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Hello JtThere, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to
CSUF Grand Central Art Center and several other articles have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of
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- You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double
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Diannaa 🍁 (
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12:05, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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- Thank you
Diannaa
JtThere (
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04:47, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
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