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1 California State Assembly
2 Just a little help
3 Truman Reeves
4 Image Tagging Image:Frederick F. Houser.gif
5 Image copyright problem with Image:Citybird.gif
6 Please do a basic grammar and spelling check before posting articles
7 Category:California politicians
8 Image Tagging Image:Medellín.jpg
9 Biographical articles and categories
10 Image copyright problem with Image:J_Neely_Johnson.jpg
11 Image copyright problem with Image:Matthew_K._Fong.gif
12 Image Tagging for Image:EricGarcetti.jpg
13 Image Tagging for Image:JackWeiss.jpg
14 Image Tagging for Image:Jackiegoldberg.jpg
15 Image Tagging for Image:TonyCardenas.jpg
16 Historical Charts of California State Legislators
17 Past elections article
18 S. Pellegrino
19 Unspecified source for Image:Bernard parks.GIF
20 Possibly unfree Image:Bernard parks.GIF
21 Tony Cardenas

[edit] California State Assembly

Hi! I noticed that you've started List of Members of California State Assemblymen. The list is already at California State Assembly though. You might want to check to make sure your efforts aren't duplicated. -- Jonel | Speak 04:59, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I just noticed what I did. But I do like the job I did on my page better than the one that is active right now :-). Do you think we should/could replace the existing one with what I have? If so, how would you go about doing that?

Thanks

Cmdrbond 05:07, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yours is definitely much nicer to look at. My recommendation is to merge your list into the California State Assembly page - basically replace the list on that page with yours. One thing to watch out for is that a lot of the links to individual members actually point to other people, as the names are common. Then, redirect the List of Members of California State Assemblymen to California State Assembly. If you need help with this, let me know and I can assist you. -- Jonel | Speak 05:10, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply, I merged the 2 pages together but after clicking edit on one section, it seems to have messed up the section right after it. How do I fix that? the colours seem to be stretched. Also, how do I do that link manipulation you were talking about? The first person, Patty Berg, is also a golfer and the golfer's website is showing instead of the assemblywoman's

Cmdrbond 05:21, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've found out what happened - your table was closed with |-) instead of |} - when a table isn't closed it tends to do very screwy things to the whole article (I've done that myself more times than I'd like to count). The link manipulation by using what's called the "pipe trick" after the piece of punctuation used - the "|" symbol. Inside a wikilink, the portion in front of the pipe is where the link actually goes while the portion after it is what is displayed. Thus, if I put Patty Berg (politician)|Patty Berg in brackets instead of apostrophes, it would do this: Patty Berg. I've done this for all of the assemblymen and assemblywomen that needed it. You can take a look at the syntax to see it in action. Hope this helps! -- Jonel | Speak 05:29, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, now the page looks good. So should I delete the original article that got me into this trouble and if so, how do I go about doing that?

Cmdrbond 05:40, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've already gone ahead and made it a redirect. Only admins (that is, not me) can actually delete a page, but deletion usually isn't necessarily. Especially when there is an article that has the information that someone might be looking for. If you ever need to make a redirect, clear everything on the page and type in #REDIRECT: [[target]] where "target" is the name of the page the redirect points to.

Let me know if you have any other questions or problems. Happy editing! -- Jonel | Speak 05:46, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Just a little help

I am looking at the articles you are posting. Just a tip. You should always wikilink dates. So if it says "(April 23, 1855 - May 8, 1856)", "April 23", "1855", "May 8" and "1856" should all be wikilinked. Just a tip. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 07:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

And and, {{California-politician-stub}} is the stub tag to use for California politicians. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 07:25, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Good job! Looks like you are catching on. :) Only other thing is that we have a page for Mayor of Los Angeles, California and for all of the Congresses, so you can link those if you'd like. Or one of us can do it after you've left the article. :) Either way works. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 07:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Truman Reeves

He is listed as dying in 1872, but was supposedly treasurer from 1899 - 1907 please resolve this. TheRingess 04:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Frederick F. Houser.gif

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Hi, I tend to agree that a fair use claim can be made for this image. I wasn't specifically targetting this image - it was on a list of untagged images that I have been gradually working through. I've added a "Politicalposter" tag to the image page, and I've also added a fair use rationale which I think is sufficient. regards Rossrs 09:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Citybird.gif

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[edit] Please do a basic grammar and spelling check before posting articles

It's frustrating to have to clean up issues that the author should be paying attention to. --James 05:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:California politicians

Do you think creation of a Category:Los Angeles politicians as a subset of the California politicians category would be a good idea? User:Zoe|^(talk) 19:13, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't usually create Categories, so I'm not very familiar with the process, myself. User:Zoe|^(talk) 19:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for enlightening me. :) User:Zoe|^(talk) 19:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Medellín.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Medellín.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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[edit] Biographical articles and categories

Hello. I noticed you created a couple of California politician stubs (Victor V. Veysey, William P. Baker) and added them to a category. If the title of an article is a person's name, you should use a sort key when putting them in a category, so that people in the category are listed by last name. Example:

[[Category:U.S. Representatives from California|Baker, William P.]]

This will sort Mr. Baker in the "B" section of the category rather than the "W" section. (Note that the category I used as an example has been moved to Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from California. I'm in the process of changing all the other categories also.)
— Feb. 21, '06 [01:53] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

I've moved the Versey article to Victor Veysey. Middle initials are generally not supposed to be used for biographical article names unless needed for disambiguation. John Broughton 14:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:J_Neely_Johnson.jpg

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