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Requested move at Talk:Zach Bluestone#Requested move 25 July 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Zach Bluestone#Requested move 25 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 03:33, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment As the nominator of the move request, there HAS to be a move, the choices being Zachary Bluestone or Zack Bluestone. Leaving the article at its current location is not possible, as Zach is an incorrect diminutive. Safiel (talk) 20:30, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Zach Bluestone move request failed due to lack of participation, but we still have a problem

Zach Bluestone is clearly an incorrect location for this article. His diminutive name is ZACK, not ZACH. But beyond that, the majority of reliable sources uses his give name Zachary. If there is any doubt, we should lean in favor of his given name, rather than his diminutive name. The article name has to be changed, as it currently is at a false name. My suggestion is that it be administratively moved to Zachary Bluestone. Afterwards, if somebody wants to file a move request to try to change it to Zack Bluestone, they can do so. But it clearly cannot stay where it is, as it is false information. Safiel (talk) 15:11, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Edwin Helfant#Requested move 19 September 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Edwin Helfant#Requested move 19 September 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 12:01, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gordon J. Macdonald

My Wikipedia article at Gordon J. MacDonald contains information about my personal life that I would like removed. The references are not secondary or reliable and my Wikipedia article has private information. Can this be removed or alternatively the entire article deleted? GraCCC (talk) 00:14, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GraCCC: There is no chance that an article on a state supreme court chief justice will be deleted, but private information that has been included in an article improperly or with poor sourcing likely can be removed. Can you specify the information to which you referring? BD2412 T 00:34, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The whole personal life section. It has my spouse, child, and where I live. I feel it’s a privacy and safety concern. GraCCC (talk) 01:28, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In light of recent events, this is a sensible request, and is consistent with WP:BLPPRIVACY. I will action it now. BD2412 T 01:43, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. BD2412 T 01:46, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot#Requested move 5 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot#Requested move 5 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:54, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:50, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to merge templates of active and senior district judges in each circuit

We have templates that list active and senior district judges for courts within a particular circuit. Currently, active and senior judges for each circuit are in separate templates. I propose we merge them, to allow for users to more easily navigate between pages of active and senior district judges for a particular court, and to condense the information.

In other words, rather than having both Template:United States 1st Circuit district judges and Template:United States 1st Circuit senior district judges, the former would subsume the latter.

This would be consistent with the current treatment of circuit judges, where both active and senior judges are kept in one template, Template:United States courts of appeals judges. If people support this proposal, I anticipate the merged templates would have the same format as the existing circuit court template. – JocularJellyfish ^Talk _Contribs 04:43, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have finished implementing new templates and have removed state columns from former judge tables

Another user created the new templates in December and implemented them in a couple articles. As it is kind of stupid to have a state column which will always reflect the same state, I have implemented them on all District Court/Trade Court articles, removing the useless column. The templates and columns will be left as is in Courts of Appeals articles and other court articles where the state column is actually useful. I have also tried to get a handle on table width by implementing single word termination reasons and piping extremely long names. Just a heads up to everybody. Safiel (talk) 06:16, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]