User talk:Islander99

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Vermin Supreme

Hello Islander99,

As previously requested by Mr. Supreme, and according to WP:BLPNAME and WP:BLPPRIVACY, please do not provide information regarding his birth name on his Wikipedia page. Please contact me to discuss before considering undoing my undo's of your edits.

peace and ponies, Wadlooper (talk) 16:07, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for respecting this request, and my apologies for forcing you to re-do all of the other most-excellent edits you made before - and also, thank you for significantly increasing the WikiQuality of the page Wadlooper (talk) 16:42, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Rachelle Hruska

The article Rachelle Hruska has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Questionably notable person. Despite the references mentioning her, I am not sure any of them do much to support the article. Article is peppered with peacock terms, and was filled with inline links to her website which I have now removed. Had they remained, article would have been very close to G11 blatant advertising.

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new photo for Jonah Peretti

Noticed you replaced the infobox photo with one that's actually 3 years older -- was this just preference? --Jamiew (talk) 07:38, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense. No intention to change it back... people probably prefer older photos anyway :) --Jamiew (talk) 09:01, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category creations

Islander, I invite you to look at WP:OC#SMALL. The recent creation and modification of categories like faculty at California Southern Law School or Category:Cal Northern School of Law alumni have no grow potential. Thanks. --S. Rich (talk) 18:43, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category see alsos -- improper linking

Islander, I invite you to look at Template:See also for guidance on use of the template. For Usage it says "{See also} is used to create hatnotes to point to a small number of other, related, titles at the top of article sections according to Wikipedia:Layout. [Emphasis added.]" In this edit (and others) [1] you are adding a template which simply links to the category which already contains the names listed in the section. This is not a link to "other, related, titles" in that it simply duplicates the listing of names (those names already in the category), is not a related title (it is, in fact, the same list), and, indeed, is not a link to the title of an article. These additions (which do not follow WP policy) are subject to reversion. Thank you, and thank you for your contributions.--S. Rich (talk) 16:11, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

redlinked categories

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Dana Makoto Sabraw, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. Categories must also be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Thank you. Islander, in this example you have put a redlinked category into the article. This is not in conformance with category guidelines. --S. Rich (talk) 16:39, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Y. Brown, Sr.

I am sure there is a policy about using the other tag for disambiguation. However, the situation for this name in Kentucky is quite unusual. Four different men, all politicians, three In one family and the fourth the namesake of the eldest of the other three. I think the potential for a reader ignoring "other john brown" as not likely the one they are looking or, because they are all known as John Y Brown in some way or another.

I was confused by all the John Y's which is why I make the extra clarification. In good faith I am reverting your edit, and if you choose to revert back, I will bring it up to someone with experience with historical ambiguity of names. K3vin (talk) 07:12, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am so sorry, I must have been multi-tasking without the brain. K3vin (talk) 02:43, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Submit It!

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Category:University of California, Hastings College of the Law alumni has been nominated for renaming

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