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• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:52, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

December 2020

Hello, I'm Modussiccandi. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Lisa Calderon, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Hi, I saw you added unsourced material to this article. When adding material to articles about living people, please make sure that the content is properly sources and referenced. Modussiccandi (talk) 23:48, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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Laurie Davies (politician) moved to draftspace

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Proposed deletion of Carlos Villapudua

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Steve Bennett (American politician) moved to draftspace

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March 2021

Your edit to Julia Letlow has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:41, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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