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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! Doug Weller talk 10:48, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Glad to hear you are doing this, but you need to be aware of the sanctions on the area, see below

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Doug Weller talk 10:50, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

So all your students must be given a similar alert. It just means our policies and guidelines are enforced more on such pages (including talk pages). At times there might be special restrictions on an article, these will be described at the top of the talk page. See Template:Contentious topics/alert/first - it's the one with the code gg. Doug Weller talk 10:54, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply