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Thornton Heath article
I am sorry for reverting your edit. I did this for two reasons:
 * 1) It did not give any sources of information
 * 2) I read like it was copied from a book (or books)

Wikipedia cannot use copyrighted materials (such as that found in most published books - see Copyright violations for more information), and when I saw phrases such as "As a suburb, Thornton Heath merits study as a model of unusual development..." and "Ironically, it was Thornton Heath’s own ‘suburb’ that put paid to any delusions of grandeur..." which read as if they come from a book, I would rather be safe than sorry.

Thank you for providing the sources when you re-added the information.

However, can I just verify that the wording as added was not just copied from books? I can pop down to Croydon Central Library, who will have most of the books listed as your listed sources - especially the ones that they published themselves! Those ones are definitely still under copyright. However, I would rather not spend the time doing this, if it can be avoided!

If the text is copied from books, then it will have to be removed from the article. If this is the case, then I can get an admin to copy it to your user space (and restore the old version) so that you can work on getting it in your own words.

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Regards, --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 21:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)