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Thanks

Hi, Nwlaw63, and thanks for your thoughtful and helpful comment on the Lanamark Education talk page. Unfortunately, you comment has been used by another editor - Pedant17, who has been persistently trying to stuff the article with anti-Landmark propaganda for several years - to support a view which appears to me to be the opposite of what you suggest. DaveApter (talk) 15:41, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

February 2009

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. I know you meant well, but you should achieve a consensus for such a large deletion before making that deletion. SMP0328. (talk) 02:10, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I fully explained my edit on the discussion page. And I will continue to edit in the best interest of the article. Nwlaw63 (talk) 21:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks again

Thanks for your couple of minor edits to improve the Landmark Education page. I do think however that the article needs a much more extensive overhaul - it consists mostly of excessive coverage of marginal critical comments and very little useful information about the subject itself. DaveApter (talk) 12:07, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Nwlaw63,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Misplaced Pages all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Misplaced Pages (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Misplaced Pages:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Misplaced Pages are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman /_WP:Hornbook 05:35, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Landmark education banner

Just thought you might like to know that removal of a banner from an article, particularly after reasoning for including the banner was given, probably constitutes acting along the lines prohibited by WP:OWN and other policies and guidelines. It is not your place, or that of any other editor, to try to dictate to others what they will or will not deal with, and is in fact a violation of wikipedia conduct guidelines. Please do not engage in such conduct again. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 18:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. I see nothing WP:OWN policy forbidding the removal of inappropriate banners. See my latest comment on the talk page for why the inclusion of this religious material seems very strange to me.Nwlaw63 (talk) 19:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Addition of unsourced material

Please do not add unsourced material to articles on Misplaced Pages, as you did at the article Landmark Education, here . Thank you, Cirt (talk) 23:15, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

the Public Policy Initiative Assessment Team wants You!

Hi Nwlaw63, It looks like you have some expertise in law and public policy. I saw some of your contributions on an article that falls within the scope of Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. Even though assessment is typically for long term Wikipedians the Initiative is also about fostering a friendly environment for new users. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 00:34, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

UK Supreme Court case drive

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to read this message.

As you may know, the United Kingdom Supreme Court has been hearing cases for about 18 months now, taking over from the House of Lords as the Court of Last Resort for most appeals within the United Kingdom.

During that time, the court has handed down 87 judgements (82 of which were on substantive appeals). Misplaced Pages covers around 11 of these and rarely in any detail. Some very important cases (including Radmacher v Granatino UKSC 42 (prenups) and Norris v USA UKSC 9 (extradition)) are not covered at all.

I'm proposing a drive to complete decent quality articles for all, or at least a good proportion of these cases as soon as possible. If we can eliminate the backlog then a small group of editors might want to stick around to ensure articles are created relatively speedily for new cases. Since the Court process, on average, one case a week this shouldn't be too great a task.

I'd like to ask you to help with this drive, and help make Misplaced Pages a credible source for UKSC case notes.

How you can help

• Help me improve this Template:Infobox SCOTUK case based off the US Supreme Court equivalent.

• Complete that template and add it to existing cases.

• Improve formatting & prose. Copyediting.

• Improve the coverage of cases we have articles on, including adding content, sourcing and fact-checking

• Create new articles for UKSC cases

• Improve the categorisation and listing of UKSC cases.

• Improve the judgment listings articles: 2009 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom 2010 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom 2011 Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Thanks for reading!, Sincerely Bob House 884 (talk) 23:26, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for stopping by - there's a lot of interesting work to be done here. I will work on creating/editing one or more of these articles as soon as I have the time available.Nwlaw63 (talk) 19:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Glad to hear it :) We've got a temp. page here - Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Law/UKSC if you'd like to pop by. Bob House 884 (talk) 19:26, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Volker Rule

Thank you for your contribution to Volker Rule. (saw you on WP:Tea) 99.35.13.28 (talk) 06:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I didn't have time to read it yet, include what you would like ...

