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[edit] Chintpurni page
Dear Himachal collective,
Recently I came across the Chintpurni page in Wikipedia. I was surprised to note that you have have freely used material lifted verbatim from the Mata Chintpurni Devi website - http://www.geocities.com/chintpurni1/index.html - that I have written and for which I assert the copyright. You donot even have the moral courage to provide appropriate citations to the original site in complete contradiction to the copyright policies of Wikipedia. An excerpt frpm this policy is quoted below -
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I await you response,
Arvind Kalia arvind.kalia@anu.edu.au 7 June 2007 130.56.65.25 04:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
