User talk:GentryGraves
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Incomplete DYK nomination
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Thank you for creating the article Lyttelton family. However when you created it you copied text from other Wikipedia articles without following the guidance in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and so have created a copyright violation. All is not lost we can add to the history of you new article and fix the omission.
Please read the guideline and then either fix it yourself, or list the articles you copied from here in this section and I will do it for you.
I noticed the copy because you created the article with a series of short inline citations without the corresponding long citations in a References section. This is something mentioned in the guideline (see 3rd and last paragraph of the section "Other reasons for attributing text" in the guideline).
I searched on the string "64: "Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 7 Eliz." and matched it to a citation in Sir John Lyttelton (1520–1590). I could simply go through each section of your new article and find the articles from which the text originates, attribute it — as the guideline explains — and fix it myself, but "teach a man to fish..." -- PBS (talk) 17:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
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