User talk:Tom.Lineberger
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on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] 10:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Greenville Tech, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.greenvilletech.com/alumni_and_friends/history.html. As a copyright violation, Greenville Tech appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Greenville Tech has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.
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Flowerparty■ 01:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Greenville Tech
[edit]Hi Tom, to save a bit of trouble and aggravation I moved your copy & paste at Greenville Tech to your user space at User:Tom.Lineberger/Greenville Technical College. You can work it up here to the usual guidelines and then move it back to the main space (I'll help you do that if you need). The welcome message at the top of the Talk page gives you sopme links which will help with formatting and such, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools are sure to help out. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] 10:52, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Copyright problem: Greenville Technical College
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Greenville Technical College, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.gvltec.edu/display.aspx?id=48 and http://www.gvltec.edu/display.aspx?id=700, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.
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- While not a word-for-word copy, the article remains largely a close paraphrase and needs verifiable permission from the copyright holder or rewritten entirely from scratch. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:52, 6 December 2010 (UTC)