User talk:Abdullah Asim
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I saw you added a bunch of articles, recently. Before I congratulated you I did a google search on the first two sentences of one of them - Pakistan. They were a direct copy of the Pakistan article on the simple.wikipedia.
Please see point number 5, from WikiAlpha:Criteria for speedy deletion. This material is, I believe, eligible for deletion as a copyright violation - unless someone adds appropriate attribution.
There are clones of Wikipedia that merely say, somewhere on their copied pages, something like "this material was copied from the Wikipedia".
Wikipedia's lawyers think proper attribution requires a list of all Wikipedia contributors who worked on the article. I am not a lawyer, but I think this is either too much or too little. I personally think there is no real reason to add attribution for anyone who merely trimmed content, or whose edit was simple copy-editing.
Anyhow, note, I added the {{swp-cca}} tag to the Pakistan article you copied. It is a stopgap, for articles copied from the simple Wikipedia, a stripped down version of {{wp-cca}}.
Would you please consider going back to all the articles you copied here, and adding either {{wp-cca}} or {{swp-cca}}, whichever is appropriate?
Let me introduce myself. I am just a volunteer contributor here, like you. But I have been around since 2012, and I am one of the long term contributors the management here trusted with administrator bits. That means I can delete the material you added, that I think measures up to the deletion criteria. I won't give it speedy deletion, I'll give you time to clean it up, and I will help you do so if you don't understand what I have written. Geo Swan (talk) 15:30, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
