User talk:JMT20000

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Jay Cubby 15:28, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Jay! I'm helping out a fellow lacemaker who is looking to enhance Wikipedia content there, so I appreciate your help! JMT20000 (talk) 15:50, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Schneeberg lace

Hi! I noticed that you added content to this article "excerpted with permission from Lia Baumeister-Jonker's 2004 self-published Schneeberger Lace book". Unless the permission consisted of explicitly releasing it under a Wikipedia-compatible license (usually CC-BY-SA), then we can't use it. You may want to take a look at Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources. Rusalkii (talk) 02:47, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! I will definitely look into this tonight...thank you for the references JMT20000 (talk) 12:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't clear to me what was quoted and what was paraphrased. Let's look at it later (after I have some coffee) and see if we can quote and cite the part that needs that, and reference the part that's paraphrased. Or maybe more needs to be paraphrased. I don't have the text, I don't think. Mmangan333 (talk) 12:23, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is much stricter about copyright than most other places on the internet, the mistake totally makes sense. If you'll be rewriting based on this source, you might also want to review what counts as excessively close paraphrasing. Thanks for your interest in improving lace articles, most of our textile arts badly need it. Rusalkii (talk) 16:33, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]