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Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 18:12, 15 March 2014 (UTC).
Anyone got any thoughts on the stub article Operation Othona? There are various things about it coming out in the press so it could probably be expanded. Yaris678 ( talk) 11:20, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
I moved an article to the userspace for User:Sky1claw0, who wants to create an article on Elizabethan London. We already have a section on it at Tudor London and I've told him that he would still need to to the usual (sources, etc) to show that we need a separate article as a whole. I figure that there is merit in potentially working on an article for this and I've asked him to check in with this WP and with WP:ENGLAND as well. He's pretty new, so I think that it would be a very good idea for someone to assist him with this process, hence this message here. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:00, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
See Talk:Grade I and II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham#Requested move. Ham ( talk) 18:40, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
See Talk:Barking and Dagenham parks and open spaces#Requested moves. Ham ( talk) 17:25, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/St John's Downshire Hill. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 01:48, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
I am trying to fix an issue, I am bringing it up here as the article in question doesn't have huge amount of traffic and I don't want the thread to go dead. The article Shooter's Hill, currently has an apostrophe, every now and then someone adds or removes apostrophes to mentions of the place name but the title and infoboxes else where remain unchanged. As far as I can tell both spellings are used in published material, maps, and by the council, I haven't seen anywhere here or anywhere discussing this issue. I believe both spellings should be mentioned in the lead, then all other spellings after should match including title, and idealy other article mentions and infoboxes too, I don't even have a preference to one spelling I just think an article should be consistant. I would just like other users opinions as to which spelling to pick before I try to fix it. Also am I right to try and fix this. I am sure it's sensible wiki rules to use on spelling within an article and have the title match obviously as in any other encyclopedia or text. Has any other place, in London or anywhere experienced a similar issue? Carl wev 18:36, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
see thread here
Talk:Shooter's_Hill#Apostophe_or_not.3F..._Article_title_and_spelling
I've been in correspondence with the Metropolitan Police (the police service for London, England) over the last few months, discussing the possibility of them open-licensing some of their images - not least the scenic (as opposed to scene-of-crime) pictures taken from their helicopters, and/ or images posted to their social media accounts.
They have decided that they so not wish to do so on a blanket basis, but say that they are willing to consider requests to do so for images in an individual basis. You may send requests to: DMC-Mailbox-.PressBureau-DMC@met.pnn.police.uk Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:39, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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Rhyming slang on the main page
Good afternoon, as you will surely know we are working to bring Rhyming Slang to the main page of Wikipedia, please make your comments in the relevant sections Above.
Yours,
Horatio Snickers ( talk) 00:16, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to rename Category:Proposed rail transport in England, Category:Proposed rail transport in Scotland, Category:Proposed rail transport in Wales, Category:Proposed rail transport in Northern Ireland, Category:Rail Infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom Category:Transport projects in London & Category:Proposed transport projects in London; all subcategories of Category:Proposed rail infrastructure in the United Kingdom Hugo999 ( talk) 13:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'd welcome comments on the List of public art in the City of Westminster at its FLC discussion page. Thanks, Ham ( talk) 19:40, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there a place where Wikiproject users may be reminded that there are photograph requests? At Commons:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/Europe#London several are listed. Several, mainly airline offices and corporate offices, are requests I had made, but there are some requests from other users too WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
On Saturday I started writing what I thought would turn into a start-class article on the Walthamstow by-election, 1910 ... but it kinda grew, and has ended up at over 2600 words.
Would any other editors like to review it, and see if they can improve it? Apart from a lack of illustrations, the major failing I can see is that it relies very heavily on the archives of The Times newspaper, which was in general was openly biased towards the Conservatives (although its coverage of this election was largely neutral in tone). If anyone has access to the archives of the Manchester Guardian or Labour-supporting papers, that would help to provide fuller coverage on other perspectives. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 10:33, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
There is a new task force for creating and improving articles on London's public art; please join here! Ham ( talk) 09:14, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#VG comments subpages regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject London articles that would be affected by this action are these:
If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject London's use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. - Thibbs ( talk) 15:56, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
As you might have seen in the Signpost this week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. As of Sunday night, over five thousand new maps have been identified, with 26.5% of the target books looked at -- but see here for latest figures, and information.
A part that may specifically interest this project is
which currently shows pink templated links for 288 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Together with lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).
Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for London articles.
Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 00:56, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
This 7digital article is within the scope of WikiProject London and I was hoping someone could either help or tell me how to help improve this article regarding London. Thanks :) Llamalady28 ( talk) 11:26, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Following is a list of sculptures, monuments and memorials without Wikipedia articles. User:Ham and I have put this list together and we believe the links below reflect the most appropriate article titles based on naming conventions. I have been creating many articles for London artworks since my recent visit to the city, but I welcome other editors to please assist with the creation of these articles to help improve the encyclopedia.
All help welcome! ---- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:47, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
English wikipedia has articles for Greater London Council, Greater London Authority and Greater London. The Greater London article seems to have been named London Region in the past and been renamed but it is really not clear what it is meant to be the subject of this. It has most of the language links. It seems to me that we need an article on London Region (an official entity including both the GLA and the City of London but the main article should be the Greater London Authority article since that is the entity which has the twin cities and the budget etc. We may also need a general London article to pull the others together. Yes? No? filceolaire ( talk) 20:50, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi London wikieditors, just wondering why it is listed by boroughs; most lists of notable people are usually divided by surname, they are easy to browse:) Coolabahapple ( talk) 09:18, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I've put Only Fools and Horses up for review of its featured status at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Only Fools and Horses/archive1. Improvements and comments welcome. Bencherlite Talk 11:20, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Methodism Jerodlycett ( talk) 09:45, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
See here. Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 13:08, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I've started a discussion about the start of a TFD merge of two London railway station templates. The discussion is here, I'm just dropping a note here in case anyone is interested. - X201 ( talk) 15:48, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
A lot of our maps of London boroughs, such as File:City of Westminster in Greater London.svg, only show the River Thames starting from a point in Richmond. This suggests that the Thames' headwaters are in Richmond! Can't we demand more accuracy than that? Neon Merlin 07:11, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
There is a proposal to move Burning of Parliament to Burning of British Parliament and Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal to Burning of Canadian Parliament. Please take part in the discussion at Talk:Burning of Parliament#Requested move 8 May 2015. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 15:16, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Sade Adu to be moved to Sade. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:30, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion on Talk:Croydon about how to define the town for purposes of population statistics. Any input from editors with experience of similar problems elsewhere would be welcome. GrindtXX ( talk) 13:07, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed removing the distinction between the Greater London administrative area and the London region at Talk:Greater London here. This change would affect a large number of London-related articles (primarily changing all references to the "Greater London administrative area" to "Greater London region") such as London, Greater London Authority, the districts of Greater London, etc; so input would be appreciated. Rob984 ( talk) 13:18, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Rob ... I'm coming at London from the other end, and hitting the problems of using a simple 'London' tag where a borough tag would be a lot more use. The main problem here is that Facebook is using the data from wikipedia for their 'places' directory, but are using the wikipedia page name as gospel, where the borough would be a lot more practical. I have a large list of ,London references which I'd like to rename to their Borough name and start to group all of the relevant Borough material together rather than lumping them all under 'London' Lsces ( talk) 22:07, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I would like to improve the King's Cross Central page a bit. About 50% is repetition of the King's Cross area's history, which I think is irrelevant for this page, which should concentrate on the development itself. It also lacks information about the controversies that led to the current proposals. I thought I would ask before culling the history section however. I have left a question at Talk:King's Cross Central Jim Killock (talk) 10:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, this may overlap with one or more of the points raised above. What is the convention for outer areas like say, Chislehurst which falls under London Borough of Bromley but the postal address is Kent? Do we say 'Chislehurst, Kent', or 'Chislehurst, London' when mentioning (linking) the page in articles generally? (Where the page name doesn't already carry a geo qualifier). I know pages refer to the ceremonial county as Greater London and the region as London. Thanks. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 10:14, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could add a field for electorate to Template:Infobox London Assembly constituency, in a similar style to UK Parliament constituencies if no objections exist? AusLondonder ( talk) 20:33, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Fossil casts of the the recently described Homo naledi are on display at the London Natural History Museum. [1] If anyone is willing and able to take some high quality photographs of the fossils and release them to Commons with a CC license, that would be a great contribution. Cheers, --Animalparty! ( talk) 17:42, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
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There have been two glaring errors in the citations system for over two years now. It would be good if someone with a more intimate knowledge of the article and its sources could address these issues -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:18, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Talk:Bromley London Borough Council, regarding disagreements over the article's Criticism section. Opinions are invited, please. 823510731 ( talk) 17:59, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
I am hoping to get this article up to GA/FA standard for WSB's bicentenary (April 2016) and have therefore initiated a peer review - comments would be very welcome.-- Smerus ( talk) 10:01, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
