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Dead links in article 'Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi'

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Dead: http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_22_1689-1741.pdf#10-13

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Thanks. Any time you want to use text from that website, I would recommend that you verify authorship by placing this permanent link maybe on the talk page: http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomplexoperations.org%2Fhyknoco%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DUser%3AGeo_Swan%26diff%3D26516%26oldid%3D24899&date=2012-04-29. A few years back, we had an editor who contributed to a side wiki who was blocked on that side wiki for some political uproar there. They deleted his userpage, and we could no longer prove he was the same guy. This should help avoid any of that. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:05, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. Geo Swan (talk) 15:23, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Osama bin Laden bodyguard for deletion

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In answer to your previous question, I don't alert users who create articles and haven't edited them in over two years, because 99 times out of 100, they're not even active anymore. Furthermore, while it's not prohibited, it's pretty poor form to deprod an article you started and haven't worked on in just over two years. MSJapan (talk) 16:55, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]