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Virginia Conventions

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Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Flags of the Confederate States of Americ. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

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Please do not use thumbnails inside of infoboxes as you did to Flags of the Confederate States of America. Note that this is your second warning regarding this issue. Continuing to add thumbnails will be seen as disruptive editing. For more information please see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE. When adding an image, instead of doing:

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This is in fact the third time you have had to be told this. If you continue to place thumbnails in infoboxes, in direct violation of WP:INFOBOXIMAGE it will constitute Disruptive editing. You have less than 1,000 edits on wikipedia and from the looks of them, a large number are non-constructive so I'm not sure where you get off saying that the well established WP:MOS is not something to be followed. Additionally, if you wish to leave a message on another person's talk page, start a new section and ALWAYS WP:SIGN your posts. --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:13, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the contributions at Virginia Conventions. Do you know of an editor you collaborate with who might take on the GA review? Two possibilities I tried said they supported the article, but felt too pro-biased or otherwise unfamiliar with multiple historical periods, and so they demurred. It is rather lengthy, but I do not think it is unduly so, given the scope.

I am happy to let your recent deletion of material from Tartar stand. But as a matter of interest, what is your alternative source that there was no such thing as closely held rule in late 1700s Virginia by an elite gentry that excluded a majority of the free white men from participation --- at a time when the other states in the nation expanded the franchise?

FYI, Brent Tarter is a founding editor of the Library of Virginia's "Dictionary of Virginia Biography" and a cofounder of the annual "Virginia Forum". His book "The grandees of government: the origin and persistence of undemocratic politics in Virginia" (2013) is published by the University of Virginia Press. It's thesis, that there was an intermarried propertied gentry elite ruling Virginia in the 1700s throughout the Revolutionary period when all other states abolished property voting requirements, reaffirmed the insight of Fletcher Melvin Green's "Constitutional development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860: a study in the evolution of democracy" (1930). Green was an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. The characterization of Virginia as having undemocratic governance is not revisionist, it is consistent with other scholarly work throughout the twentieth century.

V.O. Key in his "Southern Politics in State and Nation" (1949) famously said that compared to Virginia, Mississippi was at mid 20th century, a "hotbed of democracy". Today, Virginia is said to be one of the most gerrymandered states in the Union, see One Virginia 2021: Virginians for fair redistricting. But again, if you do not think that this insight contributes to the article about Constitutional Conventions, I am content to let it go. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 12:20, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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