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If you have copied text but forgotten to use the edit summary, this can be easily corrected: You can make a dummy edit by making an inconsequential change to the article—such as adding a blank line to the end of the article—and link to the source article in edit summary then. A note such as "content copied from [[source article]] on 1 ...
At a minimum, this means providing an edit summary at the destination page—that is, the page into which the material is copied—stating that content was copied, together with a link to the source (copied-from) page, e.g. Copied content from [[<page name>]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying ...
This category combines all copied and pasted articles and sections with url provided from February 2025 (2025-02) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections with url provided.
Find the page which contains the section you want to refer to. Click on "Permanent link" in the "Toolbox" in the lefthand sidebar. Go to the page's Table of Contents. Right-click on the name of the section you want to use, where it appears in the Table of Contents, and select "Copy link address". The section link you want is now in your clipboard.
I've added some links to this page from Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, and Wikipedia:Plagiarism to help get the page wider coverage out there as I think it's important and I'm glad it was made. -- œ ™ 22:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
If you have copied text but forgotten to use the edit summary, this can be easily corrected: You can make a dummy edit by making an inconsequential change to the article—such as adding a blank line to the end of the article—and link to the source article in edit summary then.
You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.
This shows the article, or a section of it, looks like it was copied from an outside website and pasted directly into Wikipedia. Subcategories This category has the following 38 subcategories, out of 38 total.