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Again, welcome! Rschen7754 18:05, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

New York State Thruway infobox

It's been a long-standing practice to limit the number of junctions listed in an American highway article's infobox. This is documented at WP:USRD/STDS. Please stop adding junctions in excess of the limits to the infobox on New York State Thruway. If you disagree with the limit, please discuss it at WT:USRD. Imzadi 1979 → 01:19, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

We're having the same issue now at Taconic State Parkway. You keep restoring a 12th junction to the infobox, when you should be eliminating another to get the box back under the 10-jct limit. Imzadi 1979 → 17:04, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

@Peterjack1: can you please respond? --Rschen7754 18:17, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Do you work for Misplaced Pages?

Hey, do you actually work for Misplaced Pages or is your road editing organization non official? Because if it’s non-official than I don’t think that you have the right to police articles and pick fights with people adding information that’s accurate. However if you are part of Misplaced Pages and the rules you tell me are official, then I apologize.

Peter Peterjack1 (talk) 03:21, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

This is Misplaced Pages. None of us work for them, but Misplaced Pages is governed by consensus, and a consensus decided to limit the number of junctions in a U.S. road article. If you disagree with this, you are welcome to start another discussion to see what people think.

For what it's worth, I see a lot of new editors obsessing over the infobox when quite often, the rest of the article is crap. I would suggest that your time is better spent on the other 95% of the article. --Rschen7754 05:59, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

There's no "official" or "unofficial" around here. We're all volunteers, and as Rschen mentions, the entire site works based on consensus. Over a decade ago, when an article was nominated at WP:FAC to be listed as a Featured Article, reviewers commented about the excessive length of the infobox. As a result, the U.S. Roads WikiProject standard has been to use a 10-jct limit in article infoboxes. While it's important to get the infobox right, it's really a summary of the article, so it's more important to get the details in the article text right first. Imzadi 1979 → 19:12, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

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Minor edits

Hi! Make sure to not mark non-minor edits as minor, as you've marked many in your recent contributions. See WP:MINOR -- it's for edits that don't change content and tells other editors that no review is needed. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 09:13, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi I'd like to second this. Minor edits are for superficial edits, generally typographical. Edits that are adding or modifying content should not be marked minor. Thanks for contributing edits! Just please follow conventions to help us all work together better. --Cyanophycean314 (talk) 06:08, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Browser on highway articles

You're adding browsers (the previous/next) to the bottoms of the infoboxes on national-level articles. We just don't do that. That's something that's only been done at the state level. US 8 is considered both a national- and state-level article because we won't split out separate state-level articles for it. That's why it has the browsers for the previous and next highways in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. For US 7, no, we wouldn't point it back to US 6 and forward to US 8. We also wouldn't add browsers that point to unnumbered parkways in New York because there's no clear connection on why they're the preceding or succeeding entry in a larger list of numbered highways.

In short, I advise you to stop, and if you have a plan, discuss it somewhere first, like WT:USRD. Imzadi 1979 → 03:25, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

The browser is to link to the previous highway by numerical designation and to the next one by numerical designation. So that's why M-28 (Michigan highway) links back to M-27 and forward to M-29. It has nothing to do with the highways at the termini, and this is documented at WP:USRD/STDS. Imzadi 1979 → 04:24, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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Edits on Interstate 88 (New York)

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2018 US House election

Howdy. Will you please use the talkpage at 2018 United States House of Representatives elections article. GoodDay (talk) 03:34, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

STOP IT, NOW. GoodDay (talk) 03:42, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

ANSWER YOUR MESSAGES. GoodDay (talk) 03:45, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

2018 United States House of Representatives elections

Hi, please, let's have some stability on this and other election pages. Changing the numbers back and forth day after day is bad for everybody. Let's get a consensus on the talk page, and then update the infobox accordingly. I notice you haven't chimed in with your thoughts on how we should define the various lines. I don't care how we define them, but the edit warring between several editors on this article needs to stop. Thank you. Levivich (talk) 22:33, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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