Danger in Refreshing Old Hubs?
I would go ahead and make the changes and point to your original publish date to indicate that your article is the original and has been copied if it is not allowed to be re-published for those reasons.
Hi
I just had a copied item removed from another site.
It turned out to be quite easy and painless
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