User talk:Alexbratty

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Copyright problems with Solving The Hillary Problem; Wall Street Journal, Apr2008.
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copyright problems - G.O.P. Worries About Sounding a Negative Tone; New York Times, May2009
The recent edit you made has been reverted, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Hairhorn (talk) 18:24, 13 May 2009 (UTC)