User talk:Edstudent

Hello, Edstudent! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Skinner article[edit]

Hi Edstudent, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your edits on B. F. Skinner. You seem to have added some valuable information. There is one problem with one of your edits: Although some aspects of Skinner's teachings are controversial, he is actually quite simply a good scientist who has dared to be scientific about human behavior. This does not conform to the Wikipedia policy of Neutral point of view. This means, we don't need to state wether Skinner was a "good" or "daring" scientist; we simply write about what he did, cite with reliable sources, and let the reader judge. Again, thank you for editing and I hope you will keep doing it! Leave me a note on my talk page if you have any questions. Any changes to this particular article can always be discussed on Talk:B. F. Skinner. Good luck! /skagedal^... 08:31, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the text was plagiarized from a published source anyway. So regardless of its lack of NPOV, it should not be added. Here is a warning template, although a bigger concern is the lack of proper attribution.

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to B.F. Skinner. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. siℓℓy rabbit (talk) 21:28, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you and User:Kdg001 have been doing to the B. F. Skinner article. (Don't know if these edits are related, but you seem to be editing at the same time, and add similar content.) It will be removed and you might get blocked. /skagedal^... 19:06, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]