Tiger lily 1974

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D'Molls

Hi there! Thanks for your question.

• The text appeared to include parts copied from dmolls.
• All articles must have a completely WP:NPOV neutral point of view.
• In accordance with this, it's usually discouraged to write articles about anything you yourself are involved in because it constitues a conflict of interest.

There's some other issues as well, like formatting. Below, I've left a welcome message that includes several links that might be useful to learning about contributing to Wikipedia. If after reading the above articles on WP:NPOV and WP:COI, you think I've changed something I shouldn't have, feel free to change it back. Let me know if I haven't answered your questions! MarkBuckles (talk) 10:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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