Talk:Vehicle registration plate

message: Removed the folowing form descritption of EU standardised plates
:... [do not need a nationality sticker to travel between member] States (even between those with EU-internal border controls - i.e. UK and Ireland)
Between the UK and Ireland you didn't (1996) need a nationality sticker even without having EU-standard plates.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy G (talk • contribs) 21:46, 7 April 2004
:EU number plates are mandatory in Ireland - and have been for quite some years. Recently they've cracked down on even slight modifications like italic font - this can fail your car in the NCT (National Car Test - equiv. to MOT).
:I'm pretty sure EU number plates are mandatory in some other member states too (France, Germany...) - the UK is an exception in its late acceptance of the standard. (It's been universal in Ireland for 10+ years) EU plates may even be mandatory in UK too now - is there not a fuss in Scotland about the GB tag? People getting into trouble for using SCO? (What happens in NI? That's not even on Great Britain!)
Zoney 20:43, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: nationality sticker - UK-Ireland

message: I was amazed to see the word "tags" used to refer to license-plate validation stickers.  The word "tag" is ubiquitous in reference to the license plates themselves, but this is the only time I have ever seen it used to refer to the stickers.  Would someone like to substantiate this usage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.83.212.208  (talk • contribs) 02:52, 8 March 2005
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Where are you located?  I don't know anything about the "tags" issue; I've heard the word used to describe the stickers on TV (nationwide networks in the U.S.) a few times.  In California, where I am, people usually refer to the plates as "plates" and the stickers as "stickers."  
Can anyone else illuminate this issue as to where "tags" is being used to describe plates or stickers?
--Coolcaesar 08:25, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In Michigan, the stickers are generally called "tabs."  Plates are just plates  . . . do they need a nickname? Funnyhat 23:03, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether they "need a nickname" is beside the point.  If the article is to describe the usage, it should describe what the usage is, not what you think it should be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.80.231  (talk • contribs) 01:50, 4 April 2005
"Tags," "tabs" and "stickers" are all regionalisms. "Tags" mean either "plates" or "stickers" depending on where you are.211.59.191.28 07:12, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tags, tabs, and stickers

message: Hey!  Why was this page moved?  I think all the North American Wikipedia users like me were perfectly happy with the way it was at license plate.  It was created under the name "license plate," and nearly all of the content was drafted with reference to that spelling by North Americans, so it should stay there!
--Coolcaesar 02:05, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Is it really worth all of that bother just to spite Americans? 216.214.103.34 22:38, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Coolcaesar: It was a new user's edit, one who was not familiar with policy. I asked him directly on his talk page; seemingly, he mistook the original title for a typo, not being familiar with AmE spelling and wished to correct this. Anon user: Keep your shirt on, and lose the "everybody hates America" paranoia. It is unbecoming. Assume good faith and Don't bite the newcomers are both fitting quotes here.--TVPR 08:48, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: It's been hashed out in bloody battles. The policy is to continue using whichever dialect the article was written in first. See WP:MOS#National_varieties_of_English. Incidentally, your argument is unconvincing, since these two dialects of modern English share a common ancester-- from which, they have each diverted to a noticeable degree. --Yath 18:11, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Why move to licence plate?

message: :In some American states like California, license plate theft is a serious problem, and it is common to see many vehicles without license plates.
Huh? I've lived in California for a long time and never heard of this. Can we have some references for this statement? --Yath 20:36, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops.  I just did a little research on the periodical databases and it turns out it's not as big a problem as I thought.  It's really a problem only in inner-city Los Angeles.  --Coolcaesar 07:15, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: license plate theft

message: The article is becoming a bit of a mess now because user DavidWBrooks took out the "Large countries with federal governments" heading which I had inserted.  While trying to revise the article, I then realized something important.  
The basic problem with the article is that some details of license plates vary widely from country to country, but others do not.  What we need is for some user who knows a lot about license plates (I personally know a lot about freeways but not so much about plates) to isolate all the elements that are identical and put them in the front of the article under a heading like "In general," and then the other country-specific stuff can be broken off into later sections.  --Coolcaesar 07:23, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent changes to article by DavidWBrooks

message: Would it make more sense to have an entry on North American license plates, European "number plates", and plates from the rest of the world?
Or possibly better subdividing the existing entry? Spotteddogsdotorg 01:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: How about a split?

