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Thanks for updating!

Thanks a bunch for updating Luis Fonseca's page with new information! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 09:39, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

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Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting

Hi User:Uniformcharlie886—I hope you will weigh in at "Add names of victims who died". I support this edit. Bus stop (talk) 22:38, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Uniformcharlie886—I wanted to alert you to "signatures" on Talk pages, so I posted the above. (It is boilerplate.) Basically, on Talk pages, you type four "tildes" after your posts. That is method 1. Or, method 2 is that you "click on the signature button" as mentioned above in method 2. Also note—this is not done "when editing articles". Any questions, please let me know. And thanks for weighing in at the discussion at the article "Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting". Bus stop (talk) 15:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Bus stop - It seems I have so much to learn. You are appreciated! Uniformcharlie886 (talk) 16:05, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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