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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Sweetheart Cup Company, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

 
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Sweetheart Cup Company, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.answers.com/topic/sweetheart-cup-company-inc#ixzz1m6cHXxOZ, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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I'm afraid that the answers page is not compatibly licensed. Few answers pages are. This particular one notes that it is drawn from "Gale Directory of Company Histories. International Directory of Company Histories. Copyright © 2006 by The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved." Unless an Answers page specifically says it is compatibly licensed, we are not able to assume it is. If we are to retain the work, the article will need to be rewritten in the temporary space without any of their content. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Answers.com (http://wiki.answers.com/about/legal_notices.html#3) says this: "Additionally, notwithstanding anything set forth in this Section 3 of the TOU, please note that all Wikipedia content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details)."

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/about/legal_notices.html#ixzz1nRfB8SU2

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ says this: You are free:

   to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
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Under the following conditions:

   Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
   Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

From this I would conclude that all I need to do is to add attribution for Gale Directory of Company Histories. International Directory of Company Histories. Las1385 (talk)

No, I'm afraid you've misunderstood. :/ That doesn't mean that you can copy their content to Wikipedia, it means that content they copy from Wikipedia (which they often do) is licensed that way. Content from other sources is not. (To give you a graphic illustration, see [1]; it offers "answers" from three sources. Wikipedia is the last. If you look at the bottom of the page, you will see three different copyright statements, including our license.) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:19, 26 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

OK, I will work on re-writing it. That might take awhile. Thanks for the clarification. Las1385 (talk)