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Craig Benson Pic

Is this picture able to go on Wikipedia?[1](if it is, I call uploading it!) Icelandic Hurricane #12 00:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

anon edits

An anon who has done some odd but not necessarily wrong edits on a number of state pages has put in a ton of stuff on the NH page, down in the trivia section. I think at least some of it is duplication and/or stuff you had removed, but I got a bit lost. It's worth checking. - DavidWBrooks 01:08, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Abu Bakker Qassim & Camp Tango

I don't know if you left it on your watchlist, but I asked about Camp Tango on Talk:Abu Bakker Qassim. Cheers! -- Geo Swan 01:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

his excellency

No, no, no, my friend! "His excellency" is a courtesy title used in personal correspondence (as I noted on the talk page when some anon kept shoving it in) ... it's not the governor's official title. - DavidWBrooks 17:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, Ill be darned - in the constitution! It still is used so rarely that it looks idiotic in the article and, I would submit, should not be placed where you did. Perhaps a note under trivia, but nothing more ... - DavidWBrooks 10:25, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I think the Constitution is much more important than your feelings about "how it looks," but that's just my opinion. --Assawyer 14:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

UDV case

could you weigh in on the conversation here? i have no strong feelings either way . . . --Heah? 19:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases

I have recently begun reviving the Supreme Court case project since the founder is inactive. You're welcome to drop on by and help us out if you are still interested. There's also a discussion going at the project's talk page. Enjoy your Memorial Day! --Kchase02 (T) 06:11, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Supreme Court cases

Please don't post articles that are in such an unfinished state as Garcetti v. Ceballos, which doesn't even have a single complete sentence; start a user subpage if you want to play with a rough draft first. Postdlf 02:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

My apologies, Postdlf. I did that per a msg RidG left on my talk page. I should have used a maintenance tag. Kchase02 (T) 03:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm already substantially into a draft for that case, btw, so unless you're willing to put the time into it, start with another decision. Postdlf 02:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Epping, New Hampshire

I seen that you had a chance to contribute to the new infobox with the parameters that you requested. You may want to further comment at Template_talk:Infobox_City#Optional_City_council_section_added. There was/is a disagreement for the need. I think it looks fine at Epping, NH. It may not look nice and pretty for all cities, but my point was that it was/is completely optional.

Some of us have proposed to standardize most of the city templates into one standardized template. We managed to merge the Template:Infobox U.S. City into Template:Infobox city. The template Template:Infobox Town NH will probably get folded in as well. Harpchad is the main person working on this. Epping, NH would make the perfect example of why to switch to the standard. When the time comes, I am sure that your help would be appreciated.—MJCdetroit 17:05, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks as if people do not want separate fields for city council/board members. Are you happy with how the Epping example looks using the leader_title and leader_name fields with a series of <br>'s? —MJCdetroit 01:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

I just wanted to say thank you for putting the rest of the justices into the SCOTUSCase3 template. It saved me a lot of time :). --MZMcBride 01:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

No prob, glad to help.--Assawyer 04:20, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Supreme Court case PCA

I suspect you may have missed it, but we did quite a bit of work already on Clinton v. City of New York. I'm sure there's more to do, but we'll probably be working on our next collaboration soon enough. Hope you'll join us then.

Re:Switch to SCOTUSCase3

On some cases, I open them up and look at them, but usually only if something looks wrong in the old template. Right now, I've mostly been converting and counting heads to make sure that the correct number of people are listed somewhere in the "Case opinions" section. The fact-check idea sounds good. --MZMcBride 21:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd appreciate it if you'd look at United States v. Booker. It seems two cases were combined, and I'm not sure how to proceed. It may require new parameters in the template, but perhaps not. Respond with any comments you have, please. --MZMcBride 02:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Rory096 23:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

SCOTUSCase

Do you need help? --MZMcBride 18:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, little errors can cause huge issues, I've screwed up these things before. I'm going to revert your edits and then add Litigants2, etc. --MZMcBride 18:24, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a bunch! It turned into one big cluster. --Assawyer 18:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Related: From the TFD, I indend to close it, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Replacing Template:SCOTUSRecentCase with Template:SCOTUSCase3 (actually bypassing the redirect and replacing with Template:SCOTUSCase ) screwed things up, so I can't process it with my bot (orhpan it and delete or redirect it). Check this: [2] and drop me a note about what should I do. Can you orphan it manually? -- Drini 19:40, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Infobox template question

