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Where? What zero-brain puts that in a tooltip? Snots != brains FFS.

PS. This article is toxic but the demagogues who are pushing their agenda have locked it down. So typical and it's nothing we've not seen before. This is a Wikipedia article - keep your agendas at home in our own closet!

Personal appearances section

The "Personal appearances" section has an entry that links to a Boston Globe article with a broken link to a video. The entry doesn't make much sense without the missing video, so hoping somebody can locate it and fix it. Santamoly (talk) 22:36, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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2015 segway injury

Why is there no mention of the accident with the cameraman on a segway running over his foot during the Beijing 2015 world championship? Is it against a wikipedia guideline? 77.126.24.108 (talk) 10:50, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]