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Thanks. I appreciate it. I saw the evacuation order wasn't noted, so I thought I'd go ahead and add it.
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Index


Main Introduction
The Five Pillars
Policies and guidelines
Talk pages
Referencing
Uploading images
Navigating Knowledge (XXG)
What Knowledge (XXG) is not
Help:Help
Where to ask questions
Basic tutorial
How to help
Starting an article
Article Wizard
Editors' Welcome
Help:Starting editing
Buster Seven
Talk
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2017 Arbitration Committee elections
Arbitration Committee
Knowledge (XXG) arbitration process
site bans
topic bans
arbitration policy
the candidates
voting page
MediaWiki message delivery

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