I have proposed to split this. Please see Talk:Battersea Power Station#The area. Simply south .... .. time, deparment skies for just 9 years 20:07, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, this may be of interest to the project. Thanks for feedback, M ∧Ŝ c2ħε Иτlk 16:07, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi The article Climate of London has been created, it would be great if any project members could assist in improving the article. Thanks! AusLondonder ( talk) 06:14, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Can someone please rerate Shadwell- I'm expanded it greatly, so it's no longer start class. I'm thinking it's probably B class, but do people think it's anywhere near being able to be a GA? Joseph2302 ( talk) 20:36, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I just thought I'd let you all know that there's currently an opportunity for those interested in geocoding articles to add geographic coordinate information to over 400 articles listed under Category:London articles missing geocoordinate data. For more information on how to do this, please see WP:COORD and Template:Coord. -- The Anome ( talk) 12:36, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
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Could someone take a picture of the Monumental Arch of Palmyra replica that was installed in Trafalgar Square yesterday please? Xwejnusgozo ( talk) 14:55, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi everyone, on Saturday 7th May the Senate House Library is hosting an editathon about Shakespeare in London. You're welcome to come along and details of the event are on the registration page. Richard Nevell (WMUK) ( talk) 11:04, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Please share your input in an RfC relating to what image should be used in the infobox at the Wikipedia page for the Leader of the British Labour Party AusLondonder ( talk) 09:35, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
John Ash (physician) refers to Kensington Church. which church would that be, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:08, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
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I don't know if anyone is interested in outlines but there's an old draft for an outline of all the London articles at Draft:Outline of London that could be worked on and mainspaced. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 23:28, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
I have nominated Covent Garden for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. — Scott • talk 22:55, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Reading that Admiral Duncan (pub) article, I was reminded that it is next door to the Algerian Coffee Stores, also a Soho fixture. The Coffee Stores has been trading since 1887, making the business now 129 years old, and I can see that it is listed in a large number of London guidebooks, as well as being mentioned in a number of non-guidebook publications. Does this have sufficient notability for an article?
We should also consider having an article on Maison Bertaux, which has been trading since 1871, making it 145 years old. . -- The Anome ( talk) 12:14, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Whilst I appreciate that not everyone interested in London actually manages to be in London, for those of you who are we have our monthly meetup in the Oak this Sunday. For those of you who aren't in London it is a good page to make requests for photographs of things that Londoners can photograph. Ϣere SpielChequers 11:52, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
I don't know who wrote the code to the info boxes, but St Dunstan-in-the-East and many other articles, the address field doesn't work correctly. I tried to enter the full address in the info box as no full address with post code is down for the article. I had an error msg on preview when I tried to enter the data. Maybe someone can have a look at the infobox church and fix it so for all those articles, so that a proper address should be present. If you are going to have any article about a building in London, you should at least tell people where it is!! Govvy ( talk) 23:23, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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which gives a direct link to
c:Category:St Dunstan-in-the-East. --
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talk) 16:49, 19 July 2016 (UTC)Hello, I am writing an article about a London restaurant, it is currently at Draft:Bocca di Lupo. There are two relevant photographs already on Wikimedia Commons taken by other people, however neither is really suitable for the infobox of the article. If anyone is nearby central London or can get there easily, would you be able to take a photo of the front of the restaurant and upload it to Commons and let me know please? Its address is 12 Archer Street, London, W1D 7BB. Apparently this is in the Soho district. MPS1992 ( talk) 18:16, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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File:London Underground Zone 1 with street map.jpg needs updating- Shoreditch High Street is in zone 1, and Hoxton is in Zone 1/2, see [1]. I asked a year ago on the Commons file about it, but no-one replied, so I was hoping someone here might know how to update it. Joseph 2302 06:47, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, would anyone be able to take a few photographs of Regent Street Cinema? Specifically, the building itself and, if possible, the inside theatre. Anarchyte ( work | talk) 06:47, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
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FYI I've took some pictures in the East part of the cemetery. I've covered about 70% of the official map. Everything is on Commons (see Category:Graves at Highgate Cemetery). I just need more time to create a category per grave. I was surprised to see a very small amount of photos of this famous cemetery on Commons. And there is still almost nothing on the West part of the cemetery ;) Pyb ( talk) 10:35, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
The new sculpture on the fourth plinth is now in place, but our article doesn't yet have a photo of it. If someone happens by, a photo would be most welcome. According to commons:Commons:Freedom of panorama#United Kingdom, it should be okay to upload it to Commons. -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 12:48, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Are there any editors in the Croydon area that can take photographs of the various floral tributes laid in respect of the 2016 Croydon tram derailment? Mjroots ( talk) 15:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
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One publisher advertisement from 1884 gives address "Corner, St. Paul's–Churchyard, London" (Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh; perhaps a year 1884 successor to Griffith and Farran--). Initially I interpreted that "corner of St Paul's and Churchyard" but no, not after visiting our St Paul's Cathedral; Old St Paul's; St Paul's Cross.
