Talk:Eerwah Vale, Queensland

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I've removed the unsourced History section, which was added in this edit: Special:Diff/555661839/564180262 on 14 July 2013. I'm currently unable to find the original source, but the user behind the IP 60.231.92.206 has a clear pattern of copy-pasting copyright-violating text from online sources. See their edit to Doonan, Queensland on the same date, as well as to Toulouse and Winton, Queensland ([1]) a few days earlier. See also the same pattern of edits, around the same dates, by 60.228.88.169, 1.120.150.75, 121.222.190.130, and 124.186.78.177, showing numerous other copyright violations. We have to assume that this long text is also copy-pasted from a similar and most-likely copyrighted source. Please do not restore the material.

By the way, this appears to be the same now-blocked person as JohnLickor372 (talk · contribs), and hundreds of other sockpuppets that have made thousands of disruptive edits to "History" sections, particularly of Queensland-area articles. In my experience from cleaning these edits up, the user has a poor command of English and is not capable of writing the text in question. --IamNotU (talk) 16:53, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]