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Governors of Vermont
Hi Rkt2312. Vermont has a two year gubanatorial term, and Jim Douglas completed his first term in January 2005. Vermont does not have term limits pending for this office. Your edit could be read to suggest that it does. CApitol3 15:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Governors of New York
Hi Rkt2312. You edits at List of Governors of New York are in error. The NY Governors terms end/begin at Midnight New Years Day (predecessor ends December 31, successor begins January 1). GoodDay 23:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Copa Libertadores 2008 - Group 3
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Speedy deletion of 2010 Women's Hockey World Cup
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AfD nomination of Gallery of sovereign state coats of arms
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Proposed deletion of Brazil–Japan relations
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Unexplained changes
Please discuss the changes on the talk page first for a consensus. Bidgee (talk) 01:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I assume that Bidgee is referring to many recent changes by you from Image:Australian Coat of Arms.png to Image:Coat of Arms of Australia.svg. To avoid multiple discussions on the same subject, it is probably best to limit discussion to one place. The best place is probably Talk:Coat of arms of Australia, where a discussion has already taken place. To summarise, the svg version is vastly inferior to the png version. The png version is an actual representation of the CoA while the svg version is not. --AussieLegend (talk) 23:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

dates
I noticed that you wikilinked dates on the CONCACAF Champions League 2008–09 Championship Round. However, dates aren't supposed to be linked. See: MOS:UNLINKDATES, CONTEXT. I'm just spreading the word on the policies in order to have properly updated pages. JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 17:37, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Brazil-Japan relations
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Speedy deletion nomination of Brazil–Japan relations
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Proposed deletion of Fausto Silva


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List of Brazilian flags
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Changing Australian coat of arms to svg version
In short .... why ? Previous discussions (see Talk:Coat_of_arms_of_Australia) have concluded that the Svg version is a poor substitute and the png is far superior. Why are you changing these ? - Peripitus (Talk) 12:40, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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Coat of arms of South Africa
Hi, there. Why are you removing the official South African coat of arms and substituting its place with an inexact one? The official one is licensed to be used on the South Africa and Coat of arms of South Africa articles, so I'm confused why you removed it from the articles in question? Regards. Lefcentreright Talk  (plz ping) 19:15, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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Country infobox changes
Hello, can you explain what this edit and similar are intended to do, as they seem to have no effect due to being redundant to the existing code in the article? CMD (talk) 02:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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National resistance front of Afghanistan
Hi, Im ismail karimi, media editor at the office of Spokesperson of National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.

I noticed that the website provided in our article on English version of Wikipedia is not correct and not official, the official one is www.nationalresistance.org But unfortunately i couldn't modify it as the article is secured.

I have the all sources and can provide any needed official documents that confirms the website provided above.

The reason why i contacted you is because you have edited the article before as seen in its history.

I hope for your cooperation، thanks... Ismail karimi12 (talk) 13:16, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

A goat for you!
Thanks for moving the page Flag of the Maldives to Flag of Maldives!

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Curious page move
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Austria–Slovenia relations moved to draftspace
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 * I've already adjusted and moved the page. Rkt2312 (talk) 01:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Italy–Monaco relations


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