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Originally Posted by d-ray657
4-2-7, you have not attributed material that is obviously quoted. Unless you claim authorship of it, we must remove it as a violation of copyright laws. You have a chance to summarize it and provide links or simply remove it, but it cannot remain as plagiarized material.
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Can I reuse Wikipedia's content somewhere else?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe..._my_article.3F
So D-Ray what does this truly meen? Out of curiosity
It looks to me that we can copy most of what is on Wiki.
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