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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:26, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

ECE Act Quotes

There are two direct quotes added to the ECE Act that are lengthy and should be deleted. Extraneous information should be removed and instead the sentences focused on the critical pieces for this article. It would helpful if there were parallel construction between the presentation of each piece of legislation presented in this article. Jj baumgartner (talk) 12:28, 30 November 2018 (UTC)jj baumgartner

• Thanks Jj baumgartner! Streme2, I wanted to go into this a bit more and explain why I removed the quotes. It basically boils down to fair use, a guideline that allows Wikipedia to use some copyrighted text as long as it fits very specific criteria (WP:NFCC). The criteria that I want to emphasize is that the quotes must be able to show context, the use must be minimal (ie, as little of the material used as possible), and that summarizing the content into your own words would not serve the same encyclopedic purpose. In this situation the quote was very excessive and was just kind of dropped into the article - meaning that it didn't show context and could be summarized into your own words without really losing anything. In other words, the quote isn't so vital to the understanding of the subject that it would be detrimental to not include it. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:58, 30 November 2018 (UTC)