User talk:FloTheGreat

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Happy editing! No Great Shaker (talk) 23:05, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion No Great, but I have been here for roughly a year now. But thank you ever so much for the nice message. Appreciate it a lot. Always good to keep in mind!

FlowD (talk) 23:07, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Boris Johnson

Hello. You have recently contributed to this article or its talk page. Please see this discussion on the talk page. You are welcome to take part if you are interested. Thanks. No Great Shaker (talk) 13:02, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from United Kingdom into Economy of England. 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. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 12:59, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

I'l follow this route in future.

FlowD (talk) 13:00, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello FloTheGreat! Your additions to Education in Italy 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.

• 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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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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) 19:47, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry about this! The edits have been reverted.

FlowD (talk) 19:55, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello again. I see in a recent addition to Healthcare in England you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance (learn what I did). Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 13:19, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Got this. I'll take note and remember to do that in future. I thought that was okay to do at first.

FlowD (talk) 15:52, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Lam312321321 per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lam312321321. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Girth Summit _(blether) 09:51, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

FloTheGreat (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I use a shared IP on a shared device at an ICT cafe. The other accounts are not me and were not created by me. FlowD (talk) 15:08, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Decline reason:

This does not address the overlap in interests. Yamla (talk) 15:09, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

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I work with a few people at an ICT cafe and we have similar interests such as transporting and education. The account was shared for some time as well. I understand this is against the rules and I will have my own computer at home to use because mine broke down and I needed to go to the ICT cafe for study purposes with my friends.