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I love to write poetry, so I was wondering if I can post it to my talk page. I'd also like to know that if I'm allowed, is there a command that lets more people notice my poetry?
You can put this at your userpage, yes. SwisterTwister talk 20:09, 1 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to George Floyd has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 01:36, 5 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. El_C 01:38, 5 September 2020 (UTC)Reply