Dwalker40
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- Rather then delete the article as a copyvio, I have moved it into your userspace to give you time to work on it. Please feel free to rewrite it in an encyclopaedic way but you need to take care not to infringe the conflict of interest guidelines. If you keep it short and to the point you should be OK. Once you are happy with it please give me a nudge on my talk page and I'll help you move it back into namespace. Since this is a copyvio, you need to do this quickly as we can't have any unfree material hanging around any longer then we need to. Cheers Spartaz Humbug! 23:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- I am the OTRS agent handling Dwalker40's ticket. I am confirming he has permission to use Nature Trust of British Columbia material. Somitho 09:09, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article User:Dwalker40/The Nature Trust of British Columbia, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at [[Talk:User:Dwalker40/The Nature Trust of British Columbia|its talk page]]. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 20:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)