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List of countries and dependencies by population

Dear Thomas, I noticed that you reverted my edit on List of countries and dependencies by population. Your edit summary gives me the impression that you did not read the discussion on that matter on the talk page of that article, where we evaluated in detail what the Template:UN Population does, what source lies at its base, and why it uses the range of numbers that it does. I will try to give you a short summary why I believe this source is superior to the one that you reverted to. The old source is from 2014, by the Ethiopian Statistics Agency, making a number of projections for a large range of future years, and the number picked was the projection for 2020. In itself that is a good source, and I would accept it as long as no more recent or more accurate source is available. But the above template provides just that. The source is from 2019, therefore 5 years newer than the CSA source, and it also provides a range of figures, going back to old historic numbers, and going through each of the last 20 years, and making projections up to 2020 (btw, the 2020 projection of the UN for Ethiopia is about 114 million, according to the UN source). Now, the makers of the template have decided to not use the 2020 projection, but the figure of 2018, because this is not a future projection, but an estimate of the known situation in the past. As such, I believe that figure has a higher weight as a source than a 2014 crystal ball of what the future 5 years from then might bring - and indeed it appears as if that old CSA number fell quite short from how the situation evolved in reality. I therefore kindly ask you to re-evaluate your revert, and if you cannot do so, I would like to hear your reasons why, best by participating in that discussion on the talk page of the list. Landroving Linguist (talk) 12:05, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Succeeded by

FYI, "succeeded by" doesn't mean who is currently in session. Every article would have to be updated on a regular basis if that was the case. What it means is, which person replaced him in the next relevant election. Think about it like this... which album followed Metallica's Black album from 1991? The correct answer is Load from 1996 - it will always be Load from 1996. Yes there are other albums that were later released, but they didn't follow the eponymous black album; Load did. Load succeeds the black album. No other album can make that claim. Leitmotiv (talk) 19:59, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

So Matt Shea is out of office and is succeeded by Rob Chase. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:04, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

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Draft:2021 Laotian parliamentary election

I see you've got a draft for this that hasn't been touched in a while; I was going to write the article and nominate it for DYK. Political hooks can't run if it's less than 30 days before an election, so if you don't say anything, I'm gonna write it myself in the next couple of days. But since you already made a draft, I wanted to give you a chance to move it into mainspace before scooping you.... best, jp×g 15:01, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021

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Alright, I will provide edit summaries. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 03:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

"As of" and CURRENTYEAR macro

Please *STOP* making edits like this one [1] to political pages. That is, do not use {{CURRENTYEAR}} macros in "as of" statements. You are adding statements that will become incorrect as they age, which is a violation of Wikipedia's accuracy guidelines and manual of style. See the following: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references and Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Current

And from the "as of" template, Template:As_of#Usage_guidelines: "Using ... variables such as {{As of|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}} is a relative time reference and the equivalent to using "currently", which is generally against the precise language guideline."

Also, I've noted all of these edits you're doing of this type (and you seem to be the only editor doing them) are missing edit summaries. 71.62.227.79 (talk) 08:13, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

OK, I'll stop. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 10:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

If you're going to replace "collapse top", make sure you also replace "collapse bottom"

At 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas and a handful of similar articles, you replaced {{collapse top}} with table markup but left {{collapse bottom}} in place. Please revisit those articles and use table closing markup to finish your work. I did the Texas article for you. It looks like all of the articles in which you "hid hypothetical polling" in this list of contributions need the same fix. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:39, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

You are also removing <noinclude>...</noinclude> tags, which causes the hypothetical polling, along with the errors that you are introducing, to appear at Statewide opinion polling for the 2020 United States presidential election. Please stop removing those noinclude tags. This is becoming disruptive. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:51, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

OK Thomascampbell123 (talk) 16:01, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Maps

How do you create an election results county map? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Please fix or revert the edits referred to above before moving on to other endeavors. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:46, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Results updates

Please be more careful when updating results. When you made this update, you put the wrong vote totals against numerous parties.

Also, I am not sure why you removed 'against all'. It is a valid option in Bulgarian elections. Cheers, Number 57 00:05, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

On the website, 'against all' is not included in the total amount of votes. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 00:09, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

April 2021

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Reagan Dunn, you may be blocked from editing. Schazjmd (talk) 19:21, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Why exactly is our campaigns not a reliable source? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:23, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

See the entry for ourcampaigns.com at WP:RSPS. Also read the date of birth policy. Schazjmd (talk) 19:34, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

It says that our campaigns is "generally unreliable due to having self published content." In which instances would this source be reliable? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:39, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

See the RfC discussion and a follow-up discussion. Also see user-generated content and WP:ABOUTSELF. Schazjmd (talk) 19:43, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

You don't seem to be aware of what is considered a reliable source for biographies on Wikipedia. Please learn. You can start at WP:RS and WP:RSP. You have been advised of the discretionary sanctions for BLPs below. Do not continue to add unsourced/poorly sourced date of birth to Reagan Dunn or any other biography. It doesn't matter whether that's his date of birth, if it cannot be verified in reliable sources, per WP:DOB. Schazjmd (talk) 00:05, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Bill de Blasio

