User talk:XKV8R

Ha ha ha
"No more Advanced Deletionist Theory or Nihilist Blanking", that's the best thing I've heard all day! Of course, it's still early. I wasn't the guy who tagged your article for deletion or the guy who blanked it with a copyright violation tag, but it's still funny. Useight 16:44, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

My Award
OK, I put it back, with wikilinks. See you around! -- But | seriously | folks   04:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

DSS
I took a run at the article. You're absolutely right about the organization. Somebody will probably revert me, but at least it makes more sense at the moment. I also left a note for the IP that has been editing the article from the SDNHM to please stop inserting promotional material. I'm watching the page, but feel free to let me know if there are further problems. And don't forget to contribute your knowledge, particularly if it can be sourced! (WP is not for WP:OR.)

I don't have time to get into another project right now, so the SDNHM article will have to be somebody else's responsibility.

As for your article, are you gunning for the Barnstar of Irony? The answer is yes, I can delete it as an author request and undelete it when you want it back. When it's undeleted, the copyright permission confirmation template will be restored as well. Just confirm that's what you want and I'll go ahead with it.

TV archaeology, eh? I'll have to start calling you Zahi. Tell Nicole I said hi. -- But | seriously | folks   02:48, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, I suppose we can live without the COI tag, since you asked nicely. The article seems fairly neutral, although who knows what scandals you are failing to disclose!  I added the bio project and blp tags to the talk page, which is where they belong.
 * Did I say I only knew a little about archaeology? I have always found it fascinating.  One of my very favorite websites is kv5.com, and I was closely following the kv63 developments last year.  And I'm patiently waiting for somebody to track down the bones from the "James" and "related" ossuaries for a DNA study.  But that's about it.
 * As for Zahi, I suspect you misread what I wrote. I didn't say I had to call Zahi, I said I'd have to call you Zahi.  I don't know him personally, but he really is everywhere.  Maybe I am more aware of him than the average person, but he's hard to miss from where I'm sitting.
 * You can remove your notes from my talk page, just be careful not to remove anything else. See you later. --  But | seriously | folks   04:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Your "Paris Hilton" comments
Hi Robert, I'd like to reply to your "Paris Hilton" comments - your lament that people from reality TV get on Wikipedia, but top scholars get nominated for deletion.

Wikipedia's both strong and weak point is that it is democratic (or to be more precise it works on consensus). Anyone can edit. It also makes no inherent judgements on what is good or bad, or what is notable or unnotable, but instead relies on community consensus to work that out. It is a sort of great social experiment to see if an army of volunteers can produce a better encyclopedia than the paid team of experts at Britannica.

Being democratic, people put in what interests them. Not what the people at Britannica deem to be interesting. But what the users, democratically, deem to be interesting. So reality TV gets in. Because millions of people watch reality TV, and only thousands read any particular scholarly journal.

I guess Wikipedia could put in any person who has ever achieved anything of substance, but the Wikipedia community decided that would open the floodgates to putting in an article on just about every person on earth. So instead they decided on Notability guidelines. It might not seem fair, but at least it's fairly consistent.

It might not seem fair to put in people who have "achieved" nothing, and leave out some successful scholars. But Wikipedia can't just put people in because they are successful. Why not? Because tens of millions of people are successful - very good at their job and have achieved a lot. But that doesn't make them notable to the wider community (which is what Wikipedia is trying to reflect).

So in short, don't get discouraged, but work within the Wikipedia guidelines. Personally, I'm more interested in getting good articles on topics rather than on people. The articles on Bible and Theology are, for the most part, truly woeful. I'm trying to do my part to fix some up, but it's an uphill battle. Peter Ballard 03:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I enjoyed looking at your page. It is only a matter of time before cultured people figure out a way to do a better job of getting the masses' attention than is done by those people with dubious intentions. If wikipedia's present shortcomings are similar to Mao's, then maybe we just need some Cultured Mao. LOL. DavoudMSA (talk) 11:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Your Conduct
[****] Refactored. comment by Critical Reader 07:45, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Please see WP:TALK and WP:NOT. Wikipedia talk pages are not provided engage in these type of discussions. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:06, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Use of the UCLA logo in infoboxes
The fair-use rationale at Image:University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles_logo.png allows the use of the UCLA logo in a single article, specifically the article University of California, Los Angeles. Please remove it from your info-boxes. Sancho 06:48, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * This is correct. -- But | seriously | folks   08:46, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. I went ahead and swapped them all out. Thanx for keeping an eye on this page. IsraelXKV8R 14:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! If you're interested in the details of Wikipedia's use of non-free content and why we only do so in certain settings, check out Non-free content. See you around. Sancho 19:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

