AmatoKE

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Copyright problem: Omer Rains

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Omer Rains, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://senorains.com/senator.shtml, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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Please note that the above is the standard message. Essentially the issue here is that GFDL alone is no longer an acceptable license for Wikiepedia. Please see the links above for more. Dpmuk (talk) 20:01, 23 July 2012 (UTC)