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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:People of Alsatian-Jewish descent

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Image tagging for File:William Colby.jpg

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Improper moves

Do not move pages and then make requests for the redirects to be moved (like you did with Tom Mooney). That just makes you look like an ass and will hurt your cause. You also did not follow the steps at WP:RM (see the part about setting up a discussion area). TJ Spyke 21:25, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stop with the images

Hey, all those images you just uploaded for PA state reps and senators? ALL copyright violations. Every single one. Not one is OK to use. You need to read this: Wikipedia:Copyrights immediately. Consider this your last and final warning. --A. Gorilla (talk) 21:50, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, all that work you up in to uploading those images: for nothing. I just nominated them for deletion, because they are copyright violations and cannot ever be on wikipedia. Basically, these are copyrighted by the Pennsylvania government, which means the government owns them. You can't use this tag on these images:{{PD-USGov}}, because the US government is not the same as the Pennsylvania government.

If you want to make a good faith effort to contribute to Wikipedia, I can help you. But, first, you must stop uploading any images. If you do that, I can show you how to upload images that won't run afoul of copyright law. --A. Gorilla (talk) 22:02, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree File:Andy Dinniman.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image (File:Don Siegelman.jpg)

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Replaceable fair use Image:H. Guy Hunt.jpg

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File source problem with File:Leon Panetta headshot.jpg

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File permission problem with File:Leon Panetta headshot.jpg

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Possibly unfree File:Daugaard.jpg

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I have listed File:Orval Faubus.gif, File:Bob Bullock.jpg, File:BobMichel.jpg, File:Markell.jpg, File:William Colby.jpg at PUI as well.--Blargh29 (talk) 07:03, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Phil Bryant.jpg

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File:Phil Bryant.jpg again

It's obvious from all of the traffic above, that you don't grasp the copyright policy of Wikipedia. Since you can't, I'd suggest you just stop uploading any files to Wikipedia. File:Phil Bryant.jpg is from a State of Mississippi web site, which is copyrighted and owned by the state of Mississippi. You can't just take copyrighted content from other web sites and upload them here. As far as government sites go, only content found at federal government web sites is generally copyright-free and may be uploaded here. As this is like your umpteenth time being told about this, if you upload another copyrighted image to Wikipedia again, I'm almost sure your editing privileges will be revoked via a block or ban. - allstar▼echo 05:31, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles for deletion nomination of James Randall (serial killer)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:KS cities and mayors of 100,000 population

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March 2010

Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Winona Ryder. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:10, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What would that "defamatory" content be? The article says she was "convicted of grand theft and vandalism." Do those categories not fit? Don't threaten me with blockage when I haven't done anything wrong. Americus55 (talk) 03:13, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To begin with, you added the unsourced and potentially defamatory category "Groupies" to the article: [1]. Also, the "Vandals" category is a bizarre one, that appears to be mostly used for people infamous for vandalism; the Ryder article doesn't make it clear what "vandalism" she might have done, even if she was convicted of it. Court rulings can be confusing, and BLP means we don't make judgments about them unless a preponderance of reliable sources do. Convicted of theft? Yes. Vandal? No. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:23, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case you aren't aware, Wikipedia has a policy against personal attacks. Calling other people lousy editors isn't going to help resolve the issue you're having. Please remember to keep civil even when disagreeing. Shell ^babelfish 20:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Carl C. Perkins

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Opinion needed!

As a frequent editor of American politics, I would appreciate if you put your two cents into the debate over the conservative support for President Obama in Talk:Public image of Barack Obama. Thanks.--Jerzeykydd (talk) 23:03, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Babette Josephs

Your addition to the Babette Josephs page disturbs me. Without it the page is clearly a stub, with minimal information. Thus the page seems to fall within the category Wikipedia:NPF "Wikipedia contains biographical material on people who, while notable enough for an entry, are not generally well known." That is, if she were better known, surely there would be more information about her.

We are thus instructed "In such cases, exercise restraint and include only material relevant to their notability, focusing on high quality secondary sources." She has been a politician for 25 years; there is 25 years of information that is more notable than what you have posted. That the article instead reflects only what is too easily described as an attack, argues strongly that your post is not appropriate under Wikipedia:NPF. Please remove your edits. Quantling (talk) 15:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

August 2010

Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Carrie Fisher, Joely Fisher, and Tricia Leigh Fisher. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jayjg ^(talk) 01:43, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

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Deaths in 2010

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Orphaned non-free image File:Hadden Clark.jpg

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April 2011

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May 2011

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Speedy deletion nomination of Durkee–Mower

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List of House members reprimanded

This is just a heads-up that I have removed your entry for Rep. Corinne Brown of Florida from List of United States Representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded. Please see my comment on the talkpage of the article for my reasoning. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:34, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Glenn Miller in List of aerial disappearances

Thanks for creating an entry for Glenn Miller in this list. I had decided to leave it to someone else to do so, as his inclusion may be open to challenge on the basis that he was formally posted as "Missing in action" (so, including him might raise the issue of whether all other notable MIA aviators shouldn't be included in the list as well, which would make it excessively long - I think.) Personally, I am quite happy to accept your judgement that Miller should be included, since he was only a "combattant" in the technical sense and there is no evidence that his death resulted from enemy action (although a type of "friendly fire" incident is a possibility.) I thought I should note here that someone else might challenge his inclusion on the basis of the policy that is stated in the introduction to the list (or look for a change or qualification to that policy.) Thanks again, though, for taking the effort to complete an entry in the list for him. Todowd (talk) 17:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

City mayors by state templates

I see you have created Template:Washington cities and mayors of 100,000 population. The first deletion discussion for this type of template is occurring at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_24#Template:New_York_cities_and_mayors_of_100.2C000_population.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:54, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see you previously created Template:KS cities and mayors of 100,000 population, that seems to have gotten [Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_12#Template:KS_cities_and_mayors_of_100.2C000_population|deleted]]. We need to put an end to this. You are the only active creator of these types of templates who has not responded at the current discussion.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:43, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

These templates are up for deletion again at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_February_19#Template:Massachusetts_cities_and_mayors_of_100.2C000_population.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2012

Please stop adding unsourced content. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Falcon8765 ^(TALK) 22:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Thanks for the barnstar! --Boycool (talk) 00:45, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Smile!

A smile for you

You’ve just received a random act of kindness! 66.87.0.137 (talk) 13:36, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Edmund Kemper.jpg

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Speedy deletion nomination of David Freed

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The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

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Speakers in Chairmen boxes

It's completely irrelevant who the Speaker or Speakers were in infoboxes detailing committee chairmanships. Tiller54 (talk) 11:41, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I can see that you did a lot of work adding the Speaker to so many infoboxes, and that you meant it in good faith, but I would request you to go back and remove them. In the future it would be a good idea, before making so many changes in so many articles, to discuss it somewhere and get consensus. Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 14:47, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Never mind removing them, I see that someone has already done so. Please don't be offended by this, but please do keep it in mind before doing something like this again. Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Although I have already thanked you for some of your individual edits, I wanted to express my appreciation for your assistance in expanding Category:People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln which I recently created.--TommyBoy (talk) 02:36, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Per your suggestion, I have formally that Category:Lincoln conspirators should be upmerged into Category:People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.--TommyBoy (talk) 04:37, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Following up on my earlier comments, I'm beginning to think that the discussion on the nomination has gone off track, and I was wondering if you any further suggestions.--TommyBoy (talk) 23:26, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category:African-American people in Alaska politics and Category:African-American state legislators in Alaska

Are you going to do anything to actually expand the coverage of the topics covered by these categories, and if so, do you need any help with that? As I've explained any number of times, I have no use for exploiting the WP:SMALLCAT loophole to create an ceaseless number of vanity categories, which is precisely what you get when you create two categories to support only one article. Expand that times the countless number of times this loophole has been exploited over the years and the category structure ceases to become useful to anyone other than categorization geeks when there's no logic, rhyme or reason being employed other than slavish devotion to a particular finer point in policy / guidelines. Efforts like this amount to picking low-hanging fruit and activity for activity's sake, without an appreciable improvement in our coverage of what's notable in the world. This is especially pertinent considering that right this moment in Alaska, we have reliable sources making a big deal out of an African-American politician who is also a presumptive state senator-elect because he's unopposed on the general election ballot. Curiously enough, one such recent story was the top story in the physical edition of the Alaska Dispatch News the other day, which put much focus on his race, but now it appears that they're trying to bury it as much as possible after readers objected to their making such a big deal of his being African-American. The number of notable African-Americans in Alaskan politics could adequately populate one category, but not both. There were African-Americans such as Rosalee Walker and Iola Banks who were active on the local and party levels and may therefore have some claim to notability, but never held particular offices, which some Wikipedians who work on political biographies appear to view as the sole determinant for notability. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 22:17, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to explain the reasons why I undid your edits of this morning; I did it not because they are wrong, but because they are premature. The new members of Congress first elected on November 8 will not commence to serve as Senators or Representatives until noon on January 3, 2017 (except for a few instances in which they won special elections for the remainder of the term that concludes on January 3, but none of such new members of Congress are Hispanic or Latino). For this reason, I undid your edits to the List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress page.

I also undid your edits that stated that the Hispanic Representatives that did not seek reelection will have served until 2017); I certainly hope that is the case, but if they were to resign or die prior to January 1 then their service would have lasted until 2016, and if they resign or die on January 1 or 2 then their reason for departure would not have been "retirement." There is no reason to tempt fate by assuming that they all will serve until they retire on January 3, 2017.

I think that you had some edits regarding the party affiliation and party color designations for current or past members; please feel free to add those back in, since I did not mean to undo them, but they went out with the bathwater when I undid the premature additions and modifications. And please come back on January 3 to make your additions and modifications to the list; when you do, you also should include Congressman-elect Brian Mast of Florida, who, like Senator-elect Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, has one Mexican-American parent and two Mexican grandparents (albeit on his mother's side instead of on her father's side).

Thank you. AuH2ORepublican (talk) 15:05, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve George A. Williams (Nebraska politician)

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Thanks for creating the basic articles about WV Senators, but could you please add talk pages? Thanks! MB298 (talk) 22:17, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Jeff Mullins (politician)

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. All articles on living people are required to have WP:INLINECITED secondary sources. At the moment it has no sources ('External links' are usually friendly suggestions rather than sources, but I've assumed this was an error and they are sources, otherwise it would be tagged for deletion as an unreferenced biography of a living person). Can you please inline cite the sources and put a 'References' header.

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I see now this is sorted, which is brilliant. There is the same issue at Mike Romano (politician), could you please fix it? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 12:40, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

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Could you please take a look at the article about Johannes Brost. I would just like someone else to take a look at my complete re-write.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:50, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Political Party Strength in Mississippi fix

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Which is exactly why I provided a link to the relevant editing guideline on the subject. Since you apparently couldn't be othered to read it before blindly reverting me I suppose I can reproduce the relvant passage here for you:

"There is usually nothing wrong with linking to redirects in articles. Some editors are tempted, upon finding a link to a redirect page, to bypass the redirect and point the link directly at the target page. However, changing to a piped link is beneficial only in a few cases. Piping links solely to avoid redirects is generally a time-wasting exercise that can actually be detrimental. It is almost never helpful to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]."

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