comment ends and another begins. Follow the link to learn how to do that. Greetings from --Sprachraum (talk) 14:08, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
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How to rename your User
Hi Zyxrq,
you seem to have tried to change your User name today, to User:NewsHusk. But you can't just change your User name by moving the page yourself. You have to apply for a name change. Read Wikipedia:Changing username for more on that.
While it is ok for you to want to change your name, what I consider far more important right now, is that you take a deep breath, calm down, and look to work in smaller, more considered steps, until you have gotten a better feel for Wikipedia. For instance, the article Imperial German Flag you created, looks like a good starting quality article now (with the help of a couple of other users), so congrats on that! But I have no idea what you were trying to do in the articles Dixie and Project Veritas – deleting huge parts of the text including many sources, without explanation, or first using the talk pages for a discussion. Plus, you even labeled those edits as "minor"! Please take the warnings above at Section April 2021 seriously: Any further such behavior will get you banned permanently.
So rather slow down, carefully read the guidance articles that are posted above, stick to well-sourced smaller improvements for now and stay away from ideologically fraught hot spots like the article "Project Veritas". No matter what your political persuasion – deleting dozens of quality sources while labeling what PV does "Information" instead of "Disinformation", does not meet any encyclopaedic standards. There's a huge amount of more constructive stuff you can do; look here for instance: Wikipedia:Task Center. --Sprachraum (talk) 02:05, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
A goat for you!
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I like your goal for Wikipedia
Pickledhaube (talk) 01:19, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
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January 2022
Hi Zyxrq! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Republican Party (United States) 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. Thank you. ––FormalDude talk 06:08, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help. I'm still new to editing, I do this for fun and enjoyment, so I haven't given myself time to read most of the rules :) Zyxrq (talk) 06:18, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Like FormalDude, I too notice what you're doing. I am a bit concerned by several of the subtle changes you've been making, and you may have noticed that they are getting reverted. Your changes seem to have a political POV bias that sometimes is contrary to what the sources have said. That kind of editing, to make things appear more "neutral", isn't a good thing. Please try to separate your personal POV from your editing. Let the sources speak, no matter how biased they may be. I am well aware that this isn't always easy to do, and it can happen without any conscious effort, so I'm not accusing you of tendentious editing, but just want you to be more careful. -- Valjean (talk) 18:28, 23 January 2022 (UTC)