User talk:GatewayPolitics

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Sincerely, Jauerback^dude?/_dude. (Leave me a message) 14:00, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

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Mayoral elections

Cities like Murfreesboro and Clarksville generally aren't considered large enough for all of their mayoral elections to be notable; can I suggest you merge them to a page like Mayoral elections in Providence, Rhode Island? (i.e. pages Mayoral elections in Clarksville, Tennessee and Mayoral elections in Murfreesboro, Tennessee) Elli (talk | contribs) 21:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

That's a good idea! It can be like Mayoral elections in Knoxville. Could you help me with this? GatewayPolitics (talk) 16:41, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@Elli I'll create the articles, but i need help with the redirects GatewayPolitics (talk) 16:54, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

First one done, just need help with the redirects Mayoral elections in Clarksville, Tennessee GatewayPolitics (talk) 17:24, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Sure. What do you need help with doing exactly? Elli (talk | contribs) 17:24, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I forgot what it's called, but the old articles need to be redirected, so if you click on them, they go to the section of the new article GatewayPolitics (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I think the original articles need to be made into a redirect paged GatewayPolitics (talk) 17:30, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah, yes. I've done 2022 Clarksville mayoral election; you can see what I did to redirect it in this diff. Elli (talk | contribs) 17:31, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Oh okay I can do that easily 😂, thanks for helping! GatewayPolitics (talk) 17:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

No problem :) Elli (talk | contribs) 17:35, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for helping with updating the 2024 UK general election map live. Enjoy a cup of tea and get some rest！ 沁水湾 (talk) 18:44, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi GatewayPolitics. Thank you for your work on Sycamore High School (Tennessee). Another editor, Moriwen, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nice work!

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2024 Tennessee House of Representatives election

Greetings,

While analyzing Linter errors from the last 24hrs, I noticed that your large revision (1296406359) to the 2024 Tennessee House of Representatives election article yesterday appears to have broken the article's Notes/References sections. I've been looking over the revision's changes, but can't for the life of me see where things went haywire. Could you please have a look? Worst case, you may need to undo that particular revision and reapply the changes in smaller chunks to try and narrow it down - a bit of a slog, I know, but maybe the best way to find the issue.

Overall, though, fantastic work on the article; a Herculean effort for sure!

Thanks! – SirOlgen (talk) 18:48, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know, I believe I mostly fixed it! I don't know if it is only on my end but it seems to mess up if I add too many election infoboxes.

I had to remove some and then all of a sudden the reference section started working. GatewayPolitics (talk) 07:06, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

That's interesting, and makes sense. There are definitely processing limits for templates, and I didn't even think of looking at that.

It also reminded me that clicking the "Show Preview" button when editing usually generates a section at the very bottom of the edit page called "Parser Profiling Data." If you expand that section, it'll show a table of different page limitations and how much of each the page consumes. Apparently the same data is buried somewhere in the html source when every Wikipedia page is rendered.

I opened the full page in edit mode, hit "Show Preview," expanded the Parser section, and see the Post-expand include size shows the page is using 2,086,429 out of the maximum 2,097,152 bytes. That particular size restriction pertains to template processing and is probably where "just one more template" pushed things over the edge.

I've seen something similar with the Gaza War page, where some more experienced users started utilizing an #invoke command with citation templates to reduce the processing load and shoehorn more citations into the article. Might be a longshot, but if that syntax is compatible with any of the infobox templates that are heavily-used on your page, you might be able to use it to carve out enough template expansion processing time to fit the last few templates onto the page.

Good luck! – 17:33, 21 June 2025 (UTC) SirOlgen (talk) 17:33, 21 June 2025 (UTC)