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Section sizes

Section size for Bob Ferguson (politician) (24 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,252	3,252
Early life and education	2,640	2,640
Career	1,875	39,965
King County Council	26	13,166
Elections	2,298	2,298
Tenure	10,842	10,842
Attorney General of Washington	38	24,924
Elections	3,965	3,965
Tenure	618	20,921
Arlene's Flowers lawsuit	8,932	8,932
Comcast lawsuit	1,241	1,241
Executive Order 13769	1,745	1,745
Gun control	1,466	1,466
Withholding of evidence	937	937
Value Village lawsuit	1,197	1,197
Tribal salmon case	1,864	1,864
Chicken and tuna price-fixing	723	723
Healthcare-related issues	1,164	1,164
Lawsuits to block ballot initiatives	1,034	1,034
2024 Washington gubernatorial campaign	1,847	1,847
Personal life	2,763	2,763
Electoral history	3,693	3,693
References	33	33
External links	1,170	1,170
Total	55,363	55,363

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Reads like a campaign ad

This article reads like a campaign ad — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.21.180.194 (talk) 00:07, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I quite agree. I made some small edits. Someone with some time should work on this further. Some obvious issues:

"4th generation Washingtonian" does not belong in lede
"Washington native" section could be condensed into a less hype-y more normal section on family background & youth.
"He anxiously awaits the return of a competitive Seattle Mariners baseball team": not exactly encyclopedic tone. To put it mildly.
"Ferguson worked with the legal team that successfully defended taxpayers from paying for cost overruns associated with Safeco Field construction." That looks like something from a resume (especially the part about "successfully defended taxpayers").

- Jmabel | Talk 01:27, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes from papers

I had removed the quotes from the seven different newspapers and just kept the references to support the sentence "Numerous daily newspaper in Washington state editorialized against Stutzman’s refusal to sell flowers for the same sex wedding and supported of the Attorney General’s efforts to enforce the law." However they have since been added back in. I don't think they are necessary especially considering that they are not about Ferguson. If there is support here to do so, they should be removed again. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:42, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the content, as we're not an editorial board or a repository of every quote ever stated about an event. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Is it good 4 npov [1] [2] ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.90.196.227 (talk) 18:40, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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In the Comcast lawsuit section, there is a line "...filed over 1.8 individual violations..." that should be "...filed over 1.8 million individual violations...", as per the cited article. The word "millions" should be added to amend the statement. (http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/washington-state-to-sue-comcast-over-pattern-of-deceptive-practices/) 2001:4898:80E8:5:0:0:0:71E (talk) 00:40, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done Gulumeemee (talk) 04:28, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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but they're dead

Hey Trappist the monk! Looks like your recent edit removed url-status=dead from several references that really are dead. Why is that? -- mikeblas (talk) 16:03, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Superfluous. In cs1|2, the presence of |archive-url= with an assigned value tells the template that the value assigned to |url= is dead. Explicitly saying that a dead thing is dead is superfluous. Examples:

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{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://example.com |archive-url=https://archive.org |archive-date=2024-08-20}}

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—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I guess readers of the documentation are meant to infer that "the archived link is displayed first" means that the archive URL will be used in the link rather than the original url. I didn't make that assumption. What harm does the extra specification cause? -- mikeblas (talk) 14:48, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]