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[edit] Election templates

Hi Socal girl. Do you want to delete {{U.S. Senate election in California}}, U.S. Senate elections in California, California United States House elections, 1996 and 1996 U.S. Senate election in California? If so, place {{db-author}} on the page, and it will be speedily deleted. Number 57 13:38, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Don't place a link on the page, but just add the text {{db-author}} at the top of the article. Number 57 13:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
OK - I've done a couple of moves to conform with the naming system, so now we have:
I've also deleted the two pages you put db-author on, and have redirected U.S. Senate elections in California to Elections in California. If you need any more help, just ask. Good luck with the articles, Number 57 14:04, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I didn't intend to delete U.S. Senate elections in California. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socal gal at heart (talk • contribs) .

OK. Are you going to turn it into an article? Before it was just a template. Also, when you make comments, remember to sign them by writing ~~~~ at the end. Number 57 14:29, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes I will turn it into an article. Socal gal at heart 12:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC) Socal gal at heart

OK, and don't use the nowiki either side of the four tildes, otherwise it doesn't display your signature (just type it in and hit show preview - then you'll see it appear) :) Number 57 14:47, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. Why are you deleting the templates and then creating templates on article spaces? U.S. House elections in California and Template:U.S. House elections in California should be at Template:California U.S. House elections. Template:U.S. Senate elections in California should also be at Template:California U.S. Senate elections per the naming convention. Number 57 11:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I thought the changes I made followed the naming convention. Socal gal at heart 12:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

No, it should be "Template:[Place] [type of elections]", such as Template:U.S. presidential elections or Template:Malaysian state elections. Also, don't type nowiki when signing - just use the four tildes :) Number 57 12:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I'm new to editing here, so I'm learning. Socal gal at heart 12:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

No worries - if you have any questions, just ask. I'll sort out the templates for now. Number 57 12:17, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Username

Yes. This is a good username. Carry on. the_undertow talk 07:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I second this statement. PeteShanosky 17:58, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WLA

Wikiproject:WikiProject_Los_Angeles This user wants you to join WikiProject Los Angeles.

(♠Taifarious1♠) 02:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

Hey Thanks for joining my project, seeing as your the second person feel free to call yourself co-founder, anyway, just wanted to know what you think of the project, cheers. (♠Taifarious1♠) 03:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re WP:WLA

Thats all good, um, any articles you think need improving or want help on just add them to the to-do list, and by the way, I updated the Userbox case the last one had some glitches. It's labelled:

This user is a member of WikiProject Los Angeles.


Cheers, (♠Taifarious1♠) 01:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WiTWiCS Episode Guide

I believe due to heavy vandalisim on that site, Can you please do a remake the episode guide, and reverted back the way it was? Auld Lang Gone (unaired) was a Season 2 episode (with the injured gumshoe), the episode number would've been episode 69. Marc Summers took over Greg's place until the end of the office scene. It was replaced with "What's Wrong with Watts?". And that user changed USA to North America in seasons 1 and 2. North America was not used until season 3. Protect that page also. Please make a new version of it. ACMEMan (talk) 13:35, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi there!

I would like to become part of WikiProject Los Angeles. how can i become part of it?? House10902 (talk) 05:55, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Just sign up your name in the participant list on the page. And you can add this userbox to your profile.
This user is a member of WikiProject Los Angeles.


Socal gal at heart (talk) 06:18, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diamond

I reverted your edit to Diamond. Considering that the article's "see also" section only has 3 links in it, all of which are major topics related to diamonds, it seems like a game reference to diamonds really didn't fit in, especially since it's a featured article. Something like that might fit in in a more specialized article, though, or in the article on the game itself. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 22:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you so much!

Thank you for the detail! House10902 (talk) 22:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] minor edits / edit summaries / talk pages

Hi SCGAH! I'm also new here. I found your page because I was 'watching' the article on the Great Wall of China (I agree with your undoing of your edits, thank you!). I had a few suggestions for your editing:

I noticed when looking at your list of contributions that a lot of your edits are incorrectly marked as 'minor'. Minor edits are usually very trivial changes, like fixing obvious spelling or formatting mistakes. (see Help:Minor edit).

Also, it's helpfule to write a good edit summary every time you make an edit (Like you did when you added the Carmen Sandiego info) That way other editors can see not just what you did, but what you were trying to do, which helps us all work together better.

Lastly, when making changes to a well-established article (like adding a "popular culture" section), it's usually best to go to the 'discussion' page for that article and propose your changes there first. Often, the same proposals will already be under discussion there, and in any case you can get some feedback on how to implement it. (Or you can just go ahead and make the changes, but don't be surprised (or offended!) if they get reverted pretty quickly...

