The Wind's Twelve Quarters edit

It might have been a small edit to change "forward" to the correct "foreword" but I'm a librarian (Ursula K. Le Guin fan) who appreciates such attention to detail. Have a Barnstar!

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Stellar association‎ edit

I took the liberty of reverting your revision of the "Stellar association‎" redirect. The topic of stellar associations (or associations of stars) is discussed at Stellar kinematics#Stellar associations. The Association (astronomy) topic discusses a quite different topic. Sorry.—RJH (talk) 19:40, 3 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Just look at this article: Association (astronomy). It is linked now even 2 times to Stellar kinematics article. Isn't that enough? Thx for informing. Soshial (talk) 23:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

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