User talk:TruthProvider

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[edit] Minor Edits

FYI this is not a minor edit, but you marked it as such. I'm guessing that this is a mistake and that you've got "Mark all edits minor by default" checked in your preferences. Anyways, no big deal, but you should try to be a little more careful.Yilloslime (t) 18:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that.. yes, I had my preferences set wrong. --TruthProvider (talk) 14:32, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:COPYVIO

Hi TruthProvider. Thanks for finding this article on DDE and testicular cancer and incorporating it into DDT. However in future, please not simply cut and paste text from websites into wikipedia, as you did in this edit which contains large swathes of text lifted directly from here. Doing so is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy, and could get you blocked if you do it repeatedly. I have rewritten the section to avoid copyright issues.

One way to get around having to put ideas into your own words while still avoiding WP:COPYVIOing, is to simply put direct quotes in quotes, and properly attribute them. For example you could've instead written something like, "According to a Reuters article about the study, 'Men with the highest levels of DDE were 70 percent more likely to have developed testicular cancer than those with the lowest levels, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...The link between DDE and cancer was particularly strong with a type of testicular cancer known as seminoma, which involves the sperm-producing germ cells of the testicles.' " Yilloslime (t) 23:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Yilloslime -- good stuff, and I appreciate your help! Much obliged. --TruthProvider (talk) 01:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)