message: This article has become very international in scope, therefore a neutral title should be chosen.
I'm going to be bold and move this article to Vehicle registration plate, a neutral, specific and formal term. This move is in line with the MoS. SpNeo 18:14, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, double redirects fixed. SpNeo 18:19, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New name

message: I think Vehicle licence is a distict thing, and should remain separate for the following reasons...
A Vehicle licence is a permit to use a vehicle on a public road, whereas a Vehicle registration plate displays an index key into a database of registered vehicles, used to identify the vehicle for law enforcement, or whatever. It could be that in some juristictions the Vehicle registration plate is the same thing as a Vehicle licence , but in others, notably the UK, the two are not related, other that the Vehicle licence, which is a small paper disc to be displayed on the vehicle, usually stuck inside the windscreen (windshield), has the vehicle's registration number (as displayed on the Vehicle registration plate) printed on it to ensure that it can only be used in that vehicle.  In the UK a Vehicle registration plate usually stays with a vehicle for life, remaining the same regardless of owner, or address, and whether the vehicle is actually licensed or not, and is purely for vehicle identification purposes.  It may, however, make sense to merge the licensing details from Vehicle registration plate to Vehicle licence thus making the former more generic, and concerned with the plate's function as a means of easy identification of a vehicle. De Facto 00:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A vehicle licence in the UK is not a disc in the window. That is the tax disc - to show road taxes have been paid. The license is made up (now anyway) of 2 parts - a plastic id card and a piece of paper with further details about vehicle classifications and points etc... It used to be all paper style. --Localzuk 21:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You are confusing the Driving Licence with the Vehicle Licence.  A driver has to have a Driving Licence - which is as you describe, a plastic card and and a paper counterpart.  However, each motor vehicle used or kept on the public road in the UK also has to have a Vehicle Licence which appears as a paper disc.  For most vehicles, though not all, a tax, known as the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is payable to obtain the Vehicle Licence, so the Vehicle Licence (the paper disc) is often referred to as a Tax Disc.  - De Facto 09:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

text: We need to define a licence plate as a subset of a vehicle registration plate. A licence plate is a specific type of vehicle registration plate or number plate that incorporates a vehicle licence. This is the reason why Americans tend to use the phrase licence plate whereas British people use the more generic phrase number plate. The article starts by just presenting these terms as alternatives with equal meaning, which is incorrect. In other words, all licence plates are number plates, but not all number plates are licence plates. We should keep the subjects of vehicle licensing and vehicle identification distinctly separate. Nfh 21:44, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Believe it should remain separate. In many jurisdictions, a vehicle license is issued separately (typically after the vehicle has been tested and is a separate activity from registration (though typically a prerequisite for registration) 211.59.191.28 07:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. The plate and the license are not always the same thing, depending on the country. In fact I'd go as far as to say (without any proof!) that it's more common than not that the two are distinct. Graham 06:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Should 'Vehicle licence' be merged here?

message: How do we move this section out of the article? It has nothing to do with the topic at hand, and this is not a disambiguation page. Chris 02:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The term 'licence plate' in commercial aviation

message: Northwest Territories and Nunavut plates are well-known as irregularly-shaped, that of a polar bear.  However, did not some US states, in the 1980s-1990s, have plates shaped like the state, if the state was roughly rectangular?  Ones eligible for this quality would be Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas. GBC 21:46, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't remember encountering irregular plates in the 1980s and '90s, but I do seem to recall seeing some plates from perhaps the 30's or 40's that were not of the standard size.  And I think that I read an article somewhere that stated that in the US, in the begining, it was the vehicle owner's option as to how to display the vehicle's regitration number - people used wood, metal, or even painted the number directly onto the radiator/grill. --Badger151 20:42, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Irregular shapes

message: Don't they make licence plates in prisons (Or used to)? 68.39.174.238 02:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they gave that up as it became more of an automated process. --Badger151 06:30, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, in California they still make them at Folsom State Prison. See the official Web page at  (you have to scroll down a bit).  --Coolcaesar 10:19, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In  Victoria, and the Northern Territory, Australia, what Australians and Brits call 'number plates' were still made in prisons at 2008. However, all other Australian states' plates are made by a company. Walkingmelways (talk) 14:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Prisons?

