User talk:Be careful what you wish for

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 13:30, 16 October 2017 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 13:30, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

US or U.S.?
MOS:US says:US is a commonly used abbreviation for United States, although U.S. – with periods and without a space – remains common in North American publications, including in news journalism. Multiple American style guides, including The Chicago Manual of Style (since 2010), now deprecate "U.S." and recommend "US".

For commonality reasons, use US by default when abbreviating, but retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it. Because use of periods for abbreviations and acronyms should be consistent within any given article, use US in an article with other country abbreviations, and especially avoid constructions like the U.S. and the UK. In longer abbreviations that incorporate the country's initials (USN, USAF), never use periods. When the United States is mentioned with one or more other countries in the same sentence, US (or U.S.) may be too informal, especially at the first mention or as a noun instead of an adjective (France and the United States, not France and the US). Do not use the spaced U. S. or the archaic U.S. of A., except when quoting. Do not use U.S.A. or USA except in a quotation, as part of a proper name (Team USA), or in certain technical/formal uses (e.g., the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes and FIFA country codes).

However, this is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style so it may be changed. Doug Weller talk 15:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Laredo–Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area (October 16)
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Draft:Laredo–Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area concern
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Draft:Laredo–Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Laredo–Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:Laredo–Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area


Hello, Be careful what you wish for. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Laredo–Nuevo Laredo metropolitan area".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Home Lander (talk) 14:01, 17 April 2018 (UTC)