Lloydsd
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Hello, Lloydsd, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Agatha Christie. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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October 2009 edit
Hello, and thank you for removing vandalism from Agatha Christie. Note that old versions of Wikipedia articles are kept in their page history, and it is usually better to deal with vandalism by using the page history to restore the previous version, rather than removing it manually, as otherwise any content removed by the vandal is not restored. See How to deal with vandalism for details. Thank you. — SpikeToronto 23:16, 26 October 2009 (UTC)