User talk:JMurphy

Online Gambling Ban[edit]

12/05/2006 - JMurphy, why was the information about Kyl's mission to ban online poker removed? It is very "relevant" to millions of Americans and needs to be recorded as part of the historical record. If is properly sourced so I just need to know what the problem is?

A welcome from Sango123[edit]

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Hello, JMurphy.

The 2006 Gubernatorial Election image has a problem: New Jersey is not up for reelection that year. Could you please change that? Thanks. Lst27 (talk) 19:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

revert of renzi not appreciated[edit]

your revert of my edits to the rick renzi page were not appreciated... please see renzi page discussion

sorry for over reacting[edit]

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Captain Republican[edit]

No problem, reverting him was no issue for me. I also noticed the IP comes from the House of Representatives, interesting. My first impression of the troublesome fellow (or lady) was that he was trying to ridicule Rick Renzi by sarcasm.....Oh well, at least he/she has been blocked. I wonder if Captain Republican works for Rick Renzi......Cheers Ban e s 17:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: just thought you could help[edit]

Hi, JMurphy! I'm afraid I can't give you an adequate response. Perhaps you can find an answer at the Wikipedia help desk. Thanks, and best of luck, Sango 123 (talk) 23:00, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Sorry I've been kind of busy lately, and I didn't get a chance to respond the first time I saw your message. I've started an article called Arizona statewide elections, 2006. However, I don't know enough about Arizona politics to finish the article. All you need to do is add the elections for other statewide offices. Thanks. --Lst27 [[User talk:Lst27|(talk)]] 23:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bachs[edit]

What do we do about Bachs? He insists on slamming Ronnie Earle and his investigation of Tom Delay on nearly any US House member's article that has a connection to Delay, and has violated the 3RR at least twice. I'm not sure where to go from here, if admins should be contacted or whatnot, I haven't had to deal with this kind of situation before. Thanks. --JMurphy 19:32, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bachs and I ended up in an uneasy truce on the ARMPAC recipients' pages. Look at the history of, say, Chris Chocola, and you'll see that there used to be a whole paragraph of Earle-bashing. I think that a sentence criticizing the indictments is reasonable, though. Probably the best solution would be a quotation from Rick Renzi or whoever (or a spokesperson) explaining why the representative is keeping the money.

Now Bachs is inserting a paragraph about Earle's investigation of Kay Bailey Hutchison into Tom DeLay. There used to be a brief sentence on it, and that's all there ought to be. I would remove what Bach has added, but I have already reverted three times in the past 24 hours.

I believe that Bachs is acting in good faith, but I'd appreciate your help with Tom DeLay and the ARMPAC recipients' pages. NatusRoma 20:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have proposed a solution along these lines on Talk:Chris Chocola, where Bachs and I have been hashing out an agreement to affect a number of pages, including Rick Renzi, E. Clay Shaw, Jr, Bob Beauprez, Rob Simmons, Anne Northup, Mike D. Rogers, Heather Wilson, Marilyn Musgrave, John Kline (politician), Cathy McMorris, Robin Hayes, and Geoff Davis. Please head over and see what you think. NatusRoma 04:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:US gov races 06.PNG[edit]

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hey[edit]

When I saw the JMurphy had edited the Pederson page I had a pretty good laugh. Can't imagine who that is. BTW do you think you can fix the portion about him trailing in double digits. The latest WSJ poll puts him at -4 %. Mherlihy 20:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Helpdesk question[edit]

You may want to look up Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography or else Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics. They generally develop relevant guidelines. If you dont find any, you can begin discussions at their talk pages -- Lost^(talk) 07:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JMurphy[edit]

Please see the talk page at the Al Gore article. I am sure we can find some sort of compromise. Turtlescrubber 21:49, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Land Line Telephone Sampling[edit]

Hey there! I don't have an exact citation (I was putting it there in hopes of someone else being able to find a citation for it), but it has something to do with the fact that cell phone numbers aren't normally made available through the public records or the yellow pages. If the organization has been diligent and actually purchased a voter file, then it may be able to contact cell phones; but even then, most polling organizations randomly sample using only the individual's primary phone number. This is primarily an issue with young voters, because many don't own land-line phones. I know some polling organizations have tried to oversample young voters to make up for it, but it's not a universal practice, and raises its own sampling issues. Thanks for the question! Happy Holidays. Davemcarlson (talk) 01:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

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