User talk:Illinois8th5104

Copyright problem: LaShawn Ford
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as LaShawn Ford, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.lashawnford.com/Biography.htm, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. 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 license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:LaShawn Ford and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, LaShawn Ford, in your email. See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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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:LaShawn Ford 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!

Please note that even if the copyright concerns are addressed the added text seems overy promotional. It is also possible that you have a conflict of interested. Can I suggest you read the two relevant policies at WP:PROMOTE and WP:COI. Dpmuk (talk) 23:26, 6 March 2011 (UTC)