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Thank you!

Thank you for approving my draft. 38.142.24.194 (talk) 18:12, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Interestingly enough, I already have an account that could have created this page on my own. However, I was editing from a network whose security I wasn't sure about, so I didn't log in. I didn't mind using AFC because I have never created an article (even a disambiguation page), so I wanted it to be reviewed. 38.142.24.194 (talk) 18:15, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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Religion/Russia

Hey there, i wanted to ask you to look again at my request for a change in the article about religion in Russia i made like 3 months ago. I actually think we agree substantively on the subject and could improve the wording of the article. Thank you in advance. Icarusatthesun (talk) 16:42, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Icarusatthesun could you point me to a diff or discussion? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:03, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
I can. [1] Icarusatthesun (talk) 16:38, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Roger (Dodger67) Excuse me. Just wanted to check again if you think its worth to revive my edit request again. Sadly I am not that savy and active in Wikipedia. Icarusatthesun (talk) 01:09, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Icarusatthesun Sorry to be so slow. I think you could simply go ahead and remove the implied connection between Judaism and Bolshevism. The old discussion is enough reason to do so. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Dodger67, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

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Dr. Omkar Rai

KankP (talk) 06:56, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Dodger67 - I am a new Wikipedia editor and have made a contribution recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Omkar_Rai). I think this contribution is notable enough as this is widely covered and not just passing mentions.

Please have a look and suggest me if you see any improvement to help me make my contribution worthy for wikipedia.

Looking forward to learn and contribute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KankP (talk • contribs) 06:49, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Question about edits

Hi Dodger67! Thanks for your notes! Just wanted to ask how I could make this entry better for the wikipedia community. All statements were referenced with 3rd party sources, is there any suggestions you have for my entry for Hugo Uys? Let me know. Thanks! Nnduwadi (talk) 01:20, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Draft:List of near misses of attacks with gunfire or missiles on civil aviation

Dear Dodger, I have checked the references and added some new ones. This list is of course not ment as independent phenomenon but an addition to the List of airliner shootdown incidents as is explained in the introduction. What do you say about the revised draft?. Otto (talk) 22:01, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Otto ter Haar If it's meant to be part of the other article then add it there. I don't see any justification for it to exist as a separate article as it's not a notable topic in its own right. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:01, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Roger, Attacks on civil aviation are notable because if it happens it gets Significant coverage in the media for obvious reasons. Millions of people use civil aviation and rely on its safety. I have referenced to the coverage in the media in the references I provided.
My first choice was too to add it to the List of airliner shootdown incidents. In fact most incidents were listed there in a separate paragraph (see history). Other users in majority decided to delete Near misses because it doesn't fit the name of the article (see talk page). Otto (talk) 21:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Otto ter Haar the problem is that "near misses" is itself not a subject that can sustain a seperate article. Individual incidents do get coverage that give them notability but the subject "near misses" as such do not. There simply are no sources that discuss such misses as a topic in itself. Imho at best the various articles about such individual incidents might be grouped in a category. I think you might do well to discuss the issue at WP:WikiProject Aviation for further opinions whether such an article could exist. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:29, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
The obvious solution should be to rename the article List of airliner shootdown incidents into List of attacks with gunfire or missiles on civil aviation. For unknown reasons some vocal editors refuse to discuss that and removed all near misses from the list. In these circumstances I see a separate article to supplement the incomplete original one as the right solution. I can add a template which suggests to merge both articles to the suplementary one. Otto (talk) 12:09, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

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This is for your valuable contributions related to teahouse. PATH SLOPU (Talk) 13:48, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

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October 2018 at Women in Red

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South African Special Forces

The R1 is a licenced copy of the FN FAL. 

A "lightweight" variant of the FN FAL with a folding butt is a R2, and a model designed for police use not capable of automatic fire is the R3.

TrojanHawk99 (talk) 22:16, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
And your point is? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:12, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Recent edit

About this edit, you cite [[WP:POINT ]] but didn't state in which way is related with my edits. The article has a section on Marxist feminist critical theory and I thought that the subject is not a mainstream view. Maybe I'm wrong so an elaboration on this would be helpful to future edits. Rupert Loup (talk) 12:10, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

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Trivia

Sorry if I've already mentioned this at some time in the past. I have a short memory. :) The sportswriter Tom Meany once wrote a book called The Artful Dodgers.[2] Not necessarily suggesting you should buy it. Just FYI. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:32, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks

Dear Dodger

Thanks so much for your welcome message.

