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December 2011

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Bear attacks

Thanks for the updates! When adding refs, make sure to close the ref tag. See my update here - [2]

Thanks --CutOffTies (talk) 16:31, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

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October 2013

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Forest Lake, Minnesota. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Forest Lake Area High School. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Marianne Edwards

Hi, Blastastic! I have reverted your recent addition to Marianne Edwards because you did not support it with a reference to a reliable published source. Please understand that this is not a judgement of your personal credibility, but a rule that applies to all biographies of living people to guard against the possibility of mischief (there are, unfortunately, enough people who would mischievously make a false claim about someone's death that the rule is necessary).

If you do happen to know of a reliable published source that has reported Marianne Edwards' death, please do add it to the article. You'd be doing a bunch of your fellow Wikipedians a favour; several of us have been looking for one for a while now, but not yet turned up anything that meets Wikipedia's standards for reliability. — Paul A (talk) 01:16, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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