Have fun!!! Cheakamus (talk) 21:57, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I am learning how to be an effective contributor here. And sometimes I unintentionally checked the "minor" box and didn't realize I did until after I made the change. Socal gal at heart (talk) 23:17, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Right after I wrote this I accidentally tagged two edits as minor by mistake! I read at Help:Minor edit#Things_to_remember that the right thing to do is to make a 'dummy edit' explaining your mistake. I'm finding it pretty hard to keep all the rules and guidlines in mind all the time, I don't know about you! But it sure is fun to contribute. Cheakamus (talk) 00:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Same with me! I enjoy contributing, but find it hard to remember every little rule we have to follow too.

[edit] I need some help!

I join your clud of Los Angeles i talked to you remember??? n-e ways i was vandilized well my user page can you help me please! User:House1090204:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Characters and Sketches on WiTWiCS

Somebody changed the page to Contessa left after one, returned in four with a new look to "Left after one with a new look". That is unacceptable! Please protect that page, please! ACMEMan (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] California politicians

Articles shouldn't be in Category:California politicians if they're already in one of the subcats such as Category:Members of the California State Assembly. MisfitToys (talk) 22:27, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Lungren

Hi, regarding edits you made to Calaveras County articles, Lungren's voting record doesn't really seem appropriate there. It would be best if that information was limited to his own article. The community articles should just say what district they are in and who is their representative. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 07:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tuolumne County

Thank you for your contributions to the Sonora, CA and Twain Harte, CA articles. Vayne (talk) 02:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Award

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for your great work on behalf of the California Wikipedia project. You have made some great contributions on pages related to California places and politicians. User:calbear22 (talk) 00:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the political updates

I would just like to thank you for your work on adding political information to each of the Sacramento-area pages. Have a great day. -DevinCook (talk) 15:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks also for doing the same to the rest of the state. Those contributions are a real help. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 22:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New California legislature feature

I like the new feature you've added. I think it would be better though if you had one for the Assembly and one for the Senate. Right now, the pull out chart is so big some people might get lost.User:calbear22 (talk) 22:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. It is much easier to read. Good work.User:calbear22 (talk) 10:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
There's some problems with the one on the Loni Hancock page. I can't fix it.User:calbear22 (talk) 10:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Somebody must have forgotten to put the end box there. I fixed it. Socal gal at heart (talk) 10:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hard to understand

Thanks for adding all of the political material to the various sites. I wish, however, that you could explain very simply exactly what something like Cook PVI of D +33[8] actually means. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 07:51, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Airport

I'm not sure that postal codes and area codes are needed in the infobx. Can you bring it to Template talk:Infobox Airport first. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The California Star

Hi, Socal gal. I keep seeing your name pop up on California community articles, and I'm simply astounded at the enormous effort it must take to add all that political info to every one of those thousands of articles. So...

The California Star
I, szyslak, hereby award you the California Star for your untold hours of work adding almanac information to every single one of our thousands of articles on California places ... then doing it all over again for every article's infobox. Amazing!
szyslak 06:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

You can display this with pride on your userpage. szyslak 06:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] State and Federal legislative reps in articles about CA places

I respect the work you've put into this, but I question whether adding this information to hundreds of articles is really in the best interests of Wikipedia. I can see that it's very useful for people to be able to find their elected representatives, but since those reps change every few years, it becomes a huge job to keep these hundreds of article up to date. I think a better strategy would be to create an article for each legislative district, including its voting history and current representative. Then each city, town, and unincorporated community article could have a wikilink to its district. What do you think? Stepheng3 (talk) 16:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Hi Socal gal. You've been doing some great work lately. One thing I'd suggest would be to try to get in the habit of using edit summaries. It just makes it a little easier for recent change patrollers and for someone examining the change history of the article. Not sure if Internet Explorer works this way, but when I edit using Firefox and start to type in an edit summary I've already used, I'll get a dropdown box with auto-fill options which makes it even easier, especially when you're doing repetitive tasks. Thanks again for your hard work, OhNoitsJamie Talk 04:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New article on Earp townsite

Hi! I see you added a bit of info to my article about Vidal Junction. Just did one you might be interested in over at Earp, California. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional scorecards

Hello. I have a question about the CA Congressional delegation's entries, to which you added scorecards a few months ago. Is this really necessary? After all, an encyclopedic biography is supposed to give an overview of an individual's life and achievements, not what a grab-bag of interest groups may think about him. Something like "Congressman X has maintained a reliably liberal voting record" is fine and indeed important; what NORML says about him, less so. (By the way, where's the ACU rating? - that's a pretty standard yardstick on the Right.) Another problem is keeping up with changes/reflecting someone's entire career: for instance, the late Tom Lantos was in Congress nearly three decades, but his entry now enshrines just his '05-'06 record; surely he may have shifted in various ideological directions during those years. On the other hand, what about a younger Member - will we now be responsible for updating the scorecard after every session, or how do you anticipate this working? Finally, since just CA has this, it sort of stands out from the rest of the country; ideally, all Members should have roughly the same layout. So I think the potential problems these scorecards create are many, while any useful information they convey can easily be distilled into a sentence or even a phrase.

