User talk:Bob bobato

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Clarification on Template:Canadian federal election, 2011A
Your edit to the aformentioned template, which I assume was done in good faith, has been reversed by User:117Avenue. As I was the original contributor of the edits you changed, and your changes seem to have come from confusion surrounding the policy regarding the template, I thought I should write something here to explain it to you. Simply put, there is no policy in place that bars any political party from being listed in the template, no matter what their seat count is or how much of the popular vote they received. All parties are to be listed, but to be listed they should have an article listing the candidates they are running in the election, which only the Communists, out of all the minor parties, currently have. To quote User:117Avenue: "navboxes link to all related pages, when the other parties have candidate articles, they will be added too". I hope this has help made this clear to you. I appreciate your attempts to improve the template, but please keep this in mind when conducting future edits. Comrade Hamish Wilson (talk) 09:35, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Adultism
Hi Bob,

The "Adultism" page is up for deletion (I saw you previously took an interest in it).

Articles for deletion/Adultism

Thank you, Bhrundle (talk) 17:32, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Redirects
I just created the election redirects you requested at WP:AFC/R. Was there a reason for you not to create them yourself? Huon (talk) 12:32, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd never made a redirect before and I thought that the procedure was for it to be reviewed by another editor first.theBOBbobato (talk) 17:04, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * While you can go that route, there's no need, except for unregistered and very newly registered editors who cannot create articles - be bold! Redirects are cheap anyway, so there's no harm in accidentally creating more than we need. Huon (talk) 17:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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Edit summaries?
Hi! I reverted your edit at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fair_Fight_Action&diff=prev&oldid=1205159944 because the change didn't match what the source said. Just wanted to note that I'm open to more precise phrasing there, but it should go with adding a better citation as well. Also, in your edits over the past couple days, I don't see any edit summaries. Can you please include summaries to explain your intention in making changes? It looks like you're trying to make instances of "Anglo-Saxon" more specific, which is reasonable, but it's not so obvious that it doesn't need an explanation; see FIES. Thank you! Dreamyshade (talk) 01:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)