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January 2025

Your edit to List of international presidential trips made by William Ruto has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Diannaa (talk) 12:15, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dianaa, thanks for notifying me on this. I have done a terrible & dumbest mistake and won't repeat this thing again. Upon this warning, I have removed the copyrighted material and rewritten it again differently. Again, thanks for the notice. cyrfaw (talk) 12:32, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw your changes on that concerned page that I contributed yesterday removing some of the details of the particular event. I wanted to give more details on the story but was clueless on what to do. But anyway, I will refrain from such actions in the future. Thanks cyrfaw (talk) 12:37, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad you now understand this important policy and won't copy stuff any more. Diannaa (talk) 12:47, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. I realized I was a bit careless yesterday while working on something, as I didn’t pay enough attention to the policies. After receiving your message today, it became clear to me that I need to approach this differently. Moving forward, I’ll make sure to rewrite any web text I found online in my own words and avoid taking shortcuts. Also, if I use rewriting assistant tools like Grammarly or AI tools, would this also violate copyright? cyrfaw (talk) 13:03, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The use of those tools does not violate copyright, but neither is recommended at this time due to the frequency and types of errors they create. For example, some editors have commented that chatbots tend to do too-close paraphrasing rather than creating original prose or even copy material unaltered (which is indeed a copyvio, whether done by as human or a bot), and spell-checking can introduce errors due to the different available variants of English.

Also, when editing an article, it's a good idea to draw on multiple sources and consolidate what you learn into a summary of those sources. It's really not possible to do that with the automated tools presently available. Everybody who wants to contribute prose to Wikipedia should know how to write their own content without reliance on automated tools. Diannaa (talk) 13:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again. I’ve taken note of the copyright warning. As an admin, I noticed that you deleted the revisions I made. Was this done as a precaution against copyright issues? Also, was it to prevent any potential legal action from the owner if the contributions remained intact on the article without intervention? cyrfaw (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion is done to completely remove copyvio from view, since old revisions of an article are still available to the public if they know where to look. Diannaa (talk) 14:46, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. I will make sure not to repeat this mistake. Moving forward, I will treat this matter with urgency. If I continue these careless actions and fail to respect copyright, resulting in being blocked from editing, I will deeply regret my actions. Thank you. --cyrfaw (talk) 15:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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