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March 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Battle of Chernobyl, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. SunDawntalk 14:45, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

November 2024

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Project 2025, 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. Doug Weller talk 10:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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