User talk:PollShark

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

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[edit] Feb. 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Dennis Moore, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Dusti^{talk to me} 16:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia style re capitalization

You've been creating multiple section headings, and at least one article, in which every word begins with a capital letter. That's probably the most common style, but it's not Wikipedia style. According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, we capitalize only the first letter of the first word, letters in acronyms, and the first letter of each proper noun. The same applies to section headings (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings). This style is called sentence case, by the way -- just to give you your bit of useless trivia for the day.  :) JamesMLane t c 18:31, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Electoral College Projections

Thanks for keeping this updated. Since the new Zogby poll shows a significant impact (5-6% total popular vote) of Nader's candidacy, I'd appreciate it if you'd keep an eye out for polls of the type you've been compiling, but based on a three-way race. Sketch051 (talk) 19:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3rr

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. --Peephole (talk) 22:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I second this statement. Please stop removing the cited Zogby polls. Vir4030 (talk) 04:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

For the record I never "reverted" any records. I may have deleted some to clean up the site, or even like Vir said removed, but I never pressed the revert button on any edits on this matter.PollShark (talk) 05:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zogby polls

I removed the Zogby Penn. polls because they were grouped together and I don't have time to separate them right now. If you get this before I can, could you re-add them to the list but in chronological order with the other polls? Thanks.

|- | rowspan=6 |Newsmax/Zogby Tracking Latest Sample size: 675 LV
Latest Margin of error: ± 3.8% | April 20 - April 21, 2008 | Clinton 51%, Obama 41%, Someone else 3%, Not sure 6% |- | April 19 - April 20, 2008 | Clinton 48%, Obama 42%, Someone else 4%, Not sure 6% |- | April 18 - April 19, 2008 | Clinton 46%, Obama 43%, Someone else 3%, Not sure 8% |- | April 17 - April 18, 2008 | Clinton 47%, Obama 42%, Someone else 3%, Not sure 8% |- | April 16 - April 17, 2008 | Clinton 47%, Obama 43%, Someone else 2%, Not sure 8% |- | April 15 - April 16, 2008 | Clinton 45%, Obama 44%, Someone else 3%, Not sure 9% |-

SteveSims (talk) 05:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Been dying to find out,

but what line of work are you in? Or are you multiple people? Big fan of your work with the polls. --Kallahan (talk) 19:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm a grad student getting my degree in public administration. I just finished my second graduate seminar in statistics. Thanks for your appreciation.

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. The Evil Spartan (talk) 19:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MedCab case

I note that you listed the following case for informal mediation by the Mediation Cabal on April 21, 2008: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-04-21 Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008. There has been no interaction between you and Peephole on that article since that date. Would you be able to confirm that there is no longer a need for mediation? Sunray (talk) 00:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

YES PollShark (talk) 18:13, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Case closed. Sunray (talk) 04:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)