User talk:Bernkastel5

A belated welcome!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Ktkvtsh (talk) 00:44, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for creating the district pages for the Louisiana House of Representatives. Ktkvtsh (talk) 00:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop including presidential side boxes into events

This is an incorrect application of those sideboxes. I will not be the only editor who so challenges you. BusterD (talk) 10:23, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you do not stop I will be forced to block you. BusterD (talk) 10:24, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I genuinely stopped as soon as I got the initial message dw Bernkastel5 (talk) 10:38, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that. When I looked at your many contributions this morning I decided to add the second note for emphasis. I'm of mixed feeling about this mass addition of presidential sidebars to events. I can see why someone would want to see them included, but it's clear the template visually overbalances most pages to which it's been applied. I'm not going to revert anything else myself for now (notice I only reverted ~~two~~ three). I'll politely ask you to hold fire at this time, and allow other editors to weigh in today (by their undiscussed response to your mass insertions). Let's let other editors have a chance to catch up to your WP:BOLD and your industry. Some others may have the reflexive reaction I demonstrated; maybe they won't. Does that sound reasonable to you? BusterD (talk) 11:08, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bernkastel5: While I have no opinion on the appropriateness of the appearance of these sidebars on certain articles, I do want to recommend that in the future to please transclude these templates when using them. Copy/pasting the entire contents of a template into an article is usually not a good idea. These sidebar templates contain code (like categorization) that is specific to the template itself, and this code does not belong in articles. It causes problems like incorrect categorization of the target article. Transclusion is easy. For example, just add {{Abraham Lincoln series}} wherever you want the sidebar to appear. See here for how I replaced one of your edits with transclusions. Cheers! --DB1729^talk 01:12, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maine Department of Labor moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Maine Department of Labor. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. JTtheOG (talk) 19:38, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Party shading/Minnesota Nonpartisan Independent Republican

Template:Party shading/Minnesota Nonpartisan Independent Republican has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:16, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]