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A tag has been placed on User:Clarabows/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.rhianedwards.co.uk/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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My draft has been deleted from Sandbox :(

Hi Jason,

Great meeting you on the weekend! Really enjoyed learning about how to do this but I've hit a problem.

I went into the sandbox today where I was working on my piece for Rhian Edwards and someone has deleted everything out saying its a copyright infringement. I thought I could dump text in there and work it? everything I've done has gone.

Any advice, I'm a bit lost as to what to do, its taken me 2 hours to figure out (with the help of Nicky!) to message you on here.

Thanks,

Vicky Rowe

Hi Vicky, I have spoken to the editor who deleted the article. It was an experienced editor who has won praise for her contribution to articles about Nazi Germany...i'll say no more! Anyway..Whilst i cannot agree with the way your work was deleted it seems that putting copyright material in the Sandbox still breaks copyright rules. If you copy something there whilst editing that should be fine but if you save and leave the article for any period of time you would need to remove it. In light of this, perhaps it would be a good idea to get your basic article written in a word document and then add if to your sandbox to 'wikify' it. I just made that word up, but i mean, you can then add wiki links, put in citations, images ect. The good new is i was able to recover your article on Rhian Edwards and you should be able to access it with this link I do hope this hasn't put you off contributing to Wikipedia, and let me know if you need any further help with your article. Regards Jason.nlw (talk) 09:56, 9 March 2016 (UTC)