Well, I'm not disputing you had your own legitimate, good-faith reasons for adding them. I'm just contending that my own wish to remove them is based on more solid reasoning, as outlined above. Biruitorul (talk) 05:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd just like to thank you for going ahead and removing the scorecards. I appreciate it. Biruitorul (talk) 00:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User page

Oops, sorry...it looked as if IP 71.123.228.58 had vandalised your user page. When dealing with vandalism mistakes can sometimes happen. The warning has been removed from IP Talk page...sorry to have troubled you about this, Best wishes,
--Badgernet (talk) 10:41, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Representatives from California in the 79th Congress

If you can, can you please confirm & correct the list of Representatives from California in the 79th United States Congress? I'm trying to correct United States congressional delegations from California. See Talk:79th United States Congress.—Markles 14:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good Work

I applaud the massive work you've done recently in US House elections!—Markles 11:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chronological order of election results

I think that Recent Election Results should be in chronological order from earliest to latest. See, e.g., California's 1st congressional district.—Markles 11:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I'll fix the results for districts 1 and 2. I'm working on getting district 3's results up right now. Socal gal at heart (talk) 11:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Great.—Markles 12:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional districts

Some other ideas, while you're sprucing up California's districts (see, e.g., California's 1st congressional district).

  • A TOC is needed at the top of the page. May I suggest using {{toclimit|2}}?
  • You don't need to discuss the current Representative's politics (e.g., …is a Blue Dog conservative Democrat")
  • You don't need the Rep's External link to his/her official website.
  • The heading for each election table doesn't need to say that it's District X. That's obvious because its in the article about the district already. I suggest "1996 general election."
  • "District" is usually lowercase: "district."

—Markles 12:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Examples that may help

I saw your comments back to Markles on his user page. As you look at creating a description table for the districts historical boundaries, check out what I did with Alabama's 8th, 9th, and 10th districts. I'd welcome any suggestions you have on improvements. I've been working on Alabama 1 through 7 in my Sandbox, but my data sources are incomplete. I'm also working on creating maps of early congressional districts.Dcmacnut (talk) 15:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Succession order table

That's an interesting table. What do you mean by "proper order of succession"? One error. You've done a remarkable job, and I think the evolution of districts is good information to share. However, I'm not sure it's the right visual, as it shows a different order of succession than the norm, like United_States_congressional_delegations_from_California. Succession follows the district number, and not the geographic area served by the district. Any thought to breaking up the table similar to with different groups based on when the seats were redistricted? That could address some of the issues.

For example, you show [William Rosecrans]] as being succeed by William W. Morrow during the 49th Congress, when he was actualy succeeded by Barclay Henley (CA-01). I guess one could argue that since Henley's term continued from the last Congress, he didn't "succeed" anyone, and you could argule that a Member of Congress whose term overlaps a redistricting year, and has his/her district number changed, isn't "succeeded" by anyone until he/she leaves the House. A problem arises when two incumbents are thrown into a new district and run against each other? Whom succeeds whom? Then there's mid-decade redistricting that creates fun in Georgia, like when Nathan Deal and Charlie Norwood swapped the 9th and 10th districts during the 108th and 109th congresses. For example, the current representative from GA-10, Paul Broun, is from Augusta, which until the 110th Congress was part of GA-12. Ciro Rodriguez's home was in the TX-28 until the 2003 redistricting, and then thrown into TX-28 by the courts. Finally, constituencies shift, and one district may become two or more in the next redistricting. How do you decide which is right?

California is an easier state (in spite of its large size) in that it has never lost a seat to redistricting. Alabama has gained and lost seats several times. Splitting the table could show the same information and be a little cleaner to read and understand.

On error I noted. Pleasant Tully is shown in your table as being in the 5th district for the 48th Congress, but he served in the 4th those years. Dcmacnut (talk) 22:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Your changes look good. I've also comment at the California delegation article. I think both evolution of districts and the delegation succession articles have their place. I've heard similar arguments about "proper" succession in other states, with many people questioning "so and so represented County X, but a representative from County Z is listed as his successor." See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._Congress#Redistricting_and_succession for more info. Also see Talk:Bart Stupak and Talk:Dale E. Kildee. I'm not sure the Dale Kildee option is the right (listing successor and predecessor as "redistricting"). You could run into a situation where Kildee would never have a successor in Congress, if he decided to retirer in a redistring year and his district number changed. That would give false impression of a congressman who never preceeded or succeeded anyone.
As far as succession, we need to stick with the district numbers as the base, regardless of whether the district number shifted geographically from one part of the state to another. Your table helps show the "evolution" of districts, which is also valid. However, I think we need to make it clear that this is an evolution of districts, rather than a official order of succession. Your article name change begins to address that concern, but I'm not sure if it is still the right standard for a broader template for all 50 states. Perhaps you should post on the Project Congress talk page and solicit views of other editors, explaining your goals. I think you've got a good idea going here, and we need to build on it.Dcmacnut (talk) 15:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TOC

You don't need "__NOTOC__" on the Congressional district pages.—Markles 13:26, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Reps

Let's use California's 1st congressional district as a model for Listing Representatives in California districts.—Markles 18:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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