User talk:Bigpoliticsfan

Things I can do to help WikiProject U.S. Congressedit list

Ongoing: Upload [please add links to the senate rules for each of these committees.]
Ongoing: Upload new district maps and incorporate them into articles (November 19, 2013)
Ongoing: Apply {{US Congress party summary}} on all Congresses (February 20, 2018)
Ongoing: Create edit notices for all articles. (February 15, 2010)

June 2013

I think you should just look at the page so you will see how much vandalism that has built up. thank you. Creeper919 (talk) 00:35, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm 139.228.53.35. Your recent edit appears to have added premature information about a reported sports transaction, so I removed it for now. The transaction is based on anonymous sources and/or awaiting an official announcement. If you believe the transaction has been completed, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. 139.228.53.35 (talk) 00:32, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Source on vote?

Agreed that Roll Call is not official, but I looked for the release you mentioned from the caucus and found nothing other than numerous references to it being between DeFazio and Grijalva. Never saw Holt's name in the mix (especially since he is running for Senate), so I reverted to the previous revision. Can you point me to the link? --Esprqii (talk) 20:54, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Senate Appropriations Committee

I see your intention, and it makes sense, though the original text did not indicate that you were aiming to contrast the Senate Appropriations Committee with the House counterpart - and, truthfully, such a comparison seems a bit tangential. Erru il 1988 (talk) 22:10, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

August 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Your speedy deletion claim is blatantly false. ViperSnake151 Talk 00:41, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

page protection requests

We went through a very long list of your requests at RFPP today, and I'm sorry to tell you that none of them were necessary.

I also read some of your recent comments there. It's not necessary to make non-admin comments at RFPP, like some non-admins make at AN or ANI, as administrators almost always disregard them and make their own judgments about the individual situations. If you wish to engage an editor who has made a protection request, please do so at their user talk page or on the article talk page.

The protection policy is clear about which pages need protection. It borders on disruptive editing to place so many unnecessary requests that require administrator attention in the space of five hours. I hope that wasn't your intent, but I want to make sure you understand that such requests prevent us from responding to the pages that need to be protected quickly.

In any case, please make sure you understand the protection policy before you make another page protection request. Thanks. :-) Krakatoa Katie 07:03, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:GAN nominations

I saw your nominations of Richard Jefferson, Paul George (basketball) and Chris Paul. I was considering quickfailing each of them. Please make sure that each one has at least one WP:IC in each paragraph (since in a well-structured article a new paragraph indicates a new topic). Jefferson also seems to be quite thin biographically. Please expand his high school and college career. What did he do to earn Pac-12 Basketball Hall of Honor induction? "integral part of the varsity basketball" - Was he all-state? all-area? Scoring leader? Did he set school records? Try to track down his college bio. They usually detail both high school and college. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jefferi01.html says he was a McD All-American. He must have done some impressive things in high school. I'll check back in in a couple of days before I decide whether to QF any of these.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:53, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Paul Krugman

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Paul Krugman you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:50, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Paul Krugman

The article Paul Krugman you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Paul Krugman for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:02, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mass nominations of GAs

Hey Bigpoliticsfan,

I noticed that in the past 48 hours you've been nominating a lot of articles for GA, and that most of these have been closed as quickfails by me or other users. Before you nominate any more, I'd suggest you look at the instructions at WP:GAN/I. I appreciate your enthusiasm for these topics, but you don't appear to have worked on most of the articles before nominating, and several of your nominations had outstanding cleanup banners. I'd also point you to the sentence: "Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article prior to a nomination." Nominating unready articles, unfortunately, is just a waste of everyone's time.

I do appreciate your interest in the project--I'd just suggest you pick one or two articles you've worked on at length and checked against the GA criteria before nominating more. Taking those through the process will give you a better idea of what does and doesn't make a good nomination. Cheers, and let me know if there's any way I can help, Khazar2 (talk) 20:08, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Blue Dog Coalition

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Blue Dog Coalition you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:10, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:12, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Blue Dog Coalition

The article Blue Dog Coalition you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Blue Dog Coalition for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:22, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014