E-Mail
My e-mail on wiki was being difficult; it is now fixed. i said 23:56, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hm. It should be fixed. I don't know why it's a problem. i said 03:41, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

writing one's email address on wikipedia
Hi. I was responding to a message from User:I and I saw you had posted your email address. A common email harvesting technique of spammers is to crawl various websites with bots and harvest any emails on the site. A lot of people on Wikipedia comment out email addresses if they have to post them, which is basically writing out the non alphanumeric characters. So instead of fakeemail@someisp.com the email is written as fakeemail at someisp dot com. You may wish to do this as well. Natalie 02:17, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

You're joking!
Jesus is not no 8 ponds and 6 ounces--Angel David 23:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

(Note: the user above is saying is comment out of laughter not of anger).
 * Hmmm . . . An angel ought to know . . . --  But | seriously | folks   00:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

User Boxes
Thanks for your kind words. Please feel free to "steal" my user boxes (they're GNU license like everything at Wiki). If ever you have time for it Discoveries in the Judean Desert and Tanakh at Qumran could do with contextual information, that I simply don't have. I've just documented some of the hard data. If you know anything about the publication processes of DJD, human interest information and sources that describe it, I for one would be interested. qol tuv Alastair Haines (talk) 01:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Why thank you! :) Alastair Haines (talk) 15:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I particularly like two more of your user boxes: Jethro Tull (yay), and No Anon (wise). :) Alastair Haines (talk) 05:29, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

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 * Sorry about that, I use "Twinkle" and this one didn't list automatically on the page, it's listed there now as it's been orphaned.  Skier Dude  ( talk ) 07:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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3RR issue at Dead Sea scrolls
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 * thanx! IsraelXKV8R (talk) 06:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

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 * thank you. issue is moot. other party is a confirmed sock puppet. IsraelXKV8R (talk) 15:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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 * i mean, you thought about that, right?? IsraelXKV8R (talk) 03:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * thank you for the rm. peace. IsraelXKV8R (talk) 03:16, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Re:you do realize...
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 * agreed. thanx. IsraelXKV8R (talk) 03:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Golb
Yes, you're right in regards to the lawsuit. I switched the word to "allegations", which is more accurate. I really only know of Golb from the NYT article, so I'm hardly an expect at the matter. Teemu08 (talk) 20:31, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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I got your email. The image I think your'e referring to is on the upper right of my page. It looked different, however, that was reverted, so I settle for a smaller flag. It's a reference to the violence between Israel and Palestine. Naluboutes, Nalubotes|undefinedAeria gloris, Aeria gloris 17:47, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for your work at Gabriel's Revelation
Thank you for cleaning up this article. I had wanted to get to it for a long time but never seemed to get around to it. Mangoe (talk) 16:54, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Username
Ha, I just sounded out your username and finally got it. Clever, would make a great vanity license plate. Valley2 city ‽ 19:17, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * like this?

and thanx. --XKV8R (talk) 19:30, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Ouch! ;) Pilch62 (talk) 00:24, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Multiple consecutive edits
Hello Bob, and thanks for your many contributions. I'd like to make a suggestion, if you don't mind. It will be easier for you and your co-editors to collaborate on articles if, instead of making multiple consecutive edits in rapid succession on an article, you use the "Show preview" button to view your changes incrementally before finally saving the page once you're satisfied with your edits. Thanks in advance for considering this.
 * Help:Show_preview promotes minimizing the number of saves per edit session. Eric talk 13:59, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * eric, thank you for your concern with my editing technique. i do use preview. i prefer many small edits in order to track each individual change with full transparency and justification. cheers, bc XKV8R (talk) 14:21, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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Jim West
On the Jim West page you deleted the references that he is a "professor" at a free share-ware college, and that he obtained a non-accredited "doctorate" by correspondence from a dubious institution. These are not superfluous references. It shows that his later qualifications are not what they appear to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Newtaste (talk • contribs) 16:56, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Expert review
Hello there,

given the interest you expressed in strategy:Proposal:Expert review, I wanted to bring Expert review to your attention. At this point, it captures the current efforts in this area. There are some obvious ways in which you could help:

