User talk:Neil donnan

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[edit] Gerard Devlin

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia by creating the page Gerard Devlin. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. -WarthogDemon 01:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. -WarthogDemon 01:16, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

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[edit] Gerard Devlin

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Gerard Devlin, 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://fenian32.livejournal.com/2541623.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), you can comment to that effect on Talk:Gerard Devlin. Then you should do one of the following:

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It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! -- ReyBrujo 01:23, 6 November 2006 (UTC)