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READ THIS FIRST:

Because of Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer, this is my advice on quick-moving events.

• Wikipedia is a historical encyclopedia.
• Wikipedia is not a newspaper: Wikipedia is not a news source; it is not a good source for "Breaking News".
• Wikipedia:There is no deadline: Editors get no points for making an early edit and there is no added clout here for being first.
• Wikipedia:No original research: Editors don't need to add something just because they think or even "know" it's going to happen.
• Wikipedia:Ownership of content: Even early edits are open to other editors making drastic changes.
• Wikipedia:Summary style and Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Be concise: Avoid unnecessary formalism and excessive details.

Thank you. —GoldRingChip

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I'm going to be smashing that thank button incessantly, so I'm also coming here to say thank you for your wonderful help battling that unhinged monster. THANK YOU! jengod (talk) 17:48, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

• You're welcome. —GoldRingChip 18:02, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

US House elections in [insert state] articles

I was looking through Category:Articles lacking sources from March 2025 and noticed a lot of stubs you made about US House elections in various states (the ones I looked at it seems like you made around 2018, so it's been a while). Do you still know what sources you used? I imagine you must have had some standard source in order to create so many articles, so it would be helpful to be able to add it. Mrfoogles (talk) 03:55, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

• Hi, glad you asked! I created these as placeholders/stubs so that future editors (maybe you?) could come in later and fill in greater details. They were basically forked from larger articles about the nation-wide elections. So, for example, 1800 United States House of Representatives election in Georgia was forked from 1800–01 United States House of Representatives elections. —GoldRingChip 13:11, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

templates FedRep

Hi. Looking for some help. When using templates for Current US Congress delegations EX: Template:FL-FedRep it still lists current congress as 118th. checked for all states and doing the same. do you know how to change this?

Thanks Tomrtn (talk) 14:16, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

• That template, and the templates for the other states, uses {{Congressional Delegation}}. I've now changed it. —GoldRingChip 15:35, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
• thanks for your help Tomrtn (talk) 18:30, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Talk-page archiving

While gnoming, I noticed your user-talk archiver is mis-configured. In this edit, you changed the archive to point to "Example" rather than your own username. DMacks (talk) 03:15, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

• Oh my, what a blunder! Thank you. —GoldRingChip 13:31, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
  • You're welcome! DMacks (talk) 14:28, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
    • @DMacks: and just like that, the archiving started working properly again. How, in your gnoming, did you find it?
      • Another editor came to WP:HD to figure out why their talk-page archiving wasn't working. It was a similar problem. So I found and am now working my way through Category:Pages where archive parameter is not a subpage. I also pushed for a change in the config template so that this sort of mistake emits a visible red error message at the template location rather than simply an easily overlooked category tag with an understated name. DMacks (talk) 16:29, 12 April 2025 (UTC)