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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2019)

The steam hammer is a type of hammer
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Hammer

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editToken

Hello Sam Sailor,

Your script User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/logger.js is no longer functional because it attempts to get an editToken from mw.user.tokens. The script should instead get a csrfToken. editTokens were removed from mw.user.tokens on October 3, 2019 at Phabricator during this edit as they were redundant to csrfTokens.BrandonXLF (talk) 00:06, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

December events with WIR

December 2019, Volume 5, Issue 12, Numbers 107, 108, 144, 145, 146, 147


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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2019)

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Coffee cake

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Are you still using a script I wrote?

Hiya. Are you still using easy-AfC-Redirect-and-Category-Response.js, which is currently not commented-out in your vector.js? If so, it may not currently function and may need work to make it work (if you catch my drift). Please reply here. Cheers :) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 01:46, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Actually, it looks like it probably hasn't been functional for a long time, and since you're the only account importing it, I'm inclined to delete the script rather than rewrite it. I'll wait to hear from you. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 02:11, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

I've killed the script; it was non functional and I'm too lazy to fix it. 08:54, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2019)

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Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature Profiling

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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2019)

A ballet leap performed with modern, non-classical form in a contemporary ballet
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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello Sam Sailor, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020.
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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Sam Sailor

Hi Sam Sailor, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas
and a very happy and prosperous New Year,
Thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia this past year,
   –Davey2010talk 00:56, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2019)

When cooking with alcohol to prepare a flambé, alcohol is ignited
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Cooking with alcohol

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 Rosguill (talk) 47,395 Patrol Page Curation
2 Onel5969 (talk) 41,883 Patrol Page Curation
3 JTtheOG (talk) 11,493 Patrol Page Curation
4 Arthistorian1977 (talk) 5,562 Patrol Page Curation
5 DannyS712 (talk) 4,866 Patrol Page Curation
6 CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) 3,995 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 3,812 Patrol Page Curation
8 Boleyn (talk) 3,655 Patrol Page Curation
9 Ymblanter (talk) 3,553 Patrol Page Curation
10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

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Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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January 2020 at Women in Red

January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153


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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2020)

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List of pasta

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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2020)

The pilot in command of an aircraft is the person aboard who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the captain in a typical two- or three-pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only one certificated and qualified pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
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Captain

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2020)

Various computer hardware components within a desktop computer
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Computer hardware

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2020)

The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region located in northern Tanzania, Africa. It spans approximately 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi), and hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Pictured is a leopard in a tree in the Serengeti.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 37

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2020)

The The Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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Barbershop quartet

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2020)

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom.
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Religious text

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Sam Sailor,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2020)

The metric length of one kilometre is equivalent to the imperial measurement of 0.62137 miles.
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Length

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March 2020 at Women in Red

March 2020, Volume 6, Issue 3, Numbers 150, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159


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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2020)

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Nature reserve

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Proposal at the Village Pump to streamline the welcome template

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to streamline the welcome template. This may be of interest to you as a member of the Wikipedia Help Project. Sdkb (talk) 04:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

The Signpost: 1 March 2020

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2020)

A company is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.
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Company

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2020)

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Transglobe Expedition

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2020)

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Darts

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Danke schön, liebe Gerda Arendt! Ich hoffe, Sie bei guter Gesundheit anzutreffen. MfG, Sam Sailor 20:08, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, health is fine, hope yours too? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, Gerda, I'm no longer 40, but I am not Coronavirus-infected, and in general I should not complain. Vbr, Sam Sailor 20:18, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2020)

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Ignorance

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April 2020 at Women in Red

April 2020, Volume 6, Issue 4, Numbers 150, 151, 159, 160, 161, 162


April offerings at Women in Red.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2020)

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The Sims (video game)

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2020)

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Anna Lindh

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The Signpost: 26 April 2020

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2020)

Elements of the human body by mass. Trace elements are less than 1% combined (and each less than 0.1%).
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Human body

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020

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May 2020 at Women in Red

May 2020, Volume 6, Issue 5, Numbers 150, 151, 163, 164, 165, 166


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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2020)

The beach promenade in Kühlungsborn, Germany runs along the coast of the Baltic Sea.
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Coast

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2020)

The original map by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography.
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June 2020 at Women in Red

Women in Red

June 2020, Volume 6, Issue 6, Numbers 150, 151, 167, 168, 169

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Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2020)

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.
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Invention

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2020)

Anna Holmlund in 2015 at the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 Finals
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Anna Holmlund

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

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Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020

  • Library Card Platform
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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2020)

The Panama Canal is an example of a ship canal.
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Ship canal

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Sam Sailor,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources
  • A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
  • Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
  • A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
  • Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2020)

William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire.
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William Mariner (writer)

