Talk:Steven Graff

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The information in Steven Graff's Wikipedia article contains some information from his website but is not identical. The repeated information comes from the newspaper sources cited that describe his career. I have permission from the owner of the website stevenlgraff.com to use several sentences that contain only factual information about his life and career. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schmausschmaus (talk • contribs)

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Are you saying you are Steven Graff? ttonyb (talk) 20:08, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am not Steven Graff. I am an admirer of his art and have written the article about him for this reason.Schmausschmaus (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS pending Schmausschmaus (talk) 20:33, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]