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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article The Krankies, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Nikthestoned 11:53, 8 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Note that I've left that change in place, given the rest of the articles lack of sources. This, however, will not always be the case. For example, your recent change to the Mark Ronson article was immediately reverted, as well it should have been without a source. Nikthestoned 11:56, 8 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
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HI, I undid your contrinution on The Parent Trap because it is already under the Disney film remakes category. So yours is not necessary.NeoBatfreak (talk) 05:24, 10 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Is not suitable as a ref. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:44, 10 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

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  Hello. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please also see WP:IPCV. DonIago (talk) 16:05, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

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