User talk:Aprhys

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I appreciate your clarifying the role of the chairman of a council as opposed to that of the leader. One of those things that isn't clear to someone who's not grown up in England.

Is that always the case? I've sixty-plus more district council articles to go through that need the infobox replacement, so if it is, I'll be sure to look for the leader at the council website rather than the chairman while researching the update. Cheers,  Northumbrian  Sprǣc  Forðunga 19:33, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No that's great, thanks for the excellent explanation and the suggestion to include both. I've started doing that going forward...will have to remember to go back and do that to the articles I've already done. But I'm fried for the day; that'll have to wait. Thanks again.  Northumbrian  Sprǣc  Forðunga 22:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Cannock Chase local elections
Hi John. Thank you very much for your compliments about some of the odd things I've contributed to the Cannock Chase election results pages. I must say, I'm not particularly wiki-savvy either! I just tend to copy what other people have done and adapt it slightly for whatever I need. The table I put on the district's page was just a modified version of what I created for my district's election results page. What you've done with keeping up with defections, etc. is really interesting and there certainly isn't that brilliant level of detail available for any other district council that I've ever seen.

I must say it's really great to meet another Labourite on here! I've been interested in Cannock and the politics there for a little while now so it was useful and entertaining for me to crunch the numbers and make those articles. I currently live and am standing for election in North West Leicestershire but I'm considering moving to the Chase area at some point in the future as it's close to my other half, is a good Labour area and has the AONB on the doorstep, etc.

Anyway, let me know if you need any help with expanding the table or anything else with the pages. I'll carry on beavering away creating articles with the raw results I have from 2002 onwards. Cheers, Josh. — Preceding undated comment added 20:55, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

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