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Tildes don't get expanded in edit summaries; the user and time and talk page are already included in the view of the diff, so that'd be redundant. --Gwern (contribs) 18:50, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

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Flight feather

Hi BeadleB: Do you have a reference for your addition about Common Snipes having a variable number of tail feathers? You've added that species to the article, but it's not in the reference currently cited for the sentence. Since it's an FA article, it really needs attribution! Thanks, MeegsC (talk) 03:32, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

• reference added BeadleB (talk) 01:32, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Ligatures

I am looking for the Wikipedia ruling on the use of ligatures (e.g. æ) in articles. If anyone can help direct me to whether or not they are acceptable (I feel they are inappropriate), please let me know.BeadleB (talk) 03:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Corrected 11 December 2013 BeadleB (talk) 21:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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This, like the 4-point motor graphic were only improvements on the original graphics I found on these pages. I only took the original graphics and improved their quality, not the content. The copyrights for the improved images were copied from the original graphic tags, whatever they are. I have no idea who the original uploader was. BeadleB (talk) 15:57, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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