Hello, Rbuell, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rbuell, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Economy of Kenya have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here.

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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) 17:18, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi Diannaa, I have a few questions. The student took his work from this book by the World Bank, which releases its work through a compatible Creative Commons license. The content he used is on page 5 (page 47 on the PDF). It does cite the Human Rights Watch as a source, but not in a way that would suggest that the material was held under a more restrictive Creative Commons license, one that isn't compatible with Wikipedia. I do see where this material is covered in the HRW source on page 11 (13 on the PDF). Their writing is fairly close to what is in the World Bank source, enough to where under other situations this could be seen as close paraphrasing.

I suppose my question here is this: is the content in the World Bank book usable since it so closely paraphrases the original source? It's held under a different license that does allow the student to post the content, but I don't know if it being so close to the source material would make this any different.

With that said, Rbuell, I would recommend re-writing this into your own words since this is such a tricky situation. This looks like it will definitely be the easiest solution here. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The document is here. That website's license as shown here is a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US) license, which is not a compatible license. The WorldBank book shows "©2007 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank" so it looks to me like this particular World Bank document is not released under a compatible license. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:01, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I will take into both your guy's comments into consideration and re-write this section. Thanks so so much (Rbuell (talk) 00:45, 26 April 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Hello Royce,

Thank you for the comments and feedback you gave me for my Wikipedia edits; they are very helpful. Thank you and I wish you all the best for your practice experience and your stay in Kenya.

Vicentiagyau (talk) 02:18, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]