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Now you see, that is the problem. When you see it as YOUR article and YOUR work being deleted, we run into problems. It's unfortunate, but hard work gets deleted all the time. By the way, that clean up took me a while to do too. It's just a fact of wiki editing that some of the things we work hard on
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I will also, finally, suggest that you (a) make better use of edit summaries, rather than claiming that deletion of what took me a long time to create in the first place is 'cleaning up'; and (b) read my edit summary before inferring that I intended to hurt your poor feelings - 'destructive' does not
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Fair play. I'll back you up to make those changes. We all know that it's usually referred to as Great
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reference no longer works, and it's not official and you've only added references for a handful of nations. I also think that specific dates aren't really necessary in this article, partially due to the fact that they aren't listed in the
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