Kanaina

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Hello, Kanaina, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Please do not promote Anne Kanno's book. Self-published sources are almost never accepted as reliable sources. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:25, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

March 2013

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Gospel of John, you may be blocked from editing. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:38, 2 March 2013 (UTC)