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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 01:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi!
I was looking at this version of Iznik pottery. I noticed that some of the paragraphs had been copied verbatim from "The blue-white ceramics of China and İznik", an article in Hürriyet Daily News, as well as "Stories Ottoman Objects Tell", a 2018 class project from Boston College. I examined the page's history to try to figure out when these were added, and it appears that the paragraphs were added by one of your students, Sedvabs:
Alongside the Chinese porcelain. This paragraph can be directly found in the Hürriyet article.
Blue-white may be divided into four types. Again, this parahraph is taken verbatim from the Hürriyet article.
İznik ceramics on display including wares) was lifted verbatim in the Hürriyet article.
Iznik pottery both drew inspiration from). This paragraph was copied verbatim from the Boston College student project.
After noticing this, I began to remove the material that had been copied word-for-word from the sources and I left the student a note on their user talk page. In the message I left the student, I noted the following in bold print:
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.
One minute after I left them the notice, the student re-inserted the paragraph beginning with Blue-white may be divided into four types
into the Iznik pottery article, despite it being a copy-paste from Hürriyet. It is not clear to me if the student saw the notice before or after the re-insertion. Regardless, the edits by the student raises potential concerns as it pertains to Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline, our copyright policy, and our non-free content guidelines..
For copyright reasons, I have tagged several revisions on the page for revision deletion. At minimum, if the student wishes to add information to the article, the student will need to ensure that the content has been re-written in their own words. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns; I'd be more than happy to help.
Yours sincerely,
— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 05:40, 6 December 2023 (UTC)