User talk:Brock Haines

Copyrighted website text
You copied all of your sentences about Richard Haines from this website, which claims a copyright to the text on that page and explicitly forbids copying it. I deleted most of the article and left just the bare bones. MicroPaLeo (talk) 21:16, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015
Your addition to Richard Haines has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Theroadislong (talk) 21:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Writing an article about family
Richard Haines is a notable American muralist, and having an article about him on Wikipedia is appropriate, you just have to write the article in your own words. MicroPaLeo (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2015 (UTC)