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Contents 1 Question on Senate committees 2 Fixing my sandbox 3 Welcome, fellow registered user 4 Exclusion from the federal budget 5 Gwoyeu Romatzyh‎ 6 Thanks for the hard work! 7 WPW newsletter 8 Defunct committees

[edit] Question on Senate committees

First, you've been adding a lot of good info on the congressional articles. Thanks! Second, do you know how is the size of the majority on House and Senate committees determined? In the next Senate, I assume the Dems will have just a 1 vote majority on each committee. How big would their overall majority have to be before they would get a 2 vote majority on the committees? Is there a set formula somewhere? Or based on precedence? Or just negotiated every two years? Same question for the House. And if this info isn't in Wikipedia somewhere (I couldn't find it on a quick check), it probably should be. Thanks. You can answer either here or on my talk page. Simon12 15:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Thanks!Simon12 17:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fixing my sandbox

Hey, thanks for fixing my little sandbox page with this edit! Just to let you know, it's usually best not to touch a page in someone's user area (meaning it begins with User:). I personally don't mind - esp. when it's to fix my mistake - but someone else might have gotten upset.  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 18:02, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I noticed it was your user page after the fact (wasn't paying close attention). I figured that might be frowned upon, but one cannot take back a click once clicked.

[edit] Welcome, fellow registered user

Hello Dcmacnut, remember me? Glad you've decided to become a registered user. Just wanted to drop by and welcome you aboard. Welcome aboard. GoodDay 23:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exclusion from the federal budget

Dcmacnut, the statement you removed from the House Committee on the Budget's article was technically correct as some programs are not included in the budget, including several approriations made for the war in Iraq. The statement probably needs to be reworded, but the point of the statement was factual. --Daysleeper47 20:59, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gwoyeu Romatzyh‎

Having seen your name as a participant on WP:WPW, I wondered whether you might like to have a look at Gwoyeu Romatzyh, which I've been trying to bring up to scratch (GA/A/FA?). Any comments appreciated. --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 14:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I can take a look, but not sure how I can contribute other than general clean up. I was trained in Pinyin romanization when I took Chinese. I had heard of Wage-Giles, but this is the first I'd heard of a third romanization system.Dcmacnut 16:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the hard work!

		The Society Barnstar
		Dcmacnut, I award you this Society Barnstar for your tireless efforts to improve article related to the United States House of Representatives. Your contributions have had a great impact on WikiProject:U.S. Congress. Many thanks, Daysleeper47 15:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPW newsletter

The Writing systems WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - December 2006
News Welcome to the newsletter of the Writing systems WikiProject, everyone. Our project currently has 29 members. Any questions or requests for assistance on writing system articles can be posted at WT:WPW. Our Article Assessment Project is currently underway. Feel free to contribute by assessing and improving all unassessed articles according to the assessment page. Any help is appreciated. We would like to bring all mid-, high-, and top-importance articles to at least B class by the end of the year. We are working on implementing writing systems templates into appropriate articles. Try to help out!	Writing system articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 1 4 A GA 2 2 B 14 15 31 13 8 81 Start 9 21 31 53 21 135 Stub 4 9 95 25 133 Assessed 23 42 74 162 54 355 Unassessed 0 0 0 36 888 924 Total 23 42 74 198 942 1279
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[edit] Defunct committees

What do you think about putting categories in redirects? Specifically, see this. —Markles 13:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

That works for me. I had thought of that, but wasn't sure if it was appropriate to categorize redirects. I'll start doing that to one's I come across. Also, what do you think about restored committees that were defunct at one time. United States House Committee on Education and Labor and United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs are examples. They have predecessors that are defunct, but the committee themselves are not. I would recommend removing them from the defunct list and addressing the history in the main article. Thoughts?Dcmacnut 23:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

• I'd keep them. I like the idea of having them on the list, with the discontinuity noted. —Markles 02:08, 7 March 2007 (UTC)