User talk:WXguy123

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello WXguy123! Your additions to South Atlantic tropical cyclone 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.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources 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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 02:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I had never posted to Wikipedia before. Clearly, I didn't fully understand (or fully appreciate) your rules. I am a coauthor on the McTaggart-Cowan et al. (2006) paper published by the AMS. I provided a web link to source the paper and I quoted text from the paper abstract that I helped to write. My NSF grant at the time paid for the AMS page charges (lead author Ron McTaggart-Cowan was my postdoctoral research associate at the time we wrote the paper in question). So, are you saying that I should just paraphrase our published abstract? Is it OK to provide a link to the published paper? If not, how do I formally reference our paper? By the way, McTaggart-Cowan et al. (2006) was the first refereed journal paper that documented how an baroclinic disturbance transitioned into a legitimate tropical system and became a Cat 1 TC in the South Atlantic Ocean (The scientific term for this kind of event is "tropical transition", a term introduced into the literature by Davis and Bosart (2004). See: "The TT Problem: Forecasting the Tropical Transition of Cyclones." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-85-11-1657. Please advise. Lance Bosart 2603:7080:200:4DED:9478:6B5F:B682:B308 (talk) 15:35, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@2603:7080:200:4DED:9478:6B5F:B682:B308: Hello Mr. Bosart,

Since you are one of the authors of the abstract that was posted and helped to write it, you may request a release of it for suitability on Wikipedia above by following the instructions on Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Yes, it is okay to provide a link to the published paper, but include it in a reference like this. The citation tool here makes this process much easier (under "Cite" at the top bar of the editing screen, then click "Templates" to find which citation you need). I understand that you may not have fully understood or appreciated the rules, and I apologize for that, I did not make these rules and don't fully agree with some of them either, but they do need to be followed, and I hope this helped to explain what to do in this situation. Best, ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 16:08, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Also, if you would like to re-include the info after requesting copyright permission, Hurricane Catarina#Rare formation, or its Meteorological History section above would likely be a more fitting place for the information to be included, more in-line with the context of the article. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 16:16, 18 February 2024 (UTC)