message: why does my state have two different color lettering for thier plate? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.54.154.152 (talk) 21:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is your state North Carolina? If so, see Vehicle registration plates of North Carolina. I had wondered if the red lettering indicated NCSU fans and blue indicated UNC or Duke fans, but the reality is less interesting. --BDD (talk) 23:03, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: color of plates

message: Might it be useful to have information about the availability of and links to sites where one can find the registered owner of a car that that contained a driver who greeted you warmly but whose name you can't remember, or one that just missed you?
Obform 13:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: License plate lookup

message: What is this section doing in this article at all? It's in my opinion both unrelated and half-useless (less informative than a stub).
213.162.65.17 13:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It also has geographic bias.  I say take it out. 38.100.35.16 17:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it. It has nothing to do with registration plates, which is the subject of this article. Graham87 06:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vehicle Registration Taxes

message: The name "vehicle registration plate" is a good compromise to remove British or American bias.
However, the use of "license plate" at some places and "licence plate" at others is very annoying. My personal usage is "licence plate", but Wikipedia policy is to follow whatever spelling convention the article was first written in. If I am not mistaken, that should be "license plate". (Perhaps a note could be added at the very first instance that British/Commonwealth spelling is "licence".)
Bathrobe 07:41, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: License / licence

message: this article doesnt say anything about if plates (the first letters) in USA depend on the city/state that you live on, or are they complitely random? 72.70.243.78 17:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: UHH it is America Everything is random. There ha never been clear cut rules on American plates MKLPTR (talk) 09:42, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

text: It's very random in the U.S.  In most states it's whatever is the next number or letter in sequence that's available; it has nothing to do with your residence. --Coolcaesar (talk) 10:57, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Eight states code their plates by the county of issuance, and still others spell out the county name in full on the plate itself, but not as part of the plate serial. See U.S. and Canadian license plates‎ for more information. And American plates do have "clear-cut rules"; they just vary by state. Qqqqqq (talk) 06:29, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Just saw this. It's not surprising that "missed the point" when your point was so unclear. For nearly every vehicle registered in the U.S., you can tell which state it's from (roughly equivalent to the first set of letters on German plates), and for some state, you can also tell the county (roughly equivalent to the second set of letters on German plates). So in some states you can tell "exactly" where a plate was issued, while for others you cannot. Also, all Canadian provinces save Quebec, as well as the states of Australia and several European nations allow the complete personalization of the plate serial. And there are probably a few other countries I'm missing. Qqqqqq (talk) 02:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

text: No, Quebec doesn't have them, and I think maybe one of the Maritimes doesn't as well. Qqqqqq (talk) 04:55, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: by city

message: Why are these not mentioned anywhere? In the UK, i think it's historical vehicles, can have plates with a black background and white lettering.
An example can be see here: http://www.olavsplates.com/foto/gb_pwf97r.jpg  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elkrobber (talk • contribs) 13:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Black UK plates are mentioned on the British number plates page, linked to this one via the European vehicle registration plates page. Md84419 19:27, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Antique vehicle registration is linked from this page and mentions historical vehicles in the UK. 38.100.35.16 (talk) 21:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Black plates in the UK

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message: I may be nitpicking excessively, but not all the regions in this section are countries. The EU is not a country, nor is North America. Furthermore, the "North America" section does not cover North America, just the US and Canada. Mexico is part of NA (or so I was taught), but has its own separate section. I'm not sure if it's worth changing, but that jumped out at me as I cruised past this article. LoLo McSpanky (talk) 17:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccurate heading: "Vehicle registration plates by country"

message: I removed the following text. If there is a patent, valid or otherwise, that dispute belongs between the patent holders and the relevant authorities in the various countries. I see no relevance for a Wikipedia article -- especially not in a summary section that links to the main article.
If anyone feels differently, or wants to integrate it into the main EU plate article (as opposed to the summary section here), the text I removed was:
This 'common design' is claimed to be a registered design - number 2053070 - registered at the UK Patent office by David and Nansi Mottram in 1995 . However, Ireland introduced this style of vehicle registration plate on 1st Jan 1991 under regulation S.I. No. 287/1990, . Portugal introduced plates with the common design in 1992, and Germany introduced plates with the common design in January 1994 , , 
No successful challenge has been launched upon the registered design to date.
-Stian (talk) 02:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: EU plate design patent dispute

