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Which part of CAUTION: The images in the collage have been deliberately selected for geographic, visual, and aspectual balance. DO NOT make changes unless there is talk page consensus to do so. did you not understand? Please read WP:CONSENSUS, which is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia. You are wasting your time making unilateral changes because they will just be reverted. I have no idea whether the changes you wanted to make are good bad or indifferent, I didn't look at them because you didn't propose them at the talk page first. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:08, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20231216170800","author":"JMF","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-JMF-20231216170800-City","replies":[],"displayName":"\ud835\udd41\ud835\udd44\ud835\udd3d"}}-->
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