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This user lives on an island in the Caribbean.

This user is interested in the Supreme Court of the United States.

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This user thinks okapis are the coolest animal ever.

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Who am I? I'm a law boy nee art boy who should probably be working, sleeping, or eating right now rather than contributing here. But what can you do.

My main projects on here have been articles on U.S. law, as well as history, art, and local interest topics in Washington, DC, New York City, and Columbus, Ohio. Oh yeah, and comic books. I've also been quite active in trying to shape a sensible category structure.

I frequently upload images to Commons, both original and scavenged.

Your edit filter request

Hi there! I moved your request to Misplaced Pages:EF/R#New_user_removing_images for organizational purposes. When you get a chance, could you take a look at it, please? I had a concern/question to clarify before implementation. Thanks. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

subcats of american national museums

will you add the rename to the subcats as well? dm (talk) 07:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Let's do it after the parents are renamed; those will be much more obvious speedy renaming candidates then. postdlf (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

While Category:National museums of the United States in New York is a *bit* clearer than Category:National museums in New York, I prefer the latter, since it is similar to all the other museum cats. Especially since we would need to do Category:National museums in Georgia (U.S. state) anyway... dm (talk) 04:25, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Makes sense. And location versus nationality corresponds to uses of "in" versus "of" here. I'll make a mental note, probably get to it in a week or so, as I won't be spending too much time on WP over the next several days. postdlf (talk) 17:53, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Purpose of policies

What do you think of my response to your post at village pump? Do you think we could implement my idea (making information about the purpose a given policy easily available) somehow? Offliner (talk) 04:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

That's a difficult question. I think a lot of it is a matter of just doing it on a day-to-day basis in every discussion we have on WP, whether on an article talk page, a deletion discussion, or at VP. Maybe there could be a guideline (or even just an essay) urging people not to rely on rote policy citation regurgitation in lieu of substantive explanation (maybe there already is one somewhere?). And reminding people that citing policy is at best only half the work: you may have settled on what you think governs the issue, but you still need to convince others of the best way to apply it in a particular circumstance. To do it properly the focus should always be on what the best editorial decision is, not just the superficial level of what complies with codified policy or guidelines. Yeah, all that should be written down somewhere if it isn't already. In another guideline for people to cite.  ; )

I think also we could go policy by policy, guideline by guideline, and ask ourselves whether its purpose is clear. What does it substantively accomplish. That may not always be evident; it may reflect the way consensus tends to go without an articulate reason as to why. A history of how the policy was written could be interesting, but maybe not that helpful, and it would be difficult to summarize. Just looking at the edit history of a particular policy or guideline may omit a lot of developmental discussions that occurred on the talk pages of other policies, the Village pump, or even user talk pages. postdlf (talk) 18:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

I'm just writing to say a big THANK YOU for 2001 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States and similar pages. It's exactly what I was looking for, I spent some time in fruitless Googling, and then found these. Misplaced Pages comes through agaian! (Or rather its fine altruistic editors.) Jamesdowallen (talk) 16:11, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Church of Reality

Hi there. Back in 2006, you commented on the last deletion review for this article here. The article has since been recreated and I have re-nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Church of Reality (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 02:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

My bad

I thought I had control of editing my own talk page, I haven't had any incidents in nearly a month. I have not edited categories which is my main restriction. As soon as you put the notice up on my board, I reverted it as it was before. Again I am sorry!--Levineps (talk) 20:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)