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Cannabis v. Upland needs mention

Latest comment: 8 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

After the 2017 Cannabis v. Upland decision, the requirement for two-thirds approval for local special taxes has no longer applied to voter initiatives, which now only require 50%+1. This is a significant change to Prop 13 in practice and I was surprised not to find it in this article. Can we add a section on this? Graue (talk) 00:57, 12 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Chicago Tribune citation link rot

Latest comment: 7 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I see that one of the citations in the article seems to have link rotted. It looks like the URLs/articles were re-arranged between companies both owned at one point by the same parent company (Tribune Publishing), but it doesn't appear to be available on the old website nor does it have a redirect. I'm not sure if it would better to update url=, and website= to the new page while setting the publisher= to the original publisher explicitly and add an archive-url= to the original copy (along with url-status=live) or if I should just leave the url= pointing to the original and add an archive-url (with an implicit url-status=dead).

Current citation^[1]

Option A^[2]

Option B^[3]

Or maybe the best change is neither of my proposed changes? I'm not a Wikipedia expert so I thought I would post here instead of making the change myself. Greenbeard12 (talk) 06:38, 5 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Generally speaking, I would go with option A. It's not necessary to update to the current host of the page, in my opinion - stick with the original, and its archive url as 'dead'. The Wayback Machine browser plugin/extension can save a lot of time in the process. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 07:59, 5 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks anastrophe, I have updated the citation using option A. Greenbeard12 (talk) 02:47, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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↑ Haynes, V. Dion (August 23, 2003). "Schwarzenegger rolls out his economic recovery plan". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
↑ Haynes, V. Dion (August 23, 2003). "Schwarzenegger rolls out his economic recovery plan". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
↑ Haynes, V. Dion (August 23, 2003). "Schwarzenegger rolls out his economic recovery plan". Baltimore Sun. Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2025-11-04.

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[1] Haynes, V. Dion (August 23, 2003). "Schwarzenegger rolls out his economic recovery plan". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-12-20.

[2] Haynes, V. Dion (August 23, 2003). "Schwarzenegger rolls out his economic recovery plan". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2019-12-20.

[3] Haynes, V. Dion (August 23, 2003). "Schwarzenegger rolls out his economic recovery plan". Baltimore Sun. Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2025-11-04.

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