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Thanks for your comments about COI. Since it's my first contribution I didn't realise that I could ask you directly (still feeling my way around!) and posted question on the help page AND my user page. Sorry! I have already requested a change of user name to avoid confusion (it's only
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I've also added a COI statement on my user page (I've been working for this company for the last 20 years and thought that it would be a good place to start!) and on the
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Spanish version of this page before starting on others but do you think that this realy would be COI and I should wait to see if someone else creates it?
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