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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 21:52, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

March 2016

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at Standpoint Theory. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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May 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sheridan v. United States has been reverted.
Your edit here to Sheridan v. United States was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://supreme.justia.com/us/487/392/case.html) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 21:57, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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June 2016

Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to the page Welsh v. Wisconsin have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links.
Your edit here to Welsh v. Wisconsin was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/466/740/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 21:22, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Edits to SCOTUS articles

Hi there -- I see that you've been making a number of helpful edits to articles about SCOTUS cases. For the most part, you have been doing very good work and I commend you for your efforts. However, I want to call your attention to a few things:

When referring to Supreme Court Justices, the consensus is to refer to them as "Justice Brennan" of "Justice Powell", rather than just "Brennan" or "Powell" (see this discussion).
The "FullName" parameter should include the full titles of the parties as listed on the top of the opinion that appears in the United States Reports or the slip opinion. I am bringing this to your attention because in this recent edit, you removed the word "Petitioner" from the "FullName" field in the infobox for South Dakota v. Neville (see also Template:Infobox SCOTUS case#Full name).
Don't remove useful information about procedural history, as you did here, so long as the information is accurate.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if I can provide any guidance. I also strongly encourage you to register for an account so that you can keep track of your edits on a watchlist and so that you can join wikiprojects like Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. All the best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 17:02, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would add to Notecard's very good points, do not keep making minor stylistic changes that reflect your personal style preferences relative to the prior editor's. Unless there is a downright error, stick to substantive contributions--not nitpicks. That will more effectively further the Wikipedia project and avoid wasting other people's time checking trivial changes when reviewing watchlist items. Thank you for your interest. PraeceptorIP (talk) 16:34, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
On a separate note, register by name or consistent pseudonym. You will be taken more seriously by others when you do not hide behind total anonymity. Also, make a User Page for yourself so that others will know where you are coming from. PraeceptorIP (talk) 16:38, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A few quick comments: First, I want to echo PraeceptorIP's point about minor stylistic changes that reflect personal preferences. Second, I again encourage you to create an account to facilitate communication and interaction with other editors here on Wikipedia. Third, when mentioning individuals in an article, it is always good practice to provide their full name when they are introduced for the first time (e.g. "Justice Stephen Breyer" instead of "Justice Breyer"). As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 18:50, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for your comments, and I just thought I would reply to your comments. I am kind of confused by the minor stylistic and formatting changes being de-emphasized; wouldn't it be better if the articles were at least somewhat consistent, especially when citing cases and statutes? I admit that I have edited law journals a lot in the past, so this is just something I irrationally care about more than most people (however, I do think, for people looking to review cases on Wikipedia, it is a lot easier for them to follow if things are cited and generally laid out uniformly). For instance, I noted your comment above to refer to the Justices as "Justice Breyer" rather than "Breyer", etc., and have been attempting to make that change throughout the articles I have been working on the past few days. However, if you say that it should be "Justice Stephen Breyer" the first time, I would have thought that that is unnecessary since all of the Justices names are covered in the list of Justices in the SCOTUS infobox. I am sorry for all the work this provides to you if these articles are on some kind of watchlist, though; I understand that reviewing this takes time.

As for the account issue, I would be happy to create a login, but unfortunately I cannot log in to any accounts (on Wikipedia or otherwise) on the computer I currently do this editing on; if I get the chance I would be happy to create a login and join a WP project group. Thank you, 206.193.226.178 (talk) 19:13, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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