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Thankyou Antrim Kate for you support and opinion. HJ Mitchell - your removal of this type of section from 3 other pages (of which I have reverted) was in bad taste, if the section was really disliked by so many then the wiki org should do a blanked ban on them but until that happens I believe they
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