Talk:John Donley Adams

caveats
His birth date is unpublished on his and McGuire Woods' websites. Also, McGuire Woods and most large Richmond firms opted out of the Martindale Hubbell hard copy directory. It is not included in any article I nor several reference librarians can find. I believe he worked for Hunton & Williams between his judicial clerkships, per a search in Virginia Lawyers Weekly that turned up a 2005 article where he was on the brief. I did not review all 82 of his cases as AUSA, but all appeared criminal, a mixture of drug and gun cases and probation violations, with at least a couple fraud cases thrown in, including the one mentioned in the text. However, I don't have time for further work on this article. I am posting it as a courtesy not as an endorsement.Jweaver28 (talk) 00:58, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

more work needed
I'm trying to move my comments of last week into this section, since I still don't know how to set up a talk page for a new article and this is now seasoned enough to have one with "new section" as an option. For what it's worth, I didn't appreciate my computer crashing (blue screen of death) shortly after I added an update yesterday. I added a link to the Virginia Pilot article even though it wasn't fact-checked by its publisher--Adams could not have served as an AUSA for 3 years.Jweaver28 (talk) 14:15, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

apology
I probably exceeded my scope of authority (as well as competence) by cutting and pasting part of a talk page template from that of a dead Virginia politician and doctoring it a bit, but IMHO this talk page now looks better. Acting too boldly? I apologize. IMHO2: I think this article is start rather than stub class, but am not an official classifier, so I won't be upset if that changes. Again, I apologize for usurpation of authority prompted by aesthetic concerns. IMHO3: this article deserves a medium or high importance because of the amount of money being funneled into this race, but I don't have the time to figure that out, nor to research his opponent's record. IMHO4:adding this bastardized template also probably gives notice to the subject about the article, for complaints and revisions. I've done the best I could considering the incomplete sources, and welcome corrections which fit wikipedia's guidelines, as done by another editor last week. I hope I won't get a voicemail threatening a lawsuit, like that from a 646 area code (Manhattan, New York) threatening a fraud lawsuit supposedly on behalf of the U.S. Government two Saturdays ago (Sept.23), which seemed linked to a scam letter delivered that afternoon which offered to buy real estate, pseudo-handwritten and supposedly from a "family" but which was presorted (using facilities which cost $$$ and omit franking info) and the address actually is an apartment building and the sender not even from Arlington--and when he texted me back days later and I asked for his real name and address, instead I got a callback from a scam number with a Massachusetts area code (and a couple of no-name Virginia numbers which I don't presume pollsters) and he changed his meetup profile picture to omit a blonde woman after I told him a search of his name and Arlington turns up articles about a guy repeatedly convicted of domestic violence against women.

IMHO5: Herring's article also needs work, but I have other things to do this weekend and next week, even if I manage to withstand history's call (whether to the American Revolution in PA or Massive Resistance in VA) and don't flee the Commonwealth to avoid the negative campaign ads in several races. FYI, local law libraries where I could review Virginia Lawyers Weekly will be closed til Tuesday and I'm not driving down to Richmond to use the LVA's resources. For what it's worth, I've noticed that google hasn't put this on p.1 of its search results for the name in any of its iterations, preferring to show campaign bios and recent news stories. Fine. Perhaps I've given too much weight to many of my new articles concerning dead politicians and others appearing within the first two google links for those searches within a couple of days, even when they are in my sandbox (and when this article first posted in my sandbox, a guy sat down 2 tables from me while constantly talking alt-right or tea party politics, and sat down a table away from me yesterday morning, but likewise didn't try to strike up a conversation and at least this time kept his you-tube videos and phone call volume within reasonable limits). Anyhow, several days ago I also noted that there's no article about Justin Fairfax, who's the Democrat running for lieutenant governor and whose big-law-firm and campaign biographies have similar problems IMHO as this one (Adams). I thought about starting an article about him, and yesterday swung by the Fairfax public library (where I think he lives). However, it has no clippings file to begin an impartial article, and the Alexandria U.S. District Courthouse is in the other direction so I can't figure out the duration of his touted AUSA service. Perhaps oddly, links to him are redirected to the article concerning that race, which of course has no biographies....Jweaver28 (talk) 16:53, 7 October 2017 (UTC)