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Take extra care to avoid paraphrasing and copyright. If producing a lot of content it is sometimes difficult to avoid sentences at times which don't resemble something in a source but it is important that the articles are without problems and will stick around on
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Contestants must fill out the bingo card by creating new qualifying articles or qualifying edits for 5 artists of their choice (or 4 using the free space) on
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