User talk:Socalted

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Gardena, California
Regarding your edits to Gardena, California: Please don't copy and paste copyrighted material into the Wikipedia. The Japanese garden info, for example, was from http://www.colapublib.org/apahm/japanese_gardens.html and has a very clear copyright notice at the bottom of the page. You should also know that even without the copyright notice, everything that is created in a tangible form is copyrighted without the notice unless it has been specifically released into the public domain. Blank Verse 12:06, 7 January 2006 (UTC)