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Bob Bettisworth and legislative terms

The article looks fine as it currently stands, as it certainly covers enough bases given its length. One thing which may be more of local interest, but I thought I would point out: he married into the Hering family, who have lived in Fairbanks since 1904. This means that he was the uncle of Ralph Beistline. He may also have been the uncle of Daniel Winfree, but I haven't quite figured that one out yet. Also, his (adopted) son Charles is currently a prominent member of the local business community.

As for Governor Walker's press release: the legislature recently revamped its website, including profiles and biographical information on past members, most of which was taken from the centennial celebration website launched two years ago. There was a glitch on the main website when launched, wherein EVERY past member was shown as having served from 1957 to 1958. I've had lingering doubts about Walker and certainly didn't vote for him. Regardless of that, for someone in his office to simply copy over what was found on the legislative website and throw it out there in a press release without any further fact-checking speaks volumes; I mean, after all, the Roster of Members has been published biennially for nearly a half century. Additionally, both the Legislative Affairs Agency and the Alaska State Library are less than two blocks away from the capitol building; of course, telephones and e-mail eliminate the need to even walk over to either place. Now I noticed that the glitch has been fixed; someone must have pointed out how foolish it made Walker look to have made such an error. The biographical information on the website isn't nearly as error-ridden as the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, but there are some pretty grievous errors that I've brought to their attention which haven't been fixed.

On the length of terms, I previously mentioned the Ernest Gruening/Doc Walker feud. After Gruening succeeded in having Walker and a host of others turned out of office in the 1948 election, he called a special session early in 1949, prior to the start of the regular session, with the members of the new legislature who hadn't been sworn in yet. This was to ensure passage of his tax reform regime; naturally, this wound up in court. The court (I'm pretty sure the United States territorial court for the territory, but I could be wrong) ruled at that time that the legislature has a life of approximately two years, and that members serve until the next legislature is sworn in. This has been the prevailing standard ever since. There may actually be a statute explicitly stating that members serve until the next legislature is sworn in, but I don't remember. So, whatever is being put on the legislative website, or in news stories, obituaries or anything else, contradicts that fact. In the early years of Alaska's conflict of interest law, it was common for lame-duck legislators to resign their office after the legislature adjourned sine die, especially if the member was self-employed. References to such in the Roster of Members may be incomplete, and it's unclear as to whether that was the case with Bettisworth. So, in summary, differences in dates can probably be attributed to lazy research, which abounds nowadays. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 05:04, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Templates for warnings?

Hello RFD. I was just wondering if there's a reason why you don't use templates to warn users (such as at here)? Not that it's overly a big problem, and I'd prefer a personal message myself anyway, but programs like Huggle use existing templates on the page to gauge how many times the user has been warned, so hand crafted messages fly under the radar.  DiscantX 19:41, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

This appears to be a vandalism-only IP and should be admin blocked indefinitely anyway. Nyth63 04:33, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tip

Hi, RFD. I saw your helpful addition of refs at North Freedom, Wisconsin and was able to improve on the formatting with the semi-automated Citation tool for Google Books. If you weren't aware of this tool now you know. Citation tool for Google Books automatically adds title, author, publisher, ISBN, page numbers, etc. All you have to do is copy and paste the URL from Google Books.

In this case, I copied and pasted the title (An American Dissenter: The Life of Algie Martin Simons 1870--1950) into google.com, and clicked on the "more" tab in the search results to get to Books. Since there is a preview available, I was able to go directly to page 2 and read about Algie Martin Simons. Next I clicked on the (bowtie?) button next to "Add to my library" and it gave me the URL to page 2 of that book. Copy and paste the URL into the Citation tool for Google Books and it instantly generates a finished reference you can add directly to Misplaced Pages.

I really can't say enough good things about the citation tool and think you will agree.– Gilliam (talk) 14:27, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Re: Welcome Back!

Cool, thanks. Packerfansam (talk) 19:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Arnold Sundgaard

Thanks for the assist. I thought that might be the one, but the source said only "University of Wisconsin", and I'm not familiar enough with Madison to assume that they're one and the same. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:01, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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Re: Wisconsin legislators

It's not all the old ones, nor all the new ones, there are times when it now seems to me that it's appropriate or necessary and others not. Sometimes I think I might have been overdoing it. Packerfansam (talk) 05:32, 14 May 2015 (UTC)