User talk:Ancient seekr
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- Thank you for the welcome, Diannaa. I'm eager to explore and contribute to Wikipedia by following its guidelines. Ancient seekr (talk) 13:09, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, Ancientseeker. I noticed that after editor, Headbomb, removed your contributions, you added them back - but sourced to a different journal. That's not okay. If you'd written the text yourself, it would have been fine to re-add it with a better source, but you're not the author of the text itself. Somebody else is, and it's really important that you credit them. Without telling us where you got your prose from, you have accidentally done something called plagiarism.
- You should have either written new material yourself, or asked @Headbomb for more clarification. It might seem intimidating to ask other editors why they removed your edits, but it's a normal part of the Wikipedia process. In this case, I'm pretty sure they removed your edits because the International Journal of Science appears to be what is known as a predatory journal. You can find a list of potnetiall predatory journals here. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 00:08, 5 October 2024 (UTC)