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This article has been tagged as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) It may be deleted after one week unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Major contributions by contributors who have been verified to have violated copyright in multiple articles may be presumptively deleted in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations.
Interested contributors are invited to help clarify the copyright status of this material, as the source is hidden by a subscription wall, or rewrite the article in original language at the temporary page linked from the article's face. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. --Moonriddengirl(talk) 15:17, 4 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
The prose is a list of clubs and dates, joined in an incoherent way, with absolutely nothing else. These are facts that Pride of Anglia cannot possibly claim copyright on. WFCforLife (talk) 14:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
Given User:ChrisTheDude's assistance at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Jcuk#Pages 61 through 80 (thanks, Chris :)), I've restored the content. It doesn't take much originality for copyright to exist under the US law that governs Wikipedia. Had this contributor simply copied prose like "From Plymouth he was transferred to Walsall F.C. in March 1978, and thence to Mansfield Town F.C. where he had his career best season, appearing 84 times, and scoring 31 goals", it would be unusable. However, Chris located an archived version of the source, and it seems like the contributor in this instance used the facts in the table to construct his own prose. --Moonriddengirl(talk) 15:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
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