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DYK for Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013
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Meetups coming up in DC!
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Coming up in February!
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Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.

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Agriculture Act of 2014
Hi HistoricMN44! I noticed you created Agriculture Act of 2014 a few days ago after it passed the U.S. House. An article had been created at 2012 U.S. Farm Bill (now moved to my userspace for reference), in which the progress of the next farm bill was documented. I've simply redirected that to the article you created, since you have a lot of good information. Just letting you know so that you could look through the (now userfied) old article linked above for any info that might be of use if you wish. I'll do the same. Regards, Tyrol5   [Talk]  21:22, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

A page you started (To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in Los Padres National Forest in California (H.R. 3008; 113th Congress)) has been reviewed!
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Extraneous information in article titles
I do not think putting the bill number and congress in the article is necessary. Is there a reason such information is needed in the article title? If the information was excluded, would the article title be ambiguous? Int21h (talk) 18:00, 11 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Great question! Yes, the articles would be ambiguous without the information. Congress has an annoying habit of naming many of their bills the same thing, even if the contents are wildly different. What Democrats and what Republicans would put in a bill called "the Reform Act" might be very different. Identical bills (same title, same text) can be introduced at the same time in the House and Senate as a joint action, but then receive different treatment thereafter. The House and Senate are currently run by different parties, so the House might take that bill and pass it immediately, while the Senate might do nothing or make huge amendments that makes the bill very different. Including the bill number is important to distinguish between many versions (or between which chamber it was introduced in). Furthermore, Congress frequently introduces the same titled bill over and over again Congress after Congress. But, it makes changes and revisions to each draft. A bill that a particular lobby, say tech firms, were against in the 112th Congress could have the same name in the 113th, but this time have the support of the tech lobby due to changes that were made. Disambiguating the material is then very important. Does that make sense? Thanks. HistoricMN44 (talk) 18:14, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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Names of Acts
Why are such articles as Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act titled Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act (S. 540; 113th Congress)?—GoldRingChip 20:02, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

H.R. 3095; 113th Congress
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DC Meetups in March
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Though we have a massive snowstorm coming up, spring is just around the corner! Personally, I am looking forward to warmer weather.

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An exciting month of wiki events!
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I am pleased to say that April will be a very exciting month for Wikipedia in Washington, DC. We have a lot of different events coming up, so you will have a lot to choose from.

First, a reminder that our second annual Women in the Arts Edit-a-Thon will take place on Sunday, March 30 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Coming up in April, we have our first-ever Open Government WikiHack with the Sunlight Foundation on April 5–6! We are working together to use open government data to improve the Wikimedia projects, and we would love your help. All are welcome, regardless of coding or editing experience. We will also be having a happy hour the day before, with refreshments courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation.

On Friday, April 11 we are having our first edit-a-thon ever with the Library of Congress. The Africa Collection Edit-a-Thon will focus on the Library's African and Middle East Reading Room. It'll be early in the morning, but it's especially worth it if you're interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of African topics.

The following day, we are having our second annual Wiki Loves Capitol Hill training. We will discuss policy issues relevant to Wikimedia and plan for our day of outreach to Congressional staffers that will take place during the following week.

There are other meetups in the works, so be sure to check our meetup page with the latest. I hope to see you at some of these events!

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Ayotte
Hey, I'm confused by this edit: -- it doesn't seem to reference Ayotte at all? Arbor8 (talk) 18:43, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Haha... thanks! I forgot to change the name from copy/pasting it from the other article. The source mentioned those two women by name as having the same reason to oppose the bill. It seemed worth adding to both of their articles. Good catch! HistoricMN44 (talk) 19:01, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

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I'm pleased to tell you about two upcoming edit-a-thons:


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Meet up with us


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Articles on bills in Congress
Am I correct in concluding that you have created an article for almost every bill introduced in the current Congress? I admire the effort, but I'm having a tough time convincing myself that most of them are notable. I'm aware of no precedent establishing notability for every act of Congress, much less every bill introduced there. I think redirecting the articles to the list of bills could suffice, but if I take them to AfD then others may press for outright deletion. I've come here first because you can save us both a lot of work on a gnarly AfD nomination by persuading me that these bills are notable.

