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Illinois House elections
Hello, I'm reaching out because you've been the lead editor of 2020 Illinois House of Representatives election. I maintain Portal:Illinois, including the News section, and I want to be correct about this: Was the last election to be counted and called the one in District 68, Vella vs. Cabello? I just want the date for when the composition of the House was known. Fishal (talk) 03:11, 24 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing that district out. I did not make that edit but I must have missed it when I was going through. According to my sources (WGN & the Chicago Sun Times) the race is too close to call and in fact Cabello is leading. I will remove a winner from the section and will update it accordingly when the race is called. Grahaml35 (talk) 06:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)


 * It was called for Vella on November 17, according to the Rockford Register Star and WIFR. Fishal (talk) 13:11, 24 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I do see that, but that is the only source that has called it that way and the only source that has him winning. I will wait and encourage everyone to wait til it is official and called results come in from the majority of sources. Grahaml35 (talk) 04:16, 25 November 2020 (UTC)


 * OK, it looks like that election has been updated to show a Democratic gain. Does that mean that the box at the top needs to change? Did Republicans gain a seat, or is the composition the same as before the election? Fishal (talk) 22:02, 2 December 2020 (UTC)


 * What new sources are there other than the 2 you listed? Additionally it would stay the same. Grahaml35 (talk) 23:08, 2 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Here is one that sums up several races. It has Vella winning by just 239 votes, but the Republicans still pick up a seat, so some other races need to be checked. The official data are now certified, so they're at il.gov; this should be the basis for numbers on the article, I would think, since they're the official results. Fishal (talk) 22:18, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

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February 2022
Hi Grahaml35! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Felix Rosenqvist that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. This trivial matter aside, great photo! TylerBurden (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Apologies, thank you for the info. Grahaml35 (talk) 23:03, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Job title capitalizations
Hi, I saw you reverted my edit on the Indiana elections page. What "standard" are you referring to for caps? I'm operating from MOS:JOBTITLES, where job titles (e.g., congressman, senator, mayor) are only capitalized under certain conditions. You would say "President Joe Biden," but not "Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States," because "president" is referring to the office, rather than Obama's personal title. --Jprg1966 (talk) 23:33, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * This has been a debated issue for a long time. In political election like this in the US it is always capitalized and considered a title. Look around other pages to see the similarity. Grahaml35 (talk) 23:41, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Indiana maps
Hello, I would like to help with the Indiana election pages. Please let me know if the map I put on the 2020 pages is alright. I can make modifications. I will be making the maps 2010-2020 and posting them on my user page. Hoosier24 (talk) 01:47, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Specifically, what articles are you referring to and what kind of maps? Grahaml35 (talk) 15:11, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I have added a map to the 2020 Indiana state house election page], and on my user page I have maps for each Indiana state house election dating back to 2006. I can also do the Indiana State Senate. --Hoosier24 (talk) 17:40, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I believe those are beneficial. My only critiques would be 1.) can you just number the districts and leave all inside the map and not label the cities 2.) if not, could you clean up the sides. I am knit-picking at that point, but they look great and thanks for contributing!

F2000
I noticed you were editing the F2000 championship page. Are there no Radon chassis in 2022? Springee (talk) 04:49, 16 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Nope, just a lot of Van Diemen's and Elan's. Grahaml35 (talk) 12:00, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * So a lot of Van Diemens and Van Diemens :D Springee (talk) 12:59, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for addding an infobox to this article. I notice, though, that some of the details seem to be a little different from what's in the article. What was your source for what's in the infobox? We should probably try to reconcile the sources. Just for instance, the infobox says he was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court, while the text says he was elected. Brianyoumans (talk) 15:58, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I have done some research. I think that probably he was both elected AND appointed to the state supreme court - he was elected for the term 1871-6 (technically January 1, 1877), but it looks like he may have been appointed to the court in November 1870 to fill a vacancy. So, both stories are true. (See for the existence of the certificate appointing him.) As to the "briefly elected Speaker in 1863", I picked that up from sources online, but it looks like what they meant was that it was for only one session of the legislature. OTOH, saying he served from 1862 isn't really correct - a New York Times article says the Indiana legislature opened their session on January 8, 1863 and Burkirk was elected Speaker that morning. I will make some revisions so that the text and infobox agree and are more accurate.Brianyoumans (talk) 16:23, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you!!! Grahaml35 (talk) 16:56, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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Which aspect do you think was cut & pasted? None of is, but we of course can make edits to better reflect that. Grahaml35 (talk) 15:45, 23 August 2023 (UTC)


 * , analyze the page with copyright vio detector, it's a minor, i think the page is good. Thank you!  shelovesneo  (talk) 15:49, 23 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Just checked it out and it seems a lot of it seems to be the phrase "Indiana House of Representatives" and the numbering of districts which is not copyrighted. Thanks for the heads up though! Grahaml35 (talk) 17:01, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

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Re Elite 1 Championship
Thanks for notifying me re the deleation of page for the current Elite 1 season. In all honesty, I felt that page was poorly made, tagged it for a cleanup when it was first made. I did split that from another page about the French rugby league season that was similarly poorly made and did not follow the style of previous seasons. Please could you also nominate 2023–24 French Rugby League season, Elite Two Championship 2023–2024, and Lord Derby Cup 2023–2024 for the same deletion process. And these pages along with Elite One Championship 2023–2024 could be made properly at a layer date. Mn1548 (talk) 17:48, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

wikispecies redirect speedy deletion
Hi Grahaml35-

Thanks for the talk message about the speedy deletion tag on Michael Watkins (zoologist). I don't have strong feelings about the page either way and would be perfectly fine with it being deleted, but I don't believe that it meets the speedy deletion criteria (if it does, though, I would like to learn more to avoid the problem in the future). Soft redirect says that soft redirects are not subject to the A1/A3 criteria. I know OTHERSTUFFEXISTS isn't really a valid argument, but Category:Redirects to Wikispecies has quite a few examples, and I don't see if/how this is different from those. I do see that the template was removed after your edit by. Does that mean that it will not be deleted?

As some basic context/background. I was working on fixing incoming links to disambiguation pages at WP:DPWL when I saw two articles linking to Michael Watkins in references (see, for example, Lubuya). This Michael Watkins is one of three authors of a very commonly-cited reptile reference book. I noticed that the other two authors, Bo Beolens and Michael Grayson, had these soft redirects to wikispecies (the authors of the other reference in the Lubuya article also have this sort of redirect). I had never seen this format before, so I wasn't not sure of the appropriate uses of it, but I figured that it could be helpful to add it for Watkins as well. (as a note, when I checked what was linking to Michael Watkins (zoologist), I saw that there were more than 300 redlinks, even before I added the 2 new ones yesterday). Cleancutkid (talk) 00:18, 6 June 2024 (UTC)