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				<title>Admin info erased for BELGIUM in majority of loctions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Marc,
We noticed a major set of changes in BE location in our last update, made by user nga, which renders BE data useless: 
- admin 1 codes were systematically changed from  ISO to the digits 13 or 14
- admin 2 was deleted altogether.
Here is an example:
http://www.geonames.org/2788122/reves.html
history: 0	2009 11 28 11:38:02	nga	adm1:WAL>14,adm2:WHT>null,featureCode:ADMD>ADM4

This affects hundreds of cities in Belgium.
From what we can tell, the 13/14 division seems to reflect Flemish/French language.
Would there be any way to revert these changes?  As a result of this wave of modifications we are not able to import the legitimate modifications we made (adding English Province names as aliases + a few other city aliases).
Thanks,
Chloé
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:57:57]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Admin info erased for BELGIUM in majority of loctions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ thanks for letting me know. we will fix it in the next couple of days.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:05:15]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Admin info erased for BELGIUM in majority of loctions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ It has been fixed.

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:57:28]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Admin info erased for BELGIUM in majority of loctions</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thank you very much Marc!  We're very pleased to be able to use the data again.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:39:58]]> GMT</pubDate>
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