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				<title>Duplicate ADM1</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi,

There are duplicate entries for the following country.adm1 codes:
RU.90
BT.15
KH.16
CL.13
CL.09

For Russia, one of them does no longer exists but I cannot delete it from the web interface. So I didn't check the others since I cannot modify.

Is it ok to have those duplicate items? It's causing problems in our system since we cannot determine the parent of an entity in those ADM1's.

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:43:58]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ shazar]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Duplicate ADM1</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Well, actually there are a few more. Here is the full list:

BT.15
CL.09
CL.13
KH.16
PH.B2
PH.C8
PH.E1
RU.90

Also there are 'undefined', 'null', '00' and '' (empty string)  as admin1 codes. 
Instead of having different things, is it possible to make them standard such that '00' or '' to denote  an unknown state ?

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:45:13]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ shazar]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Duplicate ADM1</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Marc,

It's been almost a week but I couldn't hear anything from you.

What do you think about those duplicates ?

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:20:55]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ shazar]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Duplicate ADM1</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Someone will have to sit down and figure out how it is to be fixed. Your help is welcome.

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:39:12]]> GMT</pubDate>
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