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Witney

Morning. This might come across as pedantry but Wikipedia is very clear on this. General elections are always compared like-for-like, and if all 650 constituencies had no by-elections at all, there would be no argument that the results had to be compared from one general election to another. By-elections have never been used for statistical comparison. The LibDems gained Richmond Park in a by-election prior to the 2017 general election, but Zak Goldsmith defended the seat in 2017, defending his 2015 victory, not the by-election loss. Wikipedia shows this as a Conservative hold comparing 2017 to 2015, and Witney is exactly the same. The media calculates swing from one general election to another, and so do we. Regards, doktorb _words^deeds 06:28, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2019

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February 2019

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on East Liverpool, Ohio; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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June 2019

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July 2019

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Longfellow

Please do not reinsert the word "entirely" into the sentence about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Longfellow was descended from English colonists who settled in New England in the early 1600s." Please understand there is no possible way for it to be true. Longfellow had ancestors both before and after the early 1600s, and certainly his 1700s ancestors did not settle in New England in the early 1600s. I would like to know why you are so insistent on including this term that implies there were only two generations of Longfellows that were 200 years apart. --Midnightdreary (talk) 00:43, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

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December 2019

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March 2020

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April 2020

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July 2020

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Richard Pearis

I have no doubt that Richard Pearis was an Ulsterman, but that information needs a citation before it can stand at Richard Pearis. John Foxe (talk) 00:29, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2021

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August 2021

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September 2021

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Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

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