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The copyright holder of this text asserted permission to use it in the second edit of the page. Chubbles ( talk) 19:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC) reply

The biography text also appears on the subject's Myspace page. Although we may be allowed to use it, this does not mean that we must use it, and in fact I think we should not use it (see also WP:COPYPASTE: "Note though that text from organisational websites often needs substantial re-writing in any case in order to make it encyclopedic..."). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:55, 3 January 2012 (UTC) reply