User talk:Rarebreeds

Message posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

LittleOldMe 16:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * In answer to your question on the Shetland (sheep) talk page, you need to follow the instructions above, as the copyright holder, to grant permission for it to be published on Wikipedia. Regards LittleOldMe 17:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The copyright violation notice is because the content you posted is identical to that on this site, which clearly states: Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998. Oklahoma State University Board of Regents. All rights reserved. Wikipedia cannot use copyrighted material.  To correct the problem, please rewrite the article in your own words.  I have not deleted the article, but if the problem is not corrected very quickly, another administrator will do so.  Pastordavid 18:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * As it has been mentioned above, what you added was a copyright violation, that's why it was deleted. Feel free to improve the article without directly copying other people's work. -- John Reaves (talk) 18:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's pretty simple, just make sure that everything is in your own words. If you can't write the article without copying, then don't write it. -- John Reaves (talk) 19:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I have deleted the section 'Fleece types' from Shetland (sheep) that is copyvio from here. I have also deleted Shetland sheep which duplicated that article, and made it a redirect to Shetland (sheep). TerriersFan 02:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)