Hey, any reason why Template:SCOTUS-case can't have the common need version of the new SCOTUS infobox template?--Kchase02 T 08:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I just did it that way so all of the fields would be accessable. I have no problem if it is condensed. A hidden note could be added which explains how editors can get additional fields. If you want to change it go ahead, otherwise I'll take care of it. --Assawyer 16:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Done. I'm having trouble with the ref citations from that template though. They seem to be deprecated, as you can see at UDV. The links work bottom-up but not top-down. I'm converting the template to cite.php unless you know a better way of doing it.

Wikimania in Cambridge next month

Are you going? - DavidWBrooks 12:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure. It depends on my work schedule. Looks interesting though. --Assawyer 01:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Call or e-mail me either way, if you want - I want to talk to a couple NH wikipedians as part of an advance on the meeting. (dbrooks@nashuatelegraph.com, 603-594-5831) - DavidWBrooks 19:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

supreme court

The article seems fine to me; I did a couple of punctuation tweaks, but that's about it. Let me know if you're going to wikimania, by the way - I'll be writing an advance article and need a NH voice! - DavidWBrooks 01:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Town NH

Hi, Assawyer,

I asked about which Infobox to be using for all the towns in NH and didn't get any response. Since most of the previous discussions I read seemed to indicate a merging of the various Infobox City templates, I thought it best to go with the generic one.

Just because I'm curious, what are your objections to using Infobox City?

If I have to, I don't mind going back and redoing with Town NH, but I would think using a template consistent with other towns, cities, and states would be preferable.

Thanks! --SatyrTN

I must have missed your previous inquiry. The main problem with the Infobox City is that in being universial, the editors of the Template do not allow for the various differences among the municipalities in the country/world. Particularly, because New England town/city governments are quite different from the rest of the country the Infobox City does not allow for these variations among towns and cities. Also, the editors have been resistant to making the appropriate changes. Shortly, I will be switching Template:Infobox Town NH/test to Template:Infobox Town NH. If you would like to help out with this that would be great. Let me know if my explination is lacking. --Assawyer 19:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
All the towns I've inserted Infoboxes into have had Boards of Selectmen. Since there's usually more than one member, I simply add them with <br>s in between and that seems to work. If that's the sticking point, and since there's a work-around, can we simply use the standard? -- SatyrTN 20:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Well that's not the only reason. Not all towns have a board of selectmen form of government, some have SB2 and town council. The Infobox City just isn't set up for New England towns. Mass also has their own for this reason. Until Infobox City is trully universal, it doesn't make sense to switch over.--Assawyer 02:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
What is SB2? And is a town council usually presided over by a chair, so the same system could be used as I've done with the Board of Selectmen? Also, see: this discussion. -- SatyrTN 14:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Being involved with Project Massachusetts, I'd also like to emphasize that Infobox City just doesn't work with New England towns. Towns in New England have unique governments, which vary from state to state, but which share the same dissimilarities with the rest of the world. I don't think that there's anything wrong with having several different templates. --AaronS 12:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Deleting SCOTUS templates

Someone has asked that you clarify your vote here. Thanks. --MZMcBride 00:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice Map!

Hey - I love the map you've put on the New Durham page! Do you have blank ones for the different counties? I'd love to use those instead of the simple state map I have. Thanks! -- SatyrTN 21:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I have done maps for Rockingham and Strafford Counties. I plan on doing all the towns and cities by county. I am using Adobe Illustrator to make PNG images from Created from Boundary/Border Outline Files (SVG files) that I got from the Libre Map Project. If you have a particular county you would like me to do next I'll bust some out for you.--Assawyer 22:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
The towns I've done so far are in Carroll, Belknap, and Grafton. If you got me PNG files for those, I'll be able to use Photoshop to gett all the towns fixed. Thanks! -- SatyrTN 22:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I have uploaded the Carroll County maps. I will do Belknap and Grafton (respectively) after dinner. You will find the maps in the Commons at Category:Maps_of_New_Hampshire. All you have to do is use the file name as it was in Wikipedia and it will link automatically.--Assawyer 23:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Wow - these are looking great! I was under the impression you'd upload the county map and I'd have to make each town, but you churned them all out - that's great!
I've updated all the towns that I've done infoboxes for in Belknap - with the exception of Tilton, which I somehow missed doing an infobox for. It's now on my list. I've also updated all the towns I've done infoboxes for in Carroll and Grafton. Let me know when you get Merrimack done and I'll finish up those, then hit the rest of the maps when I come to them.
Thanks so much for all this work - they look fantastic!!! --SatyrTN 13:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again for all your hard work! --SatyrTN 15:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that the maps are working out GREAT! --SatyrTN 15:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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Infobox City / Concord

