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Thanks for all your work on the articles about downtown Providence! I notice you always boldface the article-topic every time it's mentioned. The Manual of Style instructs us to do that only in the very first sentence. I fixed one of the articles in that regard, but have to drop offline shortly...when you get a moment, could you please look at some of the other ones? DMacks (talk) 17:11, 11 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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