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22135	Implement ModelAdmin.get_initial_data	Adam Avramov	Greg Chapple	At the present moment, the admin's add view is hard-coded to get initial values from request.GET (see https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L1363), which strikes me as quite inflexible. Would anyone be interested in seeing a `get_initial_data(self, request)` method added to `ModelAdmin`, which could then be overridden to specify arbitrary initial data for new objects?	New feature	closed	contrib.admin	dev	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0