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Feb. 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Dennis Moore, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Dusti ^{talk to me} 16:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral College Projections

Thanks for keeping this updated. Since the new Zogby poll shows a significant impact (5-6% total popular vote) of Nader's candidacy, I'd appreciate it if you'd keep an eye out for polls of the type you've been compiling, but based on a three-way race. Sketch051 (talk) 19:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Been dying to find out,

but what line of work are you in? Or are you multiple people? Big fan of your work with the polls. --Kallahan (talk) 19:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a grad student getting my degree in public administration. I just finished my second graduate seminar in statistics. Thanks for your appreciation.

Congrats

		The Original Barnstar
		For all your hard work on maintaining polls for this General Election, I hereby award you this barnstar. America69 (talk) 16:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Me too, you're doing a great job with the polls

		The Original Barnstar
		For all your hard work on maintaining polls for this General Election, I hereby award you this barnstar. Setwisohi (talk) 22:02, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know...

Just to let you know, I changed your edit on the 2008 Senate election poll page, because Joe Biden can seek two offices at once: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/24/ap/politics/main4378501.shtml

BrianY (talk) 15:07, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Pat Thomas (boxer)

Thanks, great update. Appreciated. FruitMonkey (talk) 22:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Antwun Echols

I have again removed the flags, per WP:MOSFLAG. Please read that section: flags are OK for national representation, which is not what is happening in that sport except at occasions like the Olympics. Especially flags for locations are well outside the recommended use for flags. I have restored most of the dab links, but I did not reinstate the nicknames. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 04:03, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I read your article and the use of flags for representative nationality apply in this instance. Boxers represent their countries as is implied in boxer's introductions (i.e. the fighting pride of ....). Furthermore boxer's nicknames are on file with BoxRec which is the leading source of information and are often listen on the boxer's wikipedia pages and should be included in the record listing (i.e. James Douglas is most often called Buster Douglas and is known internationally by this name and not by his first name). Having updated hundreds of boxer's records and having done yeoman's work in this field, I would appreciate you reverting your changes as they would be made uniform with the other records on file throughout Wikipedia.
- Thanks for responding, not warring. Note that I haven't been acting on other articles where you made similar edits. A few things. First, what matters on Wikipedia is what's on Wikipedia--Buster Douglas is Buster Douglas for well-established reasons, but that will probably never apply to Oscar "The Grouch" Washington (I'm citing from memory)--he'll be Oscar Washington (boxer), unless a miracle happens to his career. Whatever BoxRec says is irrelevant; even its acceptance as a reliable source (which I don't know but right now have no reason to doubt) does not change the fact that we're dealing with Wikipedia's guidelines for names within Wikipedia. (Note that Prince does not lead to Naseem Hamed, and that Prince Naseem redirects to Naseem Hamed.
  Second, MOS:FLAG is quite clear: the use of flags (in this case) is appropriate for topics "such as military units, government officials, or national sports teams", and a ring announcement does not amount to that. You know that: when an American boxer fights against a Colombian boxer, he's not officially representing the US unless he's in the Olympics, even if there weren't a million organizations organizing fights. That's for the Olympics and such. MOS:FLAG certainly does not allow such flags for the venue. "Throughout Wikipedia" means not just in boxing articles; the Manual of Style applies to all Wikipedia articles (first sentence), and so, by extension, does MOS:FLAG. That editors, yeomen or noblemen, deviate within certain projects doesn't alter that fact.
  So, while I appreciate your response, and while I have no intention to go through every boxer's article to do what I think our guidelines dictate, I won't revert myself. I understand that the flags look cool, but they just don't conform to the guidelines--speaking as a yeoman myself. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 06:27, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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