The article United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014 you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014 for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 22:22, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:03, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll stop posting requests at RFPP and nominations at GAN for the rest of the year. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 23:07, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. FWIW, I don't think anyone would have any objection to your nominating articles you've worked on to GA if you feel they meet the GA criteria; it's just the "drive-by" nominations of articles needing cleanup that are the problem. -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:08, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You just did this again on Wilson Chandler. If you're going to nominate articles, work on them first and get them to that status, otherwise it just wastes everyone's time. Wizardman 19:38, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Last warning. You nominate another article that's not clearly GA quality and you're blocked. Wizardman 22:50, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You've moved on from the nuisance of nominating articles for GA to seemingly random solicitation for someone else to nominate them. Stop this or you will be blocked from editing. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 00:58, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Paul George (basketball)

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Your GA nomination of Paul George (basketball)

The article Paul George (basketball) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Paul George (basketball) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 01:52, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging BLPs for deletion

Thanks for your tag on Gloria Petyarre. I've fixed it and cleared the tag, but you might want to take a read of WP:BLPPROD - as I read it, Gloria Petyarre should not have been marked as a candidate for BLP deletion, because it had valid external links that referred to at least one of the stated facts in the article (two of the ELs were dead, but the other two work). Cheers, hamiltonstone (talk) 12:08, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion nominations

Hello, Bigpoliticsfan. A couple of points regarding nominations of pages for deletion.

When you nominate a page for deletion, you need to be careful to make sure that the reason for deletion that you give actually applies to the page in question. For example, in this edit you added a PROD BLP to an article that does have a reference. It is not a good reference, and the article might well be deleted by another process, such as PROD or AFD, but a PROD BLP is only for use on an article which has no source cited at all. Also, please note that a source cited in an article is a source, whether it is labelled as a "reference" or not. Sometimes inexperienced editors just put the sources in an "external links" section, but that does not mean they are not sources, and an article with such sources does not qualify for a PROD BLP, as here. This edit proposed speedy deletion as "lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article", but it is perfectly clear what the subject of the article is: it is a plant of the genus Ligularia and the family Asteraceae, and there is a picture of it and a link to its page at the Euro+Med plant base, so there is no doubt whatever what the article is about.

On a separate matter, you should not use "subst" with speedy deletion nominations. I know that this seems confusing and arbitrary to a newcomer, as PROD is substituted, but speedy deletion tags should be left as they are, e.g. {{db-person}}, not {{subst:db-person}}. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:17, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are still doing it: [1]. Please stop. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:29, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, tagging as sourced articles which do have sources. For example [2]. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:33, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, tagging an article for speedy deletion is not a minor edit. When tagging articles for speedy deletion, you should make sure the reason is valid, and you should not check the box noting it a minor edit. —C.Fred (talk) 14:31, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AN/I

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John Crowley

What is your reason for believing that this article should be deleted? Tiderolls 02:54, 20 January 2014 (UTC) I blanked the log entry after realizing I had nominated the wrong article. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 02:55, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of blanking you should have removed it from the AfD log and nominated it for speedy deletion (after any translusions of the page have gone off the server cache preferably). I have done these maintenance actions for you. jni (talk) 09:35, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit

Am I missing something in your edit here?

Your edit summary says you are reverting an edit, but you weren't reverting an edit, you were removing an entry.

Were you trying to revert an edit, if so, why?

Or were you trying to remove Nikki McCray, if so, why?--S Philbrick (Talk) 22:29, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

People do make errors, and I am a big fan of forgiving editors who make mistakes (because I know I do on occasion). However, failing to engage in discussion is more serious. The fact that you failed to explain why you made the edit, which might turn into a learning experience, is troubling.--S Philbrick (Talk) 15:06, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

January 25

Hello, I'm Anup. I undid your one edit made on January 25 article. That entry into the list was correct and can be verified using source cited in the article Avianca Flight 52. I also found no edit summary for your revert made. I'll request you to leave an edit summary for every edit you do make. It helps other users to understand your changes. Regards, Anup Mehra ^✈ 02:09, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment

There is a discussion at Talk:United States presidential election in New Mexico, 1996 on whether a picture and its accompanying caption should be included in the article. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks, Tiller54 (talk) 16:26, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

You may wish to read WP:RFAADVICE to know what is expected of RfA candidates. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:19, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously?

