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Anybody can help prep the pages that feed into the main page's templates (up until the day they are displayed on the Main Page), by proofreading and correcting them, and we encourage you to do so. (continued tomorrow)
This user thinks that more Wikipedians would like userboxes if they were edible.
This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on his user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization.
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This user believes that userbox should always be pluralised userboxen, and thinks that this is one of the most important and exciting issues of our time.
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This user believes userboxes should have categories.
This user provides information using userboxes because he is bored.
This user's name is not George Dinkel. Or John Harris, for that matter. And, now that you mention it, this user's name isn't Gene Baker either.
This user exists. This is not claiming that this user is not a bot, sockpuppet, blocked user, or inactive user, it is just stating that this user EXISTS. He/She/It/They would like to point out that the reader must exist as well.
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This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.