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Speedy deletion nomination of Top 10 Tourist Attractions in the USA


A tag has been placed on Top 10 Tourist Attractions in the USA requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://ww.itimes.com/places/times-square-new-york. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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The top 10 attractions and WP:COPYRIGHT
I'm copying my reply from the article's talkpage to here in case you miss it.


 * "Attractionsofamerica.com is still copyrighted material. Please read WP:DCP and WP:DONATETEXT. To use it, someone associated with the website would have to email the address given there to say that it's okay to use it, as we can't risk breaching copyright here. Even if that happened though, the chances of this article surviving in this form are very slim. Why are these the top 10 tourist attractions? It's very subjective and therefore breaches our neutral point of view policy and there is ultimately, no reason why we should use attractionsofamerica.com's list rather than tripadvisor or one of the many hundreds of other sites that have such lists." Valenciano (talk) 19:12, 20 January 2015 (UTC)