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An apology

I just wanted to say that, though my edits (and indeed my edit summaries) might not give that impression, I really do appreciate your contributions to United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012. Looking back, it probably wasn't necessary to get rid of all your content and try to write it from scratch. Just so people in future don't make the same mistake I did there, you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Citing sources—when you're in a hurry they're easy to forget, but references are pretty much always necessary and also massively useful in helping other editors determine whether what you've written is actually correct. Again, thanks for your contributions and don't be disheartened by my overzealous editing earlier. – hysteria18 (talk) 00:55, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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JohnCD (talk) 23:34, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Cullerton

You don't need most of the advice I was going to give based on your first version (make it less promotional, don't call him "President" Cullerton). I would suggest leaving out the voting statistics for the "Village president" election - it seems a bit trivial, now that he is in the State Senate. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:34, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Emanuel Chris Welch

Hi - just a reminder to return to Emanuel Chris Welch to fix it up - it was clearly a copy-and-paste from the article about Rep. Thaddeus Jones. I made a couple of easy corrections but there's more to do. Cheers, PK T(alk) 11:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copy-and-paste is certainly allowed - it was just that when I encountered the article, it was talking about a different person than its title, and you had moved on to work on other articles. PK T(alk) 12:12, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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CongLinks VoteSmart

We use these at the state level. If an old-version code is being used, please fix it rather than deleting it. Also, ILGA still has a problem of making it eay to find a legislator's previous sessions. See one of the State Senators in a low-number district for the current format to use. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 16:22, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Top right corner only says "Log in". If someone doesn't want to log in, they'll try to use the session box in the lefthand banner and get tangled. Perhaps ILGA wants to track users? 184.78.81.245 (talk) 17:46, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried it? Total debacle might be more acurate than 'tangled'. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to fix it. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 02:38, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP Manual of Style

Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies, as some of your edits are in conflict. For example, we use the person's full name, including nickname, to begin the first sentence. This is almost always different from the person's "commonly known as" name which is used for the title of an article, with disambiguation added as needed. It's supposed to be different, as one is used for searching and one is used for completeness.

There's also Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital_letters and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations#Symbols regarding your creation of section titles.

In general, it's a good idea to find a good, current article which is similar to what you're working on, and follow its formatting. Our work is based on consensus, particularly on similar articles such as legislators, as it improves the user experience. Please fix your errors, as no volunteer has the time or inclination to clean up after you. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 16:33, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Jeff Richey

I have no real opinion about what the best outcome is, but A7 deletions are only for cases where's the no indication of why someone might plausibly believe the person could meet WP:N; in this case, both being an alderman and being a republican candidate for (whatever) are both reasons to believe there may be sufficient sources out there to meet WP:N. I didn't say the article should ultimately stay, only that it doesn't qualify for A7 speedy deletion. You can certainly consider AFD, PROD, or Boldly merging, if you feel it's appropriate. I haven't spent time any significant time looking for sources, so I can't make any recommendations. Wily D 09:57, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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New Hampshire Libertarians

Hi Mpen320, hope you're well. I noticed that you added the articles Don Gorman, Finlay Rothhaus, Calvin Warburton, Ken Fanning and Andy Borsa to the Members of the Libertarian Party category. My interpretation of the guideline on subcategorisation suggests to me they needn't be in that category, as they're in the subcategories for Libertarians from their respective states (New Hampshire Libertarians for Gorman, Rothhaus, Warburton and Borsa, and Alaska Libertarians for Fanning), which are in the parent category Libertarian Party (United States) politicians, which is in turn a subcategory of the "Members of the Libertarian Party" category. Per the guideline, "an article should be categorised as low down in the category hierarchy as possible, without duplication in parent categories above it." The guideline provides for exceptions, which I don't fully understand, but I don't think this would constitute such an exception. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts – Arms & Hearts (talk) 01:37, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied at my talk page. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:48, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Um, in the future, try signing your posts so that I don't have to guess who exactly is saying what to me and making me waste a bunch of time trying to figure it out. My talk page history says that you've been there only twice, spread a little over a year apart, and neither time did you sign your post. See Help:Using talk pages#Sign your contributions if you're confused. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 01:27, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thanks for all your hard work on Illinois articles! Uncle Roy (talk) 02:23, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank You

Many thank for the Illinois Barnstar. The Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1970 was an very interesting event; Consequently I followed Illinois politics even though I live in Wisconsin. Again my thanks-RFD (talk) 16:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Illinois local government

Hi-I notice your edits about Illinois counties; county board of commissioners being different from county boards, etc. Is it possible about starting an article about Illinois local government? Many thanks-RFD (talk) 17:36, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The local government article for Illinois is Administrative divisions of Illinois. I do believe an expansion is in order and I am open to helping. For example, I already created Special districts in Illinois, but that's largely taken verbatim from the 2012 United States Census of Governments. In Illinois our high number of local governments is a political issue. A lot of information is from sources I would consider bias (e.g. Illinois Policy Institute). This is going to make finding information about Illinois government a bit more work intensive than my edits and article creations for Illinois General Assembly members, which between the Blue Book, resolutions and pages 1-2 of Google results are fairly easy to crank out. Does that help at all? -Mpen320 (talk) 13:10, 19 July 2017 (CT)

Illinois county government

Hi- Here is a link about Illinois county government I found: Illinois-Forms of County Government. I will tried to keep track which Illinois counties has what form of government. With 102 counties, it may be difficult-many thanks-RFD (talk) 11:32, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Badgerlink

Hi-Being a Wisconsin resident I access Badgerlink with my public library card. Badgerlink also has access to the newspapers. Maybe your state has something similar. Badgerlink is provided by the Wisconsin government for Wisconsin residents. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 09:42, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Deletion of Cliff Hyra

Sorry for deleting the AfD template I did it because I thought you could it since I have seen a lot of people doing that and just put their reason in the edit summary.