What does "northeast corner of the [St Paul's] churchyard" mean? In particular, at Old St Paul's Cathedral#Decline (16th century), does the painting show all of St Paul's Churchyard, with pulpit in northeast corner, foreground, and southwest corner against the building, in the middle of the painting? Or is the entire ground-space depicted called the NE corner, with SW corner beyond the building at the opposite end of the plot of land; and NE SW SE corners all invisible behind the building?
-- P64 ( talk) 23:37, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Per the discussion here, on a skim through the assorted subcategories of Category:Parks and open spaces in London there are huge numbers of articles (I'd guess at least 50%, rising to 80%+ for some outer boroughs) which are either completely unsourced, or where the source is just a link to the local council website to prove the park exists. While obviously some of these parks are going to be notable by Wikipedia standards, a lot more are just going to be a rectangle of grass and a football pitch, where the only coverage will be incidental "while walking her dog in the park…" mentions in the local papers, and reprints of "new daffodils planted" type press releases from the local council, and would be better served by being entries in a "List of open spaces in borough" list. Given how many there are, either bringing them up to scratch or deleting the Rise Park/ Stationers Park type obvious no-hopers will be a Herculean task. If anyone's willing, going through any areas you're familiar with and cleaning up the most obviously problematic ones would probably be quite a good use of time. (If you don't fancy parks but feel like clearing out some dead wood, there are some real stinkers in Category:Grade II listed buildings in London and its subcategories as well; it looks suspiciously like someone's feeding the listed buildings register through an undeclared article-creation bot without stopping to check if the buildings in question have ever actually had significant coverage in any sources.) ‑ Iridescent 16:53, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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Category:Pubs in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham has been nominated for renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. Ham II ( talk) 13:41, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Talk:Myke Hurley? It's a refunded prod and it's not clear (at least to me) if Hurley satifies WP:BIO since most of the sources seems to be primary or trivial mentions. Perhaps better sources exist, but they just have not yet been added to the article. Since Hurley appears to be from London, maybe someone from this WikiProject has heard of him and knows where to find these sources. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 23:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
Romney's House, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. BlueMoonset ( talk) 19:25, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Apologies if this has been discussed previously. I was a little surprised, as I suspect many others would be, to see towns such as
Romford and
Hornchurch described as being "in East London".
The postal addresses of anyone living in Romford is "Romford, Essex". I understand that it is technically in the
London Borough of Havering, however, I believe few people would feel this as being "East London". Certainly, the "E" postcode district is nowhere near as far out as Romford.
Would this town, and similar others, be better described as being "in Greater London", rather than "in East London"? Perhaps a rule of thumb could be that if the town's postcode is "E" then it is "in East London" (eg
Stratford) but if it is "RM" or "IG" etc then it is "in Greater London" (eg
Upminster). --
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talk) 12:37, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
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Please see WP:CFD 2017 February 10#Subcategories_of_London_Boroughs, where I have proposed renaming 596 sub-categories of Category:London boroughs. (Yes, 596 sub-categories). This discussion is part of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion, and Wikipedia:Category names is probably the most relevant guideline.
All the categories fall within the scope of this project, so participation by members of this project would be very welcome. Please add your comnets at the CFD page, not here. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 22:24, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
There are a lot of newly-uploaded pics of old trade tokens from London pubs, in:
Please make use of them where you can. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:02, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about redirects to Queens Road Peckham railway station and the road it is named for at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Queen(')s Road Peckham. Your comments are invited there. Thryduulf ( talk) 21:40, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hi WP London, this is notice that the article Bottle match is currently nominated for deletion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bottle match. I feel there must be some reliable sources to support an article about the 'second oldest varsity rugby match' and maybe your project can help. Aloneinthewild ( talk) 10:31, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
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