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Again, welcome! Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 14:02, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

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		You deseve recognition for all the improvements you have made to Wikipedia. The encyclopedia is better because of you. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 14:15, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	For your work on New York energy law. Bearian (talk) 21:51, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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On the article you are referencing, you say I took the information from a Wired article. I never read that article. I took the referenced information from the Author's book published in 2022, which again, was referenced. Good job.Smellyshirt5 (talk) 14:40, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

And you also prevented people from seeing in the edit history what was actually contributed in that original post, so as to determine for themselves whether or not it was a copyright violation... even though it was referenced. Good job.Smellyshirt5 (talk) 14:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

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