(Personal attack removed) 50.159.28.153 (talk) 14:14, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you for opening a sockpuppet investigation into the series of I.P. vandals we've been having lately. Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 18:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RFA

Thanks for nominating me for adminship. Regretfully, I have withdrawn the RFA, as it is clear that it will not succeed. I will address the concerns raised about my editing, and perhaps try again later. Once again, thank you. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 23:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Requests for page protection

Hi Bigpoliticsfan and thank you for helping to revert vandalism on Wikipedia. A number of the requests you've made at WP:RFPP have been declined because there isn't enough activity to warrant protecting the article. Please review the protection policy and have a look at some of the declined and accepted request at RFPP before making any more requests. Thank you, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:21, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some baklava for you!

I am fresh out of wiki kittens; please accept this cake as a thank you for your support and thoughtful comments during my (now withdrawn) RfA. What doesn't kill me... Cheers, _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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WP:EL

Please read WP:EL, this section in particular:

A well-chosen link to a directory of websites or organizations. Long lists of links are not acceptable. A directory link may be a permanent link or a temporary measure put in place while external links are being discussed on the article's talk page. Many options are available; the Open Directory Project is often a neutral candidate, and may be added using the {{dmoz}} template.

Please stop reverting valid edits, using edit notes of "Rv to last clean version", and requesting protection for articles to prevent valid edits in future. Thank you. 71.23.178.214 (talk) 02:30, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet vandals

Greetings and saluations! An I.P. vandal (50.159.28.153) who was blocked for vandalism and being uncivil and disruptive, has, in evading the block, returned under a new address (108.169.6.36 and 24.44.203.79). I respectfully ask, in the vein of WP:DUCK that you please open an investigation into this evasive vandal or raise the issue on WP:ANI. Please don't tarry, for time is of the essence. With the best of regards, Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 04:11, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing

Could you explain the vandalism in [3]? Thanks! Hipocrite (talk) 19:52, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see you are back. Have you considered addressing this? Hipocrite (talk) 19:24, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, could you explain the vandalism in [4]? Hipocrite (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And [5]? Hipocrite (talk) 19:30, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And [6]? If you don't respond within 1 hour of your next edit, I'll seek to have your rollbacker right removed. Thanks. Hipocrite (talk) 19:35, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There were some words in each edit I undid that flagged them as possible vandalism. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 19:37, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Were they vandalism? Hipocrite (talk) 19:38, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I now realize that some of them were not actually vandalism and will try to be more careful from now on. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 19:46, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please cease reverting. Here's another error [7]. Hipocrite (talk) 23:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also WP:NOTVAND - [8]. Hipocrite (talk) 23:27, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Hipocrite (talk) 12:48, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bigpoliticsfan, as Hipocrite stated above there is a discussion about you at the administrators' incident noticeboard, and we would very much like your participation. We have questions and advice for you, thank you. -- Atama頭 08:54, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What pages didn't exist that led you to make this revert? Hipocrite (talk) 10:03, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Oliver

Can you explain what exactly you are trying to prove by nominating a ten-year-old article with multiple contributors and multiple references for speedy deletion as CSD 11 "obviously invented"? [9] AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:27, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this, I see that you have twice recently been the subject of discussions at WP:ANI. Since it appears that you have failed to take note of what has been said, I can see no alternative unless I get a prompt and valid explanation here for the edit but to report you again, and ask that you be blocked from editing. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:38, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I had a momentary brain freeze, and will be much more careful about doing this kind of stuff in the future. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:39, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, not good enough. I've just seen this ridiculous bit of fly-by tagging [10], and it is clear that you simply don't have the competence to edit Wikipedia. You have been wasting too many people's time for too long, and I see no reason why we should have to put up with this crap any more. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:46, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notification

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I suggest you respond - ignoring it isn't going to work this time. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of current National Basketball Association head coaches

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July 2014

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New to Wikipedia

Hello Bigpoliticsfan, I am a student at American University and am currently in a class about Wikipedia. I am interested in contributing to the Wiki project about the U.S. Congress. Do you have any suggestions or tips on how I could be of useful in to this project? best, me3154a Me3154a (talk) 01:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Update needed?

Hello! I see that you added an "outdated" tag to the article Scott Peters (politician). Could you tell me specifically what you found to be outdated, so that I can fix it? Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 21:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

His committee assignments. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 02:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks, I'll fix that. --MelanieN (talk) 01:37, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2015

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Help with Rep. Tom Graves?

