Talk:List of elections in the United States

Mayoral elections
Though it would be cool if someone made mayoral election articles, they all seem to be re-directs to the general election page. Given this, I propose we remove the mayoral election links from the bottom table Orser67 (talk) 06:43, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't see the info you are talking about. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 08:19, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

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Season link
Why the use of Season link instead of #ifexist? I'm not familiar with Season link, so can you please explain how it works better here? —GoldRingChip 17:47, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * GoldRingChip, it's basically the same idea, but it adds tracking when the primary link exists so the logic can be simplified. The use of "#ifexist:" is relatively expensive (e.g., you cannot have more than about 500 on a page) so removing #ifexist: where it's not needed is desirable.  we could also use alternative links (which doesn't have tracking).  for other areas where this is used for this purpose, see cfb link and cbb link.  in the cases of cfb link and cfb link there is a bot that replaces the templates when it's possible to do so.  my plan was to have the bot take care of season link as well.  the fact that List of elections in the United States is in Category:Excessive uses of season link shows me that at least one can be simplified. Frietjes (talk) 17:52, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * GoldRingChip, looks like there were 88 that could be simplified. now that I have made the change, the page is no longer in Category:Excessive uses of season link. the idea is to have a bot do the simplification as the pages are created in the future. Frietjes (talk) 17:58, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Great! I figured that #ifexist wasn't a good option, and I'm glad to know there's a (much) better way to do it.  Thanks. —GoldRingChip 20:40, 16 October 2019 (UTC)