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 * Thanks for the heads up on this. Apoligises for the late response. I'll make sure to keep that in mind. Dillon251992 (talk) 22:22, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Florida legislator pages
Hi, thanks for your recent edits and improvements to Florida legislator pages. I wanted to comment that, in line with Template:Infobox officeholder, legislators who were redistricted and served in multiple district numbers should have one single office in their infobox, with each district number listed in the constituency field. See Nancy Pelosi for an example. Similarly, keep in mind this style note from the template: "Where the use of "same district number" is used for determining "predecessor" and "successor" in any office, but where the area is so altered as to make such a "predecessor" or "successor" of little or no biographical value, the word "redistricted" should be used rather than using names of officeholders whose connection is accidental by virtue of district number, but unrelated to any election contests between officeholders." Thanks! Starrfruit (talk) 13:18, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the feed back. The only thing I don't like about the officeholder with this constituency field is that they don't put the predecessors and successors. I know district locations change but the numbers don't. I'm using this reference https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/FileStores/Web/HouseContent/Approved/Announcements/Uploads/Documents/People_of_Lawmaking_in_Florida.pdf to put down who served in what district. Before 1967, I know that some states like Florida had district names by group numbers and didn't do it in numbers (for example: Dade-(14)). What I could do though is put redistricted for the districts they served on the bottom right (under) the predecessor or successor if that helps. That's just my take on all of this. I also saw on how you had to correct another person for writing in the wrong date for when the person took office. From what I read from Florida's constitution when they reformed it in 1968 onward that the person takes office on the day they win their election which you and I both see. Anyways I appreciate you bringing this up. Dillon251992 (talk) 19:28, 3 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I know other contributor(s) have been entering successor/predecessor boxes at the bottom of legislator pages, including info for all district numbers notwithstanding redistricting. (Good example is Tom Lee). To me that's a good compromise between giving useful info in the main infobox (knowing the "true" successors/predecessors and whether someone has been meaningfully redistricted) and following the infobox style guide, while also providing the full predecessor/successor info for district numbers, for those who want that info. Is that a good compromise? I'd be happy to open up a broader conversation about it too if there's a good place to do that, but I started doing things this way a few years ago after I found the infobox style note and it made sense to me.


 * The People of Lawmaking is a great resource and totally comprehensive as far as I know. And yep, legislators' have taken office upon election since statehood actually. A lot of member pages have that wrong still. House districts were numbered starting in 1967, previously reps were elected countywide. Senators have always had numbered districts. Starrfruit (talk) 23:21, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

I think we can compromise on how the predecessor/successor serving in multiple districts can be template better which I agree with as I just realized how easier it is. I'm just so use to doing it in a certain way because I don't like how they don't name the predecessors and it makes it harder for me to find, but I can change and do it this way like this article B. J. Pak. What do you think? I like the way it has the Constituency and the predecessors/successors for each district served.

The people of lawmaking is a great resource. If their are member pages that are wrong like the districts, it would be great if you pointed the ones that are inaccurate. And I do know that the district numbers didn't come until 1967. Like I said before, they use to categorized them by groups, not numbers which I think we both know. It's just hard to find out which group number they served in, so I'm not going to waste time chasing successors/predecessors for that.

Last, I want to know is. Is anyone going to make the districts for house/senate in Florida? I know their was someone who was making Senate districts for a couple states that goes by the user name Blizzardwind. He told me that he had stuff going on which is why he stopped. I have no plans making other districts except the two because I want a good graphic design on the districts maps and he's pretty good at doing that. From what I saw on his talk page about how has good map designs is that he downloads the current district boundaries from the US Census website onto QGIS. So I guess he uses a software to do it. Dillon251992 (talk) 18:46, 6 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I personally find listing the predecessors/successors for each district number like on B. J. Pak incredibly confusing and non-intuitive. I'd prefer to continue to follow the Infobox Officeholder style guide until there's a broader discussion of revisiting the style. I think having the district boxes at the bottom with predecessors/successors for each district number gives enough information, but having it in the main infobox just doesn't make sense to me, especially since in Florida the numbers have been literally randomly changed and bear no correlation to previous districts.


 * Making pages for each district hasn't been a priority for me, I don't plan on working on that. I had thought a while ago about making pages for each two-year legislature (like for each congress), but not sure if I'll get to that. I think someone might have started on that. Starrfruit (talk) 15:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Oh and group numbers for pre-1967 house members! You can find those in the old House journals, on the "Members and Officers" page for each session. The members are listed by county by order of their group number. Starrfruit (talk) 16:46, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Interesting point. That can be disputed on how someone would read or do an info box. I read the main info box much better than reading district boxes with predecessors/successors at the bottom, but that's just me. Like you said, there could be a much more boarder discussion about it, at another time. I just think that's how most people would read it.

If you're talking about United States Congress (which has already been done) which is different than Florida's House of Representatives sessions. If you are thinking about starting it, you should just combined both the house/senate sessions like how Texas's |Texas's 85th Legislature session article. I had to fix Texas's 85th session because someone didn't add the list of House of Representatives, which took me several hours to do.

