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User:Mfox100, thanks for your additions, but some of them are questionable from an encyclopedic point of view. Wikipedia has certain rules and guidelines, and there's common sense. The tenure in the State Assembly is always described only in years, the dates are misleading: Although the legal term starts on January 1 and ends on December 31, the session never starts on January 1 nowadays, and after July, during the recess, there's hardly any session, only the committees and the leaders meet. Thus 1975 to 1976 is enough, and conveys the appropriate info, besides being a question of consistency. Hundreds of bios say year to year, without dates. To add multiple off-line or behind-paywall sources is unnecessary, the Wikipedia reader can not read them, and the facts are already sourced to an on-line source. The Trial Program has a mention of Mark D. Fox, but is about something else, it's not necessary to source the "retired U.S. magistrate", that's already sourced to the Martindale directory. Some of your additions are simply redundant, like every magistrate is a lawyer, etc. I'll copy-edit the article again, and I hope you may accept it that way. Kraxler (talk) 23:27, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
