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Re: Removal of edit for Association for Software Testing page...

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. My change was mainly to remove a direct quotation from the website. Such content is usually copyrighted to either the website designer or the owner of the website, rendering it invalid for Wikipedia. Even if the copyright holder or someone else claims to have permission to include such content here, it can't really be accepted as only free information should be used in this site. Because of that, feel free to edit the entry, updating the information in the article with your own words so that you can release the information under the GFDL. When doing so, please remember to have a neutral point of view, as edits that could be interpreted as opinions are removed as soon as spotted. Hopefully that makes things clear. -- ReyBrujo 13:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding. -- ReyBrujo 18:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

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  I award Scott Barber barnstar in appreciation of contributions to article related to Software Testing. --Pinecar 08:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

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