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Copyvio on Jay Jacobs (Athletic director)[edit]

Prior content in the article Jay Jacobs (athletic director) duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/aub/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/06_mg_theuniversity.pdf. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Lissoy (talk) 21:30, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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This notice refers to this edit on 21 April 2011. - 220 of ^Borg 01:00, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]