No need for an apology. Mpen320 (talk) 04:16, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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What constitutes an endorsement? I have seen campaign contributions constituted as endorsements. I disagree with this, but if it does then
Is there a such thing as a limited notability figure? This would be an otherwise not notable individual whose endorsement is worth mentioning because they are in a position of importance in an election (e.g. a county party chair endorsing in a primary election).
Are there any other questions I should have asked, but did not?

Mpen320 (talk) 15:56, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you mean Template:Endorsements box.

I don't think Wikipedia has set criteria beyond the general ones - verifiability and avoiding undue weight.
If reliable sources call it an endorsement, it is. If no reliable source calls it an endorsement, neither should we.
If no independent reliable sources report on an endorsement, the endorsement is too insignificant and shouldn't be added to the box. There may be more strict criteria for high-profile elections where candidates receive lots of endorsements. If the mayor of one or another of the Fayettevilles endorses a presidential candidate and the local paper reports on it, that does constitute coverage in a reliable independent source, but may still be held to be too insignificant.
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According to what is Capitol Fax a reliable polling site. Regardless of such credentials as a news site, there needs to be a detailed methodological report in order for a poll to be considered valid, if you show me such then I will second your statement. Allinallisallweallare (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I find it weird the only poll you only have an issue is the poll that has Kennedy losing to Pritzker, yet seem to have no qualms with the one of the Republican primary. You made no other effort to delete the other We Ask America poll. Nor have you expressed any other issues with Kennedy's internal polling. Your only edits so far have been this article and Chris Kennedy's article. This is not a forum for you to campaign for Chris Kennedy. Please cease these nonconstructive edits.--Mpen320 (talk) 21:57, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Let's take those down too then. Allinallisallweallare (talk) 22:05, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Explain to me how widely published journalist Rich Miller's commissioned poll on the Governor's race is not credible? Mpen320

Capitol Fax is a blog, it does not go through the same vetting process as a poll commissioned by a reputable news source would, we have no idea where this poll's intentions lie, nor do we know where the internally commissioned polls intentions lie. In addition, there is no credible report methodologically or otherwise to validate the Kennedy or the Capitol Fax polls.

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Rich Miller is a credible source and We Ask America is a legitimate polling firm. You haven't cited how it's not other than the vague reasoning that "it's a blog." We Ask America is used on United States Senate election in Illinois, 2014, Illinois gubernatorial election, 2010, and Illinois gubernatorial election, 2014. Survey Monkey polls are shown on United States Senate election in Illinois, 2016. If you would like to note these issues in the section(s) on polling that would be helpful, but the wholesale deletion of all the article's polling (a lot of content) requires consensus. I have moved this discussion to Talk:Illinois gubernatorial election, 2018 where we are working on consensus. I invite you to join us.--Mpen320 (talk) 22:19, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Mpen320,

I was thinking of taking Washington Heights, Chicago to FAC sometime next week; I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at it beforehand and see if there are any improvements you can think of, or if you'd be willing to collaborate on it. (It's fine if you've never been there, neither have I.) Any help would be appreciated.

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Your work on this article (and all the Chicago articles) is incredible. I would definitely want to collaborate. I'll get back to you later on potential improvements.--Mpen320 (talk) 02:00, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Fantastic! I look forward to it. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 03:39, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - A mention of the Brainerd Bungalow Historic District and any facts from the NRHP submission. The information in there is likely within the article already, but it looks like it is worth a read.
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      - Thank you for your feedback. I've started a section on Brainerd that I'll expand later. I'll add the rest in the next upcoming days. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 06:51, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I will nominate the article for FAC later tonight after I've finished it up. Would you like to be a co-nominator for it? – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 21:11, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be nominating it in about half an hour and mentioning you in it if you don't mind. Thanks for your thoughts, and hopefully it will go well! :) – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 03:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I was wondering if you could help me. I saw that you created the article about Ed Zabrocki, the Tinley Park mayor, a couple years ago. I was thinking of trying to get an article up about the Orland Park mayor, Keith Pekau. I drafted some text in my sandbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MaxineJP/sandbox). You've been around here longer, so I was wondering if you would mind publishing it?--MaxineJP (talk) 18:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you reaching out, but I have to decline to publish your draft article. It is well written, but I believe Wikipedia's notability guidelines for politicians would find that Keith Pekau would not meet the notability guidelines for a Wikipedia article (at least at this time). Ed Zabrocki qualified because of his time as a state legislator which per the guidelines gives automatic notability to the subject. There are some "purely local" Mayors who have Wikipedia articles, such as Robert L. Butler and Donald Stephens, but their notability comes from having unusually long times in office (over fifty years). If by chance you are affiliated with his campaign, I will also note that an article about a person is not inherently helpful to the person and may even be a net negative for Keith Pekau's campaign. For example, Bruce Rauner who supported Pekau's first campaign is still pretty unpopular in the state. An article with that information could turn off some voters to Pekau's candidacy. A good essay about this written by User:Sebwite is here.--Mpen320 (talk) 19:20, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I understand. Thank you for taking the time to explain. If Keith wins the election, I'll circle back on this. Thanks! --MaxineJP (talk) 16:59, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! Please let me know if you think "established" clears it up. He was the first executive director.--Mpen320 (talk) 02:13, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I did not (at least purposefully) mark this as a minor edit. Mpen320 (talk) 21:47, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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