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[edit] Northern Pine Snake

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Northern Pine Snake, 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.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pinesnak.htm, http://coloherp.org/cb-news/Vol-29/cbn-0204/MexPine.php, http://www.wnyherp.org/care-sheets/snakes/gopher-snake.php, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Northern Pine Snake/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Northern Pine Snake saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Melchoir 06:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Pituophis_melanoleucus_melanoleucus.jpg listed for deletion

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If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. feydey 08:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)