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Your addition 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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. 76.248.151.159 (talk) 01:22, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm 76.248.151.159. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. 76.248.151.159 (talk) 01:22, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

This concern was addressed over two years ago. If it remains problematic I'll ask that the article by protected. Thank you, 76.248.151.159 (talk) 01:22, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

You deleted almost the entire page. If you had an issue with a specific part of it you should have edited that. The article said at the top that it needed citations, I was adding those. I didn't add copyrighted material, I added links to quotes from the New York Times, the New Yorker, etc, the quotes were already there, I expanded a couple of them so that they were more clear, but the quotes were already there I just posted links. I was putting the page in chronological order and was in the middle of working on it when you deleted almost the whole thing so now there's almost no source for anything there. Who would look up 2 year old Wikipedia issues in order to edit an article? This is a major composer and there's almost nothing written about him here now. I spent hours on this. Why should I add anything to Wikipedia in the future? If you had an issue with the info in this article before I started trying to add links well maybe you should have fixed it before and not just deleted someone's work. I have nothing to do with this composer and have nothing to do with advertising or promotion and I have nothing to do with what was previously posted in this article before today, so I don't know what you're talking about. Why should anyone post on Wikipedia? This is ridiculous. Iful (talk) 02:03, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not the editor who left the note above, but I have reviewed the article and I see that you seem to have gotten caught up in a mess that somebody else made. I'm sorry about that - a while back, somebody added a ton of content that does not comply with our copyright policies. While you were in the process of adding the requested source information, somebody else noticed the copyright issue and removed the material. When you saved your changes, you accidentally put it back. That happens sometimes when we have "edit conflicts". As a volunteer administrator who has worked on copyright issues for years, I have many times seen people caught up in these situations, where they work to improve content that we can't keep because it doesn't comply with our terms of use. I'm truly sorry that you were put into the position of wasting your time like that and hope you will not give up on Wikipedia. (In answer to your question on why people post, I do it because of our readers - we are one of the top 5 visited websites in the world, and when you start answering emails from people all around the globe explaining how much Wikipedia means to them, it can really inspire you to keep going in spite of the challenges. :))

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