MEpedia talk:General disclaimer

Please review and edit as needed
Hi User:Canele and User:JaimeS. I have copied the general disclaimer from Wikipedia as discussed previously. Please edit the text below as needed. In a week or so I will ask Kmdenmark to copy the below text to the actual page. Thanks! Pyrrhus (talk) 20:11, July 20, 2019 (EDT)

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