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Things I can do to help WikiProject U.S. Congressedit list

Ongoing: Upload [please add links to the senate rules for each of these committees.]
Ongoing: Upload new district maps and incorporate them into articles (November 19, 2013)
Ongoing: Apply {{US Congress party summary}} on all Congresses (February 20, 2018)
Ongoing: Create edit notices for all articles. (February 15, 2010)
Ongoing: Rate all articles that haven't been rated yet. (April 28, 2025)

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Archiving your talk page

Valorrr, I see you frequently immediately archive posts to this page. It's your own talk page, so you're welcome to do what you like with it in general as far as policy goes. But I would strongly advise leaving posts up longer than you currently do. At least a week or a month. Other editors are likely to assume when they see your talk page that no one has contacted you recently. -- asilvering (talk) 20:36, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to do it so I don't have a million messages, and a bot automatically does it after 24h to prevent flooding, I like a clean talk. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 00:31, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But archiving a minute after you replied to a post doesn't give a lot of time for people to respond.Nigel Ish (talk) 08:52, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. What it communicates is "this is not up for discussion". -- asilvering (talk) 16:08, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More broadly, it communicates "I'm not planning to have conversations on my talk page." I endorse At least a week or a month. This is not merely User:Asilvering's opinion; it's a strong recommendation (and endorsed by User:Nigel Ish and myself). Any user is generally allowed to maintain their talk space any way they like. On the other hand, passing contributors are welcome to interpret such choices any way they like. BusterD (talk) 16:34, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do a week, but the exemption is, notices for example; Draft approved, denied etc. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 23:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects

Hi Valorrr, I noticed that a few of the redirect requests that you closed, like 1, 2, 3, 4, were closed with the reason that the target isn't an existing article, though it looks like those targets do exist. I was just wondering if there was a specific reason for that, or if I might be missing something? Thanks. Golem08 (talk) 13:14, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! The way I do it is based on if the target exists in the article by doing "Ctrl+F", if it doesn't find a match, I do a deny, if there's a different way, then please inform me. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 23:51, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I see what you mean. I've been interpreting that template response as meaning it's a request which targets a red link. Golem08 (talk) 12:38, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! Sorry if you thought it that way! I do it my way to actually check, so new users wouldn't be confused, most archive.org sites usually are a misspelling due to auto-correct, which I find not very reliable as there is no "news" source, proving it. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 16:20, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are using the wrong template, Valorrr. The template you are using says the target article does not exist. It does not say the redirect term does not exist at the target article. I have no issue with closing the request, but please fix the closes to use the right template. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:26, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, what template should I use? Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 16:26, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ill try and remember to use this;

The Article seems to have no mention of this word/title please make sure it mentions the name in the article, or something similar.
Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 16:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

if you use {{subst:AfC redirect|decline|Reason}}, and enter that reason into the "Reason" field, it should work. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:31, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I use AFCRC helper. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 18:34, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well then you'll need to figure out how to do it yourself, I'm not familiar with that script. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:03, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did it, if you checked what I did recently, I can input reasons myself. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 20:24, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]