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===January 14===
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The ''']''' was the revelation to the press of a dressing-room incident during the third ] ] of the "]" series. During the course of play on 14 January 1933, the Australian Test captain ] was struck over the heart by a ] by ]. On his return to the dressing room, Woodfull was visited by the England manager ] who enquired after Woodfull's health, but to Warner's embarrassment, the latter said he did not want to speak to him owing to England's Bodyline tactics. The matter became public knowledge when someone present leaked the exchange to the press; such leaks were practically unknown at the time. In the immediate aftermath, many people assumed ], a full-time journalist, was responsible. Fingleton later wrote that ], Australia's star batsman, disclosed the story. Bradman always denied this, and continued to blame Fingleton. Woodfull's earlier public silence on the tactics had been interpreted as approval; the leak was significant in persuading the Australian public that Bodyline was unacceptable. {{TFAFULL|Adelaide leak}}</div></div>


==Specific date nominations==
Two points for 80th anniversary of the incident, one point for promotion over a year ago (February 2011). However, last sports article scheduled is for 22 December, so loses two points (the last cricket article was October 13). So that makes '''1 point''' I think. ] (]) 23:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''': Good anniversary, and the Dec 22 article is much different from this one.--] (]) 01:00, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', high quality article and good date relevance. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 18:03, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per the above, - not only sports, also press, not really similar, --] (]) 10:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Unique topic, interesting. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


===January 15=== ===March 2===
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''']''' (1892–1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Considered the first American star in ] by the ], he was also an accomplished ] player. Born into a prominent family from ], he enrolled at ] in 1910. Baker excelled on the university's ] and ] teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the ] in New York City. He was a member of three national championship teams, for football in 1911 and hockey in 1912 and 1914, and helped the St. Nicholas Club win a national amateur championship in 1915. Baker graduated from Princeton in 1914 and worked for ] until he enlisted in the ]. During World War I he served with the ] and the ]s before being promoted to captain and named commander of the ]. Baker died in December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before he was due to leave France and return to America. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey arena the ]. The ] is presented annually to the best collegiate hockey player in the United States. {{TFAFULL|Hobey Baker}}</div></div>


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Date relevant to article topic = 1 point. Similar article not showed in over 6 months. (The similar article is the Hockey Hall of Fame) = 2 points.--] (]) 21:18, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', I don't recall seeing something too similar in a while, good relevant date, high quality article, recently promoted in 2012. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 16:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
**There was another American sports biography article on 13 December. ] (]) 14:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
***Yes, but that was of a sport more unique to USA, ], and this is of a sport more known in other countries, ]. Good choice to show that variety and diversity on the main page. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 20:04, 16 December 2012 (UTC)


===March 6===
Please add to the summary chart at the top of the page; this doesn't show in TOC. ] (]) 20:14, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Nice to see a hockey article <span class="nowrap"><font color="green">Canuck</font><small><sup><font color="maroon">89</font> ]</small></sup> <small>05:29, December 17, 2012 (UTC)</small></span>
*'''1 point at most''' as sports biographies are sports biographies, and TFAR does not sub-divide similarity by sport (and certainly not by whether or not sportsmen are in a hall of fame). I note also that a sports article is nominated for 14th January and that, if Kenneth Walker runs on 5th January, Baker would be the third US airman killed in battle to appear within 6 weeks. Blurb expanded to proper length, years of birth and death added, full names cut. ]] 11:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Weak oppose''': Article seems suitable for TFA, but we seem to be pretty sports-heavy, particularly if Adelaide Leak runs the previous day. Maybe next month? ]<sup>]</sup> 22:46, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
* It would be sub-optimal to run two sports articles back-to-back, and one is proposed for the 14th; why is this article not proposed in one of the non-date-specific slots, to give the delegates some leeway on choice of date? Those slots are empty. Also, point tally would be negative when we substract for similar articles (14th, and airmen). Also, there are four biographies on the page now, back-to-back sports, and three airmen killed in battle in a little over a month; delegates will have to overlook something that has community support to maintain mainpage diversity. ] (]) 14:22, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


