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Welcome!

Hi Jack Cox, and a warm welcome to Misplaced Pages! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Misplaced Pages? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

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- Mailer Diablo 17:54, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Elections charts

Great work on the 39th election candidates, Jack! Since you are interested in elections charts, I'd like your views on a colour project that I've initiated at Talk:Canadian federal election results since 1867 Thanks. I’d like to get some consensus on what to do about colours in the elections charts, but I don’t want to get into a revert war, so I’ve asked people for their ideas before any changes are made. Some of the colours that are currently being used are too dark for some monitors so that it is difficult to read the text. The point of adding colours to the charts is to make it easier for readers to derive information from the charts. This goal is foiled by using colours dark enough to obscure the text. The Misplaced Pages style guide is clear on the issue:

Use colour sparingly. Computers and browsers vary: you cannot know how much colour is presented on the recipient's machine if any. Misplaced Pages is international: colours have different meaning in different cultures. Too many colours on one page make them look cluttered and unencyclopedic. Use the colour red only for alerts and warnings.

Several people have suggested their ideas. Three specific proposals have been made. A vote is being undertaken between these proposals and the status quo. Please vote and/or contribute your comments. Thanks. Kevintoronto 21:34, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

British Columbia general election, 2005

Jack, please accept my apologies for delisting candidates you had listed as nominated. That was not my intention. It is the normal practice to not link non-notable, non-elected candidates. I had reverted your edits as I thought that is all you had done, I see now that you had re-liked non-notable candidates as well as updated the table for recent nominations. I will delink the candidates again while maintaining your updates. Thanks for all of your help on the page which I actually created some months ago :) - Jord 20:36, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

British political parties Template

Hi Jack, I think this still needs a bit of work. I've added some thoughts to its discussion page. --Cavrdg 08:44, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

George Smitherman

Please stop adding claims that Smitherman is "Deputy Premier". He does not have the title (see ). No Deputy Premier was appointed by McGuinty. AndyL 07:07, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

"Smitherman has taken questions when McGuinty is Away"

That would make him acting premier in that instance, not deputy premier. In the past in Ontario Deputy Premier was a formal portfolio with MPPs being officially sworn in as such. This is not the case with Smitherman. No Deputy Premier has been sworn in in Ontario under McGuinty and you will find no official reference to anyone in the McGuinty government having such a title. See the official list of cabinet ministers, no Deputy Premier. Please don't invent one. AndyL 07:14, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Primary candidates VFD

Many of the candidates for the June 14, 2005, congressional primary have been proposed for deletion. I am writing those who worked on election articles to request that they offer their votes against the proposal. The VFD's can be found starting at Misplaced Pages:Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_August_8#Peter_Fossett. It is my view that we ought to provide a complete record of the election and my deleting so called "minor" candidates we do a disservice to them and the historical record. Please vote against all these proposals.PedanticallySpeaking 14:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

speedy deletion tag

This seems to have been an error, the editor who put the tag on your page indicated as much when i sent a msg to him. DES (talk) 18:23, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

speedy

Yup, it was my mistake. I opened up your page for error and didn't realize it was your personal one. Sorry :) --Raistlin 18:34, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Laura Bush

If you are unsure if she was a drunk driver, why did you put the drunk driver category on her article? Zoe 05:33, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

Template:NFL

Thank you for your interest in redesigning Template:NFL. However, this is a main component of WikiProject National Football League, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to the NFL on Misplaced Pages. I reverted your edit to the 20:58, 3 August 2005 version because that format was previously discussed and argeed to on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject National Football League. If you would like to change it to your version, please discuss it on that talk page. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:30, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Justice Sunday

Thanks for correcting my date! "Doh!" Alan Canon 14:15, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Schmidt and Hackett

You worked on articles on the special election in Ohio on August 2. I have posted my articles on the nominees in that race, Jean Schmidt and Paul Hackett, at Misplaced Pages:Peer review and would appreciate your comments. The individual pages are at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Jean Schmidt and Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Paul Hackett. PedanticallySpeaking 19:27, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Social Conservatisim

Social conservatisim is not the forced adherence to religon, Liberalisim is the dissulution of religon. Just to remind you, all civil law is based upon the ten commandments.

Are you talking about the same ten commandments I know? Out of the ten, only two are laws:

don't kill don't steal

One is half is a law, if you lie under oath. It is interesting, your proposition that civil law was non-existent before the ten commandments, considering the well documented Code of Hammurabi existing previously, as well as other human societies in general, which indubitably had organizing principles that would qualify as "laws" to us. A statement so blind to history can only be construed by a discerning individual as some sillygoose spouting theistic talking points. Read up on your history. Also, your definition of liberalism leaves a little something to be desired. --B. Phillips 21:35, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Seinfeld reference

Jack, the sentence in the dry heave section about "filming over something" could use some context -- it's a non sequitur. Paul Klenk 03:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Template:NFL Stadiums

Thank you for your contribution to this template. However I have reverted it for now per my reasoning at Template talk:NFL Stadiums. If you would like to discuss it there please feel free.Gateman1997 00:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Julie Cooper

Note: Stop changing the name to (formerly Julie Cooper Nichol), you are incorrect as she was widowed not divorced either way keeping her married name of(Cooper Nichol) she has not yet remarried Jimmy (although it appears she will) until that point she is Julie Cooper Nichol. If she remarries Jimmy she will become Julie Cooper (formerly Julie Cooper Nichol) Mac Domhnaill 03:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. Congress

Jack-

• You've done such a great job with the U.S. Senate lists. Why don't you add your name to the WikiProject's participants (Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Participants)?
• Why don't you add each of your new templates to Project's list of templates Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Templates and Infoboxes?
• What do you think about adding the years of the Senate (e.g. United States Senators in the 108th Congress (2005-2007))?
• Check out the "notice" I've recently added to the Talk pages of the currently existing Senate articles (93-110). See, e.g., Template talk:105th Senate.

--Markles 01:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

You might also yake a loook at Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion. It currently has an unresolved question about Category names for U.S. Congress members. I'd welcome your thoughts or input there. Thanks, Lou I 20:38, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:KellyRowan.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:KellyRowan.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so its copyright status is therefore unclear. Please add a tag to let us know its copyright status. (If you created/took the picture then you can use {{gfdl}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairuse}}.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know on the image description page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Otherwise, see Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have tagged them, too. Note that any unsourced and untagged imaged will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks so much. Thue | talk 17:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Not that I doubt you but...

How do you know David Safavian is Arab?

signed CD

PETA

How, pray tell, is PETA screwing up America? They are a fringe organization that is quite happy to be just that and harms barely anything.

Succession Box

Hi Jack,

I was just thinking I should add a California 6th Congressional district succession box to Barbara Boxer' article, but I'm still a novice here and perhaps I was going to meet with difficulties. Thanks pal!

Blue Star 12:08, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

CREW 13 most corrupt

I don't think that membership in CREW's list of the 13 most corrupt members of the Congress merits inclusion in the articles about the figures who made the list. The list is one group's view of corruption at a point in time, and is not significantly more important than other accusations of corruption by other groups. I'm interested in hearing what you think. NatusRoma 04:17, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

John G. Roberts

I have reverted all your edits on the sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Roberts has not yet been confirmed; once he is confirmed, he still will not be Chief Justice until he is sworn in. Sorry. Brandon39 05:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Drunk driving category

Hey, I've reverted two of your drunk driving category adds (here and here) because they had no evidence in the article or in your edit summary, and some brief Internet searching didn't corroborate them (and in Pippen's case, refuted it). Let me know if you disagree with these. SpuriousQ 23:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar