User Talk: Melchior2006

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Some help needed

Hey @Melchior2006. Thanks for your good work on cleaning up MOS:PUFFERY ↗ on highered pages. If you're interested, I have recently been cleaning up puff and undue information on secondary education pages in New England. Perhaps you might be interested in doing the same — there is a ton of work to do for to uphold WP:NPOV ↗. GuardianH (talk) 21:11, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
: Sounds good, @GuardianH. I will take a look a little later. You are working your way through these pages in a regional manner? Can you give me the category you have been working within? --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:35, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
::@Melchior2006 I think schools in Template:New England Preparatory School Athletic Council ↗ would be a good start; I've been combing through a number of them recently. Schools in that template tend to have additional categories within them (i.e. miscellaneous athletic associations, etc.) and other categories within them, so you can also use those to branch out into other schools. GuardianH (talk) 18:14, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
::On an additional note, categories such as :Category:Private high schools in Connecticut ↗ or :Category:Private high schools in New York (state) by county ↗, etc. etc. are great to look through. GuardianH (talk) 18:33, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Of interest

Hey @Melchior2006, I thought you might be interested in this. A whole ton of the articles of schools listed in G30 Schools ↗ could use some substantial cleanup in terms of puffery removal. GuardianH (talk) 04:48, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
:Thanks, I took a look. You were right! -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:24, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your work on Thomas Meienhofer ↗

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Thank you for your work on List of Princeton Triangle Club shows ↗

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Thank you for your work on List of Northfield Mount Hermon people ↗

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Thank you for your work on Peter Jarolin ↗

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Thank you for your work on François Bruys ↗

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Thank you for your work on List of Milton Academy alumni ↗

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Thank you for your work on List of Princeton High School Alumni ↗

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<b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of :List of Germantown Friends School alumni ↗ for deletion

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Concern regarding Draft:Bernard James Elmer Murphy ↗

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A barnstar for you!

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:Thank you! I really admire your work, too. Fighting boosterism is especially important when it comes to higher ed, since there is so much academic corruption out there and people abuse Wikipedia in order to promote schools or cover up deficiencies. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Richard Daschbach

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:{{Re|Joseywales1961}} I just added another Richard Daschbach to the disambig page. --Melchior2006 (talk) 08:37, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
::Great, thanks have a nice day <span style="color:green">''Josey Wales''</span><sup> <span style="color:#0000CD">''Parley''</span></sup> 08:43, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
:::{{Re|Joseywales1961}}. Could you pls revert your deletion of the disambig page? There is nothing left there anymore. --Melchior2006 (talk) 08:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of an attack page

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A page you created has been deleted as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗.

'''Do not''' create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage ↗ their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files '''are not tolerated''' by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be '''blocked ↗ from editing'''.  ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:54, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

:Which page do you mean? Melchior2006 (talk) 21:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
::Please see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Pietro Amenta ↗. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:51, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
:::OK, thanks for the info. The discussion about the deletion clearly shows that other editors don't think it was an attack page, and it was online for more than a year without any criticism, but I accept your decision. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 22:00, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Theatre/German

Hello. It occurred to me, from the interests you mention on your user page, that you might be interested in checking some of the German musical theatre-related articles against the English ones. If so, here are some possible things you might be uniquely positioned to look into:

Does our :Musical theatre ↗ article adequately reflect the non-English-speaking musical stage in Europe and beyond, as far as your research may have led you?

Should anything from our English article on musical theatre be added to the equivalent German article?

Is it true that :Starlight Express ↗ had a historically long run in Germany? If so, can you please add a ref or two to our article on it about the German production?

Are there any other examples of record-setting runs in Europe or other non-English-speaking countries that have surpassed, say, 5,000 performances?

:Gilbert and Sullivan ↗ works (one of my particular interests) have been played in Europe and around the world since the 1870s. This is mentioned briefly in the "Legacy and assessment" section of that article. Is the article missing anything particularly noteworthy?

Broadway, off-Broadway, London and other US/UK theatres have often hosted foreign (and foreign-language) productions and touring companies. Are these described adequately in the obvious Wikipedia articles, and if not, can you add some description of the most important such productions and touring companies to them? (for example, :Broadway theatre ↗, :West End theatre ↗, :off-Broadway ↗, :Theater in the United States ↗, :Theatre of the United Kingdom ↗, :musical theatre ↗, :theatre ↗, etc.

Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:46, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:I rarely do work on musicals. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 15:59, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Daniel Diermeier edits

Hi Melchior2006, thanks for taking a look at the Daniel Diermeier article and making those changes. I was wondering if you had any interest in the edit request I made ↗ for the article to expand on some of Dr. Diermeier's more recent work with Vanderbilt? Any feedback you can offer would be highly appreciated. Cheers VandyBE (talk) 15:42, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
: Sure, I can take a look. --Melchior2006 (talk) 15:58, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

October 2024

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm 4meter4. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions ↗ to :Pacific Repertory Theatre ↗ have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse ↗ or the Help desk ↗. ''Removing scholarly publications which are used in inline citations within an article is unacceptable.'' 4meter4 (talk) 21:48, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for your input. Let's move this talk topic to the appropriate page (Pacific Rep Theater). See you over there. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 21:54, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
::User_talk:4meter4#Forest_Theater_and_Golden_Bough_Playhouse ↗ 4meter4 and Ssilver are discussing opposing merger of Forest Theater and Godlen Bough Playhouse together. Graywalls (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
:::@{{u|Graywalls}} I don't know about that. At this point it is a one-sided conversation. Ssilvers left a message on my talk page which I have not responded to yet. I haven't looked at those theatre pages yet, and have not formed an opinion. However, I do know from researching the PRC article that both of the theatre venues are old and historic and have long histories that go back to the early 20th century. Both theaters pre-date the PRC's creation in 1982 by decades and have entries in architecture books, histories of Monterey County/California, and of course coverage in newspaper archives across many many years; enough so that lengthy articles which pass WP:SIGCOV ↗ would be easily feasible. I would not be surprised if they were on the National Register of Historic Places ↗ or some other similar historic designation list which would pass WP:NBUILDING ↗. Without even looking at the articles, my concern over a merger would be that the theaters lack a shared history for the majority of time that they have been operating as theaters. It really isn't until 1994 that the theaters begin to have a shared history, and as both theaters date to 1910ish there is about an 80 year history where they were independent of one another. For this reason, I suspect that a merger may not only be challenging, but also not ideal if not impossible to do. A bundled article would be clumsy and un-focused (what would we even call such an article). It also would be challenging to maintain both an appropriate encyclopedic scope and to match the standard article structure/WP:MOS ↗ practices used encyclopedia wide for articles on theaters. That said, if you have a well argued position as to why they should be bundled into a single article, and what the structure of said article would look like I would be open to hearing that proposal. Best.4meter4 (talk) 03:11, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

recent edit

I think i might have been caught up in your trimming boosterism cruft.

I'm just editing punctuation

have a Wikipedia day,
s Augmented Seventh (talk) 17:52, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for your input. Let's move this talk topic to the appropriate page (Berkshire School). See you over there. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 18:33, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

FSU Edits

Thanks for your helpful edits at Florida State University! After reflecting on it, I tweaked your recent edit slightly to clarify the original legislative purpose, which has two elements. Sirberus (talk) 14:53, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

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November 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C%C3%AEteaux_Moralia_in_Job&oldid=1258705143 ↗ Drew Stanley (talk) 03:54, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

:Thx for the tip; I expanded the article a bit. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 14:23, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

:same issue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologia_ad_Guillelmum ↗ Drew Stanley (talk) 21:47, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Epiphany Apostolic College ↗

Hi -- no rush, just wanted to point out that it looks like some of the refs you added to this article are in the wrong place/attached to placeholder "asdf" text. Gnomingstuff (talk) 03:20, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for the heads up! I added a bit today. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 14:04, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for taking out the trash on LMU

I don't closely monitor that article because my only experience with LMU is through my childhood experience with the Center for Talented Youth ↗. A lot of junk has snuck in there over the years. Thanks for taking out the trash on that article! Coolcaesar (talk) 21:18, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

:You're welcome. Boosterism was a major problem; promotional (or unsourced) writing reduces the article's credibility and wastes a lot of space. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 13:03, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Discussion regarding the ''Academic background'' divider in Template:Infobox academic ↗

25px|link=|alt= ↗ Melchior2006, you might be interested in a discussion currently ongoing at Template talk:Infobox academic ↗ about the possibility of reformatting the template without the ''Academic background'' divider. GuardianH (talk) 23:07, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Hazing

Thanks for adding to the Hazing ↗ article. The source you linked does not mention alcohol poisoning, nor that Burch was a pledge. Could you please choose a different source or change your text? Thank you. Cerulean Depths (talk) 20:36, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

:Done. Thanks for looking closely! -- Melchior2006 (talk) 10:06, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Culinary Institute of America

Hey, I wanted to see if you had any other thoughts on this request ↗ for the Culinary Institute of America. Let me know! Cheers BINK Robin (talk) 20:16, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

:Looks good as far as I can see. I just took another look at the page and trimmed here and there, toned down some boosterism, deleted seom points that don't attain encyclo-relevance. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 08:00, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
::I appreciate the close eye! Just for the sake of full transparency, would you mind responding with a "go ahead" on the CIA Talk page? I am more than happy to make the edit myself, I just want to make sure everything is clear to future Talk page reviewers. Cheers BINK Robin (talk) 16:16, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
::Hey, wanted to check if you had seen my latest response on the CIA Talk page? Thanks, BINK Robin (talk) 18:56, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

University of Nebraska at Kearney

I noticed your recent edit to University of Nebraska at Kearney ↗ with the phrase 'boosterism galore' as part of the edit summary. Such a large deletion in a single edit is not optimal in that subsequent editors may find it difficult to change ''parts'' of the text added or deleted.
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In my opinion the deletions were were not al well thought out. As an example you changed, in the section 'notable people', you deleted 'olympic' from the description of a wrestler. 'Olympic wrestler' is what makes that person notable; he won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.
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Judging by your edit summary, size of your single edit deletion, and number of perhaps disputable deletions, I suggest you be more careful, lest you find similar large deletions reverted rather selectively altered. It is always wise to do your own work thoroughly rather the shifting the burden to those who follow. I made a single change and reverted the rest.

— <span style="color:orange">'''N'''</span>'''eonorange''' (talk to Phil) (he, they) 14:15, 16 April 2025 (UTC) —

:Thanks for your message. I take WP:BOLD to heart. But you're right, 14,000 is a rather large edit. The article was an exception because it has so many problems. But I will take another look and parce the edits for further consideration and discussion among editors. As for "notable" alums: we don't go into which competitions they have won, etc., but again, the Olympics might be an exception to that rule, too. As for "doing my own work" .... deletions are work. They are the first step to improving quality and reducing puff. You are welcome to help. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 14:38, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks for the very fine reply—I will take you up on your offer—puffery in educational institution is like kuduz ↗, you can not kill it, only cut it back. I live in a state, Georgia, with lots of kudzu. It's said that lazy mules can be overtaken and smothered by the vine.
::The puffery starts with middle schools and runs through sections of departments of graduate schools.
::I am sorry, "doing your on work" did come over as harsh". I should have said that making huge edits make it difficult for any other editor to make changes to make changes to a small section (even you, if you decide to revisit). If anything, huge edits makes ''your'' initial work harder.
::Huge edits to an article attract attention of the wrong kind. Revenge editing at the younger end of the age range. Huge edits can, because there no individual edit summaries, discourage potential editors from participating further. It's a balancing act. Puffery in educational institution articles is easy to recognize, but the usual effect is that it's unencyclopedic, not misleading, information. Another approach is to add a hidden message, only seen while editing, to the section {{tq|<nowiki><---Please see WP:XYZ ↗---></nowiki>}} or {{tq|<nowiki><---Please pick persons for listing in a ''notable alumni'' section that will be known at some time outside your state or region for actions that are newsworthy---></nowiki>}} (whatever message you find works best).
::In my opinion, Olympic medal winners are always good for notable lists; Members of the top, very selective professional organizations like the National Academy of Sciences ↗; top tier awards for achievements in various fields such as the Fields Medal, Nobel Prize; well-known artists, producers, other creators, and agents for same, Academy Awards winners (any of EGOT awards); well-known journalists, national network anchors and commentators; multiple season players and coaches in top tier professional sports leagues; US governors, senators and representatives, Cabinet members and ambassadors, mayors of major cities; breakout businessmen, particularly those who established an industry (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs...), general officers ↗ of the US military, awardees of the top two medals of each US armed services branch; members of the federal judiciary. And lots more categories that may qualify.
::The above are just my opinion. I may have left out categories that I would give an easy pass. Do you know of any Wikipedia essays dealing with 'notable lists' for educational institutions? Or a group that targets puffery?
::For me, since I do not write articles, consider educating and encouraging potential productive editors is important. I tend to write long edit summaries where appropriate.

::— <span style="color:orange">'''N'''</span>'''eonorange''' (talk to Phil) (he, they) 15:51, 23 April 2025 (UTC) —
::p.s. I may be responsible for the duplicated sections. My latest OS update from Apple, to IOS 18.4, is causing problems. I've lost edits often; did not think duplicated sections were also happening. — <span style="color:orange">'''N'''</span>'''eonorange''' (talk to Phil) (he, they) 16:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC) —

Revert on UChicago Article

Hello, you recently reverted an edit I made adding a transportation section to the page, as per the GA review suggestions. The Washington University ↗ section, which was linked as an example to use (although, not for the transportation section in particular), does include information on public transportation, such as train lines. If you disagree about the relevance of this particular information, I wonder if we can bring this up on the talk page and see if we can come to a consensus. In the meantime, do you have a problem with the information on the shuttle system/rideshare program, or can I re-add those parts to the page? Charter6281 (talk) 18:53, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for your note. I don't think bus stops or shuttle systems are relevant for an encyclopedia, but let's move this to the UChicago talk page and see what others think. Do you want to start the talk section, or should I? Since you are proposing the content, I suggest you start the discussion over there. See you soon. Melchior2006 (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
::Sounds good. I started the talk section, although I'm new to these kinds of disputes - please let me know if I set up the discussion wrong or if there's a special template I should use instead. Charter6281 (talk) 04:07, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

George Jean Nathan

You have written here that he only wrote one play. He did co-write HELIOGABALUS with H. L. Mencken. Project Gutenberg has a virtual copy of it, if you would like to take a look. 173.23.142.45 ↗ (talk) 20:06, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

:Good to know. Go ahead and make the change, I'm all for it. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 05:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's association with Chris Goode

You recently attempted to remove the controversy section from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s Wikipedia page, which summarises the institution’s past association with playwright and director Chris Goode. Goode met his future husband while serving as a guest lecturer at the school, when his husband was a student (they started dating whilst his husband was a student and he was a lecturer). In 2021, Goode was arrested in connection with allegations of child sexual abuse and possession of child sexual abuse material after his husband reported finding over two decades’ worth of such material, including images of infants, on Goode’s personal computer. Goode died by suicide shortly thereafter, and in his suicide note expressed praise for the creators of child sexual abuse material. While the school has not issued a public statement on this matter or published any updates to its safeguarding policies in relation to the alleged circumstances, these details are supported by reliable published sources and meet Wikipedia’s verifiability standard. The section records a notable aspect of the school’s history, in line with Wikipedia’s requirement to include significant, well-sourced information, irrespective of whether it reflects positively or negatively on the subject. British Theatre Transparency (talk) 10:18, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

