User talk:Hartattack

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Midshipman Elmer C. Donnelly
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Midshipman Elmer C. Donnelly, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.usmm.org/ccdsm.html. As a copyright violation, Midshipman Elmer C. Donnelly appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Midshipman Elmer C. Donnelly has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

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 the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Midshipman Elmer C. Donnelly. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Midshipman Elmer C. Donnelly, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.

The above is just a standard message. In your case it goes for all eight similar articles. There is no point in copy-and-pasting - provide a link instead. If they are notable, by all means write short articles in your own words about these guys with links to the USMM page. Note that the titles should strip the honorifics, eg. Elmer C. Donnelly. -- RHaworth 18:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)