message: I don't believe the bit about paper plates almost everywhere. Maybe this is true in North America, if so, please state so, and cite a source. Temporary plates for test driving, export, etc., probably deserve being mentioned here. Free-zombie (talk) 09:54, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the claim is referring only to the U.S. and Canada, which is certainly true. A couple of other countries have temporary paper plates (Argentina comes to mind), and several more have temporary metal plates (as in many European nations). I'll look for a source, but it's probably going to have to be the official jurisdictions' sites on temporary registrations, which will not prove 'all'- or 'most'-type claims. Qqqqqq (talk) 16:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Temporary plates

message: A friend asked me: why do the tv shows blurr the car plates shown there? Can I upload photos I've taken with cars and their license plates? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  05:12, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Legality of photos of plates

message: If license plate holders with tinted, clear, or smoky glass are illegal in the United States, why are they sold in such auto part stores such as AutoZone?
Also, is there a place where one can look laws such as this?
64.136.26.231 (talk) 02:58, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: They are meant for 'show cars only' - or so they will tell you.  I cant help but detect a 'nudge nudge, wink wink' in that disclaimer.RebelKnightCSA (talk) 19:24, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: License Plate Holders with glass

message: I noticed there are no handicap plates listed.  So...I submit my own.  Im too new to upload directly, but hopefully one of you would be good enough to do it for me, if such a request is permissible:  http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1842/xyzzy2better.jpg  Thanks in advance.  For the record, this is my work, and its public domain.RebelKnightCSA (talk) 02:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Handicap license plates

message: The Andorran license plate image does not include the entire plate, and is very blurry.  If anyone here has a better image, please upload it, because I do not live in Andorra.    Awesomeness  talk   21:58, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Unclear image

message: info is incorrect.. someone has listed Illinois as one of the states where you do not need a front license plate. you will get a ticket for not having registered plates on the front and rear of your car, unless you have a temporary sticker. got pulled over for it by state police on I-57 on the way to Chicago, and then ticketed in Chicago by a meter-maid for same reason.. This state is terrible..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.225.172.199 (talk) 11:31, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: states that do not require a front plate

message: Apparently, Victoria had them in 1884, before the European ones currently cited in this article as being "first": http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/20102010/72/bc-victoria-birthplace-licence-plate.html.
142.103.207.10 (talk) 23:28, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Earliest licence plate

message: Hi Wiki Nazis - why is the Russian Federation in Asia?  Your own, Wikipedia's article on Russian Federation states that Russia covers 40% of Europe and is the largest European state with 80% of its population living in the European part of the country. Russia was always considered a European power - until last few years where there was a deliberate push by its American enemy to change the perception - so why woul you put the whole thing in Asia?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.146.176.26 (talk) 12:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: When the number of cars were fewer it was possible to give the states a different series of number, say:
* NSW AAA000-HZZ999
* VIC IAA000-LZZ999
* QLD MAA000-PZZ999
* ...
* ...
* COM ZAA000-ZZZ999 (especially Commonwealth organisations, with red "Z")
When the number of cars exceeded what was possible with these combinations, a certain a amount of chaos ensued.
* QLD changed to 000ABC-999XYZ
* WA went to 7 digits, 1ABC789
* NSW went to ABC12D-WXY89Z
* and then to AB12CD-WX89YZ.
* and so on. 
It is not know if the same number can be used in more than one state/territory.   Tabletop (talk) 12:38, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate Plate in Australian States ??

message: It can hardly be true that registration plates are older than automobiles.  According to the Wiki article 'History of the automobile' the year 1886 is regarded as the beginning of the modern automobile, and this is earlier than the first registration plates.109.158.133.196 (talk) 12:46, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious claim in 'History'

