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:* {{re|MB}} I'll do the review. [[User:Epicgenius|epicgenius]] ([[User talk:Epicgenius|talk]]) 02:05, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
  
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|policyother  = Couple of MOS issues such as punctuation after references. But that should not be a big issue. I don't think [https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=George_Bangs copying a few proper phrases] is an issue with regards to copyvios.
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|comments    = Couple of unsourced statements such as the single sentence "The New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad fast-mail trains to Chicago were called the Twentieth Century Limited and Limited Mail, respectively." However, on the whole this is sourced well.
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Revision as of 02:05, 5 September 2019

George Bangs

Bangs monument at Rosehill Cemetery
Bangs monument at Rosehill Cemetery
  • ... that George Bangs' cemetery memorial features a mail car (pictured), carved to scale, commemorating his leadership of the Railway Mail Service? Source: "Bangs has a three-foor-long railroad car entering a tunnel for his monument; Bangs perfected the mail car while head of the Railway Mail Service." ([1])

5x expanded by MB (talk). Self-nominated at 01:25, 5 September 2019 (UTC).

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