User talk:WriterArtistDC

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Your edit to Motivated reasoning 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) 13:37, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa: - After almost twenty years of editing WP I am well aware of the guidelines regarding avoidance of copyright violations, and my editing has never before been found to do so. My practice is to copy text to my draft page and prepare the content I then move to the article. The website https://vdoc.pub/documents/knowing-our-limits-79h0p1c7l070 contains the text of a book "Knowing Your Limits" by Nathan Ballantyne that is not in my Zotero collection for the Motivated reasoning article, but I do reference another book by Ballantyne and a co-author (Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: The Crossroads of Epistemology and Psychology. Nathan Ballantyne, David Dunning (eds.). Oxford University Press. 2022-05-19. ISBN 978-0-19-763694-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)). It would appear that a process, which I assume to be automated, has identified text I added as plagiarizing a book I did not read, but since the text has been removed I cannot determine what is actually the case.--WriterArtistDC (talk) 16:16, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. That's a good question. The match was found by an automated process and was assessed by myself. Both books are by the same author, so I assumed that the same prose is present in both books. (That's why my edit summary says "...or elsewhere".) The url mentioned in my edit summary is at vdoc.pub, and is itself likely a copyright violation. You can find the matching content by searching for the phrases "How we process information is not isolated from our values" and "Politically motivated reasoning involves a person’s crediting or discrediting new information".

Alternatively, you can view the iThenticate report. The report is here. You can check the results from Turnitin by viewing the iThenticate report. In order to review the iThenticate report you will have to first log in to the CopyPatrol system (upper right corner of the page). You will be asked to provide authorization at Meta for access to your account.

Next, click on the link to the iThenticate report, so that you can see what was found by the detection service. I think it is at this point you are asked to agree to the terms of use of the Turnitin people, who have kindly donated the use of this tool to Wikipedia. The overlapping content will be highlighted (the iThenticate report may take a while to load).— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:59, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On my draft page I did find one of the phrases, and others that perhaps match the Ballantyne source too closely; and have made changes.

I can think of no other way to test if this rewording is sufficient other than posting the change a waiting. WriterArtistDC (talk) 19:01, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are not supposed to have copyright content in sandboxes or drafts either. But if you've already got it there, you could use Earwig's tool to compare it with the matrerial in the vdoc.pub copy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:50, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]