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This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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Megan B.... ^{It’s all coming to me} till the end of time 11:51, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I thought I should mention that John (Mike) Murray has retired as Commander of Army Futures Command, and that Jim Richardson is the Acting CG. Thank you for your edits on the article. Don't hesitate to ask me about the article. LTG Richardson is instrumental in the projects of AFC, for example in his shaping of Project Convergence 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, ... I wouldn't be surprised if LTG Richardson were confirmed by the Senate as CG. His wife is a Combatant Commander, and I have observed that their careers rise in tandem. At that level, they have Aides to assist them in their personal activities, so they actually have the time to think about their institutional responsibilities, and about the lives of the people assigned to their respective formations. (As an example, I saw a picture of a soldier on James McConville's staff, and sure enough, General McConville also thought about her career, as well his own responsibilities.) --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 21:19, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Naraht (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Eatthecrow! Your additions to Ben Cardin have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 12:31, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh ok...I was pretty sure I did it completely correctly actually. I would go prove it but I see you've permanently erased any and all records of my edit in the history of his article. So I'll take your word for it. But yeah pretty sure I didn't just copy and paste source material into Wikipedia, I definitely rewrote it in my own words and anything that was a quote was definitely in quotation marks. While your list of a bunch of things not to do that my edit supposedly violated is helpful, can you please give me a specific example - what exactly did I write that violated which rule? Because, like I said, my edit has completely vanished with strikethrough font from the official record of the page's history. I've never seen that before on Wikipedia. Crazy. Thank you in advance for providing me with the proof and concrete example, as it will be a good learning experience for me. :) Eatthecrow (talk) 20:57, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There was a large quotation as well as a short description of the Pandora Papers. The description of the Pandora Papers appeared to be copied from Investopedia so I took that part out but left in the quotation. If you'd like to view the overlap, here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view what I removed. — Diannaa (talk) 21:54, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Check out all the extremely extensive copyright violations going on here: CIA transnational anti-crime and anti-drug activities#Beginning of transnational drug trade in colonial Indochina Just whole paragraphs from the source copied and pasted. Show me how to I can help fix this, to learn your skills - to do what you do. If the couple words that I accidentally copyright violated concerned you, I can only imagine how upset this one is making you! how do we fix this? :) Eatthecrow (talk) 16:56, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What you are seeing in that article is quotations. You can tell they are quotations because they are enclosed in block quote templates. It's not a copyright violation, but it's excessive quotations, so I have added a maintenance tag to that effect. I don't get upset about copyright; I clean dozens of articles every day, and if I were to get upset about it, that would be very bad for my health!

For some tips on how to get involved in copyright cleanup, Wikipedia:Text copyright violations 101 is a good place to start. — Diannaa (talk) 21:05, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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