User talk:John M Wolfson

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, John M Wolfson!

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Ward boundaries of Chicago throughout history:

Thank you for creating election maps of Chicago. Not sure if you have any need for further information on ward boundaries throughout the history of the city, but if you do then this source provides descriptions of the ward boundaries of Chicago starting on page 32. This source provides maps you could compare to as a visual reference. SecretName101 (talk) 03:02, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks so much, happy to help! I also used this for the really early stuff. --John M Wolfson (talk) 05:46, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I love your maps of older Chicago and New York elections! Your contributions are amazing and are very much appreciated. Mr.Election (talk) 04:12, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Aw shucks, thanks so much! -John M Wolfson (talk) 04:13, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:James Thompson 1860s.jpg

Copyright status: File:James Thompson 1860s.jpg

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Yours sincerely, Ahmad^talk 16:14, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Reminder

Hi John M Wolfson. I noticed that you've made a malformed deletion request, omitting the year, month, and day. Here, {{Delete}} is not for speedy deletion, please see COM:DP. When you want to delete a page by manually using the {{Delete}} template (rather than the automatic Nominate for deletion or Nominate category for discussion tool in the Tools menu on the sidebar per COM:DR#Starting requests and COM:CFD#Starting requests), you must follow the instructions in the template, including the "Click here to show further instructions" portion (or Commons:Deletion requests/Listing a request manually policy or the "By hand" portion of COM:CFD#Starting requests, normally collapsed), otherwise you will create a lot of work for other people.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:44, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

• @Jeff G.: I was in a bit of a rush and don't intend to use Commons deletion that often. Did you make sure everything was properly formatted and on the up-on-up for this? I could learn the process more if I ever need to do this again. John M Wolfson (talk) 20:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

  I did in this edit and Rosenzweig did in this other edit. See also COM:SIGN re this edit (where you should also have used {{Delete2}}).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:15, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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