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Now a FA in Chinese Wikipedia[edit]

I have translated this article to Chinese Wikipedia here and promoted to FA status, and I want to thank User:Cirt for his effort to write this amazing article. --Jarodalien (talk) 15:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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