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Ian Ollis

This is an automated message from VWBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Ian Ollis, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.joburgpride.org/teammember/ian-ollis-mp.

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Copyright problems with Ian Ollis

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Deletions

Hi, I just deleted a few articles you created, Andricus van der Westhuizen, Marian Shinn, Ian Ollis, and Donald Smiles. These all look like great topics for articles, but we cannot accept copyrighted content, even if slightly modified; sorry. If you have any questions or if I can help with anything, please do not hesitate to contact me on my talkpage. Regards, - 2/0 (cont.) 02:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)