John DiMatteo
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Marching Morons edit
(In reply to your question); Indeed, user talk pages are the preferred way of contacting others, unless you want confidentiality.
Don't underestimate your Wikipedia experience; this is my first copyvio, and your edit is a more substantial contribution than any I've ever done! My understanding is that articles like these (which have no 'clean' revisions) should be deleted by an administrator after 7 days, who then replaces it with /Temp. If you just copied your revision there, the tainted version would still be in the history. This is really an admin's job.
They're plagued by a backlog in copyright problems, it seems. It's fairly obvious that [1] and [2] come from the same source, and at that, the text was lifted from a politically motivated essay, which isn't the kind of neutral source you'd like to base an encyclopedic article on.
Anyway, the only thing we can do is wait — I'll add a notice on WP:CP.
Thanks again for creating the new article! squell 02:04, 19 February 2006 (UTC)