User talk:FourtyToo

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Speedy deletion nomination of Charlotte Townsend-Gault

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A tag has been placed on Charlotte Townsend-Gault requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://ahva.ubc.ca/persons/charlotte-townsend-gault/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Please help me with...how to quote text properly in a new article - I tried in my first article and could not attach a citation to the block quoted text sections. The page has been deleted, and I understand why. I'd like to try again without quotations. Thanks.

FourtyToo (talk) 19:23, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The short answer is: Don't quote. There's almost never a reason to use lengthy quotes. Instead, we should summarize the facts that independent sources report in our own words, without embellishment. Adding a source to a quote doesn't make it any better, from a copyright point of view. Huon (talk) 21:59, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]