User Talk: VLWABC

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

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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<br/>
American anti-same-sex-marriage activists<br/>
American conspiracy theorists<br/>
American critics of Islam<br/>
Domestic violence in the United States<br/>

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)

:OK I was not trying to defame, my bad VLWABC (talk) 23:25, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
::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)
:::I understand VLWABC (talk) 23:31, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

:Category:Clay Higgins ↗ has been nominated for deletion

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Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Category:Jared Fogle ↗

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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.   <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 03:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Source verification

With this edit ↗, you introduced this reference:

<nowiki><ref>{{cite journal |last=Baumgartner |first=Jody C. |title=Humor, Politics, and the Public Perception of Presidents |journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly |year=2006}}</ref></nowiki>.

I can't verify it. I have searched the journal and his bibliography and don't find it. Where did you find it? Please provide a URL if possible. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:08, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

:I will in a bit, I'll get to it as soon as I can. VLWABC (talk) 15:40, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
:: Any luck yet? If ChatGPT helped with that content, it may have hallucinated/fabricated that source. AI will do that. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:11, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
:::I just removed it just to be on the safe side VLWABC (talk) 21:23, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
::::it appears that the same issue occurred on Scott Adams ↗ and was removed by {{U|Crestfalling}}. Please do not use LLM to generate text for articles like that. '''<span style="color:#8b00ff;">Eve</span><span style="color:#6528c2;">rgr</span><span style="color:#3f5184;">een</span><span style="color:#197947;">Fir</span>''' (talk) 05:09, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Citations for Scott Adams

I removed content you added to Scott Adams ↗ because I couldn't find any evidence that the references you added from NYT ↗, The Guardian ↗, and The Atlantic ↗ were real. Can you please explain how you accessed the sources in your citations? <span style="color:blue;">Crest</span><span style="color: deeppink">falling</span> (talk/contribs ↗) 02:54, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Saturday Night Live parodies of Ronald Reagan ↗

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:I am mostly new with creating articles. I apologize. I used it for assistance. VLWABC (talk) 10:55, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

You can’t suggest Epstein created /pol without a source

<span style="color:#070">Doug Weller</span> talk 19:02, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

March 2026

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May 2026

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Before adding a category to an eponymous ↗ category, as you did at :Category:Charles Curtis ↗, please make sure that the category is appropriate under Wikipedia's categorization guidelines ↗ and is consistent with WP:EPONYMOUS ↗.

An eponymous category is a category named after a subject that contains pages associated with that subject. For example, an eponymous category about a person, place, organization, or work may contain articles about related people, events, works, history, or other topics connected with that subject, not just the main article itself.

Because of that, adding a category to an eponymous category means that the added category should make sense for the contents of the eponymous category as a whole, not just for the subject it is named after. In general, the added category should apply to all or nearly all of the pages in the eponymous category.

For example, a category such as establishments in YEAR may apply to the subject itself, but usually will not apply to every page in the eponymous category, so it is usually not appropriate to add it there. Please also make sure that any category you add already exists. Categories that do not meet these requirements may be removed. ''please don't just add every single category'' <sup>S</sup>Mason<sub>Garrison</sub> 22:46, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Redirect listed at Redirects for discussion ↗

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Redirects you have created have been listed at redirects for discussion ↗ to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines ↗. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at '''{{slink| Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 23#Shy Guy colors }}''' until a consensus is reached.  ScalarFactor (talk) 03:32, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

:Category:Karen Bass ↗ has been nominated for deletion

<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">48px|alt=|link= ↗</div>:Category:Karen Bass ↗ 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. --Animalparty! (talk) 04:38, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion ↗ of :Handelbar (Kitchen Nightmares) ↗

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The page :Handelbar (Kitchen Nightmares) ↗ has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗, because it was a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines ↗. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, you may contact the {{Querylink|Special:Log|qs=type=delete&page=Handelbar+%28Kitchen+Nightmares%29|deleting administrator}}, or if you have already done so, you may open a discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review ↗.  <span style="color:#1C7E85"><b>Rusalkii</b></span> (talk) 05:19, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

:I believe you meant Handlebar (Kitchen Nightmares) ↗, which I've now created. <span style="color:#1C7E85"><b>Rusalkii</b></span> (talk) 05:21, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
::yes thats true. VLWABC (talk) 17:28, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

:Category:Xavier Becerra ↗ has been nominated for deletion

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:Category:Maxine Waters ↗ has been nominated for deletion

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:Category:Eric Swalwell ↗ has been nominated for deletion

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Wikipedia:Overcategorization ↗

Hello. Please review Wikipedia:Overcategorization ↗, Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people ↗, and WP:CATDEF ↗ before creating more categories, or adding existing articles to categories. Eponymous categories are not for miscellaneous articles that mention or tangentially relate to the subject. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 01:28, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

:Category:Jared Polis ↗ has been nominated for deletion

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July 2026

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Blocked as a sockpuppet

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