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I Know the link is Dead! My point exactly so I'm not sure why my edit kept getting reverted. This article was very poorly sourced until I removed a lot of it, including the Dead links. 162.213.23.84 (talk) 04:12, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You also removed categories, so your edits were net harmful. —C.Fred (talk) 04:13, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not familiar with editing, so obviously I made mistakes. I guess I removed categories that were completely unsourced, as was this article, with 1 exception 162.213.23.84 (talk) 04:37, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is obvious you are not familiar with editing. That's why you should have read some of the pages that were linked in the messages you received on your user talk page. By deleting them, you are deemed to have acknowledged them. —C.Fred (talk) 12:42, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For putting an end to the homophobic vandalism on my user talk page last night -- which just so happened to occur while I was working on a project for school about homophobic online bullying. Coincidental? In all seriousness though, thank you for the help; including redacting those edit summaries, which I'll take a wild guess were yet another round of homophobic BLP violations aimed at me. JeffSpaceman (talk) 22:22, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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