Talk:United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

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[edit] Infobox

My rational behind using {{Infobox Officeholder, is at this time we do not have a infobox (template) for government department. {{Infobox Officeholder has the information needed to be displayed to the reader and quickly get an idea of the department.

Second, because it is a template it is very easy to edit. Whereas the infobox used at United States Secretary of Homeland Security is a homebrewed table, which can not be easily changed. With 100s of departments within the government there would be many wasted hours of editing in the future.

it also makes it easier for bots to make auto changes.

Until someone comes up with a better template for government departments , I think we should continue using {{Infobox Officeholde --Jeanenawhitney 10:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

• Yes I agree. Would you like to make a template or should I? I can try to copy one tonight. Do you know which of Wikipedia's WikiProjects this would belong to? I looked at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States yesterday but there might be one for U.S. government. The Secretaries of the Cabinet could share this, don't you think? I made this same edit to the State and Education pages yesterday because they were the only two among those listed in United States Cabinet without a department logo in the infobox. I have not looked at any other of the deputies (offices, so the Charles E. Allen biography that you started to fix is a separate category of article?). -Susanlesch 00:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)