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Kaelan Joyce

Thank you for sorting out the Kaelan Joyce article. Very much appreciated!

We tried but could not get the exteranl links part sorted!

Once again Thank you for your time and effort. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.166.200.76 (talk) 00:27, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Stateless (band)

Hello, I saw you assesed the Stateless (band) article from Stub class to Start class. I am aware of the criteria being used to asses certain articles, but I would like to know what in particular made you choose for Start class for this article. I actually want to know where I should work on harder or if I'm doing something wrong, or what is needed for this to be a better article. I read all the wikipedia guides and all, but you know, it's not always that easy. My only goal is to contribute to the article and try to only use verifiable sources and facts. I just need to know a little better how to improve this, to let's say a C-class article (1 step at the time!). Thanks! Hans (talk) 16:23, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

(in response to your answer on my talk) Ok, thanks alot. I'll try to add more content, and when their new album will be released I'm sure lots of new sources to cite will pop up. I'll try to add how they formed (found an article about that) and make a "musical style" section, which seems common for most band articles. And I'm thinking of asking a native English speaker to rewrite most of the text, my English is too average to really make this a better article. But I'll do my best the next couple of months and I'll ask for a new assessment when I think it might be ready for a C-class article. But having a good base structure and already having all the facts (verifiably) sourced is a good start for a better article, I believe. Thanks for your time! Hans (talk) 16:50, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

David Hunter McAlpin assessment

Hi Tom, I wanted to thank you for assessing the article on David Hunter McAlpin. Best to you! pmcyclist (talk) 19:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Layout of Neanderthal references

Mr. Bradbury, I see that you have just done a major cleanup of the markup structures in the Neanderthal article. The Neanderthal article is the kind of article that I love to read in Wikipedia, and so I really appreciate your work. I have a question regarding the ordering of the References section citations. In all other wikipedia articles I have read (maybe 50), references (as opposed to notes) are sorted in alphabetical order. I find no rhyme or reason in the current References order in the article. What am I missing? (I am a new editor, and seeing that your work displays mastery of wikipedia rules and processes, I feel good about asking you.) Thanks in advance for your answer.Middle Fork (talk) 22:09, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Got your note, checked the Neanderthal article. Great!! Thanks. Had I been more secure, I would have done it myself when I first noticed the problem. I will be more bold in the future. By the way, I wish the initial editors had not embedded the vast majority of full references in the notes field. Makes it very difficult to quickly scan to make sure the key players in various sub-controversies are being recognized in the article. But when I made that suggestion, it was rejected by someone who, I felt, had developed uncomfortable "ownership" vibes.Middle Fork (talk) 04:33, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Shama's quote in French Revolution

Tom, the flame of Reason quote you give from Shama's book Citizens (I presume) is on p. 778 in my 1989 publ. book: yours is on p. 658. Cordialement, Frania W. (talk) 23:59, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

You mean that 1989 & 2004 editions have that much page difference, my 778 is your 658? Total pages in my book, incl. sources/bibliography/index, is 950. FW/ Frania W. (talk) 00:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Well my (counted) 950 page book is the one given as 948: the 1989 edition. So everything's in order. I was just reading what had been done to the French Revolution today & am glad you do not make mistakes! Cordialement, Frania W. (talk) 00:22, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Assessment of David Berkeley

Hi Tom. Thank you for your assessment on the David Berkeley article and for the formatting of the reflist. If you have time, do you have any advice on how I could further improve the article? Thank you. McMarcoP (talk) 08:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Tom, thank you for your suggestions. The point is, I am not able to find any negative review of Berkeley's work, at least online. I am sure that there are some, though, and I will keep looking. Also - I will try to add some image, maybe a scan of an album cover. I am constantly expanding it, every time that there is some update anyway (the ATL group is yesterday's news - literally) and will keep doing so. Thank you very much! McMarcoP (talk) 10:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Sharon Kay Penman

Hi. Yesterday you rated the Sharon Kay Penman article that I took from a stub. Today the rating was changed to a C because of the skimpy lead. I've reworked the lead. If you get a chance, do you mind swinging by and having a look? Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 22:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the very speedy reaction and the extra set of eyes to fix the mistakes. I'm fairly certain it is Richard the Lionheart but will spend some time verifying. Thanks again. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 23:42, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Rian Malan