:I didn't "attempt to remove" the controversy section; I removed it. I have no doubts about the reliability of the sources and the facticity of the affair, but this is not the right place for it. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a platform for activists, as laudable as your cause may be. My argument is that Goode and his husband are not sufficiently well-known to go into the institutional history of RCSSD. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 10:33, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
::He was the artistic director of Camden People's Theatre from 2001-2004, which was itself founded by faculty members of the school. His company 'Chris Goode & Company' was a national portfolio organisation and in receipt of permanent funding from Art Council England, in much the same way nationally significant theatres and cultural institutions get funded. Simply because you are unaware of the historical significance and level of integration that Chris Goode had with the School doesn't mean the entire controversy is not part of the institutional history. It might not be comfortable but it is factual and relevant. British Theatre Transparency (talk) 10:42, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
:::Let's see what other editors think. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 10:53, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
::::This discussion will be continued on the Talk:Royal Central School of Speech and Drama ↗ page, that is where it belongs. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 12:58, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Roberto221

If you need to contact Roberto221, please do so on his talk page and not mine. And really, the "See also" section of bishops' articles is a major concern of yours that you had to go out and get the "consensus" of three people? When I was studying for my advance degrees in theology, discernment was a big part of what we were taught. In the 20+ years since it makes even more sense. Give it try it some time. Then maybe you can focus on what is important and stop focusing on the trivial. Farragutful (talk) 23:19, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for the redirect. Will do. Talk pages are a way of reaching consensus, so thanks for being constructive and helping editors reach it. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 10:57, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Unjustified mass removal of sources and sourced content

This edit ↗ to the article for Mainland Regional High School (New Jersey) ↗ simply does not respect basic and fundamental Wikipedia policies and standards. Despite the claim in the edit summary that you "Cut completely unsourced assertions, boosterism", in fact, the overwhelming portion of the content you removed was made up of several different reliable and verifiable sources from independent sources. This is simply inexcusable.{{pb}}I will also point out that the term "boosterism" means nothing, has no basis in Wikipedia policy and serves as no justification for removal of anything.{{pb}}This edit will be reverted and material that can and should be retained will be kept in the article; those things that can be sourced will have references added; and the trivially minimal material that cannot or should be removed will be.{{pb}}Please refrain from further such mass removal of sources and sourced content, in the absence of any discussion and consensus supporting your edits. Alansohn (talk) 20:00, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

:We've discussed this enough in the past, so I see no need to go into it now. Thanks for your improvements to the page. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 04:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

City College of New York DRN

I mentioned you in the dispute since you commented in discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#City_College_of_New_York Graywalls (talk) 22:23, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

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Identification of cited work.

Hello. Mr. Melchior2006.

Please forgive me if this message is outside of wikipedia etiquette and rules. Because I've never done this before. I was interested in the Rule of St Benedict because the Outline of the Benedictine Life on the page for the Rule of St. Benedict mentions a "brief period of communal recreation". I saw that this phrase is cited from a work, and it appears to me that you are the one who put this citation into the page.

Alcuin Deutsch, Educational principles in the Rule of St. Benedict. Collegeville, Minn., St. John's Abbey [1912].

However I can't find this book at all. Can you please share with me how you accessed it so I may read the cited work?

Thank you for your work. ~2026-21838 ↗ (talk) 00:19, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

:I added the book by Deutsch to the bibliography. That is not, however, the source for the assertion about B's "communal rejection." The abbot's rejection is described in Gregory the Great's "Dialogues." The only biographical information we have about B is found in the "Dialogues." -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you, Melchior2006. But I think you have misread the word "recreation" as "rejection".
::Thank you for pointing me to Gregory the Great's "Dialogues".
::God bless you. ~2026-41772 ↗ (talk) 02:38, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
:::thank you! A "brief period of communal recreation" is difficult to source; now I understand your question better. In the Trappist/Cistercian controversy, Trappists insisted that the Rule of St. Benedict did not intend recreation in common, while the general consensus in Benedictine life has approved of recreation for hundreds of years, now. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 07:53, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
::::Thank you, Melchior. ~2026-41772 ↗ (talk) 09:14, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Diocese of Metuchen

First off, I consider it a discourtesy to revert edits without discussing them with the editor. Wikepedia instated the reversion feature for vandalism, not disagreements with content. You are also free to change edits to whatever you want without reverting them.

