Talk:Alan Balfour

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I have express permission from Alan Balfour to copy and paste the materials from his web site onto the Wikipedia page —Preceding unsigned comment added by TealCloud (talk • contribs) 19:04, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If this is true, Mr. Balfour needs to send an email from a verifiable email address to the Wikimedia Foundation wmf:Contact us indicating such a release of his copyright. Otherwise it will be treated as copyright infringement. I have redacted my nomination to have the article deleted, as I believe Mr. Balfour does meet the notability guidelines for academics, and am working on summarizing the CV page from his website. KuyaBriBri^{Talk header} 19:08, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]