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ÐℬigXЯaɣ 14:15, 25 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Happy editing! ÐℬigXЯaɣ 20:37, 24 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

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March 2012 edit

  Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Marilyn Monroe, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Gyrofrog (talk) 22:33, 24 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

April 2012 edit

 

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Indian giver, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

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  • The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Indian giver was changed by AbbyK123 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.8614 on 2012-04-03T16:06:20+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 16:06, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Reply