When you get a chance, would you take a look at Concord? The Infobox seems to be doing something to put "(city proper))" under the map in the "Coordinates" section. a) I don't think "city proper" is needed, and b) the coding for the link is wrong - it includes the opening parenthesis. What do you think? SatyrTN

I fixed it. [3]. I removed the "latitude" and "longitude" fields and removed "City proper" from "population total." Also, the maps don't have to be 150 px. I think they look better at max resolution. --Assawyer 19:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Weird - so putting "city limits" in the population made it show up on the coordinates? -- SatyrTN
I guess.... **shrugs**--Assawyer 20:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


Final state highway naming conventions debate

Assawyer, your participation is welcome in the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. Please give your input as to the process by 23:59 UTC on August 8.

Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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Project New Hampshire

Hi, Assawyer,
When you update a New Hampshire town or city with the new Infobox, would you mind updating the project page? It'll help anyone else adding them to know what's been done - and helps know how much we have left to go :)

Thanks! -- SatyrTN 21:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hi

Hi, I saw that you were also in the New Hampshire Wikiproject, so I was wondering if you could use any help with anything. I'm fairly focused on state elections, and i'm looking to branch out and get a bit more social on here. People Powered 13:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


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WP:USRD Newsletter Issue 1

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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive!

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Afroyim v. Rusk

I note that you added a note to the talk page for Afroyim v. Rusk, classifying the article as "Start" class. What would you suggest should be done to the article at this point to improve it? Richwales 00:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Jacobson v. United States

Saw your cleanup work on the talk page. Did you mean to actually promote it to GA? It's still on the nominations page. If not, just give it a B until then. Daniel Case 21:43, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Joel Pineiro activated from DL

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WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter
Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News
  • The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way.
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Member News

Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia

New Members

Congratulations to our 225 new members

From the Editors

The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below)

We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future.

This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page

New irc channel

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Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up.

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Questioning minor 1st paragraph edits?

Re: John Roberts, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sandra Day O'Connor
This is a small matter. I don't understand the reasons for Sjrplscjnky's recent minor edits of articles about each of the Justices of the Supreme Court. After some time, there has been no response to inquiries posted on this editor's talk page nor has there been feedback from similar postings on the talk pages of each of the nine articles about a sitting Justice and the one about retired Justice O'Connor. Rather than simply reverting this "improvement," I thought it best to solicit comment from others who might be interested. I found your name amongst others at Talk:Supreme Court of the United States.

I'm persuaded that Sjrplscjnky's strategy of introducing academic honors in the first paragraph is unhelpful in this narrow set of articles -- that is, in Wikipedia articles about Justices of the Supreme Court. I think my reasoning might well extend as well to others on the Federal bench. In each instance, I would question adding this information only in the first paragraph -- not elsewhere in the article.

In support of my view that this edit should be reverted, please consider re-visiting articles written about the following pairs of jurists.

The question becomes: Would the current version of the Wikipedia article about any one of them -- or either pair -- be improved by academic credentials in the introductory paragraph? I think not.

Perhaps it helps to repeat a wry argument Kathleen Sullivan of Stanford Law makes when she suggests that some on the Harvard Law faculty do wonder how Antonin Scalia avoided learning what others have managed to grasp about the processes of judging? I would hope this anecdote gently illustrates the point.

Less humorous, but an even stronger argument is the one Clarence Thomas makes when he mentions wanting to return his law degree to Yale.

As you can see, I'm questioning relatively trivial edit; but I hope you agree that this otherwise plausible "improvement" should be removed from introductory paragraphs of ten articles. If not, why not?

Would you care to offer a comment or observation? --Ooperhoofd (talk) 19:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)


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