User talk:VLWABC

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Again, welcome to Wikipedia! Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 01:31, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please use caution when adding categories to BLP's

Biographies of living persons (BLP) have stricter rules than other articles. You added the following categories to the article for Clay Higgins:

American anti-abortion activists
American anti-same-sex-marriage activists
American conspiracy theorists
American critics of Islam
Domestic violence in the United States

There are serious problems with these additions. The article says only that Higgins is against abortion. Holding an opinion is not the same as being an "activist". The category is a gross overstatement of the information in the article.

The exact same serious problem obtains for adding "anti-same-sex-marriage activists" to the article. He isn't an activist; he holds an opinion.

The article presents only a single instance of spreading conspiratorial commentary; that doesn't make him an "American conspiracy theorist".

He is also not an "American critic of Islam". The article contains only one mention of Islam that he posted on Facebook. That doesn't rise to the level of being a notable american critic of islam, only that he expressed criticism only once, as cited in the article.

Lastly, the most egregious of them all "Domestic violence in the United States". The article states very clearly that his first wife alleged that he put a gun to her head, which Higgins denied. That's nowhere near the threshold to add him to the domestic violence category, as there's simply no evidence to support it, only 'he said/she said'. That addition could be considered defamatory by Higgins, which puts the encyclopedia at risk.

Please use great care in adding categories to biographies of living persons. Please familiarize yourself with WP:BLP.

Separately, I see that you created a category for Clay Higgins, and added the articles for the various tenures he has held office, among other things. I believe you're going about it backwards. Those categories could be added to Higgin's article; he's not notable enough to have a category on its own. Only particularly notable people - notable beyond simply having served a term in office that is otherwise non-remarkable - have their own categories, for example, Nancy Pelosi. I'd recommend not creating new categories for people; add categories to the person's article, at least ones that are not potentially defamatory. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 23:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK I was not trying to defame, my bad VLWABC (talk) 23:25, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't accusing you of intentional defamation; it's just the appearance of it alone can be a serious problem for the encyclopedia. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 23:31, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I understand VLWABC (talk) 23:31, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Clay Higgins has been nominated for deletion

Category:Clay Higgins has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 05:46, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Jared Fogle

A tag has been placed on Category:Jared Fogle indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]