URL routing documentation question.

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I'm reading about URL routing at How to: Define Routes for Web Forms Applications and there's something in the example I don't understand. If you look at the example provided below,

routes.MapPageRoute("", "SalesReport/{locale}/{year}/{*queryvalues}", "~/sales.aspx");

specifically at

"SalesReport/{locale}/{year}/{*queryvalues}"

Why does queryvalues have an asterisk in front of it and locale and year don't?

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