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July 2020 at Women in Red

Women in Red / July 2020, Volume 6, Issue 7, Numbers 150, 151, 170, 171, 172, 173


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Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by fine art
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

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The phrase "omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.
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The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a New World crop, a crop native to the New World (mostly the Americas) before 1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.
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An act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the three-act structure.
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Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination. Pictured is a man delivering charcoal by bicycle in Uganda.
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ANI notice

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Rude and aggressive comments from User:Sailor Sam. Thank you. I am letting you know since the thread opener unfortunately did not do so. Nil Einne (talk) 18:50, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

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An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus, the Nepohualtzintzin, one of the many pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans.
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

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Merry Christmas Sam Sailor

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Thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia,
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Many thanks, Davey2010, I trust you had a pleasant Christmas yourself, and wish you a prosperous New Year. We are sure going to miss you lot in the EU. Best, Sam Sailor 18:37, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

Political Censorship

So now that I've exposed your bizarre accusations as mere conspiratorial delusions pushed by far right admins, I would like you to either address line by line what was wrong with what I edited. We have passed the name calling phase and now you people need to answer for the censorship of factual information that you are grouping up to enforce. I included fact check links to national recognized news sources, links to press releases by the person themselves, and every quote was linked to and attributed to someone at the link. The things I added were the most important and consequential actions that person took in their career. Just because some far right extremist admin thinks it makes his right wing politician looks bad doesn't mean it needs deleted. That's in the Terms of Use. Just because factual information may be divisive, if it is factual and sourced properly with the appropriate tags, which mine was, then the deletion of it is considered vandalism. You jumping over to my talk page and writing what you did is harassment. After scrolling through drmies history, it is extremely clear that he is a right wing troll that has been shielding extreme right wing figures and politicians from having factual information about them on their wiki's. Thanks for participating in about a half dozen violations of the Terms of Use. FactZheker (talk) 16:38, 15 January 2021 (UTC)FactZheker

@FactZheker: I have moved your message down here, that's where we post new topics.
Two main points: (1) allow yourself some time to get used to how Wikipedia works, and (2) speak politely to other editors.
In re (1) I'll be reposting a welcome message on your talk page. It contains many useful links to the part of Wikipedia we call the project namespace. Pages in project namespace are prefixed with "Wikipedia:" and shortcuts to such pages are prefixed with "WP:". Pay particular attention to WP:NPOV, a neutral point of view is essential on Wikipedia. I'd like to also suggest that you join Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography where you can connect with other editors that may be better suited to guide you along. Do not assume they have any particular political leaning at all.
In re (2), e.g. "You jumping over to my talk page and writing what you did is harassment." No. You posted a {{help me}} on your talk, and I responded to it via CAT:HELPME. You, obviously, did not like my response, but that does not make my response harassment. Your multitude of other aspersions such as "exposed your bizarre accusations as mere conspiratorial delusions pushed by far right admins" and "some far right extremist admin thinks it makes his right wing politician looks bad" and "scrolling through drmies history, it is extremely clear that he is a right wing troll that has been shielding extreme right wing figures and politicians from having factual information about them on their wiki's" are, to me, amusing, but be aware that if you continue to lash out on Wikipedia in a manner that may be all too habitual from the different social-media platforms, you may eventually be made acquainted with our policy on personal attacks.
... "if it is factual and sourced properly with the appropriate tags, which mine was, then the deletion of it is considered vandalism." No, it is not vandalism. If you look at your edit in Special:Diff/1000095042/1000401561 you will notice that it was tagged as "possible BLP issue or vandalism" by the software. The subsequent reversion by Drmies was not vandalism.
In regards to "Thanks for participating in about a half dozen violations of the Terms of Use." we have procedures for perceived misconduct as well: in this case, file a complaint at WP:ANI explaining what TOS violations you believe I have made. Uninvolved admins and editors will then have a look at it. Sam Sailor 19:45, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Little surprised

I have to say, I'm a little surprised to see that "fixed botched setup" of an archive to you means replacing the archive setup entirely; all that was necessary was changing a number. Am I missing something obvious? Primefac (talk) 10:33, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Both setups work. But I'm a little surprised that you mention it at all. The botched setup dates back to 2013 (Special:Diff/534984907 + Special:Diff/534984907/next) and should have been fixed per WP:POSTMOVE in the 2018 move. That it wasn't and that nobody else noticed until now suggests that the hidden message is a good measure. Anything else that you don't like with my setup, by all means, change it. The main thing is that future archiving is correct. Sam Sailor 10:48, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
I guess I found it odd that rather than change the archive number you replaced the entire system, that's all. I can't fault your logic, just the choice of edit really (though I will admit that I do not like ClueBot's setup). Primefac (talk) 02:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

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