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DOC: Add note about locators at top of ticker docs

The note about not sharing `Locator` instances should be more prominentthan hiding in the base class docs, which most users have no need toexamine.

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`82`	`82`	The default minor locator is `NullLocator`, i.e., no minor ticks on by default.
`83`	`83`
	`84`	`+.. note::`
	`85`	+ `Locator` instances should not be used with more than one
	`86`	+ `~matplotlib.axis.Axis` or `~matplotlib.axes.Axes`. So instead of::
	`87`	`+`
	`88`	`+ locator = matplotlib.ticker.MultipleLocator(5)`
	`89`	`+ ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(locator)`
	`90`	`+ ax2.xaxis.set_major_locator(locator)`
	`91`	`+`
	`92`	`+ do the following instead::`
	`93`	`+`
	`94`	`+ ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(matplotlib.ticker.MultipleLocator(5))`
	`95`	`+ ax2.xaxis.set_major_locator(matplotlib.ticker.MultipleLocator(5))`
	`96`	`+`
`84`	`97`	`Tick formatting`
`85`	`98`	`---------------`
`86`	`99`

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