User talk:Jerzeykydd/July11-Dec11

Rick Perry
An article split like this really needs discussion first. I've raised the issue at Talk:Rick Perry, changed the new title into a redirect and restored the old material. Please take this to the talk page. It also lost all the contribution history and the new article was technically copyvio. Dougweller (talk) 09:59, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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United States Senate election in Indiana, 2012
Why? WHY is a declined section necessary? Is the reader too stupid to assume that anyone not listed as running simply isn't running? If they said they'd run but then dropped out, they could be listed, but these people were NEVER involved in this race. So they may be prominant Indiana politicians, but they have nothing to do with this election. What about Evan Bayh, Mike Pence (could have run, but is instead running for governor), John Gregg, (could have run, but is instead running for governor), Gov. Mitch Daniels, every Congressman, every Indiana state senator and representative who could have run? They are simply not relevant to this race. The fact that they responsed No to a reporter's question - or simply said abosolutely nothing about it or decided to run for another office - doesn't mean they need to included here. I especially have a problem with the inclusion of Jackie Walorski. She ran for Congress last year and lost. Guess what? She's running for the same seat again, never having considered runnng for Senate against a powerful incumbent, nor did anyone else actually think she would. And the source for Baron Hill says that he wouldn't run for Governor, not Senate. Really, it's only common sense that if they aren't running or still thinking about it, then they aren't running, just like the other couple hundred Hoosier politicians and millions of Hoosiers! There is absolutely no reason to include them unless there was extensive asumptions that they would run, or they were really getting into it but later declined. You may claim that politicians are fickle and can change their minds: other than the fact that it's absurdly unlikely at this point, we can just add them back at any time! Reywas92 Talk 21:48, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
for merging all of the new "political positions and votes" sections into "tenure." i had been meaning to go in and clean that up myself and was quite pleased to see you'd already taken care of it. cheers! Arbor8 (talk) 16:19, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but such changes should be discussed within the Project. Making mass changes to hundreds of articles without Project discussion is very disrespectful to others. 75.60.16.144 (talk) 04:03, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * There was nothing wrong with Jerzeykydd's edits. The Wiki project you refer to isn't official policy, and he doesn't need permission from the group to make valid edits. Thanks. Arbor8 (talk) 17:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Unless you're against collaboration, the keystone of contributing to Wikipedia, I suggest you read WikiProject before you embarrass yourself further. Your attitude is indeed shocking and saying "thanks" at the end of your off the mark statements is insulting. Do you really believe thetwo of you are so special you can delete everyone else's work with o discussion necessary? What gigantic egos both of you have! 99.50.190.206 (talk) 01:02, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Great job
You are doing a bang up job on local elections and politicians. I would like to encourage you to nominate your new articles for WP:DYK. It's a fun way to get recognition for your efforts. I also noticed your a member of WP:USA. You may also want to consider another great group of editors, which has some overlap with USA:. TTFN– Lionel (talk) 09:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Members of Congress
There is a Project for members of Congress, and everyone working on these articles is expected to follow the agreed-upon guidelines. Collaboration means that even if you're convinced everyone else is wrong and you're right, the correct procedure is to propose your changes to the Project members, discuss them, and then accept whatever the consensus is. Going your own way on election coverage in these articles, particularly when the articles were previously in compliance, is not being Wikipedian, and is very disrespectful to everyone else trying to work together. I know you contribute a lot of your time, but this is supposed to be a team project. 75.60.16.144 (talk) 04:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Looks like I will have to check this out too. I did not realize there were such firm guidelines. With respect to your note regarding placement of the pledge, I see on one article:

Tenure
;Political positions

Would placement in that way be OK? Although I'm likely to make a subsection rather than use the semi-colon. User:Fred Bauder Talk 20:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The Members of Congress wiki project is in the brainstorming phase; there aren't any firm guidelines. That said, it is a good project and I think member bios could benefit from some more uniformity.Arbor8 (talk) 21:09, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Lamar S. Smith
Just so you know, you seem to be in the middle of a vandal war on Lamar S. Smith. I hope I haven't trampled any of your edits. Cheers, Jim1138 (talk) 06:05, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Reverting my edit to Solomon P. Ortiz
I notice that you reverted my edit to Solomon P. Ortiz, with the edit summary "Not necessary". I had removed the list of committee assignments since he no longer serves in the House. I would be interested to hear your rationale for adding them back. After all, Ortiz no longer serves on any of the committees listed and he is not chairman of the Armed Forces subcommittee on Readiness (which the article currently states he is). If your rationale is to record which committees he served on while he was a congressman, the list needs to be changed dramatically. Indeed, the only committees listed are those he served on in the 111th Congress, whereas over the course of his 18 years in Congress he's served on many others. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. --Lincolnite (talk) 16:35, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Tenure
How about this? User:Fred Bauder Talk 20:52, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

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Cary Capparelli
Hi. Re. Cary Capparelli - you merged that (redirected it) to the election article; someone questioned it, so I've undone the redir for the time being, and started a discussion on Talk:Cary Capparelli.

I hope you don't mind me undoing it; I was just trying to help sort it out. Please see Talk:Cary Capparelli. Thanks,  Chzz  ► 09:16, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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Sean Duffy
Hi. The Wisconsin Rapids Tribune link that you used as a citation for the assertion you added to the Sean Duffy article regarding his 91% party voting record does not work. Since there is an additional citation for that passage at the end of it, I removed the dead one. In addition, you did not include a citation for the assertion about his opposition to the Davis-Bacon Act repeal. In the future, always remember to include such citations. Fortunately, I did a search, and found that one of the sources you did add to the article, the Marshfield News Herald, also supports that passage, so I added a citation to the end of the passage rather than remove it. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 19:00, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Hawaii GOP Primary
This editor continues to insert non-reputable sources for his own self-promotion. Could you please review this:, and weigh in. It seems other editors have agreed per past edits, but I suppose that's not enough. Thanks man, America69 (talk) 18:51, 27 December 2011 (UTC)