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December 2015
Hello, I'm Elizium23. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 01:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 13 January 2016
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The Signpost: 24 April 2016
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Prince's death breaks traffic report records
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Another useful script
Greetings, I noticed you did some WikiProject assessments and thought you might find this tool useful as well. User:Equazcion/CatListMainTalkLinks.js. If you look at a category, like Category:Iowa stubs, it will light up the talk page in red if it hasn't been created. This makes it a lot easier to identify articles with no WikiProject banners on them at all. Cheers! Sunny Side Up (talk) 22:01, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Cachopo (dish)
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