Membership Validation Post by @jhayss : 31/05/2021

Hi football enthusiasts,

I am glad to make my validatory entry on the @worldoffootball community. It's a privilege as a football fan to be a member of this noble community. Thanks to @njaywan and the moderators of this community for their relentless effort to make this community succeed. The world of football community is one awesome community within the steemit platform.

My task here is simple. I love football and a great fan of the game. I've got experience in the field since I've been playing football and analyzing matches from childhood. I will be writing more about match previews and reviews, participate in match predictions, compete in contests, analyze and talk about transfer windows, the lifestyle of players off the field, and the history of football players. I am a diehard fan of Manchester City so be expecting more analyses from the English Premier League and Man City-related news.

Fundamentally, we ought to give credit to whom credit is due for their work. Content etiquette simply implicates the rules and regulations that govern the creation, sharing, and use of the content, either created by a person or quoted from another person’s work. Knowledge of these rules is crucial in every community because it helps you to know how what content is accepted in that community and teaches you not to plagiarize anyone’s work.

Achievement 3 post in the newcomer's community has enlightened and broadened my scope and knowledge on what plagiarism is, the types, and how to avoid it. Plagiarism is an act of cheating that involves the use of another person’s ideas, words, design, art, music, etc., as one’s own in whole or part without acknowledging the author or obtaining his or her permission.

To avoid plagiarism, one must reference every single piece of information one takes from someone else. When paraphrasing, try to include more of your words and ideas. Moreover, go through your write-up and look out for plagiarised words or phrases before submission and pass your write-up through any plagiarism checker to locate any form of accidental plagiarism before submission of work.

Copyright abuse to my knowledge means to use exclusive materials without any kind of permission from the intellectual owner of such material. If an individual wants to use someone's work it should be copyright-free and must cite the source.

There are copyright-free images you can use for your articles from sites like Pixabay , Stock snap , Unsplash , Pexels and a few others.

A step-by-step procedure on how to get copyright-free images.

Step 1

Go to https://www.google.com/ and search for anything of interest.
I will be using Manchester City FC

Step 2
Click on images

Step 3
Click on tools to filter out images with creative common licenses.

Step 4
Click on Usage Rights and select Creative Commons Licenses for the drop-down menu.

5.You then have your copyright-free images. To be sure it’s copyright free make sure licensable is written below the picture.

6
Clicking on the preferred image and open the license details beneath it.

7
You are free to use once the license details indicate free to use, modify, share and adapt.

How to cite copyright-free images

[Source](insert the link to the image here)
[License details](link to the License)

An example with its citation

Source License details

The consequence of plagiarism or copyright abuse is getting banned from this community with a muted status. I will do my best to desist from plagiarism and copyright abuse.

I am well aware of the rules of this community as well as the norms of steemit and will abide by them at all times.

Cc: @njaywan
@worldoffootball