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AE911

Please resist the urge to pack the infobox with every conceivable field, at great length. Infoboxes are for concise on-or-two-word summaries. I'm not sure I've ever seen the FEIN number in an infobox before, and it seems to be a bit inappropriate to me. Acroterion (talk) 04:01, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

The page about Wikimedia Foundation includes the foundation's Tax ID number. I used that page as a model. Scott Gregory Beach (talk) 04:17, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

That's strange, but it doesn't mean that it has to be put in elsewhere.. It's a littte creepy, if you ask me, but I would regard the page on the WMF, on Misplaced Pages as other than typical. Acroterion (talk) 04:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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