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Using U.S. (or US) vs using United States in full
Hi, I may be wrong, but per MOS:US I am pretty sure that if a country is spelled out in full, then United States should preferably be spelled out in full too, if U.S. is in the same sentence as the other country. If I'm right, please stop reverting my MOS:US edits. Have a lovely day. Thanks. Cheers! 23:50, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Is this the relevant sentence from the MOS? "When the United States is mentioned with one or more other countries in the same sentence, U.S. or US 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)." If so, how does it apply in the instances occurring in the article? --Bsherr (talk) 23:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply. I was thinking as [//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1137688642 here], for example. Cheers!  00:00, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * In that instance, it is being used in the adjective form, it's a subsequent (not a first) mention of the U.S. Department of Defense, and it's not in a series of other unabbreviated countries. I would think it ought to be abbreviated there, no? If not, I'm not sure when it would ever be appropriate to abbreviate. What do you think? --Bsherr (talk) 00:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Deletion of link templates
Hi there! I'm nominating a few or many templates you have modified that produce many internal links. You can find it's entry here. I invite you to discuss the nomination there. SWinxy (talk) 05:51, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

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Boeing E-4
In your edit of of Boeing E-4, you put   all on one line. That doesn't work. Table start, Table end , and table row markup all have to start at the beginning of a new line. I fixed it. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:22, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

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