I thought I had thanked you here for correcting duplicate links on Rian Malan - but my post seems to have gone missing. So, thanks again! Did you rate the article as a "start" class? If you have any specific tips or criticism, I'd like to hear about it; I thought I had done most of it to a higher standard, but I am new to this, so I appreciate any advice you may have. --SkaraB 08:25, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Cite format in Planetary Nebula

I see what looks to me a good way to handle multiple cites to the same source in an article. See Cat's Eye Nebula where the footnotes can call out specific page numbers and use harvard ref to the citation which is only given once. I like how each part is a link and the cite is page specific.

What do you think of doing likewise in Planetary nebula? Also, why not link to Sun Kwok in the cites? He is considered an expert on the topic, what is harm in links? Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 22:26, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Carpenter sisters

Any other comments or suggestions to get this article to B-class or better? I do really appreciate your help! Jrcrin001 (talk) 03:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the article tweaks! Jrcrin001 (talk) 23:50, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

FYI Carpenter Sisters was deleted. Jrcrin001 (talk) 23:20, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Randy Meisner

Thank you very much for cleaning the citations and improving the article! Very much appreciated, and I'll always work on "Meis"'s page to get the rating up. Again, thanks... Doc9871 (talk) 07:02, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for assessing the Baron Byron biographies!

I know that was a lot to plough through all at once, and I greatly appreciate that you did it so soon! Mille gratias tibi ago!

Nicholas Mayall FAC

Hello Tpbradbury,

I'd love to get your copy edit help on the FAC for the astronomer Nicholas Mayall. If you have some time, please come take a look and make any improvements you can.

Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 01:28, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for you support. WilliamKF (talk) 02:08, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Yo Ho ho

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Hi Tom, see you at the Oak in Jan? ϢereSpielChequers 18:48, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

coffee

I am very glad to hear it. It sounds like you have everything under control, but let me know if you'd like a hand; I am on break from school and finally have a little time to edit Wikipedia. Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 08:42, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

ENIAC grade downgrade

Just out of curiosity, what resulted in the re-evaluation of the ENIAC article from A to B? Are you involved with both the computing and the Philadelphia wikiprojects? Does an article necessarily have to have the same grade for all projects, or do different wikiprojects use different ratings scales? Robert K S (talk) 01:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the reliability section, but the patent portion is unreferenced because it is merely a summary of a longer article (with the link provided at the top of that section). This is basically the same rule as the one that states that citations are inappropriate in the lead of an article if the material is covered more thoroughly and referenced later in the article. Robert K S (talk) 06:42, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

AutoRun article downgrade

I think I know what prompted the downgrade from A to B - the non encylopedic tag added by someone to the AutoRun#Attack mitigation section. I did disagree with the tag but rewrote the section anyway, following the style of some featured articles that have also used lists. I rewrote the thing about 3 times actually but think I have it right at this point. It would be nice if the article got its A rating back and if you could advise how to achieve FA rating on this article I'd appreciate it. Carveone (talk) 19:07, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Lack of citations? Ok, that came as a bit of a surprise given the number of citations within the article (33). When I initially wrote the AutoRun and AutoPlay articles I was reluctant to overcite - one I cited a statement I rarely repeated the cite, thinking I would be cluttering the article with citation points. But, looking at other FA marked computer articles, there pretty much cite every other statement they make! Maybe one day, if I have time.... Carveone (talk) 15:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Arius article assessment

Thanks so much for taking the time to assess the Arius article; I appreciate your imput on it. Just out of curiosity, what kept it from gaining a "B" classification? I've been working trying to improve it of late, and would appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thanks again! - Ecjmartin (talk) 00:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback! I'm going to see what I can do about that, and then maybe nominate it for GA, once we resolve a couple of issues brought up recently by another editor. Thanks again for your imput! - Ecjmartin (talk) 01:15, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hi. Many thanks for your help rating and reflinking Aafia Siddiqui. Quick question -- I can't seem to be able to make the wp pakistan rating conform -- would you know what the problem is? Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 22:29, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Assessment for Ercole Manfredi

