User talk:Barbara strauss

Welcome
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August 2010
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. From this article you clearly have a COI. ukexpat (talk) 14:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)