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Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 13:40, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

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"Longstanding consensus"

In an effort to determine whether I incorrectly reverted your edits as vandalism can you please clarify what you meant when you put "Longstanding consensus not to include political positions for the democratic or republican parties" in your edit summaries? skarz (talk) 16:09, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello! Sorry I guess that mass editing of it was not a good idea, I was under the impression that we dont include political positions for the democratic and republican parties in the US. However I was told that it only applies to the federal parties. I was going to go ahead and remove the position categories for for all state level democratic and republican parties then the local parties if there pages exists on Wikipedia. Whats the consensus?

To be honest I am out of the loop on all of this stuff but you can read my relevant discussion here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Politics#Removing_political_position_from_infobox. They should be able to appropriately answer any questions you have. skarz (talk) 16:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

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