Chexandy89

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CfD nomination of Category:Female Secretaries of State

Category:Female Secretaries of State, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 19:02, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Clarence Thomas

Please stop adding Clarence Thomas to Category:African American politicians; Thomas is a jurist not a politician. While the soi-disant legal realists might say that there is no difference, asserting so here in this fashion would violate WP:NPOV. Several editors have already have to remove this miscategorization and it's becoming a bore, so please stop. - Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 18:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:African American Supreme Court judges

Category:African American Supreme Court judges, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 19:57, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Doing things right

Hello, Chexandy89 - I see that you're new to Wiki, so I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm. However, I've already noticed that you're running into problems over some of your edits. So please let me recommend that you slow down a bit and take some time to read through the tutorials that are linked in your welcome message. Categories are especially tricky for newcomers, so I would strongly advise you to wait until you are more familiar with what makes for a "good" category before you create any more new ones. Otherwise you're likely to continue to run into the same kinds of problems that you've been encountering. Good luck with your future editing! Cgingold (talk) 20:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll echo that sentiment. In particular, note that categories are arranged in hierarchies, and you generally include only the most specific ones for an article. So for example, if someone is a female U.S. senator, she goes into Category:Female United States Senators. Once that is done, there is no need to include her into Category:American women in politics as well, because that's a parent category of the first one. In other words, every female U.S. Senator is by definition also an American woman in politics, so there's no need to add the second category, and we don't do it. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:27, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Andrew J. Shapiro

A tag has been placed on Andrew J. Shapiro requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. RadioFan (talk) 14:08, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

July 2009

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Britney Spears. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. This[1] edit constitutes vandalism. It's not even that humorous. VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 15:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:06, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Chexandy89. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)