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Federal election issues article

Hi there. I saw you made some edits to Issues in the Canadian federal election, 2006 a while ago. I'm proposing this article be deleted under prod because it's entirely obsolete, and hasn't had any human edits since April. Just wanted to let you know, in case you think it's worth saving. -Joshuapaquin 02:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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December 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from 40th British Columbia general election. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. 117Avenue (talk) 01:13, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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February 2012

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Template:Canadian Conservative Parties, you may be blocked from editing. 117Avenue (talk) 06:25, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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NDP leadership endorsements

Thank you for adding endorsements, but there are three things to note: we need sources for them, each item should end with a semi-colon because the items include commas, and names should be added in alphabetical order. -Rrius (talk) 23:37, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

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42nd Canadian federal election

I have reverted your edits to this article removing equivalent margins of error from the polling data. We already have a consensus on how to handle this at Talk:42nd_Canadian_federal_election#Margins_of_error_for_polls, which is why this says "equiv". If you want to change this you need to gain a new consensus on the talk page. - Ahunt (talk) 10:31, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

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Please identify sources in future

Hi Bern

Thanks for your edits on Ontario general election, 2014.  In future, (if the edit itself doesn't include the reference to the source) could you please identify the source (e.g. "http://wemakevotingeasy.ca/en/electoral-districts/090-thunder-bay-atikokan.aspx" or "[[Thunder Bay—Atikokan (provincial electoral district)#Election results]]") in your edit comments.  Particularly for these election related files, edits are made and checked by dozens of people and it saves a lot of time if each person doesn't have to search things out.  Thanks… and keep up the good work!  Cheers — Who R you? Talk 20:17, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

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