1) There's an existing proof-of-concept JavaScript displaying expert reviews for articles for which they are available. That script could be significantly improved, and potentially be promoted to gadget status.

2) We need to develop the product specifications for what expert review in Wikipedia should look like (starting with the simplest implementation that makes sense). The Meta page has some initial draft notes, but mock-ups, thoughts and additional documentation would be much appreciated.

3) We should think about what the most effective and scalable ways are to mobilize large groups of experts to participate in review processes, and to validate their credentials. There is an opportunity right now with the APS, which has just launched a Wikipedia initiative, and is willing to ask its 20,000 members to help with expert assessments. But we should think about the longer term as well.

Your participation in these and other areas would be much appreciated. Hope to see you on Meta,--Eloquence* 01:35, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

oh I know you!
You are that fellow that my archaeology professor always speaks so highly of. Hi! :D Sorry to say I have not visited your site yet though. :( TheArchaeologist 18:26, 22 February 2011 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hpelgrift (talk • contribs)


 * I guess that was a bit silly of me. Anyway, I was sent your article about Jacobavici's recent "find" of those two nails he says belonged to Jesus. Do you mind if I include some of the slightly less scathing stuff in the fraud's Wiki article under Criticism? (some of that stuff unfortunatley cannot be included due to WP:BLP regardless of how true the criticism is.) I figure it is polite to ask the author when possible. Thanks. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Say Shalom! 21:44, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * be my guest. thanx for asking. --XKV8R (talk) 22:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Alrighty, thanks. Btw, when leaving a reply on your own page it is best to put on the other user's talk page. That helps to prevent clutter. By the way, I just left the very scathing comment on that article, it is awaiting approval (A comment so scathing on psuedoarchaeology has not been seen since Susan Johnston's review of Atlantis: from a Geographer's Perspective). =) Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Say Shalom! 22:09, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Request for input
Given your status as an academic in the DSS, I would request that at your convenience to perhaps respond to these questions relevant to the DSS perhaps in a new section of the Talk:Ebionites page: Lastly, I have been planning, admittedly sporadically, to try to request a "general conference" of religion editors for religious materials for some months now. Right now, the hope is to begin it around the beginning of April. Various things, including the discussion of this article, have helped to delay that. Among the subjects I was thinking of raising would be review of articles for whether they need updating, and, possibly, letters to academic journals from wikipedia editors for articles or books relating to subjects which we do not yet have sources for for use in articles here. I would very much welcome any comments or input there. I hope that it will be rather widely publicized at the time, but very much think that the input of an active academic would be very welcome. Thank you for your attention. John Carter (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1. Do you consider yourself to be an expert as per the existing "expert attention request" on the Ebionites page on the subject of Robert Eisenman's theories linking the Dead Sea Scrolls to the early Christian Church as in his book James the Brother of Jesus?
 * 2. If yes, do you believe that these theories qualify as fringe theories as per WP:FT?
 * 3. Would you disagree or agree with the statement that the other theories contained in the book are effectively built on the foundation of those theories, and that, effectively, if the foundation theory qualifies as fringe, so should the theories which are apparently based on them?
 * 4. Acknowledging that this last is not directly related to Qumran in advance, I was wondering whether you consider yourself, perhaps based on other work or academic training, qualified to speak on the matter of the potential WP:FT status of James Tabor's theories in The Jesus Dynasty, and also, if you feel so qualified, to discuss whether the late Slavonic text of Josephus and the Clementine literature are necessarily relevant to the content and subject of the Ebionites.

