User talk:Smashingworth

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Federal judicial appointment history

Thanks for your work on the above and the other articles on the judiciary. It is good to have more people keeping these articles updated, I have a feeling that there is going to be a lot of Senate activity in the coming months. I saw you created some judicial biographies too, that has been a long term project of mine (both present and past circuit court judges) but I never seem to get around to creating many. Please do more if you have an interest :-). Let me know if you ever need assistance on anything. Cheers, NoSeptember ^talk 14:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Good faith

Please assume good faith when dealing with other editors. See Wikipedia:Assume good faith for the guidelines on this. Happy editing!

This is in reference to you edit comments on Brett Kavanaugh --waffle iron ^talk 03:18, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

An adminstrator has demanded Thomist gain consensus before adding in the material. Please post your thoughts. He has now added conspiracy material to United Airlines Flight 93. C56C 00:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Warning templates

Please don't remove warning templates from your talk page. --waffle iron ^talk 04:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Arkansas Project

Thomist is doing is same old tricks at Arkansas Project. C56C 22:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk pages

I found your posting, "Joie's Record of Editing Hypocrisy Reveals True Motives for Crashing This Page", at Talk:Lavenski Smith, to be a bit problematical. I want to express my opinion here rather than on the talk page, because my first concern is that the talk page is becoming more an argument about editor motives and less a discussion of how to improve the article (and reach consensus). My second concern, a lesser one, is to point out to you that Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines states Never address other users in a heading.

I understand that you're frustrated with the other editor, but you need to follow Wikipedia processes. And whatever you can do to ignore motives and focus on content is all to the good if the objective is to improve the article rather than (say) to force another editor to admit to being wrong. John Broughton | Talk 22:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Republican judges

I noticed that the Category you created, "Republican judges", is likely headed for deletion. I understand that categories like this take quite some time to develop and flesh out, yet this particular one appears to be unwelcome at Wikipedia, unless I'm misunderstanding the argument. I hope that you will continue your work here at Wikipedia. However, just so you know, there are also other wikis out there that might very well welcome such a Category project as yours. You might start by looking at Wikia.com, Centiare.com, or PBwiki.com. If you feel that this message is too spammy, you are welcome to delete it from your discussion page. --JossBuckle Swami 03:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Jeromeaholmes.jpg

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Smashingworth's repeated deletions on Thomas B. Griffith page

Please stop deleting the fact that Thomas B. Griffith practiced law in Utah for four years without a state license. If a successfully confirmed federal appeals court judge practiced law in Utah for four years without a state license to do so, shouldn't people be allowed to know that? What purpose does it serve to repeatedly delete this fact? According to Wikipedia standards, if we cannot agree on an article, instead of your repeatedly deleting my edits, we should make a good faith attempt to come to an compromise. Here is the paragraph as it stands now:

Griffith also practiced law for four years in Utah without a state license, failing to seek membership in the Utah bar upon assuming his duties at Brigham Young University. Griffith's defenders point out that it has been the longstanding position of the Utah bar and its then executive director—a position explained by letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee by five past presidents of the Utah bar—that in-house counsel in Utah need not be licensed there provided they are closely associated with local counsel, a practice Griffith carefully followed during his tenure at the University.

If this version is not agreeable to you, can you suggest an alternative version that is--without deleting the fact that Griffith practiced law for four years in Utah without getting a state license to do so? --Thattherepaul 14:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)thattherepaul

I see that you once again--for a fourth time--deleted the fact that Griffith practiced law for four years in Utah without getting a state license to do so. I have reinstated what you erased. I am going to post on the third-party opinion page, maybe a third party can come up with a neutral version that still remains truthful. --Thattherepaul 16:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)thattherepaul

Please drop me a line

Here. Thanks. Where is Dave II?Ferrylodge 05:49, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

For the record:

On Sarah Palin, your edit: ... 12:56, 31 August 2008 Smashingworth (Talk | contribs) (66,147 bytes) (→Public Safety Commissioner dismissal controversy: restoring more details to a hot topic issue (without overloading it)) (undo) ... removed mention of the fact that she is under an investigation for misconduct (in the issue of firing the public safety commissioner. I can assume good faith on that edit, but if you do it again I think that assumption would be untenable. Please do not remove this comment from your talk page, unless you archive the entire page and keep a link to the archive. Homunq (talk) 02:09, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

"Users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages, though archiving is preferred. They may also remove some content in archiving. The removal of a warning is taken as evidence that the warning has been read by the user. This specifically includes both registered and anonymous users."[1]Ferrylodge (talk) 00:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

rollback

You could use rollback, so I gave it to you. This is the full spiel. Cheers, NoSeptember 17:03, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

December 2009

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Keith R. Blackwell

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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