Talk:Volcker_Rule#New_York_Review_of_Books_resource.2C_relating_to_the_Late-2000s_recession_contributing_factors 97.87.29.188 (talk) 23:16, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Purplebackpack89's mass nominations

For the purposes of full disclosure I want you to know I have nominated the actions of User:Purplebackpack89 at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Abusive mass nominations for deletion and wikistalking of opponents to deletionLuciferwildcat (talk) 08:16, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Star Pirates AfD Discussion

I've changed my vote from Delete to Redirect, I humbly ask you consider the option I present and change your vote to reflect. Quasi Montana (talk) 03:15, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

physistical

Thank you for you comment! I do not understand being spammed, by these people for creating a "hoax" when I have evidence from the Oxford Dictionaries and University Press stating physistical is a real term. PhysicsDude21 (talk) 21:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

JamesBWatson (talk) 22:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Taiwanese archipelago

Please reconsider your vote at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Taiwan island group. The article has been expanded with numerous sources. A move request is also on the way at Talk:Taiwan island group. Thanks. 203.145.92.173 (talk) 20:52, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Any Video Converter

I am the original creator and I had no intention to advertise. The article was hijacked and the sources were removed. I also added another one to the AfD. SL93 (talk) 01:19, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi

An article you commented on for deletion before is under the chopping block again, you may want to express your opinion on this matter at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/John Márquez (2nd nomination), thank you.LuciferWildCat (talk) 05:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

An AFD you participated in has been started again

List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number twos has been renominated by the same nominator 11 days after it closed as "no consensus". I'm contacting everyone who participated in the last AFD, who hasn't found their way there already. Dream Focus 21:21, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

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caic.org.au discussion

Hello! As someone who has edited the Landmark Worldwide article in the past few weeks, I am notifying you of a discussion at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard regarding the use of the website caic.org.au as a reliable source in that article. Please feel free to review or participate in that discussion.

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. --Tgeairn (talk) 21:44, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Coal Hill School

Hi, Nwlaw63. I just wanted to draw your attention to the edits I've made to Coal Hill School. I've found a number of reliable secondary sources which discuss the fictional school, in a few cases in some detail. I leave it to you whether the citations I've found constitute "significant coverage" enough to change your view on the AfD. I will probably continue to work on improving the article's sourcing over the next few days. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:23, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Edit Conflict

Hello Nwlaw63-

It looks like this edit inadvertently removed your previous edit(s). You may want to restore your comments. I have dropped a note for the other editor, they can always resolve it too. --Tgeairn (talk) 23:24, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Apologies for the confusion at the lpr deletion discussion

The conversation from the lp (Unix) deletion discussion had several of the same participants, and there was some discussion there as to how both articles should really be about the print system rather than the command. As you weren't involved in that discussion, there's no way you should have known that I was focused on finding WP:RS for the system instead of the command. Nor did I do a quick edit on the article itself to indicate the refocusing. You are absolutely right: the citations I listed do not establish the notability for the command.

I've done a quick pass on the article. If you have time and inclination, take a look and see if you think there's sufficient notability to support a merge+redirect to Line Printer Daemon protocol.

Again, sorry for the confusion. It was entirely my fault.

Lesser Cartographies (talk) 10:56, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

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• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests#Requests for arbitration;
• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration guide.

Thanks, • Astynax 01:54, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Case opened

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Please comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports)#Bullpen_catchers Alex (talk) 06:00, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Landmark Worldwide closed

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

1.1) The committee cautions the parties involved that standard discretionary sanctions may be authorised by the committee in future – for any edit about, and for all pages relating to, Landmark Worldwide – and by motion after application at a later time.

2) Parties to the case are reminded to base their arguments in reliable, independent sources and to discuss changes rather than revert on sight.

6) The Arbitration Committee urges that editors having no prior editing history on Landmark Worldwide and no strong views on the underlying controversy review and edit this article, helping to ensure that our policies governing neutral point of view and reliable sources are followed.

For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:34, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Review of Keynesian Economics

Hi, thanks for participating in this AfD, we can use more editors participating in these discussions, especially for academic journals. Unfortunately, I have to admit that I failed in WP:BEFORE here (explained in the AfD) and perhaps you want to revise your !vote in the light of this (no obligation whatsoever, of course, just informing you of new information that has become available). Sorry for the hassle... --Randykitty (talk) 21:02, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration clarification

There is a request for clarification in which you are named here https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Clarification_request:_Landmark_Worldwide.2FR6_Additional_eyes_invited DaveApter (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2015 (UTC)