User talk:Matthew Rikihana

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Thank you for your edits to Musket Wars, which I found interesting. Unfortunately, the section "The historiography of the Musket Wars" is almost entirely taken from nzhistory.net, which is a breach of copyright. It would be excellent to have these viewpoints given in the article, but we cannot use whole sentences from other sources. Could you please rewrite the section in your own words.- gadfium 19:06, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * If other sections you added to the article are also taken verbatim from sources, please remove or rewrite them too.- gadfium 19:08, 20 October 2009 (UTC)