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  Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. ABCDEFADtalk to me 22:18, 4 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Re RFC:Australians - I recommend that you link to the diff of your edit(s), rather than the revert, so it's clear what changes you made, rather than what someone else did (unless you are explicitly asking for comment on the other person's edit). Probably you should be linking to [1]. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:05, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Jamala's Armenian name

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Her ancestry is not irrelevant, but her name is neither Armenian does she represent Armenia in any way. It's like spelling Drake's Hebrew name in the intro, just because his mother is Jewish. --Երևանցի talk 07:05, 15 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

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