User talk:Snickers2686/Archive 11

J.D. --> Juris Doctor?
I was under the impression that we fairly uniformly use the abbreviation here. In fact, I have often changed links to that effect. Am I wrong about that? bd2412 T 20:33, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No, you're not wrong. To me it make sense to spell out the name of a degree while reading it in the body of the article versus using abbreviations in an infobox. I just think it looks cleaner that way, but that may just be a personal preference. Snickers2686 (talk) 23:04, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Judge Beth Freeman.jpg


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Taking your user page at face value . ..
I thought I would congratulate you on reaching the age of 33. Happy birthday! It's been a pleasure editing with you over the last several years. LacrimosaDiesIlla (talk) 13:54, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! It's been pleasure editing with you as well.

Your Question Regarding Trump Administration Personnel Category
In response to your recent question on my UserTalk page, Category:Trump administration personnel should include any current or former Executive Branch appointees of President Donald Trump, and any current or former Cabinet or Cabinet-level appointees of President Trump should be included in Category:Trump administration cabinet members, which is a subcategory of the "personnel" category. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.--TommyBoy (talk) 21:35, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

New Article
Hey Snickers, I created a page for Earle D. Litzenberger - Ambassador to Azerbaijan. It’s waiting for review and I’m noticing an 8 week backlog. Mind please to review it? Thanks Shemtov613 (talk) 19:53, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Did you move the article to the main space? I don't see any article by that name pending review. Snickers2686 (talk) 22:35, 30 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Correct, someone moved it. It’s now Draft:Earle D. Litzenberger. Shemtov613 (talk) 23:35, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay. I can only review articles that are in the main space. If your article was an AfC submission, that itself has it's own review criteria that I'm not a part of. Sorry. Snickers2686 (talk) 04:36, 31 July 2019 (UTC)


 * No problem. Thanks anyways Shemtov613 (talk) 04:56, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Maimun Zubair
Hi, Some time ago you moved the page that I create, Maimun Zubair, to Draft:Maimun Zubair. I think now the article has enough references, and until now I am still perfecting the rest. I hope you can review the Draft:Maimun Zubair page and move it back to its original page at Maimun Zubair. Previously, I thank you. :) Raudalkhudri (talk) 07:43, 11 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Go ahead and keep working on the draft, it looks good so far. There are still many blank sections, i.e. Career, Activities, Notable Works and Death, so until those are updated with reliable sources and content, I think it should stay in the draft format for now. Good work though! Snickers2686 (talk) 21:28, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
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Steven Menashi
Here is your source (the hearing that I actually did watch): https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/09/11/2019/nominations

That you could have dug up to improve Wikipedia if you were in good faith, since you seem to be familiar with the judicial process, instead of deleting my edit as if I were some anon vandal.

Best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.71.137.194 (talk) 17:07, 12 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I know, I watched the hearing. What relevance does it have on him as a nominee? Snickers2686 (talk) 17:10, 12 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Woah, hold on a second. That means you used the lack of citation as an excuse to remove my edit, since you knew this information was true if you indeed watched the hearing. That's some really low stuff dude. Do you have something against the Jewish people? As for your question, it is a living person bio, and it is his bio. Nearly all bios include information about origins, and the "relevancy" of origins is only used to determine if that info should be in the lead of the article or not. Just because I choose not to have an account and decorate it with weird boxes doesn't mean I don't know how Wikipedia works. Please do not vandalize Wikipedia by removing sourced info.

Really? You're gonna sit there and call it vandalism? I'm not the one hiding under an anonymous account. Do you expect people to watch all two hours of the video just to find out he's Jewish? Again, what relevance does it have? Snickers2686 (talk) 17:18, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

I'm not hiding buddy, I have no time to put up silly little boxes that's all. You are the one who was sneaky like "yeah but there is no citation so I'm going to delete it" even though you knew the info to be true. It is as relevant as any origins info is in any bio. If you are an anti-Semite and do not like Jewish people, that doesn't give you the right to vandalize Wikipedia and remove sourced info. As for the video, hey buddy you are grasping at the straws here - there are references on Wikipedia with only the name of the book and the page number, so take it easy...

So then find a written source with the same information. Snickers2686 (talk) 17:30, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Stop making up weird rules and please do remove "This user assumes good faith" box from your profile. It is a video of him personally stating this, and if you watched the hearing you know this information to be true. So what is your problem?? Need some attention?

If you wanna have an actual grownup conversation instead of hurling insults, then I'll talk with you. I've got administrators looking into your actions already so we'll see what they say. Have a good one! Snickers2686 (talk) 17:38, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, said the guy who thinks a video of the bio subject stating this information personally would be lower source than a second-hand news article. You are the one acting in bad faith, so remove this sourced information, and I will report you for anti-Semitic vandalism. It's simple.

Archbishops
Hi there, thanks for updating the 21st-century categories. But I need to point out that Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops is a subcategory of Category:21st-century Roman Catholic bishops, and so putting an article in the former (diffusing) will suffice, and it is redundant to also place him in the latter category. Thanks! Elizium23 (talk) 03:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Women government ministers
Hallo, one of your edits at 03:18 today was to Johanna Dohnal on my watch list, where you removed Category:Government ministers of Austria using Hotcat, presumably because she was in Category:Women government ministers of Austria. But this is a "non-diffusing" subcategory, so the parent category should not be removed. I see from your contribution list that you made a lot of similar mistaken edits around the same time. Please go back and revert them. Thanks. Pam D  05:31, 21 October 2019 (UTC) (typo corrected 16:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC))
 * Show me the Wikipedia policy where this is the case. Snickers2686 (talk) 16:14, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The text at Category:Women government ministers of Austria says it is a non-diffusing category, and the link there leads to WP:DUPCAT - a guideline rather than a policy, but it says that "[non-diffusing categories] provide an exception to the general rule that pages are not placed in both a category and its subcategory: there is no need to take pages out of the parent category purely because of their membership of a non-diffusing subcategory". Pam  D  16:23, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * But I've often thought it would be useful if there was something in the page code to identify a non-diffusing subcategory, as there are so many incorrectly-added diffusing categories added which many of us tidy up on sight! Pam  D  16:26, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Minor Christopher Cooper change perhaps you could review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Christopher_R._Cooper#Would_like_to_add_detail_about_his_wife — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siihb (talk • contribs) 23:53, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
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This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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Michael Pelletier
In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template after your citation. I have done so for the above article. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:11, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Linking to inactive links
The links automatically are active after about an hour so there is no need to wait to add it in then. 148.77.10.25 (talk) 18:47, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

There's no need to rush to add it until it's active either. Snickers2686 (talk) 18:48, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * there's no need to wait as it won't change and you don't have to go back check if it's active and then add it in 148.77.10.25 (talk) 19:04, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Bio talkpages
There's no need to change |blp=yes to "no" when a subject dies. Just remove it, as the BLP formatting serves no purpose with the death, only the WikiProject Biography |living=yes should change. Thanks. —  Wylie pedia  @ 00:24, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019


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Former judges for Template:U.S. Tax Court judges?
What would your thoughts be on adding a section for all of the former judges/board members? BD2412 T 02:13, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not opposed to it but there's a good number of members/judges of the Tax Court that don't have an article. Snickers2686 (talk) 02:32, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * They will, eventually. I have drafts underway for all of the red links. BD2412  T 02:36, 5 January 2020 (UTC)