Hi Bigpoliticsfan, I noticed that you are listed as a participant for WP:USC and have worked on a few Congress-related articles recently. Would you be able to help with a request I have for the Rep. Tom Graves article? In discussion with another editor, I recently posted a proposed suggestion for a section of the article covering a somewhat controversial topic—a real estate deal that went south. However, this editor has been off-wiki for some time, and I'd like to see if someone else will consider making the update. The reason why I do not edit myself: I'm an external (paid) consultant to Rep. Graves, and I'm keen to follow WP:COI and avoid direct edits. The full details of my request are on the Talk page, here, if you can spare a few minutes to take a look. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 15:20, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fix problems when you see them

This edit is typical of a string of recent edits in which you have spotted what you think is a problem and added an "update" tag, rather than fixing the problem, which in this case is utterly trivial; all that needed to be updated is to change the year from 2014 to 2015 as a term-end date for the mayor in the infobox. About a quarter of your most recent 500 edits involve adding an "update" tag. As a Wikipedia editor who is apparently a big politics fan, you would do a far greater service by endeavoring to improve the articles in question rather than demanding that others fix the problems you've identified and almost always failed to describe or discuss in any meaningful fashion. Alansohn (talk) 14:59, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Potential admin

Hi, I notice you're on Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls. Wikipedia would benefit from more admins. If you have been editing for more than 12 months (preferably 24+ months), and have been editing fairly consistently for the past 6 months (preferably 12+ months) with at least 100 edits a month (this tool will help) - or an explanation for any gaps, and haven't been blocked in the past three years - or a good explanation for a recent block, don't have a recent history of edit warring or arguing with other editors, feel you can explain why you wish to be an admin, can demonstrate some understanding of Wikipedia's procedures and processes, or know where to go for guidance, and are confident enough to go through a RfA, please get in touch with me. We can talk about it some more, and if all looks OK, I'll nominate you. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for volunteering to nominate me. I would be very honored. The reason there are such big gaps in my editing is because I mostly focus on cleanup, maintenance tagging, and reverting blatant/obvious vandalism; also I'm usually only available on Monday through Thursday evenings/nights and weekends and holidays. As for policies, I have learned quite a bit about the nuances of each since registering this account, and if made an admin could probably enforce them in a fair, polite, and respectful manner. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 23:25, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for getting back to me. I've looked at your contributions - [11] - and you haven't been much involved recently. Less than what I suggested you would need. There are also some concerning notices on your talkpage - people asking you to stop being disruptive, etc. I would suggest you would need at least 12 months of consistently positive contributions to the project of at least 100 edits a month so that the community has something to assess. Involvement in quality article building, such as taking an article to Good Article level, would be useful. Involvement in AfD would also be helpful, along with getting involved with other maintenance areas. If after 12 months you have done this, and still want to be an admin, get in touch with me, and we can talk further. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 15:51, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Mafia family naming rules

Hi User:Bigpoliticsfan, I noticed you edited Five Families page in the past, so maybe you can answer a question I have about the names of Mafia families.

Under what circumstances does a Family get renamed? for example, Joseph Profaci was boss of the "Profaci Family" for 34 years and, unless I'm wrong, was given his own Family by Lucky Luciano. After the Commission retired Joseph Magliocco they made Joseph Colombo boss and the Family got renamed Colombo, and although he was boss for 10 years he seems to have been a puppet for the Commission. Considering he's been boss for 43 years and counting and his sons and nephews have high-ranking positions, why hasn't the Family been renamed for Carmine Persico?

Another example: The Gambino Family was under the control of the Gotti brothers non-stop from 1985 to 2011 (26 years), but the Family's still called Gambino long after Carlo Gambino's death.

The only conclusion I can come to is that Families are renamed when the new boss is appointed by the Commission, considering Persico and John Gotti seem to have taken the position for themselves and weren't given it by the Commission. Maybe you can shed some light on it? But if not tell me how you think it works, cheers. --Emperorofthedaleks (talk) 20:56, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person. My main interests are politics, sports, and the weather, not the mafia. Sorry. Wish I could be of more help. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 21:52, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks anyway. --Emperorofthedaleks (talk) 02:44, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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You might want to post other usernames for your questions at RfA. Most who vote on RfA have seen the usernames, thus they are likely ineffective. Thanks! RileyBugz ^会話 _投稿記録 19:22, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take that under consideration. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 19:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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