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Your draft article, Draft:Sporting rifle Zastava M70
Hello, РудиЧајевац. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Sporting rifle Zastava M70".
In accordance with our policy that Misplaced Pages is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Misplaced Pages, and happy editing. Liz 16:00, 21 November 2020 (UTC)