User talk:Ruahrobs

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Neal Larrabee
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Neal Larrabee article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! Calton | Talk 04:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Paul Ostrovsky
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Paul Ostrovsky article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing!

I'd like to add while there are many ways to approach creation of articles, cutting-and-pasting faculty bios/press releases is not one of them. Besides being probably illegal and certainly against policy (copyright violation) and unethical (plagiarism), the gushy prose style of promotional literature is entirely unsuited to an encyclopedia. please read "The five pillars of Wikipedia", "How to write a great article", and "Neutral Point of View" for further information on appropriate tone. Thank you. --Calton | Talk 04:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)