User talk:Allianceforthegreatlakes
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Alliance for the Great Lakes, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.chicagoactivism.wordpress.com. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.
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Copyright problem: Alliance for the Great Lakes
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Alliance for the Great Lakes, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.chicagoactivism.wordpress.com, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.
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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Alliance for the Great Lakes saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Allianceforthegreatlakes, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages: user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for businesses.
If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page in question and leave a note on this page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Calton | Talk 00:04, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- This is often not a reflection on the user, and you are encouraged to choose a new account name which does meet our guidelines and are invited to contribute to Wikipedia under an appropriate username. If you feel this block was made in error, you may quickly and easily appeal it—see below.
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