Secondly, as noted in the text, the sexual abuse lawsuit was filed in 2021; McCarrick did not die until 2025. Finally, there is nothing wrong about adding a fully referenced notation about a lawsuit. They can take years to resolve and are often not reported in the media. You could have researched the outcome yourself and updated the article. Rogermx (talk) 17:55, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

:I wrote "good faith edit" because I felt you made the edit in good faith, certainly not as vandalism. You do great work for Wikipedia; I want to thank you for that. However, "the now laicized cardinal" was a phrase that invited confusion, since he is not "now laicized." He is dead. Might "then laicized" have been an option? As for the law suit, if McCarrick is dead and the case was never closed, how can we know what really happened? Perhaps the trial reached some conclusion... was there a verdict? If not, I find it problematic to include the allegations in the article, since anyone can allege anything. It is not my job to research the outcome, it is yours (if you want the passage to remain). I welcome feedback from other editors about these and other cases where allegations were made but no legal resolution followed. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 19:29, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Regarding an old redactive edit…

you performed on 17 November 2024, at the Alistair Begg ↗ article.

While in principle we have no issue with the deletions you made, it left the article without any statement regarding his departure (retirement) from his longstanding Cleveland, Ohio church leadership position.

Among other issues this created, it made the main body of the article, which does not mention an end to that leadership appointment, discrepant with the lead, which refers to him as being formerly in that role. As well, for editor’s wanting to establish the facts alluded to: with the deletion, there is no textual starting point from which one might begin their research (e.g., with regard to the date of the position’s ending).

Finally, while you were certainly within right to make the bold redactive edit, I would further point out—even after our locating reams of unsourced content as deriving from the WTS president’s article (at time of that honorary doctorate), the article remains poorly, incompletely sourced.

[Viz, had you, at the time, checked all statements to source, and deleted all material that was unsourced, barely a stub would have remained of the article. At present, even date and place of birth remain unreliable, even after our work. (From the WTS source, we know Scotland and 1952, but not the precise date, or Glasgow, which are still stated.)]

Taken together, this leads me to suggest—of course supporting omission of any editorializing or other violations—that you revert your deletion of the paragraph removed on that date (17 Nov ‘24), that describes Begg’s having stated a departure date from his position. This asked so that the lead-article discrepancy is removed/softened, and so that editor’s have something to start from, so they can—to paraphrase Thoreau—build a foundation under (source, correct) that castle in the air (the currently unsubstantiated departure/retirement).

That’s all from this former registered editor and academician of longstanding. Cheers. ~2026-11698-98 ↗ (talk) 06:22, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

What is "boosterism galore"? What is "boosterism"?

Your changes to the article for Oratory Preparatory School ↗ were reverted.

It's very hard to understand what boosterism is let alone "boosterism galore", as you have never justified it or pointed to a policy basis. Do you really believe that US government data on ethnicity is boosterism?!? Tuition and fee data is boosterism? Why are sources being reformatted in violation of WP:CITEVAR ↗ and WP:DATEVAR ↗?!!? Alansohn (talk) 12:57, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
:It's advertising that does not belong in the lede. You can find more information about that here ↗. I will move this over to the Oratory School talk page and continue there. I invite others to chime in. --Melchior2006 (talk) 13:00, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
::What is the "advertising"? You haven't addressed the question of why you removed content or changed formats of citations and dates. Nor is "boosterism" mentioned in the MOS. This isn't an article problem; it's an issue with the constant removal of content based on claims that don't match any policy. Using "boosterism" as a perpetual rationalization to delete content is a symptom of the underlying problem. Alansohn (talk) 15:19, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
:::We can gladly continue this talk on the appropriate page, not here. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 17:32, 26 April 2026 (UTC)