Talk:Alaska State Legislature

Edits to infobox on 17 December 2024 by User:Therequiembellishere

What follows below is adapted from Talk:State legislature (United States). I am merely raising this issue on this talk page and not fixing it at this time. This article is not a priority for me. Therefore, I am not going to waste my time cleaning up User:Therequiembellishere's mistakes.

User:Therequiembellishere made a massive number of edits to state legislature infoboxes on 17 December 2024: namely, changing "president of the Senate" to "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" to "Assembly speaker".

A native American English speaker actually familiar with domestic press coverage of state legislatures or who studied political science at the postsecondary level would not make such edits. (I was not a poli sci major, but because I was thinking about pursuing a legal career at the time, I did take introductory courses in political science and political philosophy with a lecturer who earned his doctorate in political science from Stanford University.) It is true that "Assembly speaker" is becoming a bit more common (though still rather informal), but Senate president is definitely not in common use. Overall, the longer phrasings of both terms are still the more common usages, especially in formal written English.

Here is what I already posted to that user's talk page:

"Unfortunately, it looks like your massive number of edits on 17 December 2024 are going to require a mass revert. The fact that all those infoboxes are using (and have always used) the longer titles should have been a clue that your proposed shorter titles are not the prevailing forms in formal written English. Google Ngram Viewer shows that "president of the Senate" is more common than "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" is more common than "Assembly speaker"."

I have already reverted the relevant edits to the infoboxes for the legislatures in California, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania. However, as a working attorney, I have better things to do with my time than fix such poorly thought-out edits. But I am raising the issue here and now so that anyone else interested in state legislatures can either manually fix those edits or take them to the administrators' noticeboard for a mass revert. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Paychecks for captains and crew with contracts with fish companies,

my name is Elia lind, my crew and I contract out with salmon tenders seasonal work, our contract ended over a month ago and still no paychecks for myself and crew , our bills stacking, penalties building, bad credit reports, no way to buy food, fuel every day activities at a standstill, IS there a way to fix this issue, as employees we should not have to suffer hardship waiting for our paycheck ~2026-51336-91 (talk) 00:38, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

salmon tender contracts, my name is Elia lind i contract out with tender company's looking for captains and crew to operate there vessels, It's been a month since our contract was completed and still no paychecks, our bills late paying penalties, no way to by food fuel ,everyday activities at a stand still NO FUNDS to do anything we're STUCK sitting home with no paychecks, Tender company's need to be able to pay there crew after a contract is completed, I am not speaking for myself there is a big number of crewmembers and captains in the same boat, this issue is ongoing it needs to change, thank you for your time, Elia Lind ~2026-51336-91 (talk) 00:56, 24 September 2026 (UTC)