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== Incredibly minor thing to start a talk over, but ... ==

... you made a typo in your ANI close, {{tq|courtesy banking}}, which I've found amusing to consider what that could mean. &ndash; ] (]) 23:35, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for the note. Fixed. ] ] 23:36, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
::I once made a typo in the edit summary of a mass delete, so it got repeated in the deletion log like 300 times and there was nothing I could do about it. ] ] 23:42, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
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