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Your recent change in History

I am reverting your change, because the history of family life is a very different thing from Family history. For example, "Family Life in Ancient Egypt" is a history of family life, while "A History of the Smith Family in Amreica" is a family history. Rick Norwood 19:37, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Preservation Issues

I listed Preservation Issues as a copyvio because the article text is almost verbatim that of http://www.yourliferemembered.com/ . Later I discovered that yourliferemembered.com had a link back to this same article under "Useful Links". I have a feeling that the text was on the external web site first, due to you starting such a complete article here (in non-standard wiki formatting, too), but please correct me if that's not the case. Are you affiliated with that domain at all? If you're not and they had the text first, did you seek permission from them to use the text on their site? I couldn't find any sort of copyright statement on their website, but that doesn't necessarily mean the text isn't copyrighted. I'm not quite sure what's going on - please help me get to the bottom of this. Thanks, Computergeek84 01:18, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

It was my first article, btw I do know the author of the article and had permission to copy and edit it... they believe in open source, so anything there is free to copy....If I have made any errors please let me know...as I want to be a useful contributors and don't want to break any rules.1freethinker 04:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)