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Hello Amflis16, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to State Library and Archives of Florida 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.
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Hi there Ninja Diannaa, thank you for letting me know of this. I really must apologize for it...I had assumed that the Florida Memory website was open to the public and offered free online content, but I did not stop to consider the text from the website itself. Is there any chance I can add those sections again, but with more suitable wording? It will take some work, and I would really like to see at least the Florida Memory Project get some attention. Would that be all right? Again, I apologize for the misunderstanding, and thank you for bringing it to my attention. Best Regards, Amflis16 (talk) 17:19, 20 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi there Amflis16. I checked carefully and discovered that the source pages are under copyright, and therefore cannot be copy-pasted to Wikipedia. It's okay to re-word the material and then re-add it. I realize that this is a lot more work, and I'm sorry about that, but it's the only option in this case. — Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 17:24, 20 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. I will be more careful to check the sources for copyrighted material before adding future edits, to make sure that doesn't happen again. Lesson learned. — Amflis16 (talk) 17:31, 20 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hello Amflis16, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to State Library and Archives of Florida 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.