User talk:Snickers2686/Archive 9

Speedy deletion declined: Artichoke (band)
Hello Snickers2686. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Artichoke (band), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims coverage in reliable sources. Thank you. SoWhy 09:26, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Jordan Brown (basketball)
Hello Snickers2686. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Jordan Brown (basketball), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims coverage in reliable sources. Thank you. SoWhy 07:35, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Committee questionnaire
The Joshua Wolson article is a WP:BLP, and therefore subject to heightened scrutiny (so to speak). If you have access to the questionnaires of judicial candidates, cite your reference and provide the link. If you can't/won't cite sources for your edits, it's WP:OR or gossip that doesn't belong on a BLP page.

It doesn't matter that your edit merely adds a category, rather than a statement in the body of the article. Imagine if you added a really controversial category to a living person's article without citing your source; your edit wouldn't survive 5 minutes without being reverted. Lwarrenwiki (talk) 19:06, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

July 2018
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Max Elliott Slade. Thank you. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:39, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Please don't cite famousbirthdays.com or import its data into Wikipedia. This is a not a reliable source, and, frankly, I'm a bit concerned that you're adding unsourced content to BLPs and citing unreliable sources, yet you have pending changes reviewer and new page reviewer permissions.  Please be more careful about editing BLPs. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:22, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Just for future reference, do you have a particular site that you think I should use for reference? In this case I was just trying to find sites that mentioned the same information. It baffles me as to why IMDB is in the External Links if that's not a WP:RS and has the same biographical information—but that's beside the point. I was actually looking up the actors who were in 3 Ninjas and came across Max Elliott Slade and when I saw there was no birth date, that's why I added it. To be fair (or nit-picky, not sure) there's no citations for Michael Treanor or Chad Power either, his costars in the movie. To your point of me having certain permissions, the majority of my work relates to American judges and international judiciary, and do those fairly well so I rarely edit actor(s) pages. If you care to question the admins who gave me the permissions, feel free. Snickers2686 (talk) 17:41, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The IMDb is not a reliable source because it is user-generated content. It's basically the same thing as citing Wikipedia itself.  That doesn't mean that it isn't a useful resource, though.  It just can't be used as a citation on Wikipedia, and its data can't be imported.  The guideline for external links, WP:EL, allows for unreliable sources to be linked, as long as they aren't being used for content.  If you can't find a better source than the IMDb, birth dates simply shouldn't be added; see WP:DOB.  Just because there are Wikipedia articles that are not policy compliant doesn't mean that someone should go around adding unsourced content to other BLPs.  Instead of making the problem worse, one should fix the noncompliant pages.  As far as reliable sources that publish birth dates, entertainment magazines will sometimes publish celebrity interviews or do celebrity profiles.  I usually check TV Guide first, then Entertainment Weekly and People.  British celebrities magazines can be useful, too, but they often tend more toward a gossipy, tabloid style.  Outright tabloids, such as The Sun, should definitely be avoided.   AllMovie is reliable, and sometimes you can find actor birth dates in other databases listed at WP:FILM/R, too.  Athletes are usually easier, because they typically publish birth dates on official websites, such as FIFA or whatever.  Politicians can often be sourced to their official campaign or office website.  Basically, just check WP:BLP, WP:RS, and ask at WP:RSN if it looks borderline.  A simplistic rule of thumb for a BLP would be that if a site isn't staffed by professional journalists, it shouldn't be cited in a BLP. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:07, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Territorial jurisdiction
Hello Snickers2686. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Territorial jurisdiction, a page you tagged for speedy deletion. The reason is in the contest page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Territorial_jurisdiction — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guyweisz (talk • contribs) 08:07, 29 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Okay, what is it I'm supposed to see here cause I just see them discussing the article that already exists, not the deletion. Snickers2686 (talk) 18:22, 29 June 2018 (UTC)


 * My reason was included in the contest page regarding the fact Territorial jurisdiction is a term used in some other countries, not only the USA and that I was going to work on it soon. There was even a Hebrew version linked to the non-USA page. I just came in to work on the page after having prepared a word document with examples and the history of territorial jurisdiction (Roman times). Since you deleted this page, people will now know less, thank you very much. At least you left the USA page name (which I edited back in the day) untouched, which is surprising because it seems that some americans think that they invented law and justice, and that general terms only apply to them. Maybe you should not be so quick with the finger on the delete button, it makes some of us really not feeling like contributing so much anymore.


 * I'm only a reviewer, not an administrator. I can mark pages for deletion, but it's up to the administrator (higher rank than myself) to determine if the page has merit and if it does not, then they delete it. I suggest start your page in a draft form and edit it there, then you can submit it for publication or just move it to the main space yourself once you feel there is adequate content and documentation. Check out So you made a userspace draft for further guidance. If you need further assistance, you know how to contact me, I'd be happy to help or to offer an editing eye to your draft. Best of luck! Snickers2686 (talk) 13:34, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Judges nominated by George W. Bush
Hi,`

In List of federal judges appointed by George W. Bush, some "-" need to be replaced by "–" (appeals and district courts). Not sure why the current guidelines include "-".

Thanks,

WhatsUpWorld (talk) 02:06, 8 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your edits. You did a good job. Actually, they all look to be in compliance, and I tried using a script to make the dash changes, but it didn't find any. I think because of the size parameters being what they are for the tables it may look like a dash is a hyphen or vice versa, but they all seem to check out; unless you can point me to an instance within the table where it doesn't. I understand your reasoning for the sizing changes, however, if you want the tables to look as the others, then I suggest reverting back. Happy editing! Snickers2686 (talk) 13:51, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

MOS:ACCESS / MOS:FONTSIZE
Please point out any of these "inconsistent" infoboxes and I will fix them too. Small is not to be used in infoboxes, and I've already made thousands of edits with AWB to try to correct this. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:49, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Georgian Finance Ministers
Thanks for the message. It would seem that in the time since I created his article, Gagua has since been demoted to deputy minister. His biography on the MOF website shows that he was indeed the Minister, though it lacks the actual days there. Kaiser matias (talk) 22:56, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
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August 2018
Hello, I'm Toddst1. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Lisa A. Johnson, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Toddst1 (talk) 19:20, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Alex Tse
Let me know if I misunderstood your edit at Alex Tse (attorney). From what I can tell, he was acting then became official. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 21:33, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmm...well I did look at his official biography at the DOJ website and see where it says he became Attorney via judicial appointment. President Trump has nominated an individual to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California as shown here so I'm not sure how that'll play out. As noted here in the Congressional record the nomination is still pending before committee. I was going too add an infobox to the article, but I wasn't sure if I should still list him as "acting" or not... Snickers2686 (talk) 04:38, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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Rona Ramon
Hi, you added a tag saying at there are missing references. I added some more references and I wonder if it is ok now to remove the "refimprove" tag. Thanks. --Golan&#39;s mom (talk) 15:24, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Matthew Krueger
Hello, Snicker2686. I was wondering if you would be willing to discuss the rollback since you did not mention why in the edit summary. --Super Goku V (talk) 00:48, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * With a rollback it doesn't allow you to give a comment. I removed the edit because superfluous fluff that didn't add any significant meaning to the article. Snickers2686 (talk) 01:22, 30 December 2018 (UTC)