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Elizabeth Warren
Hi, Designate! We share an interest in having the best possible article on Elizabeth Warren. Please engage on the talk page about why you don't think we should mention she declined to be included in the Senate minority directory. Thanks! Yopienso (talk) 00:39, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

GA review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Elizabeth_Warren/GA2#GA_Reassessment - You  really  can  21:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Mo Cowan
This isn't much of an explanation: "This is going in the lead. Period." And you changed what you call "this" from what you put in place earlier, anyway. Is it too much to ask that you write a explanatory comment? Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 03:34, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

GA Nom for Rand Paul
Hello- You recently reviewed my nomination of Rand Paul to become a good article nominee. I really appreciate the feedback, and I have worked on improving on those issues. Can you reassess the page again to see if it now meets the criteria? Thank you very much for your critique and for reviewing the page. Have a happy easter/Passover/beautiful spring day! PrairieKid (talk) 23:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

William Keating
We need to talk about this page. Almost every single member of congress has a separate subsection for committee assignments. I'm a strong proponent of consistency. Can we find some common ground?--Jerzeykydd (talk) 15:31, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

ANI notice
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

GA nomination
Hi, Designate. I will be reviewing Joseph P. Kennedy III this week and the following one. Stay tuned for my reviews/comments. Thanks for your work on the article! Cheers, ComputerJA (talk) 21:43, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I may not be around today b/c I'll be out of town. My final concern is found in the review page. Thanks again! ComputerJA (talk) 15:43, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Zachary Taylor
I've started the review for Zachary Taylor, and would like your thoughts on a few points. Thanks for your work on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:02, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Scare Quotes
I noticed your edit at Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. I'm not a big proponent of scare quotes and I'm curious what your logic for the edit was. The sentence was repeating content from the NPR interview/reportage. If you don't think NPR agreed with Tsarnev's use of the term slut wouldn't it also disagree with his use of the word prostitute? I also don't understand how a tertiary source would use quotes in this fashion. Thanks for your time. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 22:38, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It just seems incongruous. Prostitute is a standard term, even if he used it as an insult; slut is only a slang term. It's like writing She responded by calling him a liar and a dipshit. It looks bizarre outside of quotation marks. I would add that the NPR article is a transcript of an interview, and does not necessarily represent NPR's typographical standards. I certainly don't feel strongly about it, though. Feel free to revert it. —Designate (talk) 00:30, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * And thanks for your patience through what I know was a long review! -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:10, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Proposal at TAFI talk
A discussion that may interest you is occurring at Wikiproject TAFI's talk page at Proposal: use Theo's Little Bot to automate the schedule and queue. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:02, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Zachary Taylor assassination theories
Can you comment on Talk:Zachary Taylor re: assassination theories? You've gone over all these sources better than I have, so I defer to your judgement. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:04, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Kennedy edits
Hello Designate,

I am sorry you found some of my edits to be disruptive. All I aimed to do was simply add notes (verified of course) to the family page. Yes, I did searches and provided sources to back up my edits. Just felt you should know.

Thesomeone987 (talk) 01:12, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Kennedy Family Vandalism
Hey I just wanted to let you know I opened a sock puppet investigation on User:Thesomeone987 which you can find here if you wish to weigh in. ArleneCavendish (talk) 13:54, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

He has clearly been vandalising in the past and masking under blocked ip addresses who continue to disruptively edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArleneCavendish (talk • contribs) 13:55, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination of image for deletion
Howdy- You recently nominated an image that I uploaded for deletion. I was hoping you could further explain your reasoning. The tag isn't very specific. What in particular is wrong with the non-free use rationale? Thanks. PrairieKid (talk) 23:02, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Barack Obama
Removing that source is fine by me. I don't think that was what Darkstar1st was aiming for, though. -- Neil N   talk to me  02:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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William R. Keating
I've begun the GA review for William R. Keating and would like your thoughts on a few points when you have a chance. Thanks as always for your quality contributions! -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:12, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

2nd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting
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Template:CongLinks
Please don't remove parameter values from articles. Bioguide is used for both the official biography and the Washington Post's voting record. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 13:04, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

This week's articles for improvement - 22 July 2013 to 28 July 2013
posted by Northamerica1000(talk) 10:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Joseph P. Kennedy III
Good luck with the FA nomination. It was a pleasure to have reviewed your article. Thanks for your work on Wikipedia. I'm sure there will be more interesting articles from you in the future—so don't be surprised if we work together again. Cheers, ComputerJA ( ☎  •  ✎  ) 19:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the use of party cell instead of in the Congressional delegation articles. It's unclear, when there are multiple columns of reps, to which the color belongs. Why is this better than shading the whole cell?—GoldRingChip 15:19, 4 August 2013 (UTC)


 * This issue has come up a few times on WP:FLC (here's one recent discussion) and there's a consensus against using background colors across the entire table. It's mostly a concern about accessibility—blue text on a blue background or red background can be hard to read. It would be different if the name weren't linked. The colors also overemphasize party as the primary identifier for an individual, drowning out his or her name. It's not very good from a design perspective, and you rarely see professional sources present such a huge block of color. —Designate (talk) 17:04, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * If the background color is a problem, as it seems the discussions have concluded, I'm still not sure the color stripe on the left side is a good solution.—GoldRingChip 22:11, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe there are other possibilities. —Designate (talk) 21:57, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Let's figure them out before continuing to convert these articles.—GoldRingChip 23:26, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Understand that this has been going on for years over at WP:FLC; the ship has sailed. The new style may not be wonderful but there's a very strong consensus that it's an improvement. —Designate (talk) 23:41, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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Same-sex marriage in the United States chronological vs. state-by-state
I agree with your reasoning for you reverting my change to the History section from chronological to state-by-state. I thought that with a change to state-by-state, that the History section would be more manageable, so that as new developments become legislative/judicial history, they could be added state-by-state, and also that users could look up the particular history for a state rather quickly.

But you are correct in that there are individual pages for states, each state does not exist in a vacuum (though states' rights activists see it that way) and your revert keeps with the manual of style.

We should, though, consider a standard title for each state's same-sex marriage developments, as some articles are titled, for example, "Same-sex marriage in New York," while others "Recognition of same-sex unions in New Jersey", and "Domestic partnership in Oregon," etc.; and some states don't even have pages, even though equality advocates are moving toward same-sex marriages in all states; and that each state has a same-sex marriage legislative/judicial history even though there may not be a page detailing that history.

I will now instead focus my effort on improving each state's page on same-sex marriage history, and try to build a consensus in having each state's page titled in a consistent manner. Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention :) I have also copied this message to the talk page in the SSM in the US article. MarkGT (talk) 17:33, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

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