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This article that was marked for clean-up appears to have been lifted verbatim from [1]. It appears to be a retrospective of his life that appeared in national syndications and numerous newspapers. I'd say it's almost certainly a copyright violation. I've removed it and replaced it with a basic summery of the fellow's accomplishments, categorized and stubbed it. A Ballet fan will need to do the rest. Removed from clean-up. --Lendorien 22:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Not sure how to do this. I posted the original article. It was mine, and I held the copyright by agreement with Ballet-Dance Monthly, so it was mine to post. It far excels anything left on the page, as it includes interviews with members of Christensen's family, including I believe the tidbit that got left of your excerpt from Sowell's book, that the way the name "Willam," while he adopted it as sounding more European, originally came about as the result of a typo in a program. As there was not a copyright violation and as I as the author of the one existing comprehensive article on his life posted the article when Wikipedia was very young (he was mentioned in another article buy with one of those red highlights that means you have no page for that subject yet --- not quite sure why you bother with the highlights then) as a service to the then-young community, I would ask that you repost it. What you've left is far inferior and dims the light of a true luminary of the ballet world." - Moved this comment from the article to the talk page. Don't know who wrote it. Pamdhiga (talk) 02:52, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Willam Christensen original article[edit]

I am the author of the original article on Willam Christensen. It was pulled because someone thought it constituted a copyright violation. I wrote to say that the copyright was mine because of the agreement I had with Ballet-Dance Monthly, which originally published it (ie, it was mine to publish elsewhere if I wished). It contained a lot of original research, as I was able to interview members of the Christensen family and dancers who had danced with and for him. Because of this, there was material in the article that can be found nowhere else. I was signed in the last time I asked for the article to be reinstated (or, for gosh sakes, at least *cited*), but as the one comment I got from anyone was "who wrote this?" let me identify myself. My handle for Wikipedia is Minissa. My real name and the name under which I publish is Karen Anne Webb. I notice that the person who wrote the current brief article admits that it would take a dance fan to make it more than a stub. I've been writing about dance for 25 years and was one of only 6 people in the country asked by the NEA to work on its pilot dance history project a number of years ago. I would like to redo the page from the perspective of someone who knows Christensen's work as well as anyone can who was not truly his contemporary. I realize that Wikipedia now has a style that it didn't have when I submitted the original article, and I'm happy to abide by that, but is there a way the article can be retrieved so I could have that data to work from? At this point, it's an older article and I would probably have trouble retrieving it from Ballet-Dance Monthly's archives (I placed it on Wikipedia about a year after that publication date). I can be reached by email at caros (at) xmission (dot) com. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Minissa (talk • contribs) 01:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]