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this template. Please do not use this template on the talk pages of evidently good-faith constructive IP users, since its wording could be misunderstood as implying the IP's edits are problematic.
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as a courtesy, as the standard installation of Twinkle adds and removes this template. Thank you!
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Note that unlike many similar templates of this type, Whois does not currently support the
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and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's
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Index

Template:Whois
documentation
subpage
Template:Whois
categories
approximately 10,000 pages
/sandbox
/testcases
user subpage
talk page
substituted
breaking changes
Twinkle
Knowledge talk:Twinkle
subst:
edit warring policy
Knowledge:Blocking IP addresses
Knowledge:Sensitive IP addresses
Shared IP advice
Anonblock
School block
Proud of editing as an IP
Shared IP edu
Shared IP address (public)
Shared IP gov
Shared IP corp
Whois
Road Runner Residential
Static IP
Dynamic IP

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