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A tag has been placed on Republic of Seychelles (1977-1991) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

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July 23

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Also please read WP:ONUS wp:or and wp:consensus. Slatersteven ( talk) 15:55, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply

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