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Hi There! I'm Louis P. Boog, but you can call me Louey I've been contributing and editing and correcting the great wikipedia encyclopedia for a few years now. If you have anything you'd like to share with me, just put in on my discussion page. Bye for Now! --Louis

I'm a volunteer for the WP:Feedback Request Service which randomly selects volunteers to give feedback to WP:RfC

(Before 8 June 2020‎ my username was BoogaLouie, but to avoid any association with the Boogaloo movement I changed it to the current one.)

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