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Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES)
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Copyright problems with Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES)
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES), please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.star-tides.net/about. As a copyright violation, Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES) appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES) has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:


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Warnings struck out - Web Site clearly states "All information on this website is free, open-source, and in the public domain."  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

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March 2013
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Startides", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because using the name of an organization as your username implies that it might be used by multiple people. The role account policy prohibits use of an account by multiple editors. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you.

Has this account ever been used by anyone besides Joel? Jeremyb (talk) 17:02, 19 March 2013 (UTC)