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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Economic History of New Zealand

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Economic History of New Zealand requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-new-zealand-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Hi! For the second time, I've removed content you added to this draft because parts of it were copied or close-paraphrased from an external source (this time, from here). Everything you write in Wikipedia must be entirely in your own words. You can freely make use of the facts and ideas in the sources, but not of the language or form of words used to express them. It is not enough to change a few words or paraphrase, you need to write entirely new text. So if the source reads "By the late 1830s, settlers and Maori were using money in ever-increasing quantities", our article can not read "By the late 1830s, the settlers and the Maori were using money in increasing quantities" – although a few words have been changed, the sentence is recognisably still the same. You could, however, write something like "By about 1840, the use of money was becoming widespread among the Maori". If you have any questions about this, please ask here on this page. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:35, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Economic History of New Zealand has been accepted

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