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The Misplaced Pages tutorial is a good place to start learning about Misplaced Pages. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 06:46, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

January 2013

Hello Omar amross, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. While we appreciate your contributing to Misplaced Pages, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• 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 a cited source. You can read about this at Misplaced Pages:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Misplaced Pages:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Misplaced Pages:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Misplaced Pages:Copyrights. You may also want to review Misplaced Pages:Copy-paste.
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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. Dougweller (talk) 06:46, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Nabataeans

I will also add that for history articles you should be using scholarly sources, not websites. See WP:RS. Those show, for instance, that they used an Aramaic script - see . Dougweller (talk) 06:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Replied at Talk:Zimran Don't forget to sign your posts with 4 tildes, eg ~~~~ Dougweller (talk) 13:47, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Eid Greetings

Happy EID MUBARAK. Hope this Eid will bring you a lot of joy and happiness -AsceticRosé 06:32, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Ma'ad Ibn Adnan

Really a matter of grammar. Probably needs a source also. Dougweller (talk) 17:42, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hi Omar, nice to see you again on Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. However, when you make any edit, it is a good practice to provide an edit summary. This helps others understand the intention of your edit. To avoid accidentally leaving edit summaries blank, you can select "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" on the Editing tab of your user preferences. Thanks. -AsceticRosé 15:08, 1 October 2013 (UTC)