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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Jeffrey ooi, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to
Chung Ling High School has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without
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NgYShunghuh?14:45, 18 October 2016 (UTC)reply