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of the gallery. I deleted the attributions, which I can see looked like mini-commercials, and I also deleted the open invitation for others to add content. The fact that anyone may contribute to
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It seems others had the same idea. The content has now been imbedded (in a more encyclopedic fashion) into the article. No forking. Wjemather: You started this. I donāt know how to delete an article, which has been blanked. Please, be my guest to do whatever is done now.
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