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I have nominated Michael Valdes, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Valdes. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? brewcrewer (yada, yada) 00:57, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello A.candee. All or some of your addition(s) to Mark Richt has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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I have deleted your new article Mark Richt, University of Georgia Football Tenure and moved the content back into the main article. This was done for two reasons: it simplified the clean-up of the copyright violations as it allowed me to roll the main article back to a previous revision; and the main article is not large enough to warrant splitting off the content into a separate article. Please don't add any more copyright material to this wiki, either prose or photos. Repeat violators are blocked from editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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