User talk:REK413

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello REK413, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Employee benefit has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
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• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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) 19:26, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Permissions

Hi - I appreciate the feedback. The journal from which this was taken is an open access journal, and encourages the citation of the works it publishes. Since I was the author of the article cited, there ought not to be any other copyright issue. You note about putting quotation marks around the cited work is well-taken. It would be better to paraphrase the narrative, as it does sound a bit technical. Do you have any reservation about my rewriting the entry and resubmitting? REK413

Employee benefits

Thank you for adding the new section about the managerial perspective to Employee benefits. I made some minor changes, mostly in formatting the footnotes. There was nothing wrong with what you had done, but I took advantage of our software to create standardized footnotes and eliminate repetitive ones (but keep the page references).

Please feel free to improve upon what I've done. Wikipedia is a collaborative process.

Thanks again. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:45, 1 September 2016 (UTC)