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===January 18===
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"''']'''" is the two-part ] ] of the ] science fiction drama series '']''. Both parts were written by ]-winning screenwriter ], together with ]s ] and ]. Goldsman also served as director. ''Fringe''{{'}}s premise is based on the idea of two ], our own and the Other Side, each of which contains historical idiosyncrasies. The two universes began to clash in 1985, after ] (]) stole the parallel universe version of his son, ], following his own son's death. The finale's narrative recounts what happens when Peter (]) is taken back to the Other Side by his real father, dubbed ] (Noble). ] agent ] (], ''pictured'') and Walter lead a team of former ] test subjects to retrieve him, after discovering that Peter is an unwitting part of Walternate's plans to bring about the destruction of our universe using an ancient ]. Part one aired on May 13, 2010 to an estimated 5.99&nbsp;million viewers, while part two broadcast a week later to 5.68&nbsp;million. Both episodes received overwhelmingly positive reviews. {{TFAFULL|Over There (Fringe)}}</div></div>
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===March 12===
2 points -- Jan 18 will be the series finale of the American science fiction series '']'', so I thought I'd give it a good send-off (1 pt for date relevance). This article was promoted in July 2011 (1 pt). As far as I can tell, no television episode will have appeared within a month of this date. This is the first time I've nominated an article that I've significantly contributed to, though ] ran earlier this year. ''']''' ]] 18:54, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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*'''Comment''' agree with calculation at 2 points. ], though. ]] 19:09, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
:*I found three link issues, which are now all resolved (one citation was removed entirely as the corresponding sentence was backed up by another source). Thanks, ''']''' ]] 19:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Weak oppose''':We just ran a South Park episode; seems like another TV series is not a priority. Nothing personal, just seems like we have something more interesting out there that has more potential points. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:46, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
:*I understand your concerns. But just looking at the other potential TFAs in January (4 historical biographies, one sports incident, and ]), I think this article would actually be adding some diversity. ''']''' ]] 21:51, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''': I have to agree with Montanabtw; I'd like to think there is a large enough variety of featured content left to make the front page without having two television episodes run within five weeks of each other. Perhaps not...--] (]) 09:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)


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''']''' (1880–1964) was an American general who played a prominent role in the ] during ]. He received the ], and was one of only five men to rise to the rank of ] in the U.S. Army, and was the only man to become a ] in the ]. After graduating first in his class from ] in 1903, he participated in the 1914 ] and served on the ] during ], becoming the U.S. Army's youngest and most highly decorated major general. Thereafter he held a variety of posts, including ]. He retired in 1937, but was recalled to active duty during World War II. After the ], he ] to Australia, where he became Supreme Commander, ]. He fulfilled a famous pledge to return to the Philippines, and officially accepted Japan's surrender on 2&nbsp;September 1945. He oversaw the ] from 1945 to 1951, implementing many reforms, and led the ] in the ] until President ] ] in April 1951. {{TFAFULL|Douglas MacArthur}}</div></div>


===March 30===
'''3 points''': Vital article (4 points) + date relevance (1 point) - another article on a Medal of Honor winner (Walker on 5 January) (2 points). After MacArthur returned to the United States in 1951, his former staff and subordinates began gathering together annually at his penthouse at the Waldorf Towers in New York to celebrate his birthday. After his death, they continued to hold a reunion every year, but at varying locations, including a visit to Australia in 1974 hosted by Sir ]. ] (]) 19:59, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
:Blurb tweaked to c.1,200 characters, feel free to tinker if you feel I've got the balance wrong. ]] 20:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
**I've tweaked it. 1,194 characters, including spaces. I'd like to mention that his Dad got the medal of honor too, but don't have the characters... ] (]) 19:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


