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This is the 16th clue of Canium.

Theories
Suspicious things in this clue so far:

- the bit.ly link that gets us to wikipedia has extra query params which are intentionally put there. To this day, wikipedia query params are still unclear and they don't seem to affect the loading of an article if they don't have a key-value form. These two strings of numbers are out of place and are clearly a hint for solving this clue. Upon closer inspection of the web page source of the Fifteenth clue, we can see the following:

Time codes
So the paragraph holding the bit.ly link has the id time. That means that the extra query params were to be interpreted as such, and the only possible explanation would be that's UNIX time that needs to be converted to "human" time. Doing so gives us a timeframe: 1117762627 converts to : GMT: Friday, June 3, 2005 1:37:07 AM 1543541827 converts to : GMT: Friday, November 30, 2018 1:37:07 AM

So that's our timeframe in which to search for '''? Removals, ? Additions.'''

The time elapsed between them is: 5017 Days, 0 Hours, 0 Minutes, 0 Seconds or:   716.71    total weeks or:    5,017.00    total days or:    120,408.00    total hours or:    7,224,480.00    total minutes

We can now use wikipedia's history page External Tools. One in particular jumps out: Find addition/removal On this site you can define an advanced search that would start from the starting day (June 3rd 2005) but it won't let you perform a search without a keyword. So now we need a keyword ...

Conclusions
Conclusion to the additions/removals analysis from Project Montauk wikipedia editing history page found here : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montauk_Project&dir=prev&offset=20050603013707&limit=842&action=history The date range June, 3, 2005 -> November 30 2018 makes for 842 changes on the page starting with June 10 2005 to September 22 2018. Out of these changes, additions and removals are as follows: Total of 314 instances of Removals, removing 30516 bytes. Total of 475 instances of Additions, adding 48129 bytes. Total of 53 Neutral instances, neither adding nor removing any bytes. Javascript code (used in dev tools console) on the above url: