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Good luck and happy editing! AndrewvdBK (talk)

February 2011 edit

 

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.

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  • The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Henry Ingersoll Bowditch was changed by Mbrcph8 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.908837 on 2011-02-19T22:20:39+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 22:20, 19 February 2011 (UTC)Reply