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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="17" pageid="23" ns="0" title="Car Rental Codes" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Dan" timestamp="2015-01-11T05:17:02Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="203" cur="204" />
      </item>
      <item logid="16" pageid="18" ns="0" title="Acronyms" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Bahayman" timestamp="2012-06-17T03:50:19Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="164" cur="165" />
      </item>
      <item logid="15" pageid="20" ns="0" title="Forum Freature Requests" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Bahayman" timestamp="2011-11-03T05:01:51Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="80" cur="81" />
      </item>
      <item logid="14" pageid="18" ns="0" title="Acronyms" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Bahayman" timestamp="2011-10-11T23:15:01Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="67" cur="68" />
      </item>
      <item logid="13" pageid="13" ns="1" title="Talk:AsherO" type="move" action="move" user="Bahayman" timestamp="2011-07-10T04:40:43Z" comment="Move to AsherO user page.">
        <move new_ns="3" new_title="User talk:AsherO" />
      </item>
      <item logid="12" pageid="12" ns="0" title="AsherO" type="move" action="move" user="Bahayman" timestamp="2011-07-10T04:40:43Z" comment="Move to AsherO user page.">
        <move new_ns="2" new_title="User:AsherO" />
      </item>
      <item logid="11" pageid="12" ns="0" title="AsherO" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Dan" timestamp="2011-07-08T13:41:11Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="19" cur="23" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10" pageid="7" ns="0" title="Credit Card Reconsideration" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Dan" timestamp="2011-07-07T23:47:38Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="0" cur="13" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9" pageid="6" ns="0" title="AA Awards" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Dan" timestamp="2011-07-07T23:46:47Z" comment="">
        <patrol auto="1" prev="0" cur="12" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8" pageid="0" ns="0" title="Test Page" type="delete" action="delete" user="Bahayman" timestamp="2011-07-07T21:34:22Z" comment="content was: &quot;Test creation of a page.&quot; (and the only contributor was &quot;[[Special:Contributions/Bahayman|Bahayman]]&quot;)" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2011-07-07T21:33:40Z" />
  </query-continue>
</api>