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 * Hi again Howard. I've had a look for you - not very easy, because I don't speak Chinese, or understand the characters! However, I have made some alterations to the code you were using, and the images are now displaying. Perhaps you could double check, but as far as I can see (after a 5-minute "teach yourself Chinese characters" course on-line) I think I've got everything in the right place for you. All best wishes,  Timothy Titus Talk To TT  13:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

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I added a line on the Operation Junction City article to explain the Kansas connection. Cheers. Richard Apple (talk) 17:46, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * @Howard61313 Fascinating trip in time! @MSG17 you can read this discussion here, apparently interlanguage links were also discouraged from navigation boxes. I cannot understand the opposition to well structured templates that have a long term potential though, but such is Wikipedia. You'll see a template now exists for virtually every country :) Shushugah (he/him • talk) 21:25, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Wow... very interesting and unfortunate. Thanks for showing me what it looked like back then. MSG17 (talk) 00:10, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

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