Hello there, It's important for reasons of transparency to point out that your comments may, and probably will, be used in an ongoing arbitration dispute (Ebionites 2) between John Carter and myself. You may wish to provide them publicly yourself as an uninvolved party to the dispute rather than privately to one of the disputants and have them reinterpreted later. The dispute over editorial conduct has been put on hold for two more weeks pending an attempted resolution to the part of the dispute involving article content Talk:Ebionites/Mediation_2 Cheers. Ovadyah (talk) 15:28, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Nebuchadrezzar
Hi again,

Sorry to bother you again, but I don't suppose you would know and could contribute the Akkadian form of Nebuchadrezzar's name here could you? It's probably possible to put it in text form (even if it is just a bunch of annoying looking wedges), but I don't know it (and even though you don't have a userbox for Akkadian, it's worth a shot to ask) and thought that you might and could type it out if you do so it could be added to the lede for his article. It's a nice chance to contribute to the article on one of history's better known jerks of course. Thanks! =) Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Say Shalom! 06:13, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

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 * please delete the file. thanx. --XKV8R (talk) 22:16, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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What exactly did NASA hire you to do?
Dear Dr. Cargill, I was just this morning watching a documentary on the History Channel about Indiana Jones and you appeared on it with the title "Archaeologist, NASA." I was curious, what exactly did NASA hire you to do, and how did that fit in with their mission of exploring space? Thank you. Peter Michner (talk) 17:02, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Peter, My title should say archaeologist, UCLA. Still 4 letters, but very different ;-). They did interview another scholar, who did work with NASA (to my recollection. --XKV8R (talk) 18:44, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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Bulldozer archaeology
I have declined your speedy-deletion nomination, because I do not agree that this is in the G10 class of "Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose"; and in fact I have reverted all your string of edits, because WP:Tag bombing is not helpful. Take the article to WP:AFD and make your case there. JohnCD (talk) 20:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, but please replace the original tags, as the article is still in miserable shape. --XKV8R (talk) 20:27, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Thanks for that last edit at the article. Just saw it. Dougweller (talk) 20:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Speculation on identity of editors
See WP:OUTING. I've removed the edits from the visible record. Dougweller (talk) 05:39, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, although she has since admitted it on the talk page and in mediation. Thanx again! --XKV8R (talk) 10:52, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean Naustin, I meant the article's creator. By the way, what did you mean by sending a screendump to WP? What's WP? I really wish this article wasn't now part of the controversy. I think it needs to be developed more, and at some point we will have to mention a number of controveries - of which 2 I believe more or less unrelated ones relate to Israel. And what do you call archaeology where they dig through later strata and just throw that archaeology aside? Eg in Ireland, trashing medieval layers to get to Viking. Dougweller (talk) 13:05, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The use of bulldozers in uncontrolled excavations destroys sites, but so does actual archaeology. The difference is that it is in a controlled, catalogued environment. The purpose of Nicole Austin's editing was to take over the article for the purposes of continuing an off-wiki attack on Yuval Goren, in retaliation for testifying against Robert Deutsch. Deutsch took out an anonymous ad in BAR, and falsely accused him of pillaging a site. Simcha jumped on the bandwagon, and promoted the false allegations. When a number of us exposed it, they brought the fight here, and then emailed everyone in an attempt to legitimize the manufactured controversy. Now Austin will try her rhetoric in an attempt to save face and keep their changes. It's a sad turn of events, but it's what we've come to expect from a few fringe folks who are attempting to take on the entire archaeological academy. Simcha sells a lot of documentaries and books with his sensationalism, and he's in the process of a PR campaign to raise his credibility in the public eye. This, however, is just part of an act of retaliation.--XKV8R (talk) 13:26, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Jesus, King of the Jews, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 19:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Jesus, King of the Jews. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Elizium23 (talk) 19:43, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There is nothing 'unsourced' about this change. The Greek text of the verse under discussion does not contain the text that the KJV adds. That's the point. The KJV added text that is not present in the Greek. This is demonstrated by the fact that no other translation has the translation that the KJV has. It is not 'unsourced'. I cited the source: the Greek text of Luke 23:38, and EVERY OTHER VERSION OF THE TEXT. THAT'S THE CITATION. lol. The fact of the matter is that the article is incorrect as it now stands. Luke 23:38 does NOT say "Latin, Hebrew, Greek". I'm pointing that out, and you're falsely citing it as 'original research' and as 'unsourced', when neither are true.