JimJRJ
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Copyright problems with George Bailey (author)
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Hello. Concerning your contribution, George Bailey (author), please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200110/ai_n9003764/. As a copyright violation, George Bailey (author) appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. George Bailey (author) has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.
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Additional note on George Bailey
editI tend to think that there is an article waiting to be written on George Bailey, but unfortunately, as I pointed out above, there is a copyright problem at the moment. Perhaps if you rewrote using the article as a source? FlowerpotmaN·(t) 21:23, 21 May 2009 (UTC)