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February 2019

Your recent editing history at South Lake Union Streetcar shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Election boxes

Thanks for adding the election results boxes to city councilmember pages. Just keep in mind a few things:

Dates should always use MDY formatting for U.S. articles, no matter if it's in the body or the references.
The city has an election results archive that would be easier to cite for councilmembers who have been in many elections.
The templates you are using are throwing up errors and creating extra columns. The first template should be {{Election box begin no change}}, followed by {{Election box candidate with party link no change}} for each candidate, {{Election box turnout no change}} for turnout, and {{Election box registered electors no change}} for electors. Nonpartisan should not be bolded. Here's an example of what you need to fix.

Cheers, Sounder Bruce 06:49, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback @SounderBruce:. I've just been using the default text editor here, so if you have any suggestions on something more robust that would flag these errors when I'm making them I'd appreciate it.

Good to know about the M-D-Y preference, as I'd been mimicking the format the citation template pops up when you click "today's date" for accessdate and it always takes a second to mentally convert.

Re electionsbox, maybe Sawant's page wasn't the best starting template on that. I learned about the "no change" parameter later and didn't know to apply it everywhere. I'll fix the ones I made this weekend.

Is there an electionsbox MOS somewhere that you've seen? I have found limited "how to use" beyond the template page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Election_box In usage I was seeing the entire row bolded for advancing candidates, usually even with party. Unless there's a specific rule about not bolding "nonpartisan" (which does seem kind of silly to emphasize), it seems like there's a visual preference to just bold the entire row. .... actually, it looks like there's a "winning candidate" modifier I should be using that does the bolding for the row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon#U.S._House_elections

I'll keep the city elections results page in mind going forward. I'm not sure I'm going to continue editing beyond sitting councilmembers/the past decade. Part of my motivation for the tables was to see ballot return patterns for candidates who have made the change to districts, which is something not shown on the city page. Jwfowble (talk) 17:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the sandbox version of O'brien's electionboxes all patched up, at least on my current editor. I'd appreciate a look-over/if it's throwing errors before I start fixing other pages, please. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jwfowble/sandbox#Electoral_history_SaturdayMorning Jwfowble (talk) 18:19, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just looked at the sandbox versions and they seem to be in perfect order. To get the bolded candidate names, use {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change}} and remove all of the bold formatting from the template parameters. Election boxes aren't well documented or really regulated, so most of this is guesswork among many, many Wikipedians. Sounder Bruce 04:30, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mention of you in response to deletion of Alex Tsimerman

I'm new to Wikipedia and I'm not sure what the etiquette is for mentioning someone in a post... so here I am just to give you a heads up that I saw a discussion with you and Joe about Alex Tsimerman on Joe's talk page and mentioned you in it. If you care to read it, it's located here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Alex_Tsimerman Sam4Seattle (talk) 03:27, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]