Hi. Thanks for your assessment of the Ercole Manfredi article. Since you gave the article a C-class rating, and the Biography WikiProject's peer review queue is quite backlogged, I'm wondering if you could offer a few comments on what the article needs to be B-class? Thank you. --Paul_012 ^(talk) 17:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles

Ack ... I removed your edit because I have to figure out how to fix that. The original list was generated by Dr pda-- may be some glitch that missed that one. But all the numbers in that section add to 315, when they should be 314: to fix that, I have to go back and adjust the entire chart from the beginning, to reflect the new 314 tally-- afraid to face that task tonight, but we can't just remove an error without fixing it all the way back-- ugh! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:16, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I'll think on it when my brain is fresher tomorrow, but maybe just removing it and footnoting the new tally will be better than redoing entire chart ... have to think on it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:26, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your edit on 2010 Toronto Blue Jays season fixing up refrences. Youre help is noticed and much appriciated. BLUEJAYSFAN32 ^(TALK|JAYS) 15:08, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the assessment of Stefan Raab! Any tips for an unexperienced editor how it could be improved further? Regards Janfrie1988 (talk) 22:22, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Reflinks

Hi there. Since Reflinks is working for you and you know how to run it, can you please have a look at

• Australia
• Canberra
• Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory
• Short-beaked echidna

I just put in rawlinks on these FA/FAR renovations as I heard reflinks was instant, botlike. Many thanks YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 07:30, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Band of Horses

Thanks for tidying up stuff in the article. I just had to add 2 blank lines in though as the sections headings 'Cease to Begin' and 'Discography' had got 'caught' on the bottom right of left aligned photos. Iangurteen (talk) 16:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you

I wanted to say thanks for always assessing bio articles when they are requested – you help out much more than I do, so:

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I noticed this too and second the motion. KimChee (talk) 00:41, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Assessments Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury and Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal

Thank you for the recent assessments of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury and Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal. I appreciate the work that you are doing. For my future reference, could you direct me to the MOS regarding image sizing and formatting of references or citations in articles? I'm finding a bit of inconsistency between individuals assessing articles. I would really like to improve my editing and alignment with the MOS. Could you also provide a link that will let me know how to format the references in the manner that you revised? I haven't the foggiest idea how to do that and I cringe to think that I added work on your part. Any information you could provide that would improve the article is greatly appreciated. Thanks again! ;) Cindamuse (talk) 16:51, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal

Thanks for the feedback on the assessments of Anthony Ashley-Cooper and Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal at my talk page. Images, refs, what not. I'm definitely going to start using the reflinks bot for citations. I agree with the assessments. Although, I didn't expect the B assessment on AAC. I guess it was better than I thought. I had the biggest trouble finding any photos of Hamilton or her work that I could use. Doesn't lend much to an interesting article of an artist, in my opinion, but I did what I could. Thanks again. I appreciate the work that you are doing. Cindamuse (talk) 17:50, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Thank you for your work on references and citations.

There is a problem, however, with you first edit that now places General Verasinins crushing of the last Bosnian peasant uprising after Princip spending full nights at Zerajic's grave. Actually, part of the reason that future Serb assassins worshipped at his grave is that General Verasinin became particularly hated (not encyclopedic, I know) as a result of the crushing of that uprising. So, while you were attempting to correct a time-line, you actually didn't and the implied causality now is completely lost.

I'd like to reverse that first edit you made.Werchovsky (talk) 18:16, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Mentioning the aborted attempt on Franz-Joseph adds little to the article so I guess I should drop it. Then the section is chronological except for the last sentence which is a statement of causality...because Z tried to kill (the now even more hated) General V and then committed suicide rather than be captured he was an inspiration to Princip (who later assassinated FF and then tried to commit suicide).

