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Since I last "contributed" to this "article" a lot of people much more clever than I have inserted their "two-pennorth" into the discussion. I take all of your points on board (and actually, I shall probably not make any further contributions to this article). There have been two (and possibly three)
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I've been through the article and formatted the references so we can evaluate them. I've also been checking the refs, and tagging or removing them as required. The result is ugly, and not the way I like to work - there are a lot of failed verification tags. I guess next we should look at removing
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