SparwoodA3

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Your Edits

Dear Sparwood. Welcome again to wikipedia; I hope you'll enjoy your stay. Just a few comments on the 2 articles you've edited on (Buston, Tajikistan and the Loon Lake (British Columbia), started by you). In both cases you have added info which reads like a guidebook. Just wanted to point you to a short essay on how to handle this type of information. Furthermore, on Loon Lake, you have copy-pasted the info from the website you place below. Although the information on the website can be used (preferably in combination with other reliable sources...), copying is almost never allowed as it is a breach of copyright law (see here); and I have removed it.
For the rest: don't let this stop you from editing Wikipedia; just [[[WP:be bold]] and see what you can contribute. L.tak (talk) 10:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)