FionProj

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This is your Talk page where you can receive messages from other Wikipedians and discuss things with them. At the end of your messages you must put your signature by signing with four tildes (~~~~) or by pressing the button in the editor bar (). By the way, you shouldn't sign edits that you make in the articles themselves as those messages will be deleted. If you have any questions or face any initial hurdles, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I will do what I can to assist or give you guidance and contact information. Good luck editing! — Bility (talk) 17:13, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Not ready

I have moved Ainm.ie back to User:FionProj/sandbox since it is not ready for publication. Specific points: use an infobox that works on this Wikipedia and whilst a lack of links to significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources may be OK on ga:, it is not accepatble here. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 16:03, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello FionProj, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Placenames Database of Ireland have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:10, 29 January 2019 (UTC)