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Thanks for your contribution at Talk:Aluminium–air battery. I have added more information. Mock wurzel soup (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you for starting the page 2020 Illinois House of Representatives elections!!! I literally was about to start working on creating the page. I'm glad you were on it. Thank you!!!!! -TenorTwelve (talk) 07:02, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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	Awarded for your incredibly hard work and time on Illinois elections articles. I am grateful for the work you have done. Great job!!! TenorTwelve (talk) 08:46, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, BWellsOdyssey

Thank you for creating Illinois's 4th House of Representatives district.

User:Theleekycauldron, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

nice work! I was doing something similar with the Alabama Senate, I should finish it...

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Response to Your Message on My Page

Hi BWellsOdyssey,

Thanks for reaching out. I appreciate the work you and a few others have done on the various state legislative district pages, as it's been a few years since I really had the time to actively contribute to the Michigan ones. Also, I'm glad to see that DrRandomFactor's maps are being used on the Michigan district pages; I had created some a while back, but the doctor's maps are far better than my own.

To respond to your question, when I first started editing pages, I believe I followed the Wikipedia tutorial available on the toolbar on the left-hand side. In Wikipedia's infancy, I made a number of just awful pages under an account that I have since disavowed, but I learned in the process, and on my current account I've played around with sandbox pages in order to learn about more about the script behind Wikipedia, especially when it comes to infoboxes. I also am very interested in political systems worldwide, so I would look at well-developed pages for political systems like that of the US and copy or mimic features that I liked. I think that's the general path I'd recommend - follow the tutorial, open a few sandboxes, create an article, then take elements from other pages that you think work well and retool them to fit your content, learning how to use them in the process.

Now, if you're looking for more specific resources with regard to Michigan politics, I could try pointing you toward a couple of resources.

I hope that answered your question. If not, or if you have more specific questions, feel free to let me know.

Ynot101796 (talk) 04:28, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

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