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A brownie for you!

Thank you for your thorough review of Mario Ramírez Treviño! Don't worry about the delay, however. Your review comments will surely help me in my future projects. It was a pleasure to work with you. Happy editing! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 05:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination of Robert Sarvis for deletion

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Dan Wolf

Hi, could you please take a look at my peer review? I'm trying to get it to GA status and I would like some other opinions. Thanks, and I'm sorry for the scary notification alert! Grammarxxx ^{(What'd I do this time?)} 05:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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Your Edits to Annise Parker

Hello PrairieKid! Recently you edited Annise Parker to change the word, controller to comptroller. That edit has been reverted as it was not correct. According to the City of Houston's own website , Annise Parker was City Controller from 2004 - 2010. Cheers, Dillard 421♂♂ ^{(talk to me)} 21:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Oops. Thank you for letting me know. The two words are similar, and many think "comptroller" is "controller" and I hadn't heard of an actual "controller" before. I should have done my research before making the edit to make sure. Have a good one. PrairieKid (talk) 21:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

No Worries, I added additional references around the object of discussion, just in case anyone else is curious. :) I actually had to look it up myself, I have heard of a city controller, but never really knew what it was. Dillard 421♂♂ ^{(talk to me)} 22:04, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK for New York City comptroller election, 2013

On 25 July 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article New York City comptroller election, 2013, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the 2013 New York City Comptroller Election, a former governor who resigned over a sex scandal is running against a madam who supplied him with call girls? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Title of Comptroller election

Just so we don't get into another edit war, I posted the recent issue of the title of the article on the talk page. I can 100% understand that the names of the infoboxes must match the titles of the article but, the title of the article is wrong. Comptroller should be capitalized as it is an official government position. In the 2009 election, Comptroller was capitalized, as it should be. Would love to get your feedback. - DONALDderosa (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

First off, we didn't get into an edit war in the first place. If you ever get into one (which you never should), you'll know. Second, the 2009 election is also wrong. According to the policies I cited and their application, it should be a lowercase. If you look to any article (besides the 2009 article, which I have fixed) the infoboxes match the title, unless they are in a series. Here, it isn't a matter of opinion. It is simply following a policy. PrairieKid (talk) 16:24, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Maia Mitchell

Just so you know, the IP edit you accepted at Maia Mitchell was a copyvio and had to be reverted. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:49, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

When accepting edits, I only look at the immediate edit. I should have nominated the image for Speedy Deletion, but as long as it remained on the wiki, I felt I should let the edit stand. Next time, I will nominate and will wait to accept the edit until the discussion on deletion is completed. And thanks for letting me know! PrairieKid (talk) 21:55, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

There's no reason to wait on the edit. Just revert it right away (and then tag) if the image linked to is a copyvio (and there's no good content). Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:02, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

OK! I'm still pretty new to reviewing edits, and that was one of the rules I wasn't completely certain about. Thanks for the clarification! PrairieKid (talk) 22:05, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Mario Ramírez Treviño

He just got captured! Now I'm more glad the article got reviewed. [1] Thanks again! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 18:38, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad he was found and captured!!! I'm really glad the article is at a GA level, as it is going to get a LARGE amount of traffic. Thank you for your continued coverage of him, along with other cartels. As the US considers immigration reformation and drug legalization, while Mexico amps up its own force, those people become that much more important! PrairieKid (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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ASL GAR

Hi PrairieKid, I wanted to check in about the GAR for American Sign Language. Let me know whether you plan on continuing with it, or if you'd like another reviewer to take it up. Best, Mo-Al (talk) 22:24, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Woh. I'm very sorry. Real life got in the way of Wikipedia for a while. Last Tues.-Mon. I worked about 75 hours at the Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival in Vancouver, Washington. I spent all of the next 2 days asleep and am still recovering. I don't know what happened during the 5 days before that and how I managed to forget. Please forgive me. I will begin my review ASAP!!!!! PrairieKid (talk) 00:51, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

No problem -- just wanted to check in. Take your time. Best, Mo-Al (talk) 01:15, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Carol Paul AfD

FYI I have posted Carol Paul for AfD. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 14:56, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

In all honesty, I don't think that it will survive the AfD. However, I wanted the opportunity to make my case and wanted us to follow procedure. Just deleting a page isn't the proper way to go about it. Thanks. PrairieKid (talk) 17:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

It might survive -- take a look at the various reviews her cookbook received, now part of the article. Regarding procedure, the WP:BLAR is an acceptable one. Carol's contributions are now in the Ron Paul article, and the BLAR gave a redirect right to that section. Reverting the BLAR left little choice; e.g., leave as is or AfD it. Posting the AfD had a beneficial impact because another editor came in and spiffed it up. That often happens. – S. Rich (talk) 22:48, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

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This was denied in January...? Why am I getting this message now? PrairieKid (talk) 18:41, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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Cory Booker

These statements are not cited. They should have citation or be removed. I'm a novice and do not know how to easily communicate with people here, but I will not stop editing the opening of the Cory Booker article until action is taken. These statements are dubious and do not have citations. They must go, or have citation. It's easy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.162.18.52 (talk) 23:20, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Please start a discussion on the administrators' board. I will continue editing until that discussion has been resolved. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.162.18.52 (talk) 23:32, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Source for Cory Booker living on food stamps is a youtube video of Cory Booker saying he lived on food stamps. All other "citations" are equally dubious. As I said before, I'm fine continuing to add the citation needed tag. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.162.18.52 (talk) 23:40, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Please start a section on the Talk Page so we can work through this issue. Thanks. 209.162.18.52 (talk) 23:44, 7 September 2013 (UTC)