Let's take a test case: this bill on the CFTC. It's reasonably representative of the articles I'm concerned about. I can find no substantial coverage of the bill in independent reliable sources, without which it fails the general notability guideline. If something significant had happened with the bill there might be an argument for notability without the GNG, but as it happens it died after markup and was never even voted on in either house. Can you convince me that this bill is notable? Lagrange613 07:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi! Thanks for your interest in the projects I've been working on.


 * No, you are not correct that I've been doing an article on every bill introduced in Congress. The 113th Congress has already introduced over 8,000 (!) bills and will probably do another 1,000 or so in the next six months. I have written nowhere near that many articles! Back in March 2013, I attended the Meetup/DC/Legislative Data Workshop which led to the WikiProject United States Federal Government Legislative Data. At that meeting, a group of DC area Wikipedians and some policy experts agreed that a decent rule of thumb for determining the notability of legislation was floor action. If a bill can be introduced and make it through committee (very few of them do) AND get scheduled for a floor vote, it was notable. Obviously, other notability rules and guidelines apply as well. So, all of the bills I've worked on were scheduled for a floor vote (and most of them received it) and I think they also meet all the notability guidelines too.


 * I took a look at your test case and updated it with more sources. Bills without short titles are always the hardest to research - you have to do a lot more googling, since there is no short title to search instead. You picked an interesting case - this one was scheduled for a vote (that's properly cited by an article in The Hill), but it was pulled for some unknown reason. That means it can still be brought back. I found a number of industry organizations that are in favor of the bill and cited them. I also found the arguments opponents are making and posted those. Do you still have qualms about this article?


 * As for other articles, I can't address any of your concerns without knowing which ones you are talking about. I've been writing bill articles for over a year now. The work I do today is wayyyyyy better than what I started out doing, so if you are looking at much older ones, you may have a point about there needing to be some improvement. As far as AfDs go, I can't say I'm a fan. I usually find that only a handful of people comment and none of them seem to make a real effort at researching the subject matter at hand to see if the article just needs to be improved instead of deleted. It sounds like you've experienced that yourself.


 * Did I answer all of your questions? Are you interested in any legislation in particular, or did you just run across something by accident? Thanks for reaching out. :) HistoricMN44 (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Legislative data enthusiasts and policy experts coming to a consensus is good enough for me. On-wiki would be better, but nothing is perfect. Thanks for taking the time to respond and for not jumping down my throat. I should have been less terse. It was late and I was tired. The CFTC bill was actually my entry point. I was updating the new chairman's article and idly clicked the CFTC category. That brought me to the bill's article, and thence to the 113th Congress list. Lagrange613 21:11, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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The Great American Wiknic and other events in July


I am pleased to announce our fourth annual picnic, the Great American Wiknic, will take place at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, July 13 from 1 to 5 PM (rain date: July 20). We will be hanging out by the statue of Dante Alighieri, a statue that was donated to the park in 1921 as a tribute to Italian Americans. Read more about the statue on Wikipedia. If you would like to sign up for the picnic, you can do so here. When signing up, say what you’re going to bring!

July will also feature the second annual Great American Wiknic in Frederick, Maryland. This year’s Frederick picnic will take place on Sunday, July 6 at Baker Park. Sign up here for the Frederick picnic.

What else is going on in July? We have the American Chemical Society Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, July 12, dedicated to notable chemists, and our monthly WikiSalon on Wednesday, July 16.

We hope to see you at our upcoming events!

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Battle of Fort Stevens Edit-a-Thon!




Greetings!

Sorry for the last minute update, but our friends at the DC Historical Society have scheduled a Battle of Fort Stevens Edit-a-Thon to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle fought in the District. The event will last from noon to 2 PM on Wednesday, July 30. Hope you can make it!

