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@MrClog:, thank you for reviewing The Seasons' Difference.
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I have tagged the other related articles that you have created or added to for over-quotation:
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Hi CommanderWaterford, thanks for picking this up. I have made the necessary edits so that the sections in question are now original, and are no longer in infringement of copyright. I decided to create a Wikipedia Article for MST over a year ago, before I had joined the Wikipedia community, and so was unaware of the copyright rules when I first wrote the proposed article. When I returned to the document to upload it today I did not realise that, when I had originally written it, I had violated the copyright rules, about which I am now well aware. InklingScholarWycliffeHall (talk) 22:00, 18 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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