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  Excellent use of the edit summary with this edit. :) Salvidrim! 00:41, 20 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
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LA Rams move to Los Angeles

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Whenever you have time change the number to 13 from 12, since the Rams are moving to Los Angeles, that makes LA, the thirteenth metropoliation area, to host the four major professional teams

ReBoot

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I just want to say: I'm glad somebody else editing Wikipedia knows what a comma splice is!   : )   With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 01:16, 31 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you! I seem to have inserted "halts the clock" during my rewrite on 27-Nov-13 from a background in programming. "Stops the clock" sounds better and is what the article uses everywhere else. Spike-from-NH (talk) 00:43, 22 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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  The Barnstar of Diplomacy
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In Chipley, Washington County, Florida, there is a " Martin Luther King Drive". It is in the northern part of the city. Please add this to the Florida list of roads named after MLKJ. Slimshadie33115 (talk) 07:04, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Okay. I added it.—Bde1982 (talk) 14:07, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Woah there

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Quit being so philosophical, that edit summary was way too deep. I feel like that's something you'd see on a motivational Facebook post or LinkedIn or something. :P - Aoidh (talk) 21:00, 24 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

The word is WHOA, not Woah. Furthermore: Don't criticize others' edit summaries.—Bde1982 (talk) 21:07, 24 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Re [1]: It was a typo. Thank you for noticing and correcting it. Daniel Case (talk) 03:12, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

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