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Mesalands Community College Dinosaur Museum
Hello ,

It seems to me that an article you worked on, Mesalands Community College Dinosaur Museum, may be copied from http://www.mesalands.edu/community/dinosaur-museum/. It's entirely possible that I made a mistake, but I wanted to let you know because Wikipedia is strict about copying from other sites.

It's important that you edit the article and rewrite it in your own words, unless you're absolutely certain nothing in it is copied. If you're not sure how to fix the problem or have any questions, there are people at the help desk who are happy to assist you.

Thank you for helping build a free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 23:53, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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Why the article was deleted
Hi, Newsomt, welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your interest, however, your attempt to create an article about the Mesalands Community College Dinosaur Museum is not the way articles should be developed. You copied material from this site, then made some changes to make it an article. However, the main section of the article is still a copy of material subject to copyright. If I remove that section, that will leave hours of operation, prices and direction, which won't be much of an article.

We aren't even allowed to leave copyright violations in history, so I'm sorry to report that the best course of action is to delete the article.

You are free to start over, but please read YFA which will give you some advice to avoid the problem if you should decide to try again.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  19:57, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Pedey, the Mesalands Community College Mascot.pdf
Thanks for uploading File:Pedey, the Mesalands Community College Mascot.pdf. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:


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If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on [ this link]. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:24, 29 July 2015 (UTC)