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September 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Gary I. DeLong has been reverted.
Your edit here to Gary I. DeLong was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/GaryDeLong) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 22:54, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Local Politician

Template:Infobox Local Politician has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 12:20, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Gary DeLong (politician)

The article Gary DeLong (politician) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet GNG or NPOL, created by a SPA at the time the subject ran for Congress.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. MB 18:50, 28 November 2020 (UTC)