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Thank you for the Waw An Namus article, by the way - volcanoes are way cool. And just so you know, we don't sign our articles here. We sign messages on talk pages, but not the articles themselves. DS 18:27, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Copyright problem: American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture
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The article American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- I undid bot removal of Orphan, only link in article space is at Greek language in the Greek_language#See_also section. Otherwise just links to user space by author or sock, probably WP:PROMO.
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Proposed deletion of Ben Amara
edit The article Ben Amara has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- This article is a misspelled duplicate of Ben Amera.
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