User talk:Absalom.absalom

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 10:50, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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Will do! Thank you for the great explanation. Will work on that in the next week! Jayden.grieve (talk) 16:48, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

I had a look and it seems like you have maybe already done it! Is there anything else I need to do to make everything good!? Jayden.grieve (talk) 00:44, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

As long as you don't think I've missed anything, then yep, it's all good! It's mostly something to keep in mind for the future - also, thank you so much for double checking my fixes GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 00:56, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

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Canadian Parliaments

Saw that you have put in a lot of work to add certain content to the articles for various past parliaments. Thank you, first and foremost. I think some of the additions are worthwhile, and I do I appreciate the effort.

However, I want to raise strong objection to your addition of lists of legislations or committees (or any other long static list without making use of them to explain other context) for two main reasons.

Substantive - I have trouble seeing how these lists add anything meaningful to these articles. These are information that can be pulled from other formal government sources. The primary function of these articles has been for listings of parliamentarians and party standing. I think it would be more much more valuable if certain key legislations are highlighted, along with short description of their significance. (such as legislations with far reaching consequences, legislations that are of high degree of public interest or highly controversial, legislations that were adopted after taking up a lot of debate hours, legislation that cause standoff between the house and senate etc etc) . (Similarly, I support your addition of contextual information. I would encourage your to add more, in paragraph form, to highlight key events, unique dynamics, and any lasting legacy of the specific parliaments.)

The list by themselves are just raw data. Wiki articles are not for presentation of raw data. (If you feel strongly that such lists should exists in wiki, I suggest you explore adding them to wikicommons in data form, and then point to them as appropriate

Functionality - some of the list are very long and needlessly clutter up a lot of space, making navigation of other portions of the pages, mainly the list of parliamentarians, much more difficult. If there are extensive content that should be presented, separate new articles dedicated to that with links from the main articles (such as "Legislation enacted during xxth Canadian Parliaments", not that I am suggesting such articles are necessary) should be considered. At the very least, these lists should be a) push further down the page below the existing sections that are of broader public interest and b) present them in features that are collapsed by default, so not to make the page excessively long for scrolling.

Thanks. MiltonC (talk) 09:39, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Milton,

Thanks very much, mate. I'll think on what you've said. Below are my initial thoughts:

Substantive - For parliaments before the 2000s, it's not particularly easy to find this information presented in a clean, readable way. I understand that it may seem excessive, but I think there will be many people who would be happy to find this information, and who will gain a better understanding of these parliaments from it. I also think seeing the full breadth of what was done during a parliament is essential to understand the overall impact and direction of those years of the government. I will say, that I have referred back to these lists many times since I implemented them (I also have them saved to my desktop, so I don't need the table, but there are a number of reasons a quick reference like this is useful to people). Ultimately, I am also planning to fill out more information in summarized form in the long run, highlighting significant legislation and giving context to how it came about.

Functionality - I certainly respect if the list length is causing trouble and will happily collapse them and move them lower. Regarding these pages as places to host the lists of parliamentarians. Ironically, the more recent parliaments articles have moved those lists to their own pages and the article for the parliaments have been used to catalogue the events that occurred during that parliament. I will also say, that those lists of MPs are essentially raw data as well. While I'm collapsing I may collapse those lists of members as I have the same difficulty with them.

I'm certainly open to your point though, and I will spend more time thinking about it, this is only my first blush response. I admire your vast dedication to contributing to Wikipedia, you've done some amazing work. Absalom.absalom (talk) 16:41, 16 April 2026 (UTC)