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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Trail of tear chattanooga. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Trail of Tears. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Trail of Tears – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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While technically Crow is correct and this article could have been deleted per WP:CSD#A10 as a duplicate of the existing article Trail of Tears, I see you appear to be working on it for a student project. Accordingly, I moved it into your userspace; you'll find it at User:Nedstark15/Drafts/Trail of tear chattanooga. Rather than moving it back to article space, you might want to use it as a base to improve the existing Trail of Tears article. I don't know if you're aware of Wikipedia's good article program, but you might want to set as your goal improving the Trail of Tears article to meet the good article criteria. If you have any questions regarding using Wikipedia or require assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page or to get my attention using the {{ping}} template. Thanks! –Grondemar 20:17, 12 October 2015 (UTC)