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'''Comment''': Haven't we had a lot of military figures recently? Birthday is an obvious date, just wondering if we have been a little heavy on military officers, particularly American ones? This isn't an oppose, just a question> ]<sup>]</sup> 22:44, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
* There were two in December (Jesse Brown and William the Conqueror), and this will make it two in January (with Kenneth Walker). I am one of the guilty parties who writes a lot of military biographies. MacArthur is probably the best known though, and I'm sure the article will attract a great deal of interest. ] (]) 17:10, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*::True enough about interest, and William the Conqueror is a dramatically different character; just thought there'd been a lot of 20th century military articles recently, so figured I'd raise the issue in case it was an issue. ]<sup>]</sup> 18:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' I would have run this on 5 April 2014 (fifty years since death) as there's more date relevance, but I've got no objection to this nom either. ''']''' <sup>(])</sup> 23:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' MacArthur is quite well known and accomplished a great many things, so there are a number of dates that this would work for. I would be fine with this running on the date suggested. I copyedited the blurb a bit. '''<font color="navy">]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">]</font>)'' 06:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. The article has always been too hagiographic. Too often it gives Big Mac the podium with long quotes that are not his most famous. (1. "By profession I am a soldier..." 2. "My strategic conception for the Pacific Theater..." 3. "The Japanese people since the war..." 4. "For five hours I toured the front..." 5. "I am closing my 52 years..." 6. "The shadows are lengthening...") Only the fifth quote should be present, and it should be trimmed down to the most famous bit: "...I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." I'm surprised that the biography does not include one of his more famous quotes about the "misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." That one seems to me more applicable to modern times than rah-rah sentiments about the "hordes of death" and "the battalions of life". In general, the lengthy quotes should be taken, not here. The bare statement in Misplaced Pages's voice, "a later generation would rediscover his philosophy of war, and see it as far-sighted", is just too much, as there is nothing like consensus on Mac's controversial legacy. The word "relief" repeatedly used for him getting fired by Truman is a powder puff replacement for the club Truman used. At the same time, the "Legacy" section does not emphasize quite enough how much respect is given MacArthur today for his guidance over occupied Japan. ] (]) 01:38, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
**The word "relief" is technically correct; we went over this ground repeatedly with the dismissal article. It is not true though, that Truman personally relieved him. ] (]) 04:47, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' per Binksternet. I see a lot of unresolved discussion on the article talk page from months ago which could if pursued resolve the issues with this article. I don't feel right meantime in promoting this as our best work. --] (]) 09:33, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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Nonspecific 1 All-American Bitch 0 2
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Nonspecific 3 Leroy Chollet 100th birthday March 5. NAIA National Championship is March 20 to March 25. 1
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March 2 Hughie Ferguson 130th birthday 1
March 6 Les Holden 130th birthday 1
March 10 Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number 10th anniversary of release 1
March 12 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season 5th anniversary of suspension 1
March 25 Flotilla (video game) 15th anniversary of release 1
March 30 Your Girl 20th anniversary of release 1

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All-American Bitch

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"All-American Bitch" is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo from her second studio album, Guts. Lyrically, it is satire and explores Rodrigo's concerns about society's double standards and contradictory expectations for women. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with its producer, Dan Nigro, and believed it captured feelings she had repressed since the age of 15. It begins as a folk song and transitions into pop-punk during the chorus, incorporating influences of punk, rock, grunge, and pop rock. "All-American Bitch" was viewed as a successful opening track that appealed to Generation Z by music critics, who praised Rodrigo's vocals and the production. The song reached number 13 in the US and the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Rodrigo performed it on Saturday Night Live, where she stabbed a red-colored cake at a tea party and splattered it on her face; the performance received positive reviews. She also included the song on the set list of the 2024–2025 Guts World Tour. (Full article...)

