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Universal

AFI does not support the contention that the production entitty is Universal Studios and the distributins one of Universal Pictures. Tese are both same for the same compnay, which changed its name over the course of time. Please do not change the names unless you have a source for doing so, preferably the authoritative AFI catalog. BMK (talk) 08:17, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you'[re going to add an explanatory note to an article, such as the ones you've been adding lointing out that Loew's Inc was the parent compnay of MGM, you need to differentiate that note from the ordinary citations in the References section, otherwise the reader doesn't know which "1" he or she is supposed to read. My preferred method is to do an "Explanatory notes" section followed by a "Citations" section, although there are other ways to describe this, and these are preferred by other editors. IN any case, though, some way of differentiating them needs to be used. BMK (talk) 08:30, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)

Please do not changed information which has been sourced to very reliable sources such as AFI. BMK (talk) 02:12, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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