I had no idea we were not allowed to link books associated with people in the pubic eye, and will avoid doing so in future.

I often follow up book references from wikipedia, so I can see others like literary references, too.

Kind regards

Mauve Peace — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mauve Peace (talk • contribs) 18:38, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi again Mauve Peace the point is not to link to a book seller in a reference. You cite the book itself by providing bibliographic details in the reference; author, editor, title, year, publisher, page(s), and for books published since the 1970s please include the ISBN if it's available. The Referencing for beginners guide has further good advice. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:34, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Handsontable

Hello Dodger67, I was hoping you could take a look again at the draft that I submitted for re-review after making a few changes to it. Thank you in advance. Triplep3 (talk) 12:15, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Triplep3 I've asked for subject specialist help from WP:WikiProject Software. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:24, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Great, thanks for the update! -- Triplep3 (talk) 08:51, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Dodger67, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

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Health and Appearance of Michael Jackson

I left a comment on the Talk Page regarding your edit. I have nothing to add, but maybe you want to read it. Quaffel (talk) 15:23, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hello there, I noticed that my artist page was deleted due to Unambiguous advertising or promotion I would like to know if it can be fixed or the issue could be resolved if not what's the appropriate way for an artist to get a wikipedia page and I'm willing to step down and let go of all the promotion content. Thank You! waiting for the response

11/1/2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by The VoV (talk • contribs) 10:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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William R. Smith, MD

Hi Dodger,

Thanks for editing my William R. Smith, MD submission. It is my first time writing a Wiki page. Do I need to follow up with you? Is it OK that there are multiple William R. Smiths? I used MD to distinguish this page. When can I expect to hear back on whether or not it was approved?

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

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Msl

Please update the scorecards properly and completely. If you don't want to you don't have to edit at all. It's disappointing considering you are an administrator. Human (talk) 13:08, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

A Simple Human, I'm doing it at the pace I can manage, most of those edits are done on a phone, so it takes a little while. See WP:NOTNEWS and WP:DEADLINE. My being an admin is of no relevance at all, simple editing is not an administrative action. Please assume good faith and maintain a civil tone when communicating with fellow editors, we are all volunteers doing what we can to improve Wikipedia. Remember it's a hobby, not a job. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

I edit entirely using my phone and I know it's a hobby but still editing properly is a good thing to do. And as far as I remember I did assume good faith and maintained a civil tone. Human (talk) 13:31, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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Draft:Babylon.js

Hello Dodger67. I noticed your name in the history of this page. This is now well-formatted and it seems like a normal article. I'm wondering if it has missed any of the required phases of AFC review? Can you say whether it still needs to be submitted somewhere else, or should it be considered for main space? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 03:06, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi EdJohnston, it is correctly submitted and waiting for a review. The backlog has apparently come down quite a bit in recent weeks, so the wait will hopefully be quite short. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 05:51, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

MSL points table

Make the point table as a separate section. This has been implied to all other cricket leagues around the world. Human (talk) 18:51, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

A Simple Human Good idea, do you think it should go before or after the match summaries? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:17, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

I need your help

Hi! can you please check out this Florian Munteanu case. I've seen plenty of pages here on Wikipedia with actors who played a single role in a movie. I don't understand why some people complain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4F8:1C17:404A:0:0:0:1 (talk) 14:11, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

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  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

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  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

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Black mamba

Hi, your name's cropped up time to time on the page or talk page of black mamba. I've been trying to spruce it up for FA-hood and have found cleanup quite a bit more onerous t han starting from scratch. All input on how it reads, more context,less context etc. see Wikipedia:Peer review/Black mamba/archive2 - appreciated. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:54, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Dodger67,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.


Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

  • Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
  • I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
    • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
  • Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

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More than ambiguous

One word with different meanings is a homonym (or equivocal).

