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| Thanks for your edits to Confederate naming commission. Always good to see someone making good edits. Keep up the good work :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:56, 17 July 2021 (UTC) |
A note about dates
editThe US military uses dmy dates, not mdy. On US military articles, Wikipedia therefore also uses dmy dates. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 11:31, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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