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== ''This Month in GLAM'': November 2024 ==
==Flags in infobox==
Hello, I see that it is the case to use flags in school infoboxes. There is a discussion (ending in stalemate) ] about whether or not they should be used in infoboxes. I think the article I was originally put to is ] when I used too flag a lot! There are a multitude of opinions of what the standard should be. Personally I used to be an over-zelous "flagger" putting them everywhere but now i've become the opposite and don't like them at all. In this case a standard has been set for this infobox but I'd be interested to know what other wikipedians thought and whether they think its necessary or not. ] (]) 23:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)


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You are welcome for the Barnstar and thank you so much for mine! Please feel free to alert other Misplaced Pages friends making them able to get a Barnstar also.] (]) 15:44, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
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:Will do. Thanks again, <font face="Century Gothic">]]</font> 15:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


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Hi there. I've been a sysop here since 2008, and was an oversighter between 2012 and 2019. Most of my substantial edits have been to articles relating to popular culture, which is a fancy way of saying "games, sports and music". More recently I tend to do stuff like adding references to biographies of living persons.

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