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== Remember this ==
[[Charles Turner Torrey]] an interesting abolitionist

== March 2018 ==
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== [[Deism]] and [[Pandeism]] ==

Restored two paragraphs of the Pandeism section, without a separate header. First paragraph is enough to explain what it is so one need not click to the article itself to find that out. Second paragraph, analysis by Charles Hartshorn, is really about both, so relevant to Deism as well. Hope you agree. [[User:Hyperbolick|Hyperbolick]] ([[User talk:Hyperbolick|talk]]) 21:00, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, maybe the Hartshorn quote goes better somewhere else in the Deism article. Essentially criticism.  By the way, great job overall cleaning up. Was needed. [[User:Hyperbolick|Hyperbolick]] ([[User talk:Hyperbolick|talk]]) 21:07, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
* Note: Still think there should be at least a few words of summary explaining what each variation of modern Deism is. [[User:Hyperbolick|Hyperbolick]] ([[User talk:Hyperbolick|talk]]) 17:39, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

== [[Draft:Divine intervention]] ==

Based on your areas of contribution, I thought you might have some insight into what should be added to [[Draft:Divine intervention]]. Cheers! [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:gold">'''''BD2412'''''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 19:32, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

:Thanks for the invitation.  Today I did a substantial bit of re-writing of the article.  I didn't remove anything really, but I did some serious re-arrangement.  Now the whole structure of the article makes more sense, and the exposition flows more smoothly. [[User:SRFerg|Stephen.R.Ferg]] ([[User talk:SRFerg#top|talk]]) 18:29, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

==Disambiguation link notification for January 27 ==

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== [[Draft:Zakup|Zakup]] moved to draftspace ==

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When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. <small>[[User:CycloneYoris|<b style="color:blue; text-shadow:cyan 0.0em 0.0em 0.1em;">CycloneYoris</b>]]</small> <sup>[[User talk:CycloneYoris|<b style="color:purple">''talk!''</b>]]</sup> 23:02, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

== Wikipedia and copyright ==

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