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| Name | echidnaLives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Name in real life | Sam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Languages | Australian English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time zone | AEST/AEDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hobbies | Playing Nintendo Games, Refereeing Football (soccer), going down the Wiki rabbit hole | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Amy Shark, Billie Eilish, Gorillaz, In Love with a Ghost, Lena Raine, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lovejoy, Tame Impala, Toby Fox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Permissions | Rollbacker, Extended Confirmed, Pending Changes Reviewer, New page reviewer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hello, I'm Sam! I've been reading Wikipedia for ages, then a friend recommended editing it. Born in Melbourne, Australia and a big fan of Australian football, Football (or for some people, "soccer") and some other sports occasionally, including Rugby League and Ice Hockey. Interested in Urban Planning/Design, Public Transport, Nintendo games, Football Refereeing (which I recently started doing myself.) and editing Wikipedia. The main thing I do here is reverting Vandalism and monitoring Recent Changes, using Huggle and Rollback. Check out my talk page if you need to get in contact! echidnaLives - talk - edits 08:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
I don't know what to do with this space...
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