I don't understand this edit. De Blasio is not a lawyer. He never went to law school and nothing in his article indicates that he's a lawyer. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:58, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I read that he was one on a google search.Here Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:04, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability. If you are going to add a new claim to an article, accompany it with a citation to a reliable source. That is a basic Wikipedia policy. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:56, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks Thomascampbell123 (talk) 22:11, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

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Polling

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August 2021

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The redlinks that I unlinked were likely not notable enough for articles. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:13, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

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2010 United States Senate special election in Delaware

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Oregon's 6th congressional district

Hi Thomascampbell123, I noticed that you recently edited the PVI rating of the 6th to exclude the fact that the PVI shown is applicable 2023 onwards, as currently the district is non-existent. I think it would be good if we can include the pre-redistricting & post-redistricting PVIs to all districts, by adding (until 2023) & (from 2023) respectively. What are your thoughts? Thanks! ---CX Zoom(^he/_him) (^{let's talk}|_contribs) 08:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

The PVI is from a combination of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Although the district will not exist until January 2023, the PVI is still from 2020. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 15:25, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Cut and paste moves

Hey, I appreciate you trying to standardize article names for elections - but in situations like 2012 Washington state elections, can I please ask that you go to WP:RM/TR and make a request there instead of copying the contents from one page to another? This creates a mess with the page history. Thanks! Elli (talk | contribs) 18:53, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Okay, I will do this next time Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:22, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

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Okay, I'll use the sandbox in the future. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:17, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

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Ok, I will add back my new map in January 2022. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 06:08, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

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2024 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

Hi @Thomascampbell123: I had to remove that again, sorry. Policy defines you can't put external links in an article, unless your they're in the External Links section, or bibliography, further reading, literature section. Please don't add it back in. scope_creep^Talk 16:15, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I won't add it back. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 16:19, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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Sources used for Pierce County Executive

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I haven't yet been able to find the archive; please can you find appropriate articles to cite for this article. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 00:37, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

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Ok, sorry. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 02:02, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

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I see so many articles that have our campaigns as a source from a while ago and no one has anything against them. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 16:13, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Feel free to remove it where you find it, and either tag the information that it sourced as needing a citation or remove the improperly sourced information. Schazjmd (talk) 17:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

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Election County Maps

I was wondering how to create county election maps. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:15, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

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Roland H. Hartley

Hey, I noticed you added back in the sentence in the intro of Roland H. Hartley about his being the last socially conservative Republican governor of Washington. I haven't seen this kind of assessment on other politicians' pages since it seems hard to get right (for example, who would be "the last socially conservative Republican senator from Maine"?), and IMO it's hard to apply terms like "social conservative" and "social liberal" to pre-New Deal-era politicians. Abortion and affirmative action were not even conceived as political issues at the time Hartley was in government, and it's also not clear that Hartley's environmental stance was any different from that of other politicians in the West. I think just describing Hartley as "conservative" and leaving out trying to compare him to subsequent governors would make more sense. There are also a lot of pages that justify that label, e.g. [2] and [3]. What do you think? GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 01:48, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

I think that the only three Republican governors of Washington since Hartley were socially liberal based on many actions they did, such as affirmative action programs and abortion legalization. However, I agree with you that the American political parties were not as divided based on conservatism and liberalism prior to the Great Depression. Therefore, labeling Hartley as the last socially conservative Republican governor of Washington can be somewhat contradictory and false. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 01:54, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Does that mean you agree with deletion of that sentence? W.stanovsky (talk) 08:27, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I agree with deleting the sentence. Politics always change and one could make the argument that many of the social issues of today were not relevant when Hartley was governor. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 15:08, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks, I'll wait until after the 2022 midterms to recreate it. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 23:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

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Washington politicians' biographical info

Hi, User:Thomascampbell123. I notice that you've added a number of biographical details that I couldn't find on a couple of my recent new articles about Washington politicians. I'm curious where you're finding this information; I can try and look it up myself. Also, in a perfect world these things would be cited, and none of the references I've included in the articles support the details you've added. (I don't think.) Anyway, thanks for the help! W.stanovsky (talk) 03:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

I've found these details on https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Documents/MembersOfLeg2019.pdf. It includes all legislators and session dates. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 03:59, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Fantastic! I’m thrilled to know about that resource. It answers some other questions I’ve had too, like about Belle Reeves’s representation of a 56th district that no longer exists (and has no presence on Wikipedia). Thanks for the link! W.stanovsky (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC) W.stanovsky (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

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DeSantis defeats Trump

Can you add the New Hampshire Republican Primary poll that has DeSantis defeating Trump for President?? Lostfan333 (talk) 01:07, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Someone else already added it. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 03:44, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Oh, my bad. Thanks for replying. Lostfan333 (talk) 05:33, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

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