User talk:ABlitzz

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Happy editing! Marquardtika (talk) 00:33, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Lol thank you for updating the AG finance data "as of" date from June/July to October. I stared at the article and the SoS page (unusable!) for about 20 minutes yesterday and finally just closed the tab in frustration and forgot about it. aesurias (talk) 00:35, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Of course!! Honestly I really should've realized it when I was updating the numbers after the deadline passed a couple months ago, I got the SoS and Governor pages just fine. Really goes to show you how easy it is to miss some really small error, and that's even with me mostly just focusing on Michigan pages...

The SoS website is definitely annoying to figure out at first, but it's not too complicated. You just got to click on 'committee' on the left and then make sure the committee type is 'candidate'. That'll open up a bunch of other spaces you can fill in, but I usually just make sure the committee status is 'active' and that 'office sought' is whatever office I'm looking for. Once everything is filled out how you want it, you'll have all the candidate committees (with some old ones sometimes still listed too, but they're easy to sift through), and all financial data is listed under the 'filings' section after you click on their committee.

Always happy to help if you need anything else too! ABlitzz (talk) 01:03, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

I see that your interested in the down ballot races in Michigan. This is something that has been important to me for some time as often there is little known about the candidates. I only recently found the page 2026 United States elections. Of course I jumped to Michigan. I think it's important to know these people early in their political careers.

My interest would be in created County pages within Michigan and filling them first with County elections, followed by the townships, cities and villages in each county. Because you appear most knowledgeable I wanted to seek your advice, tips, tricks before jumping in. I will have a learning curve, but expect to pick up quickly as I'm an old school html editor along with several other skills.

Thank you, @AWSeekerOfKnowledge AWSeekerOfKnowledge (talk) 01:51, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I will definitely start off by saying that I'm nowhere near an expert or the most knowledgeable on the ins and outs of everything, I mainly got involved here because I remember being annoyed at pages not getting updated quickly enough! Plus it just feels nice to be able to contribute to a website that is so widely used.

I would say that expanding into county elections is a nice idea. It honestly is something that I've considered doing in the past, but it would be such a big project that I wouldn't even know where to begin. I also am not sure that doing it for every single county would be necessary as a lot of them are small and not as notable. The main ones I would focus on are the most populated ones like Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, or Kent. Maybe throw in some more culturally relevant ones like Ingham or Washtenaw. The same would go when adding more lower office elections to the pages like mayor or city council (i.e. If you were working on a page for Macomb elections, only adding the city elections for Warren, Sterling Heights, and maybe one or two other ones). If it were me, I would also make them completely new articles dedicated to the elections instead of trying to work them into the articles of the counties.

Of course, this is all just me trying to come up with ideas and it's easier said than done. With your ideas, the one place I would point you towards would be WP:MI and you'll be able to look around there, find other people wanting to improve Michigan articles, and make your own discussions on how you can go about doing what you want to do. And just some simple tips for editing, I will encourage familiarizing yourself with notability rules and always reread your edits for typos or grammar errors before submitting anything. ABlitzz (talk) 03:19, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Looks like I'll have a bit of reading to do to get up to speed. At least I don't have to invent something from scratch. I also know that the scope is more than one person can do, but I expect to find others across the state to help fill in the blanks. Can you imagine having all 83 counties represented or even better all 1240 townships? Michigan has come a long ways in protecting all human rights, and many of us do not want to lose that. AWSeekerOfKnowledge (talk) 19:15, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

If/When you start the project, I would definitely get involved and help make edits when I could, and I'm sure that many other people will be as well. I'm still a little hesitant about including every single county just because you'll eventually get to a point where many of them are just small (population) and not notable, but that's just the opinion of one person and a more formal discussion on that topic could be done in the future.

Another tip I would give you is that you should always fill out the edit summaries before you publish changes to articles. They don't have to be super long, but if the edit is something that might be controversial or challenged, then filling out the summaries will help other people understand why you made a change and what the change is without having to fully review it. Of course, they're not as important to fill out when you're just doing small things like fixing typos or grammar mistakes. More on this can be found in H:ES.

With you being a new editor, I would also suggest that you can play around in your sandbox (H:SANDBOX) to get more comfortable on editing things. Once you feel comfortable enough to move on to actually creating pages, WP:HTCAP and WP:DRAFT are great places to help you learn about the process and how you can start/work on it.

Always around to help! ABlitzz (talk) 22:15, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi there, I saw you removed the Season 8 controversy/“mystery man” material from the Season 8 page. I’d like to explain why this is relevant encyclopedic context when supported by reliable sources.

Season 8 had an unusually large “spillover” beyond Netflix into the broader media ecosystem: thousands of Reddit threads/comments, TikTok/Instagram recap culture, reaction podcasts, and entertainment/gossip columns discussing the storyline and its off-screen implications. This wasn’t a minor side conversation, it became one of the season’s main online talking points, and it materially shaped audience reception and public debate (similar to how Wikipedia covers other seasons’ public discourse when it reaches broader coverage).

Importantly, the point isn’t to elevate any private individual or repeat rumors. The point is that the season generated substantial third-party coverage about an off-screen controversy that viewers and outlets treated as a central storyline driver.

Please consider undoing your revision. Naturevalley87 (talk) 17:56, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

I can understand why you're interested in covering how the season's storyline spilt into discussions on various platforms, I'm just not sure if how you went about it is exactly how to do it or that it's really relevant based on how it was worded. When I was reading it, the section you wrote felt like it definitely violated WP:PROMO, especially considering you decided to try and make an entire article about him as well. If you're wanting to include the information, I would suggest putting it into the reception section, making sure it reads much less promo-y, make sure whatever's mentioned is notable, and cite things properly. ABlitzz (talk) 18:10, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion. Naturevalley87 (talk) 18:14, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Would you be okay with something along the lines of this (with added citations) inserted into the reception sub header?

Following the season’s release, online discussion extended beyond the cast to include Daniel Nides, a non-cast individual referenced in Lauren O’Brien and David Bettenberg storyline.[2] Viewers circulated screenshots and social media posts attempting to identify him, prompting several entertainment outlets to publish explainers about his identity and background.[3][4]

Coverage in publications including Screen Rant, Elite Daily, The Tab, Yahoo Entertainment, and Vulture summarized the speculation and Nides’ public responses.[2][3][5] Commentators described the situation as an unusual instance in which a private individual, who did not appear on screen, became a recurring subject of national entertainment reporting and online discourse.

In an interview with Playgirl, Nides stated that he had explored potential legal action related to reputational harm and privacy concerns stemming from the storyline and subsequent online amplification.[6] The interview framed the controversy as an example of how reality television narratives can extend beyond participants and generate broader media and professional consequences. Naturevalley87 (talk) 18:49, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

I definitely think that that wording is much better! Just a couple more minor changes I would make:

• Referenced in the Lauren... storyline - Just adding in 'the' to make it flow a little better
• Removing the commas before and after 'who did not appear on-screen' and hyphenating on-screen - Generally just better since it is important that Nides never appeared on-screen, and having on-screen hyphenated is usually the preferred form of the word

ABlitzz (talk) 19:06, 18 February 2026 (UTC)