Coordinator comment I confess to feeling a bit dubious about this one because of the name. If I am to run it, I'd like to see a strong consensus. Wehwalt (talk) 17:40, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
While this is a fine article for some other day, I am not comfortable with the song article for that particular day. I remember that SusunW had a suggestion closer related to women's rights and international relevance. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:12, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
How about this song for 20 February, the singer's birthday, NØ, Gog the Mild? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:15, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
MF has just pulled it from a February slot, but - right now - I could reinstate it on the 20th. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:36, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
I will let you three take a call. I mean, it doesn't necessarily need to go on on a special occasion since the last Rodrigo TFA was a long long time ago. WP:TFAP for March looks largely empty, so I am fine with it getting the day prior to Women's Day.--NØ 11:49, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
I think a similar objection would attend running it on March 7 or 9, given time zones. I can offer another March date if February 20 is no good.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:39, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
Based on my understanding, Gerda Arendt just prefers the article SusunW had suggested for IWD. It is not because of an issue with the song title being inappropriate for the occasion. This is a feminist song, so that would not make sense imo.--NØ 14:51, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
It may be "a feminist song", but there are plenty of women who feel uncomfortable with the label "bitch", given how often it is used as an insult. - SchroCat (talk) 08:38, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
The line in the song is "I'm a perfect all-American bitch" and it is clearly reclaimed and used in a positive context by Rodrigo, who is a woman herself. It would be an insult to the intelligence of our readers for us to assume they are going to be offended by it. Anyways, I will take Wehwalt up on the offer of a random March date and withdraw this. Please close it. Thanks.--NØ 09:48, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
I'll leave it open on a non-specific date so I know where to find it. Further comments are welcome, and what is the article that SusunW thinks would be good for March 8? I'm starting to put together the March schedule.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
No-one is insulting anyone's intelligence. It's a contentious term, end of story. Same way that other terms that have been reclaimed by a group or community are still offensive to many while being acceptable to others. It doesn't matter if this is claimed to be "a feminist song" or not: some people will be offended that we've decided to mark International Women's Day by using an article whose title includes the word "bitch", however supposedly positive the message behind it.No problem running it on another day in the month, as long as it's a few days away from the 8th. - SchroCat (talk) 15:10, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
I am not sure what putting it in direct quotes again and again is supposed to accomplish, but this is most certainly a feminist song. I only emphasize this so no one misunderstands my initial intentions in nominating it for IWD. Another date in March sounds good to me, though, Schro.--NØ 16:08, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
I put it in quotes because I was quoting your words. - SchroCat (talk) 16:12, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
What article is that?--Wehwalt (talk) 20:26, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

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Leroy Chollet

Leroy Chollet

Leroy Chollet (March 5, 1925 – June 10, 1998) was an American professional basketball player. Chollet enrolled at Loyola University New Orleans and led the Loyola Wolf Pack to their first championship, but Louisiana schools were segregated. Chollet had an African American great-grandparent, and when this was revealed, he was pressured into leaving Loyola. He moved to New York and played three seasons for Canisius College. Chollet played for several professional teams, including the Syracuse Nationals. During the inaugural season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Syracuse made it to the 1950 NBA Finals. An ankle injury limited Chollet's second year in the NBA. He married Barbara Knaus, and, after retiring from professional basketball in 1952, he moved to her hometown, Lakewood, Ohio. They had three children: Lawrence, Melanie, and David. In Lakewood, Chollet worked on the construction of St. Edward High School and became a teacher and varsity head coach. (Full article...)

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  • Promoted: 29 October 2024
  • Reasons for nomination: This is my first TFA, so let me know if I'm skipping anything. I see a lot of biographies are posted on a relevant date. Leroy Chollet was born March 5, married in June, and won the NAIA National Championship which this year will be from March 20 to March 25. I don't have a strong preference on date if those don't work or if a TFA is needed sooner.
  • Support as nominator. Rjj (talk) 01:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
March 5, 2025 would be the Centenary of his birth. That could work as a date. Harizotoh9 (talk) 19:02, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

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March 2

Hughie Ferguson

Hughie Ferguson

Hughie Ferguson (2 March 1895 – 8 January 1930) was a professional footballer. He was one of Scotland's most sought-after young players before signing for Motherwell F.C. to begin his professional career. He played as a centre forward and finished as the top goalscorer in the Scottish Football League on three occasions. His 284 league goals remains a club record and, by 1925, he was the highest-scoring player in the history of the Scottish League. In 1925, Ferguson moved to Cardiff City F.C.; he was the club's top goalscorer for four consecutive seasons. He scored the winning goal in the 1927 FA Cup final and scored in the 1927 FA Charity Shield. Ferguson returned to Scotland with Dundee F.C. in 1929, but struggled to reproduce his goalscoring form. Six months after his arrival, he lost his place in the team and committed suicide. He is one of only seven men in the history of the English and Scottish Football Leagues to have scored 350 league goals. (Full article...)

