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On 1 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Football (Disorder) Act 2000, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Football (Disorder) Act 2000 was pushed through Parliament in the United Kingdom in a month following hooliganism during Euro 2000? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Football (Disorder) Act 2000. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Football (Disorder) Act 2000), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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barnstar

		The Administrator's Barnstar
		Well you may not have kept the IRC troll away for the full hour but you came close. So for that I award you the Administrator's Barnstar for your effort. --Cameron11598 (Talk) 21:36, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

@Cameron11598: Thanks! :D — foxj 13:03, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Please stop

This is a family member of Ejiro Okosieme. Please stop modifying his page. He doesn't want it updated until he sorts out his new club. Please stop now and remove the content — Preceding unsigned comment added by Femurfluid (talk • contribs) 19:40, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Please see our guidelines for this situation. — foxj 19:54, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

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