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The Diplomat's Club

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The Heart Attack

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The Maestro (Seinfeld)

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The Seven

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The Engagement (Seinfeld)

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The Checks

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Wikis

Wikis and other user-generated sites are not considered reliable sources - you shouldn't cite them. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:49, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

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The One Where Ross and Rachel...You Know

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The One with the Dozen Lasagnas

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello A Gangsta, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to The One with the List has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
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• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -©2016 Compassionate727^{(Talk)(Contributions)} 17:10, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016

Your addition to The One with Phoebe's Dad has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. -©2016 Compassionate727^{(Talk)(Contributions)} 17:28, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Copyvios

You have added plot summaries copied from blogs to multiple different articles. I've caught six and have reverted several others without checking, and will check the remainder shortly. This is unacceptable. Should you feel the need to continue to add copied material, even from blogs, I will have to report you to WP:AN/I. -©2016 Compassionate727^{(Talk)(Contributions)} 17:43, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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