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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Indian Evangelical Lutheran Church. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Vipinhari || talk 15:11, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to India Evangelical Lutheran Church has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. RadioFan (talk) 18:47, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Concerning your contribution, India Evangelical Lutheran Church, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.ielc.in/history.htm. As a copyright violation, India Evangelical Lutheran Church appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. India Evangelical Lutheran Church has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

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