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GREAT work with the infoboxes! I know how boring it can be methodically going through and standardizing parts of their pages (note how all the Congress succession boxes read the same - that was me a few months ago), but don't worry, people who love order really notice this stuff. If you feel really ambitious, have a go at some of the ex-Senators :D! Thanks for your work, and hope you enjoy Wikipedia. Harro5 02:09, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Implementing my Infobox:Senator idea. It got pretty tedious doing it alone; much appreciated. Shem ^(talk) 09:36, 16 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Wow! I'm VERY impressed with the work on the Ron Kind article! Here's your first barnstar!

Hello Rushadthomas. I wanted to point out that I have moved your map of Delaware from the introductory paragraph of the Michael N. Castle article to the "See also" section, along with a link to the article on the district itself. Your map is a nice addition to the article, and frankly looks better than the one on the district's article, but seems to me to fit better in the body of the article than in the intro. Can you figure out a way to replace the existing map on the United States House of Representatives, Delaware At Large article with yours? I mean the actual map, not the link. I know it is public domain. stilltim 11:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC) reply

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This image is not the product of the U.S. Govt. - it is a promotional photo from Klobuchar's campaign. Appraiser 14:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC) reply

This image is not the product of the U.S. Govt. - it is a promotional photo from Klobuchar's campaign. -- Appraiser 14:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC) reply

I was wondering if you would be willing to fully update the wiki-table you added to the Democratic Governors Association back in January, 2006, to reflect the results of the November, 2006 elections. I would do it myself, but I am not well-versed on wiki-table formatting. -- TommyBoy 00:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC) reply

Nevermind, I got another user to do it. -- TommyBoy 07:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC) reply

The image you have uploaded of Ted Strickland is not a work of the United States government and has been deleted as a copyvio and for lacking adequate information to prove otherwise. Unfortunately this is not the first time I have had to post on your talk page about this lack of concern on your part of image copyrights, and I see that others have posted their own warnings above. This, in conjunction with the fact that you have refused to attempt to correct this problem or talk about it, means that this will be your last warning. The next time you upload a copyvio image to Wikipedia, you risk being blocked from editing. -- tomf688 ( talk - email) 23:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC) reply

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