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I removed the following sentence: During the course of 2006, it will surpass Indianapolis as America's 12th largest city with a population of approximately 810,000 residents. First of all, what is 'it'? If 'it' is Jacksonville then this belongs in the Jacksonville article. If 'it' is Duval County, well, Duval County isn't a city. Onyourside 17:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the erroneous presidential election data, but someone decided to revert to the prior version. My numbers are from Dave Leip's authoritative Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, in which all of the information is meticulously sourced, so I know they are correct (besides, had Bush really gotten only 50% in Duval County in 2000, Gore would have carried the state without a recount being plausible. I'm going to resubmit the change. AuH2ORepublican 21:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I guess that the Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/, is not considered a "relible source" (someone should tell the thousands of political professionals who pay for its premium content), so I went to the Duval County Supervisor of Elections website and confirmed that the numbers I had gotten from the Atlas for 2004 and 2000 were indeed correct. Here are the numbers for 2004: http://www.duvalelections.com/ERSummary.aspx?eid=9 and here are the ones for 2000: http://www.duvalelections.com/Election.aspx?eid=2 BTW, the Duval elections site only goes back to 2000, so I *did not* change the incorrect results for prior elections (which, BTW, were input without a source by whomever it was that did so). AuH2ORepublican 16:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken the sources mentioned by AuH2ORepublican in his edit summaries and properly cited them in the article. The whole point is that sources need to be cited in the article to be of any value. It is sad that these sources are also the first to be cited in this article. -- Donald Albury 12:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Mr. Albury. I finally grasp what the problem with my post was. The fact that none of the (incorrect) election data that had been included in the article had cited a source made me think that it was not necessary to include a footnote with a source in order to correct them. I apologize again for the misunderstanding. AuH2ORepublican 15:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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	:I have taken the sources mentioned by AuH2ORepublican in his edit summaries and properly cited them in the article. The whole point is that sources need to be cited in the article to be of any value. It is sad that these sources are also the first to be cited in this article. -- '''<font color="navy">[[User talk:Dalbury\|Donald Albury]]</font>''' 12:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)		:I have taken the sources mentioned by AuH2ORepublican in his edit summaries and properly cited them in the article. The whole point is that sources need to be cited in the article to be of any value. It is sad that these sources are also the first to be cited in this article. -- '''<font color="navy">[[User talk:Dalbury\|Donald Albury]]</font>''' 12:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
			::Thank you very much, Mr. Albury. I finally grasp what the problem with my post was. The fact that none of the (incorrect) election data that had been included in the article had cited a source made me think that it was not necessary to include a footnote with a source in order to correct them. I apologize again for the misunderstanding. [[User:AuH2ORepublican\|AuH2ORepublican]] 15:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)