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October 2018

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Bob Andrzejczak. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:23, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of 2017 State Senate election for New Jersey's 24th District for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of 218th New Jersey Legislature

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Proposed deletion of Deana Lykins

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Proposed deletion of George F. Graham

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Nomination of Deletation for Dawn Fantasia

There are plenty Wikipedia articles for many local and, arguably, unnoteable officials. In fact many Wikipedia articles exsist for Former Members of NJ's General Assembly with minimal information, and they have not been deleted. So why must that standard be applied here and not elsewhere? Bnml84 (talk) 12:30, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of George F. Graham for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Former Members of the Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders

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Removal of content while "creating" article for Stephen M. Sweeney

I reverted this edit to the article for Stephen M. Sweeney, which removed much of the article and had the edit summary stating "I created the article", though it has existed for more than a decade. Was there an error here or wasthere a justification for removing the content? Alansohn (talk) 14:33, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

I made an error while explaining my edit to the page, it was supposed to be a general clean up of the article. Bnml84 (talk) 14:46, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

If cleanup was intended, can you explain why a significant percentage of the text of the article was removed? Alansohn (talk) 14:51, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

I didn't believe that awards and recognition where noteworthy and the descriptions of the elections where self explanatory. Bnml84 (talk) 15:14, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

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