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		<title>LGBT-HP: Fix bare &lt;references&gt; tag: MW 1.45.1 Cite requires self-closing &lt;references/&gt;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Fix bare &amp;lt;references&amp;gt; tag: MW 1.45.1 Cite requires self-closing &amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 13:05, 10 July 2026&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==References==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==References==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>LGBT-HP</name></author>
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		<title>Wessexman: MP KIm Leadbetter</title>
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		<updated>2021-07-03T19:57:35Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;MP KIm Leadbetter&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 19:57, 3 July 2021&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l4&quot;&gt;Line 4:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Keegan Hirst]], captain of the Batley Bulldogs rugby team, was the first Rugby League player to come out as gay.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/keegan-hirst-lgbt-role-model. Accessed: 2016-03-13. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6fzHrAnjQ)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Keegan Hirst]], captain of the Batley Bulldogs rugby team, was the first Rugby League player to come out as gay.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/keegan-hirst-lgbt-role-model. Accessed: 2016-03-13. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6fzHrAnjQ)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Batley and Spen is the parliamentary constituency. Member of Parliament [[Kim Leadbetter]] was elected at a by-election in July 2021. Leadbetter is openly lesbian and lives with her partner Clare.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Wessexman</name></author>
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		<title>Ross Burgess: Created page with &quot;Batley Town Hall&#039;&#039;&#039;Batley&#039;&#039;&#039; is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire.  ==LGBT history==  Keegan Hirst...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2016-03-13T22:28:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/File:Batley_Town_Hall.jpg&quot; title=&quot;File:Batley Town Hall.jpg&quot;&gt;thumb|Batley Town Hall&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Batley&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is a town in the &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Kirklees&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees&quot;&gt;Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/West_Yorkshire&quot; title=&quot;West Yorkshire&quot;&gt;West Yorkshire&lt;/a&gt;.  ==LGBT history==  &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/Keegan_Hirst&quot; title=&quot;Keegan Hirst&quot;&gt;Keegan Hirst&lt;/a&gt;...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Batley Town Hall.jpg|thumb|Batley Town Hall]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Batley&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is a town in the [[Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees]], [[West Yorkshire]].&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Keegan Hirst]], captain of the Batley Bulldogs rugby team, was the first Rugby League player to come out as gay.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/keegan-hirst-lgbt-role-model. Accessed: 2016-03-13. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6fzHrAnjQ)&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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		<author><name>Ross Burgess</name></author>
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