DougRM

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ACrockford (talk) 14:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Editathon article banner

Here's a useful thing for new articles which have been created - can be amended as needed. Place on the talk page of new articles.

Lirazelf (talk) 09:09, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Handy links for accounts & associated high jinx

These 'are' the links you are looking for:

• Special:CreateAccount
• Special:UserRights

Lirazelf (talk) 09:15, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks very much for noting that the Gunung Padang paper was retracted

A much needed retraction aided by one of our editors, John Hoopes. Doug Weller talk 10:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)