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Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Araiza-Francisco.htm plus direct translations of http://www.neue-stimmen.de/meisterkurs/dozenten/francisco-araiza/ and several sub-pages of http://www.franciscoaraiza.com. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original orplagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 06:46, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I have stubbed this article to remove the copyvio and am adding inline citations to independent sources. Another advantage of this is that it has removed the unencyclopedic puffery which has plagued this article from the outset. Araiza is a very distinguished opera singer, and the previous puff-piece detracted from his reputation rather than enhancing it. I have also removed the tag noting that this article could be expanded from Francisco Araiza on the Spanish Wikipedia because that article has no inline citations and is sourced to websites which are not independent of the subject. It may also contain copyvio. I suggest using the information in the Spanish article as a starting point for research but do not use it as source of text. Voceditenore (talk) 06:46, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