I think I seen the link already, but I do thank you for showing me this. I was hoping for an easier way to read Florida's House Journal but their isn't any easier way. The frustrating part is it takes so long to download. I don't get why Florida's Senate Journal is much more organized than Florida's House journals are. I wish Florida's House took more pride in how they organize their journals. Dillon251992 (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah on infoboxes, I just don't see why/how we should deviate from the official style without an open discussion about changing the style guide first ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Starrfruit (talk) 15:51, 19 November 2020 (UTC)


 * If we talking about the ones that have {s-start}, that's the one I'm open to talking about having no need to use since the infobox is used more. I should had been more clear on what I was saying. My apologies, I'm still a little new, but learn more by the year. Dillon251992 (talk) 04:27, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

November 2020
Hi Dillon251992! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Valoree Swanson that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Marquardtika (talk) 16:46, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

I did not know that. Thank you for letting me know about this. Dillon251992 (talk) 20:55, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

FEC members as part of "presidential administration personnel"
Hi, Dillon251992. I noticed you added some FEC members to the "administration personnel" categories for some presidents. I don't think that they are properly categorized as part of the administration's personnel given that the FEC is an independent agency that has been purposed insulated from political and specifically presidential interference (for example, they are given long terms so that they serve over multiple presidential terms and cannot be removed by a presidential except for cause). So while they are technically part of the executive branch, I don't think they are part of the "administration personnel" in the ordinary sense of the word. Do you know if there has ever been a discussion about how to use those categories? – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 02:59, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Hey, so basically administration personnel, from what I saw was those either appointed by a president or those that worked in that president's administration. It wouldn't matter if it was an independent agency or not. These individuals that I categorized worked for that particular administration. The FEC commissioners are appointed by the president. Also I'm not sure if their is a talk page about how to use those categories, I didn't see one. Dillon251992 (talk) 19:43, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Minor edits
Hi! I see someone has motioned this before, but it seems you are marking edits as minor, when they're not. It's an understandable mistake – I often did the same thing when I was starting out here. The Wikipedia definition of minor is different to what most of us expect. I reviewed Help:Minor edit many times, trying to decide if the changes I was making were minor. It helped me to think of a minor edit as a change that a reader is unlikely to notice (unless it's reverting obvious vandalism: this also counts as minor). Maybe it fixes a typo, or corrects the format of a reference without adding any new information. It doesn't change or add anything very noticeable to the page, and other editors are unlikely to argue about it. I hope this helps. If you have any questions, you can reply to me here; I'll keep your talk page on my watchlist for a bit. Happy editing! SnazzyInfinity (talk • contribs) 03:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello! I keep checking and I figured someone was going to say something. If you can point out to what minor edits I should had not marked, that would help. I know the other person who wrote me to said something similar as he told me to look at the help guide you linked me which I did. I guess I messed up again did I? If you can show me that would be great. Thanks for the feed back

Dillon251992 (talk) 03:48, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I mainly meant the one where you added the list of members to Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. As I said earlier, a good rule of thumb is to think "would the average reader notice this difference?" If it's a notable or noticeable change, then it's probably not minor. If you need anymore help just ask! SnazzyInfinity (talk • contribs) 03:52, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Sorry for the late response. I added my reason to the discussion on why the article shouldn't be deleted. Dillon251992 (talk) 01:21, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

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Input needed: Pennsylvania
Hey again Dillon, I stumbled across a lot of Pennsylvania legislative BLP articles, and it looks like the infobox term_start/end dates are set for the first day of session, rather than the day they assume office (and presumably sworn in). I'm assuming I'm all clear on that, per, that the start/end dates would be on December 1 of even-numbered years. Right? Just seeing a lot of articles that don't show that, so thought I'd ask for your guidance here. Robert Matzie is one of many examples. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 15:49, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello, thank you for writing on my page. I haven't gotten a chance to work on Pennsylvania. Whoever did that, only did when the session started and not when they were sworn in office, (ex:Joe Biden sworn in January 20, 2021). Just do whatever you think is right and I'll look at it whenever I get a chance. I would follow Ballotpedia on that since they did deep research on that, but they only lists state elections dating back to 2008. Dillon251992 (talk) 19:28, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

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WP:BLP and WP:DOB
It looks like you're adding a ton of unsourced dates of births to articles about living people and have been doing that for quite a while. Dates of birth for living people must be backed up by one or more WP:RS supporting the date. We take WP:BLP and WP:DOB very seriously and continuing to add unsourced dates of birth to articles may lead to a block. You seem like a fairly accomplished editor and you really should know not to do this. Toddst1 (talk) 01:32, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I see what you're refering because of your recent edits remove some details of the Kansas State Reps. They aren't unsourced as you claim in WP:RS. It's located here from the Kansas State Legislature Library. It doesn't violate WP:BLP or WP:DOB since they make it public. The only thing I didn't do that I probably should had is to tag it with a reference, since some articles already put it in another sentence. Dillon251992 (talk) 17:36, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * You seem to misunderstand WP:BLP. It doesn't matter if reliable sources exist somewhere else or not.  You must cite reliable sources when you add such material to an article. Toddst1 (talk) 23:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Michigan State Senate District Members
Hello. I wanted to let you know of something I've been doing. A while ago, you asked me if I was interested in making a list of the Michigan state senators on the articles for the Michigan state senate districts. I knew it was going to be a hard task, and didn't really plan on it at the time. I have since changed my mind and have made some progress in this regard. I've made what seem to be complete lists for districts 32 through 38. I was thinking about the message you sent when I decided to take on the task. Thanks for giving me the idea, and making me think about the challenge. RoundSquare (talk) 04:35, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hey, I'm glad you're doing this. Yes it is a hard task and it took me 3 months or more to complete California's districts for both Senate/Assembly. So far, it looks good. I would put the full dates of when those Senators took/left office, although that would take a long time to do, that's up to you though. This is why I like Wikipedia too over Ballotpedia when it comes to this. Ballotpedia doesn't have all state elections dating before 2006, for state legislatures. Anyways, you're welcome for the idea. I hope more people follow this when they start creating other state districts. Dillon251992 (talk) 19:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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