March 6

Les Holden

Les Holden

Les Holden (6 March 1895 – 18 September 1932) was a fighter ace of World War I. He joined the Australian Light Horse in May 1915, serving in Egypt and France. In December 1916 he volunteered for the Australian Flying Corps and qualified as a pilot. As a member of No. 2 Squadron he gained the sobriquets "Lucky Les" and "the homing pigeon" after a series of incidents where he limped back to base in bullet-riddled aircraft. He was awarded the Military Cross, achieved five aerial victories, and finished the war as an instructor with No. 6 (Training) Squadron in England, earning the Air Force Cross. After leaving the Australian Flying Corps in 1919, he became a manager at Holden's Motor Body Builders. He joined the part-time Citizen Air Force before establishing an air service as a commercial pilot. In 1929, he located Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm in the north-west Australian desert after the pair were reported missing. He was killed in a passenger plane crash in Australia. (Full article...)

March 10

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

The game's designer and programmer Jonatan Söderström at the Game Developers Conference in 2010The game's designer and programmer Jonatan Söderström at the Game Developers Conference in 2010

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a 2015 top-down shooter game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. A sequel to Hotline Miami, it focuses on the prelude and aftermath of that game's protagonist's actions against the Russian mafia in Miami. The player takes on the role of several characters throughout the game, witnessing the game's events from their perspectives. In each level of the game, the player is tasked with defeating every enemy through any means possible. The game was released on 10 March 2015 for Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Windows. The game received positive reviews, with critics praising the soundtrack, though had divisive thoughts on its gameplay, level design and narrative. The game featured a scene depicting sexual assault, which triggered a mostly negative response from media outlets and led to the game being refused classification in Australia. (Full article...)

March 12

2020 Seattle Sounders FC season

The 2020 season for Seattle Sounders FC was their twelfth in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top flight of professional club soccer in the United States. It was the 37th season played by a professional team bearing the Sounders name. Seattle were the reigning MLS Cup champions and were expected to play 34 matches during the regular season, which began on March 1. The regular season was suspended on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused reduced attendance at an earlier match. MLS play returned with a special tournament in July hosted at a bubble site; teams then hosted matches behind closed doors. The Sounders only played 22 regular season matches after several were canceled; the 2020 U.S. Open Cup was also canceled. Seattle qualified for the playoffs as the second-placed team in the Western Conference and won a second consecutive conference championship. They lost 3–0 in the MLS Cup against Columbus Crew SC. (Full article...)

March 25

Flotilla (video game)

Brendon Chung, the developer of FlotillaBrendon Chung, the developer of Flotilla

Flotilla is a 2010 turn-based strategy space combat video game developed by Brendon Chung (pictured) and his studio, Blendo Games. The game was released in March 2010 on Steam for Microsoft Windows and on Xbox Live Indie Games for the Xbox 360. Flotilla was designed with Microsoft's XNA tools, and its development was influenced by animals as well as board games such as Axis & Allies and Arkham Horror. The game takes the player on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy. Chung began developing Flotilla after the closure of Pandemic Studios, where he had worked as a designer. The new game used assets imported from Chung's early space combat prototype Space Piñata. Flotilla incorporates pieces of classical music in its score such as Frédéric Chopin's "Raindrop" prelude. It received mixed reviews from video game media outlets, scoring 72 out of 100 on review aggregate website Metacritic, and was included in Mike Rose's book 250 Indie Games You Must Play. (Full article...)

March 30

Your Girl

Mariah Carey, the artist of Your GirlMariah Carey, the artist of Your Girl

"Your Girl" is a song recorded by American singer Mariah Carey (pictured) for her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi. She wrote the track with Marc Shemer, who also produced it with her under the name Scram Jones. The lyrics of "Your Girl" are about confidently approaching a potential lover. To convey this sentiment, Carey employs belting in her vocal performance. The track was influenced by disco, gospel, jazz, pop, and soul, while sampling vocals and an acoustic guitar from the 2003 Adeaze song "A Life with You". Some reviewers considered "Your Girl" one of the best tracks on The Emancipation of Mimi; others criticized the vocals. Regretful that it was not issued as a single from the album, Carey later released two remixes featuring rappers Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, and N.O.R.E. as part of a 2021 digital extended play. She has performed the song live during the 2006 The Adventures of Mimi concert tour and the 2024 Celebration of Mimi concert residency in Las Vegas. (Full article...)

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