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7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:29, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please tweak the sources like you did at Negroni. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:31, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

7&6=thirteen: done 🍸🥃. You should be able to do this yourself. Go to the page history and click Fix dead links! = paul2520 💬 12:16, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I will try that, but not today. I am on a real world deadline. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:39, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

7&6=thirteen: best of luck with that! = paul2520 💬 12:41, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I don't need luck, much. Although yesterday my document crashed and I lost a couple of hours of work. Damn! Keep up the good work. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:09, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. ( | )

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can . Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:20, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's a dead link and even the archived URL doesn't show the video title (as far as I can tell). = paul2520 💬 05:21, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

At Talk:Foreign relations of the Holy See you have removed the header for ClueBot, and the ratings for those items. So, I have reverted your edit. tgeorgescu (talk) 05:02, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch! I meant to edit Talk:Holy See–Portugal relations and must have been distracted. Thanks for reverting. = paul2520 💬 05:04, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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