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Barnstars

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		Thank you for rescuing my ref! • --MoHasanie (talk) 20:02, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

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Here, a glass of yummy oil for the bot!

Hi! I was going to give AnomieBOT a cookie for fixing the broken ref on SSRI discontinuation syndrome - I would never have known as I just went straight for a single section, but I'm not sure he actually eats cookies. So I decided to give him a glass of motor oil instead; I hope he likes it! (And, for those who think I should have been a bit more environmentally sound, giving a bot a glass of oil is akin to give a human a cookie in terms of healthiness, no? :-) WnC? 15:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)