User talk:Greengodess1234

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Copyright problem: Iroquois mask
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Iroquois mask, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.maskmakersweb.org/CmodsWebLinks-index-req-viewlinkdetails-lid-756.phtml, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under allowance license, then you should do one of the following:


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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Iroquois mask saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! MuZemike 18:09, 20 October 2009 (UTC)