User talk:Monicahanda1

Welcome to Wikipedia. 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 (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) 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. IrishGuy ^talk 15:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as The Riley Institute, 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.furman.edu/riley/about/index.htm, 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) then you should do one of the following:

If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:The Riley Institute and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:The Riley Institute/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:The Riley Institute 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! Garion96 (talk) 18:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]