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Mervyn Dymally
I was wondering why you moved the page from Mervyn Dymally to Mervyn M. Dymally. The naming convention says that articles should be at the name they are best known in English. Is he better known by that name? Guettarda 03:06, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * "Mervyn Dymally" gets twice the google hits of "Mervyn M. Dymally", so I am not convinced that it is more common usage. Granted, google is not the ultimate source for usage, but this is a more complicated page title.  Guettarda 04:14, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not a huge deal, but you should really raise this on the talk page in future before you move a page. Guettarda 04:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

California WikiProject
Since I've noticed you editing articles on California politics, I thought that I would bring to your attention the fairly new California WikiProject, which you might be interested in. There is also another WikiProject specifically for Southern California. Blank Verse  &empty;  14:41, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Changing username
I've now changed your username. All the best with your new username! Warofdreams 10:15, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Category renaming for Category:United States Students' Unions
Hi. As an editor who participated in the discussion regarding renaming Category:United States Students' Unions, I am writing you to let you know that while there was consensus to rename the category there was no clear consensus for the final name. If you would like to revisit the discussion on Category talk:United States Students' Unions I am willing to consider an agreement there and rename the category. I won't be monitoring your talk page so if you have to reply to me directly please do so on my talk page. Thanks! --Syrthiss 19:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Robert Silver
It's not the existence of a single news article, it's the content of the article. Looks like you've deleted a bunch of notable debaters with links from numerous Wikipedia articles? I think you should undelete, these folks are very well known in their community. -- TrinityC 01:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Any idea...
How old Image:CaliforniaSenateSeal.gif is? Thanx 68.39.174.238 04:57, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Grr. If it could be proven reasonably old we could PD it as pre 1923... 68.39.174.238 05:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * We need to get some legislator in some state (Preferably CA) to actually get passed a bill to PD all State stuff... 68.39.174.238 03:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Sensenbrenner
Thanks for your efforts to keep the Jim Sensenbrenner article free from vandalism. It's an uphill battle, but worth it in the end. Cheers --BaronLarf 11:57, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't know if you're aware of these, too, but you might want to add Cheryl Warren Sensenbrenner and Frank Sensenbrenner to your watch list.--BaronLarf 12:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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Historical California State Legislature
OCNative: I notice you have contributed a lot to the historical charts of CA state assemblymen and senators so I was interested in your opinion on this. I feel the placement of the charts, one on a page ~/historical and on the discussion page, respectively, is out of place. What if we create a page like United States Congressional Delegations from California which will house both charts and call it: California State Legislature Delegations? Cmdrbond 01:20, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I like Members of the California State Legislature -- I feel that it's not really a "list of" since it's more of a huge table. Do you think you're able to move the two tables to that new page and delete them from the old pages (so people dont edit that page?). Thanks Cmdrbond 07:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

LÓPEZ
López is the correct accentuation of that Castillian family name Gaudio 14:19, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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Jim Silva
Actually, I did not overreact, I was pointing out that citations are necessary when things of such blatant opinion are inserted into an ENCYCLOPEDIA!!!

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Partisan mix of congressional delegations
Thanks for adding the Senate table to the above :). I've been thinking about making a chart of the partisan mix of state governments (the legislature plus Governor), but I haven't done anything on it yet. NoSeptember  22:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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Steve Poizner Edit
Hi, Please consider placing some of the headings back as it is hard to get the information out of the article when it is not organized. Please view George W. Bush and then see Steve Poizner. I see you even removed the infobox? Please reconsider.TalkAbout 04:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks :-)PEACETalkAbout 06:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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