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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
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        <patrol cur="8914" prev="8912" auto="1" />
      </item>
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      <item logid="3998" ns="2" title="User:178.67.51.76" pageid="0" type="block" action="block" user="Ashley" timestamp="2025-08-18T20:11:02Z" comment="Spamming links to external sites">
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      <item logid="3997" ns="2" title="User:MerrillZpt" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="Ashley" timestamp="2025-08-05T11:21:52Z" comment="content was: &quot;&lt;a href=https://hamoxicillin.com/&gt;amoxicillin 500 mg generic&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (and the only contributor was &quot;[[Special:Contributions/65.108.13.173|65.108.13.173]]&quot;)" />
      <item logid="3996" ns="0" title="Leden" pageid="2774" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Ashley" timestamp="2025-08-04T11:44:23Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8909" prev="8849" auto="1" />
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      <item logid="3995" ns="2" title="User:65.108.13.173" pageid="0" type="block" action="block" user="Ashley" timestamp="2025-08-04T11:42:36Z" comment="">
        <block duration="infinite" flags="anononly,nocreate" />
      </item>
      <item logid="3994" ns="2" title="User:ColletteV13" pageid="0" type="block" action="reblock" user="Ashley" timestamp="2025-04-15T14:04:37Z" comment="Spamming links to external sites">
        <block duration="infinite" flags="nocreate" />
      </item>
      <item logid="3993" ns="2" title="User:LonBrobst14515" pageid="0" type="block" action="block" user="Ashley" timestamp="2025-04-15T14:02:54Z" comment="">
        <block duration="infinite" flags="nocreate" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>