It seems you are adept at citations and references. If so, and if you have time, cleaning up the citations and references in the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand article would be most helpful The good article reviewer insisted on footnoting quite a few additional sentences; this caused multiple sentences to have the same citation and I am not quite sure how to treat that. Also, some of the reference books are so old they have no ISBN number and there was some complaint about that...there was some other number the GA reviewer wanted in its place but I don't know where to find such numbers. One of the books is not even in the Library of Congress (I could only find it at the Hoover and Princeton), I don't think it has any kind of identification number. I felt I had to cite the primary source, because, although the important material is already picked up in secondary sources, there is a prominent Russian article that lied about what was in the primary source.Werchovsky (talk) 20:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Outdated File:Enciclopedia Libre and Spanish Wikipedia article count.JPG - Dec 08

Hi Tom, can you update File:Enciclopedia Libre and Spanish Wikipedia article count.JPG for 2010 data? twilsonb (talk) 11:27, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I would update and I also would create a SVG file if somebody could give me the resources. (the dates/article counts) mabdul 20:11, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh lol. thx I just overread them. I will create a svg file today... mabdul 21:02, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy Tpbradbury's Day!

Tpbradbury has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as Tpbradbury's Day! For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian, enjoy being the star of the day, Tpbradbury! Signed, Neutralhomer A record of your Day will always be kept here.

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Thanks

Hi Tom, thanks for taking the time to assess Tim Christensen and Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, and making a few useful improvements. I'm happy Wikipedia has such good volunteers like yourself! Best wishes, Eddyspeeder (talk) 21:45, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

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Archpoet's assessment and edits

Thanks a bunch for rating the article Archpoet and making most-welcome fixes! If you have some time, I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how to make it even better. I really want it to reach B, A, and even GA status soon enough, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
• H☼ωdΘesI†fl∉∈ ^{KLAT} • 09:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Danke schön for the suggestions. I'll get working a little harder!
• H☼ωdΘesI†fl∉∈ ^{KLAT} • 18:13, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

question re Canadian heraldry

Regarding this edit... does it not make more sense to allow the column width to be defined by each individual's screen resolution and browser window size? → ROUX ₪ 12:40, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

colwidth allows the number of columns to adjust to fit each individual's resolution and browser size. otherwise if you force it 2 columns it doesn't take account of the individual's resolution. see template:reflist, kind regards Tom B (talk) 12:45, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Hm, ok. → ROUX ₪ 12:46, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Charles Tenney

Thanks for eyeballing Mr. Tenney. I am presently developing an associated article for Greycourt State Park, and I will need some adult supervision when I finish it and put it up. I am waiting for someone at the State level to get back to me with current info, then I intend to double back on Mr. Tenney and make sure that the information regarding the estate is apportioned correctly. 8) thanks EraserGirl (talk) 02:18, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Ronnie Lee Gardner

Thank you for helping out. This is my first FA nomination, so I am admittedly a bit intimidated. KimChee (talk) 04:46, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		For your assistance in improving Ronnie Lee Gardner from its humble roots. KimChee (talk) 03:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Biography reassessments

Thank you for Lorraine Williams and Don Kaye - I figured they might be C-class, but I didn't want to make the assessment myself. :) 108.69.80.49 (talk) 15:48, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

thank you for "Painted turtle" edits

Thanks for the brushup. Kestionay: What does refend and refbegin do? I read the template descriptions, but was still confused.TCO (talk)

Happy 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia!

Dear Tom, Frania de Lutèce, who can't stand whisky but adores champagne, would like to know what exactly you mean by the sources needed for the image Napoléon adieux à la garde impériale à Fontainebleau.[1]

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Happy 10th anniversary of Wikipedia!

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Thank you!

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		For following behind us amateurs and giving Wikipedia a polished look with good-looking footnotes, I award you this Citation Barnstar. HuskyHuskie (talk) 04:23, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I want you to know how much I appreciate edits like this. I don't understand how to do that sort of stuff, and I don't have any interest in learning how, either, but I sure am glad there's people like you who add the professional look to this encyclopedia. Thank you! HuskyHuskie (talk) 04:23, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Finnish parliamentary election, 2011

could you run the full version of reflinks on the page. though, i ask not to remove the {{fi}} tags, which are not on the barerefs. it took me some 10 mins to restore them ;)(Lihaas (talk) 23:43, 20 April 2011 (UTC)).