--XKV8R (talk) 20:00, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * If you want a "source", check out http://biblehub.com/luke/23-38.htm. Notice anything about every translation EXCEPT the KJV? The text in question is not there. Why? Because it's not in the Greek. The KJV added it, but it's not there. That's the point.--XKV8R (talk) 20:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I suggest that you raise these issues on the article talk page. You clearly have a valid concern, but surely there is a secondary source that explains the discrepancy between KJV and other versions of the Bible. Elizium23 (talk) 20:34, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Wee review request
Hi Dr. Cargill, I was wondering if you could take a look at the article on Tel Kabri when you have some time. I'd love to hear any suggestions for improvement you might have (I realise the section on palatial history needs improvement). Also, I hope you don't mind, but as you may have heard, we have to cut our season at Kabri short this year. Are you holding any excavations from mid-July into August? I don't like digging for anything less than six weeks. (I'll be happy to take that portion of the convo to email). Thank you very much and all the best! Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie &#124; Say Shalom! 19 Adar 5775 01:25, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Bio suggestion
Hi Dr. Cargill. One minor suggestion for enhancing this article (which is somehow not a WP entry; sigh): a line about your religious preparation and/or affiliation is germane here. Since you've made a career in Biblical and Bible-related research, it's the first question that rises in a reader's mind; it goes to your perspective, and potentially the uniqueness of your voice. (For example, I surfed in here from your excellent argument for Christians adopting the BCE/CE dating standard. If you are a Christian yourself, that makes the essay much more cogent. And if you're not, it still makes it a rare case of empathy in a domain marked by contention.) I suspect I'm typical of most educated readers: I don't really care what your religious status is, given the value of your participation, but the silence on it, under the circumstances, is distracting. FWIW; Laodah 18:06, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Laodah, the paragraph on religion and philosophy states that I am an agnostic. It is cited.--XKV8R (talk) 13:09, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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Israel Finkelstein
If I remember correctly, you said that in all/each major Israeli universities there are both supporters and opponents of Israel Finkelstein. Could you provide me with the link to that statement (e.g. YouTube)? tgeorgescu (talk) 02:05, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * I have replaced your userpage; I concede that you appear to be aware of the function of a userpage. I do, however, request that you modify it; your professorship is not relevant to wikipedia, and should not be the first thing you say; and legal activity is similarly low profile in a wikipedia context. Anthony Bradbury "talk" 21:45, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Tony.
 * So, just to be clear, you can communicate to viewers on your userpage that you are a physician, and attended King's College London, but I should not. Correct? Those are the rules for WP? The reason I ask is that I've had trolls and admins come in trash my userpage for over a decade now, and it's getting difficult to tell the difference, especially since the lawsuit in which I had to testify involved a number of WP aliases, both sockpuppets and meatpuppets.
 * So can we tell viewers what we do for a living or not? Where we went to college? Can we tell viewers our areas of specialty/interest or not? I just want to make sure I'm being consistent with the example you are setting. XKV8R (talk) 14:46, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Pinging just to mention that the user hasn't modified their page as of yet. Still appears self promotional in tone and content to me. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:35, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * I removed the tag, as it's been viewed by Liz already. I will say though, it still appears to be promotional. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for removing the repetitious tag. As I've been saying, this has all been litigated and reviewed time and again. I would ask that you help me out and remove any tags placed on this page by other overzealous editors that are not familiar with the history of this user page. They show up every now and again and cause me grief. Thanks. XKV8R (talk) 22:25, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's your own talk page, you may delete everything, except for block messages while you're blocked. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:42, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * If you're repeatedly being accused of having content that appears to be promotional on your user page, then maybe it's closer to promotional than it should be. It probably has to do with you linking your own site and YouTube.
 * Also, not really any of my business, but why do you have the pending changes group listed on your user page when you haven't approved or reverted any pending changes in the 12 years you've had said permission? I encourage you to help out at Special:PendingChanges. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

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