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Cato Wikipedia briefing on Capitol Hill
It was nice meeting with you today at the event. Hopefully we can work together on improving Wikipedia articles in the future. --PiMaster3 talk 22:48, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I enjoyed the panel discussion on 18 August 2014. 00:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It was a lot of fun to do and I hope people learned a lot. HistoricMN44 (talk) 13:15, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Transparency Time: Wikipedia-Editing for Congress
Congressman "explicitly authorized" him to promote hate speech at Wikipedia, says House staffer recently returned following temporary ban. Any thoughts? JohnValeron (talk) 23:55, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I'm not interested in weighing in on that particular thread. Thanks. HistoricMN44 (talk) 13:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet
Come one and come all. To a presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history.
 * Show the Internet who is the better editor.
 * Be the creator of culture that you know you are.
 * Spread the knowledge of noteworthy people who no one but you cares about.
 * Lead the charge to a better Wikipedia --- eventually.

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Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet
See you at the Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street, Laurel, MD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM EST. See http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205494212/ for more information. Geraldshields11 (talk) 02:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC invites revolutionaries, free thinkers, and other sundry editors to a DC WikiSalon
The WikiSalon is a special meetup usually held during the first and third full weeks of every month, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss Wikimedia wikis and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own.

If you're coming by Metro, the closest station is Dupont Circle (on the Red Line). If you're driving, a lot of parking opens up downtown after 6:30 PM, so finding a parking space (even a free one) should be easy. Once you've found the building, go to Cove on the second floor. We will be in the conference room. When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: The Cove, Dupont Circle, 1730 Connecticut Avenue NW, 2nd floor, 20009, DC

For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205500822/

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Wikimedia DC's Wonderful meetups
Wikimedia DC's Upcoming meetups My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:50, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thursday, September 11: “Wikipedia and YOUR History: Taking Control of the Internet, One Article at a Time!”
 * A presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history. Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street in Laurel, MD. 7 PM.
 * Wednesday, September 17: WikiSalon
 * Come for the pizza, stay for the conversation. 7 PM – 9 PM
 * Saturday, September 20: September Meetup
 * Get dinner and drinks with fellow Wikipedians! 6 PM
 * Sunday, September 21: Laurel History Edit-a-Thon
 * Local history for Wikipedia! 10:15 AM – 4 PM
 * Saturday, September 27 – Sunday, September 28: Please RSVP for the Open Government WikiHack at Eventbrite by clicking on the link. The National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia DC are teaming up to come up with solutions that help integrate government data into Wikipedia. 10:30 AM – 5 PM each day

Help with The Heritage Foundation's logo in the infobox
Hi HistoricMN44. I've noticed that you've worked on The Heritage Foundation article in the past, so I'm hoping you can assist me with a small change there. The Heritage Foundation recently released a new logo and I'm reaching out to editors for help updating it in the article's infobox. I posted about this on the Talk page but haven't received a response. The new logo can be found here. As an employee of The Heritage Foundation, I avoid making updates myself. Do you think you might be able to help replace the old logo with the new one? Thanks! Thurmant (talk) 15:27, 8 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi! I went ahead and did that. Thanks for uploading the image to make it easy. I must say, I do like the old logo better though... but no one asked me. :) I've always been impressed with your careful avoidance of violating wikipedia's COI and neutrality guidelines. Keep up the good work! Thanks. HistoricMN44 (talk) 15:35, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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The wonderful annual meeting! And more!




Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce our upcoming Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

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Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

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Help with creating an article
I saw that you created the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act (H.R. 4587; 113th Congress) article and was wondering if you could help create one for the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 that is heading to President Obama right now. I know that you're more experienced at these types of articles so I went to you first. Any help is appreciated!-- ZiaLater  ( talk  ) 03:43, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Ok, I created a pretty rough article, Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 (S. 2142; 113th Congress). If you wish to improve upon it you are more than welcome.-- ZiaLater  ( talk  ) 16:59, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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