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Your submission at Articles for creation: U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria (August 31)
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Nosebagbear (talk) 20:54, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Issues
Hello BMCPAO, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.


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What all that text means
Hi, the big block of text above is because a significant amount of the draft's content appeared to be drawn from another article. Even if you think you have the site's permission to provide this content, wikipedia requires a fairly complicated, extremely broad, license to allow this.

Instead it is much easier to paraphrase the content and avoid duplication or close-paraphrasing.

There are other issues with the draft that I've noted in-article, mainly a need to find better sources. Please let me know if you have any additional queries. Nosebagbear (talk) 21:03, 31 August 2018 (UTC)