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Speedy deletion of University of michigan football edit

 

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January 2009 edit

 

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to September 6, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: September 6 was changed by Garfunkler (u) (t) deleting 9054 characters on 2009-01-07T22:27:32+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 22:27, 7 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

  The recent edit you made to Sam McGuffie constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Mygerardromance (talk) 22:39, 7 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Blocked edit

 
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