Talk:Gus Wingfield

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[edit] Suggestions and Information

I need to know how to make that box at the bottom that says who preceeded him, and win the election is over, who suceeded him.

Generally, the best thing to do when creating a new article like this is to look at similar pages and try to match up the formatting. For Wingfield, I'd look at the page of Phil Angelides. His page has the succession box at the bottom, so you can click on "edit this page" and then scroll down to find the "code" for doing the box. I'll go ahead and enter it in for you here and you can fill it in with the correct info. Also, you still need to "wikify" this page. That means setting up the right format and adding internal links for words/subjects that have their own Wikipedia pages. I'll do it for the top paragraph so you know what I'm talking about. Then you can do the rest hopefully. If you have any questions, just reply here or on my Talk page. You can "sign" your name by adding four tildas (~) at the end of your message. Maximusveritas 23:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I'm new here and not very good with formatting or computers. Are there any other suggestions to making the article better? Thank you very much, I appreciate it greatly. I tried to put in some of those links, but It did not work so well. I put his predecessor in, whom I have also written about, except in a more detailed article. Please look at it for me, I'd like you expertise.Robert Waalk 07:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

To add the internal links, you just put double brackets on either side of the word. For example, for Gus Wingfield, you'd put down [[Gus Wingfield]] when you're editing the page and when you save it, it'll look like Gus Wingfield. If there is a page, it'll look blue like that one. If there's not a page, the word will be colored red when you preview it (like this random non-word dsfsdf). For your other article, try to match it up to this one in terms of formatting. So you'd start out at the top with her name in bold type, followed by her when and where she was born in parenthesis, followed by a short description of what she is known for (former state treasurer and Gubernatorial candidate). After that, if you can add the internal links, it should be good. By the way, you should only sign your name to the end of you messages in the talk pages, not to the end of the actual articles. Sorry if I wasn't clear before. I'll go ahead and remove it from this article. Maximusveritas 12:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colors

Is there a reason, in the election boxes, that he's placed next to the color red, when that's generally considered the Republican color? 68.39.174.238 07:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)