sorry, but need your reflink on the page again please

also, any politics/elections articles to collaborate on? Papal conclave, 2005 needs work if youre up for it?Lihaas (talk) 00:50, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I only know how to run the basic version which is not complete. how do you run the proper one? can you explain?Lihaas (talk) 19:34, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Re: changes to Sarah Palin

Specifically, this regards removing the dubious tag. Here's a quick history: at some point, probably around 2008 when our obsession with Palin hit critical mass, someone put together an article entitled List of mayors of Wasilla, Alaska. This has since been merged into the main article on Wasilla. Take a look at that list. Wasilla was incorporated as a city in early 1974. The first mayor listed assumed office in late 1983. That's a gap encompassing almost a full decade. In other words, if Palin is listed as the 5th mayor of Wasilla, that's merely a case of Wikipedia editors creating their own reality out of a lack of doing proper research in the first place. The list has read like many others on Wikipedia - what's on there is reflective of what someone was able to find via their Google search, and it's apparently not important that in doing so, they've created a mess for someone else to clean up.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:01, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I did notice that you made a comment to the effect of not finding mention on the talk page. I first brought up on Talk:Wasilla, Alaska on May 11, 2010 that the list of mayors was nowhere near complete. The response (or perhaps more appropriately lack thereof) suggests that Wikipedia is akin to The Story of Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. The same point was brought up on Talk:Sarah Palin on February 24, 2011. The reason you didn't see it was that the page is frequently archived, and I don't have those kinds of hours in my day to keep belaboring a point to people who appear to be more interested in parroting every corporate media nugget they can get their hands on than in things such as historical accuracy. The rankings were removed from the other Wasilla mayor pages (e.g. Stein, Keller, Rupright). That person probably failed to notice that Palin's article was similarly tagged. I've been trying to do it myself, but it won't save the page for some reason.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:35, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Sheesh. It FINALLY processed the change after I finished with this message. Lessee what sort of reaction I get from the professional Palinistas.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:39, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Georgetown University

Thanks for your updates today! Those links keep going dead when the school paper changes their site.-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 21:37, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

United States Marine Corps

United States Marine Corps.. You left a talk page notice about cleaning up the article or it would have to go to FAR. That was 6 months ago and the article still has many problems. Were you planning on starting the FAR? Brad (talk) 03:39, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

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This should be fixed, but please post if again if it is not. TNXMan 14:40, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Are you sure you haven't made some sort of mistake? I can find no evidence that the autoblock you specify exists. Also, Hectorthebat's block dates from 11 March, and autoblocks normally last only for 24 hours. Try editing again. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

i've tried editing two different articles again and i've got the same error message Tom B (talk) 14:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for taking time to through the criteria of the Le souper de Beaucaire article, much appreciated! Ma®©usBritish [Chat • RFF] 11:52, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Number Theory

Can you give us some details as to when, how and why the article was rated as C-class? Garald (talk) 13:24, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I see. The situation is as follows. Up to a about a month ago, there was a page with which there was widespread unsatisfaction, especially among specialists; see the talk page. The following comment is typical: "Actually, I think this article is rather bad. So bad I've mostly never dared improving it. I think little justification is required to restart from scratch. I have no idea why this article is rated a B. I would recommend the re-write be done in a sandbox first, though (at least to get it to some level). RobHar (talk) 22:07, 4 July 2010 (UTC)".

A consensus was reached for a fresh start. About a month ago, I put up a new version that has, on the main, been accepted; see, again, the talk page and the edits done to the main page. What is particularly encouraging is that specialists are editing the page again.

So, you see, in this context, an off-the-cuff C-rating comes as a bit of a blow. Please reconsider.

Further comments are welcome. Garald (talk) 15:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

GA review for Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hello! I have reviewed this article; you can see the review at Talk:Ludwig Wittgenstein/GA1. Please don't be offended that I closed the review without allowing time for improvements - I only did that because, once improvements are made, I would like to redo the review from scratch in order to make sure that this excellent article gets all the attention it deserves. Thank you for working on it, and happy editing! --Cerebellum (talk) 11:42, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Wow, good job! Thank you for your prompt response. I still think it would be nice to have a "Reception" or "Legacy" section though - what do you think? --Cerebellum (talk) 09:09, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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