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No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user,
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Both are SPAs. The puppeteer, created
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It's taken a few hours to get up to speed with the
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If you don't like it, don't count the vote (but do consider the information that spent some time to collate).
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Tuesday's premiere of
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for noting the coincidence and am simply following Wiki's rules at
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