message: As a matter of fact, we have articles on vehicle registration plates in (almost) all countries. There articles are collected in templates which are included at the bottom of this article. However, on top of this, we have a number of short sections describing a random selection of specific countries. Do we actually need them? Expansion to all 200 countries available does not see realistic or rational, may be we should just remove the sections, keeping a couple of them to present examples and refer to the country-specific articles?--Ymblanter (talk) 10:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not see any interest, unwatching the page.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:56, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country-specific subsections 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article states, at #History, that "[r]egistration plates have been around for longer than there have been automobiles. France was the first country to introduce the registration plate with the passage of the Paris Police Ordinance on August 14, 1893" (¶ 1).  However, Automobile redirects to Car, which states, in the lead, "[t]he year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car. In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen"  (¶ 1).  For the moment, I'm marking the claim in this article as dubious, but I'm hoping that someone with better knowledge of this can sort it out. --Badger151 (talk) 18:33, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article conflict vis-a-vis history 

message: The article as it stands appears to be attempting to deal in detail with every aspect of the physical display of vehicle registration / licensing marks in every jurisdiction in the world all in one single Wikipedia entry. 
Not only is this an absurdly over-ambitious aim, in my view – and one highly unlikely to result in a lucidly written article that is easily navigable by the reader in search of information on the subject – but the error is seriously compounded by the inclusion of such over-particular information in the general introduction to the article as the following:
:The first two letters indicate the state to which the vehicle is registered. The next two digit numbers are the sequential number of a district. Due to heavy volume of vehicle registration, the numbers were given to the RTO offices of registration as well. The third part indicates the year of registration of the vehicle and is a 4 digit number unique to each plate.
I don't know (since it isn't stated) to what jurisdiction those observations apply, but they can surely be relevant to only – what? a single-figure percentage of all the registration plates issued in the world?
Wikipedia already has plenty of articles of the type Vehicle registration plates of Australia, Vehicle registration plates of Brazil, Vehicle registration plates of China, etc. and the article here should confine itself to universal, or near-universal, generalities (amounting to no more than a paragraph or two) on the subject of registration / licence plates, followed by a comprehensive list of links to the Vehicle registration plates of X-type articles already mentioned. 
This would have the additional benefit of eliminating a great deal of repetition. Such statements as Jordan requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates, for instance, are already in the Vehicle registration plates of Jordan article, so why repeat them here?
I would very much welcome a discussion on these points. -- Picapica (talk) 23:50, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I absolutely agree. There is a lot of absolutely unnecessary repetition here.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:41, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  A failed attempt to be all-encompassing 

message: The article wrongly uses "licence plate" and "number plate" and "registration plate" interchangeably in some sections.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.2.34.156 (talk) 08:31, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Licence vs registration. 

message: This article should probably be for the general concept and history, and the list should be split into a separate list article at List of Vehicle registration plates by country/territory. Dmartin969 (talk) 03:59, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Support, sounds good to me. -- DeFacto (talk). 07:08, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed split 

message: File:FE-Schrift.svg|like this example
File:Security license plate font Arkansas deco 1938 numbers.png|Arkansas-similar in height:width ratio to Erbar Light Condensed; Hill House typeface has a very similar curled 2
File:Security license plate font Cuba deco 1957.png|Cuba-finial ends of characters are beveled instead of serifed
File:Security license plate font Cuba deco 1957 addendum V.png|all letters were used, note Cubans repainted their old plates so some letters do not clearly show underlying bevel
File:Security license plate font North Carolina deco 1939-1941.png|North Carolina-variable thicknesses, similar to Goudy's Lining Gothic design of 1921-changing direction-North Carolina changed stamping typefaces every 3-4 years, better to illustrate that
File:Security license plate font British Columbia deco 1924-1954.png|please note characters D and F tilt \, characters C, E, P, R, and the lower leg of J tilt /, B is a distinctive style, both legs of the H tilt inward at the top, and characters A, K, N, S, T, U, W, X and Y don't tilt, not certain if other letters were used
File:License plate font Arkansas template.png|my crude mockup of end idea-without grey background-that's something my old MSPaint does
File:License plate font BC template.png|my crude mockup of end idea-without grey background-that's something my old MSPaint does
File:License plate font NC template.png|changing direction-North Carolina changed stamping typefaces every 3-4 years, better to illustrate that
File:License plate font Cuba template.png|my crude mockup of end idea-without grey background-that's something my old MSPaint does
 
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replies: text: I have inverted some so all characters are darker than their background--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:29, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typeface reconstruction 

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message: Add tallies / lists of what countries, despite not using the English alphabet usually, still stick to using it on s, e.g., Taiwan. Jidanni (talk) 14:50, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
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