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August 2022

Is User:GearDown/sandbox your work or the work of some other person? If this is a translation of the German Wikipedia article, it must be attributed properly. Based on what you wrote on my talk page, this may be two copyright violations. Please clarify. Cullen328 (talk) 16:59, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

This is NOT my translation. It was given to me by someone. So I guess this has to be deleted.

I entered the text in my Sandbox. So this is not Published to the public. I can go delete this--correct? GearDown (talk) 17:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

I have revision deleted the translation as a copyright violation. Please explain, in detail, the origin of this translation. Cullen328 (talk) 17:14, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

I will try to explain. The Granddaughter of General Von Graffen wanted to add an English version of his biography. She emailed me a translation. I read the English Biography. I can contact this lady to see if she or someone did translate the text verbatim or just wrote their own version. But for now, my Draft should be DELETED. GearDown (talk) 17:22, 20 August 2022 (UTC)