User talk:Sphinxmystery

Category:Gay villages in the New Jersey has been nominated for discussion

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Transgender history

Welcome, and thanks for your contributions to Transgender history. A couple of things:

Please use the edit summary field to explain what improvements you are adding to the article, with each edit.
Any time you copy material from another wikipedia article, you must provide attribution to the source article. Most things in Wikipedia like verifiability, neutral point of view, or sourcing are part of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and are strongly recommended for all editors; however, providing attribution to copied content is not just a recommendation, it is a legal requirement per WP:CWW.

I fixed up one of your edits by providing attribution to the source article in a follow-up edit. Now please go back and provide attribution for any of your other edits which involve copied material, before you make any additional edits. If you have any questions on how to do that, please {{ping}} me below, or add {{Help me}} to your question, and someone will be along to answer any question you may have. Mathglot (talk) 21:16, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Copy attribution required

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from LGBT history in Uganda into Transgender history. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

This notice is regarding additional copying since the last one, but I assume you haven't seen the above message yet. I have once again provided attribution for your change to Transgender history, copied from LGBT history in Uganda version 766844202. Please go back and provide attribution for any of your other edits which involve copied material, before you make any additional edits. Be aware that editors who repeatedly copy content without attribution risk being blocked from editing. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 00:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure hat you mean

Moved from User talk:Mathglot § I'm not sure hat you mean

Can you help me? I'm mentally handicapped. 00:41, 15 April 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sphinxmystery (talk • contribs)

@Sphinxmystery: I assume this is in response to the messages I left on your Talk page here and here regarding your edits to Transgender history, and legal requirements of attribution concerning copied material.

As I explained there, when you copy content from one article to another, there is a legal requirement to provide attribution; this basically just means, "giving credit to the first article, where the content first appeared." There are two ways to do this, the most basic is by using the edit summary field, and there is a secondary method involving templates, but first things first. Every time you copy material from one article to another, you must provide attribution. You may do this as explained at WP:CWW (← click that blue link to read how to do it).

The quality of your edits so far and your ability to add multiple <ref> tags, {{cite book}} and {{sfn}} templates, indicates that you are way ahead of where most fairly new users are at this point in their editing, so I'm sure you won't have any problem at all understanding Wikipedia's attribution requirements and applying them. Please make sure that you do provide attribution, every time you copy material. Failure to do so, will likely lead to a block and removal of editing privileges.

Also, please sign all your talk page comments with four tildes (~~~~).

If you need additional help, please add a new section to your user talk page entitled something like "Copy attribution help", say what it is that's confusing you or what you need help with, and add {{Help me}} somewhere in the section. Hope this helps! Mathglot (talk) 01:02, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually not going to do anymore edits on transgendered articles

All I've been doing this time is copying and pasting the references from other wikipedia articles. I didn't even finish high school. So based on what has transpired I won't be making anymore edits on transgendered articles. Sphinxmystery (talk) 19:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Sphinxmystery, If you just want to add relevant references, that would be absolutely no problem, and you're very welcome to continue to do that.

You have also been copying content from one article to another however, as the diffs make clear, and that does require attribution. If you want to hold off making any more edits to transgender topics for the time being, that may be for the best, because all such articles fall under the protection of ArbCom Discretionary Scanctions, which are special rules involving certain contentious or controversial topics at Wikipedia that are stricter than the general policies and guidelines for Wikipedia articles. It's hard for newer editors to edit in this area, and editing in other topic areas while you learn the ropes is a good idea.

Please note that the attribution requirements that we've talked about apply to every article at Wikipedia, so please be sure you understand the rules, as described at WP:CWW, when considering copying things from one place to another. Good luck, and happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 19:44, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Following comment moved from User talk:Mathglot § If that's the way you are saying maybe I'm not comfortable copying references

If that's the way you are saying maybe I'm not comfortable copying references

Adding categories is simpler for me. By the way, what is your real name and are you transgender? Sphinxmystery (talk) 20:01, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. We are all volunteers here, so by all means, just do what you're comfortable with. By the way: please read up at Help:Talk about how to respond to existing conversations. Rather than opening a new section with each comment, use the existing section, and add your comment to the bottom, indenting per the guideline. See Help:Talk pages#Replying to an existing thread. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 07:09, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Stop using this account and request an unblock under your original account

It's been fairly obvious who you are for a while now. I doubt I'm the only one to notice, probably the main reason why no one is reporting you is because you haven't been causing major problems and writing an SPI case takes time. But you know you've already been blocked multiple times and so if you get into even a minor kerfuffle, there is a good chance someone will take the effort. Further, the more you edit the more evidence you provide so in some ways opening an SPI becomes easier. If you want there to be any chance you can return to editing long term, you need to stop this WP:Socking including anonymous editing. Wait a few months (preferably six) and then request an unblock under your original account. If you don't do that, your time here is always going to be brief. Nil Einne (talk) 11:26, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Transgender in South Africa has been nominated for discussion

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