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List of United States Senators in the 31st Congress by seniority
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List of United States Senators in the 32nd Congress by seniority
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 * List of United States Senators in the 32nd Congress by seniority
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Blanked Page
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Those above copyright messages
Hi Kevas! You can safely ignore those warning for these articles for the most part. It looks like you used a similar article as a template, which is perfectly fine given or free license. Only thing is, the license also needs to say where that source was. I can take care of that if you let me know which article was the template. (It actually does make a difference, or I'd just pick one). Thanks for your work! Crow  Caw 23:47, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I see from the initial version that it was from the 30th. I've added the appropriate templates. In future, all you'd need to do is make the first edit summary say "Content copied from (article name), see that page for attribution" and the license will be happy. Thanks again for the articles! Crow  Caw  23:36, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 101st Congress by seniority
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List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 100th Congress by seniority
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Copying within Wikipedia
Hello, Kevas123.

I appreciate your interest in helping to build out coverage of political topics on Wikipedia. I see that you were advised above that when copying content from other Wikipedia articles, you need to provide attribution in your edit summary. This is necessary in order to comply with our copyright policy and copyright law. Content on Wikipedia is not public domain, but is liberally licensed for reuse. This license requires this attribution. Without it, using the content is not permitted.

Since you were advised of this, you have at least twice more created articles without the mandatory attribution: and.

I have provided attribution for these articles, but you must not continue to do this. This attribution is essential.

When you edit, you will see two boxes into which you can enter text - the large box is where you are currently placing the article. The smaller box, underneath it, is labeled "edit summary." At minimum, you must enter a note that content is copied and a direct link to the article from which you copied the content. I tend to use the following language:
 * Content copied from Article title, which see for attribution

(Obviously, "Article title" is replaced with the title of the article from which you copied.) It is recommended to also put a note on the talk page explaining that content is copied, but the edit summary is mandatory.

All of this is explained at Copying within Wikipedia.

If you are having difficulty following the instructions, please feel free to drop by my talk page or visit the Teahouse. But please do not copy content anymore without acknowledging your source, as is required by our license. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:43, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 28th Congress by seniority
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 * List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 30th Congress by seniority
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