Ambiguity that depends on the meanings of individual words or expressions (e. g., "time flies like an arrow") is semantic ambiguity. "Flies" can mean either the noun or the verb, and "like" is either the verb or the adjective, the expression having four possible meanings.

Syntactic ambiguity, sometimes called amphiboly, depends on the structure of the sentence or expression, the individual words being unambiguous. In "Jack hits James and Jill hit him", "him" depends not on the meaning of "him" but on who is being referred to; it has ambiguity of reference. Similarly, in "little girls' camp", either the girls or the camp may be little.

"Pretty cold weather" is mixed, "pretty" is semantically ambiguous and can mean either the adjective or the adverb, which results in a syntactic ambiguity between qualifying "cold" or "weather".

Pragmatic ambiguity depends on the intended effects of a sentence, e. g. "You're a fine fellow!" can be meant either sincerely or sarcastically, implying the opposite of the said. Rhetorical devices (apophasis, antiphrasis) make use of this. --212.186.133.83 (talk) 06:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Yoco

Hello, i created an article about Yoco, a Cape Town based company . I think it meets criteria of notabilty to be in Wikipedia, but it was unfortunately put as article for deletion. Can you please give your opinion as an experienced contributor in South-Africa related articles? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoco Technologies Thank you in advance. MathieuPaul1977 (talk) 08:54, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
  • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
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Remove KHOE languages Edits

Hello. Why are you removing my edits to the page. These are verifiable content. Toroxa (talk) 20:49, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

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--Rosiestep (talk) 20:09, 26 January 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Indeed the RSA Conference Award and the RSA Conference are separate and should stay separate

The award committee for the RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics is an experts cryptographers committee associated with the CT-RSA (Cryptographers' track). The award, by now, is over 20 years old and is perhaps the top award in Cryptography research. Many of the award winners moved on to get higher awards (Turing Award, ACM Award in Computing, and so on). It should not be merged with the conference since in case the conference changes (it is a commercial industry entity) and may want to discontinue the award, then the CT-RSA conference series most likely will continue and the IACR most likely will take over the award (IACR may also be interested to co-sponsor the award as well).

Thanks!Marcelju— (talk) 18:13, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Marcelju, both articles are rather brief with little depth and detail. Perhaps you could assist to expand them, I presume you might have access to further sources. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 22:26, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

The goal is to extend the entry. If you follow the entries of winners who got the award you can see that they are supper important cryptographers and there is a lot of content about them. Conflating the entire COMMERCIAL RSA Conference with the SCIENTIFIC AWARD is not the best way to highlight the content in this entry. There are not too many awards dedicated to scientific cryptography (IACR fellows is another entry of this nature), while the area itself is of an increasingly important nature (like TLS on the Internet and in smart phones, there are billion and even trillion transactions per day involving cryptography, some of the winners have contributed to). Also the award nature may change over the years not in sync with the conference itself, so it should not be just part of the conference itself (The IACR crypto organization may co-sponsor it in the future, etc.) In any event, more material is available regarding the award since this is just the initial entry (I wanted it to be accepted first before extension). Thanks! Marcelju (talk) 13:11, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:20, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Traka Page

Hi

Apologies I am updating a page (Traka) for the first time on Wikipedia and noted your suggestion to delete the updates due to non compliance with G11?

Forgive my ignorance but please could you clarify what this means so I can look to correct?

Thanks

Lydia — Preceding unsigned comment added by LydiaFionaLewis (talk • contribs) 21:00, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi LydiaFionaLewis, you've slightly misunderstood. I have nominated the article "as a whole″ to possibly be deleted or dealt with in any other apropriate manner. The reason I nominated it is that it currently has no sources at all (it never had any acceptable ones) and reads like a company brochure (see WP:PROMO). The discussion will occur at WP:Articles for deletion/Traka and will continue for at least one full week (unless the outcome becomes really obviously clear earlier). You are absolutely welcome to participate in the discussion. Your arguments in the debate must be grounded in Wikipedia's policies and rules, external condiderations are disregarded. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:21, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

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readded BorgQueen
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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
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  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

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--Rosiestep (talk) 22:09, 18 February 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Your draft article, Draft:Saudi women in the arts

Hello, Dodger67. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Saudi women in the arts".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 11:42, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

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