Trackermw
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- Hello Trackermw! It's so exciting when new editors come to the project! Unfortunately your article got deleted because it was copy and pasted from the official ODU website (Side point: I live in Newport News - hi neighbor!). Wikipedia has the policy of only excepting free text and media — meaning text and media that can be used for any purpose (including to sell) by anybody (including visitors to the site). That means articles/pictures that (1) have been created originally by Wikipedia editors, (2) are in the public domain, or (3) are licensed under the GFDL. The text you posted yesterday was none of the above, so you can either (1) write a brand new article from scratch (our favorite option) OR (2) go to the ODU website and release the text and images on that page into the GFDL. The GFDL is a license created by the Free Software Foundation - which is completely independant of Wikipedia - and is used by various organizations that generate information for general use. The full text of the license is found here. All information at Wikipedia (ALL OF IT) is released into the GFDL. Hope this helped you make a decision, and happy editing!--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 18:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)