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Can you add American Priorities' spending for Randy Villegas in the article?

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+priorities%22+%22randy+villegas%22

Thank you. ~2026-33543-19 (talk) 10:05, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure which article you mean? Marquardtika (talk) 13:55, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I contacted the wrong account. ~2026-33543-19 (talk) 08:51, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on Ryan D. Nelson

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Why did you revert this?

You reverted the following addition to the article about Rob Wittman:

=== Avoiding question on Social Security and Medicare ===

In June 2026, Wittman pretended to be busy in a phone call in order to avoid a question about how Republicans plan to reduce spending on Social Security and Medicare.("GOP Rep Caught Faking A Phone Call To Avoid Question About Plan To Cut Social Security" Huffington Post (June 10, 2026))

Why was this reverted? Isn't it interesting and important that Wittman is avoiding a sensible question about cutting of Social Security and Medicare by pretending to have a phone call? Shouldn't politicians answer important, relevant questions, or at least be honest about refusing to answer? Shouldn't politicians avoid lying? Is it important to protect liars? Joreberg (talk) 04:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Joreberg: What's important on Wikipedia is to use reliable sources in a neutral manner. Your edit didn't do either of these things. See WP:HUFFPOLITICS and WP:IMPARTIAL. This incident seems to fall under WP:NOTNEWS and doesn't appear to pass WP:10YT. Perhaps it will become more widely covered in reliable sources and prove to be of lasting importance, but it doesn't meet that bar today. Marquardtika (talk) 14:45, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

You refer to WP:HUFFPOLITICS. That is a comment about some articles in Huffington Post up until 2018, and is hardly relevant now.

When an incident is proven through clear and obvious video recording, and the incident is covered by many serious media, what is the reason for complaining about lack of "reliable sources"?

It is difficult to find a completely neutral source about cases where politician are lying. Should we stop informing about politicians who are lying?

For your convenience, I can repeat the questions you didn't answer:

• Isn't it interesting and important that Wittman is avoiding a sensible question about cutting of Social Security and Medicare by pretending to have a phone call?
• Shouldn't politicians answer important, relevant questions?
• Shouldn't politicians avoid lying?

Joreberg (talk) 18:39, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Katie Haun

Hi Marquardtika, You were very helpful in creating the Katie Haun article last August. I would now like to update the page with some new information. Would you be willing to take a look at my edit request, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Katie_Haun? Thanks, Yaltaha29 (talk) 19:49, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Washington Policy Center when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:19, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: I was trying to update the budget. I switched from the infobox template for institute to organization because that's a more apt infobox for this article. I'm not clear on why you reverted my edits. Now the budget in the infobox is out of date again. Marquardtika (talk) 19:54, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

If you go back and WP:PREVIEW your edit at Special:Diff/1337225349/1360785057, while making this change, you removed the President and CEO as well as the chairman as those parameters do not work in the new Infobox. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:58, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Ok, so it seems like those parameters just need to be changed to "leader". I will do that. Marquardtika (talk) 20:00, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

That's all I'm asking. No objection to updating the values, but can't have data being removed from the Infobox in the process. That's all! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:01, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Caesar Rodney Institute

Hi, Marquardtika.

Regarding your edit of the Caesar Rodney Institute, it is unreasonable to claim that the Yale University website does not qualify as a reliable source (WP:RS). This website is frequently cited in the context of the climate change issue (1  ), but is there some downside to disclosing the connection between the CRI and the fossil fuels industry? ChaetoLv (talk) 11:28, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Furthermore, information regarding this conflict of interest can be verified in media outlets listed in WP:RSPSS, such as The Washington Post and The Intercept.

Therefore, I believe that it would be appropriate to update the sources rather than removing the sentence entirely. ChaetoLv (talk) 13:50, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

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Can you update the Rashid Armand Young page?

Hi @Marquardtika. Can you update page for Rashid Armand Young(Louisiana State Representative)

NIL Policy Work: Rashid Young has been recognized in several major, statewide, and local news outlets for Chairing the Louisiana NIL Task Force. He is being noted for passing landmark legislation codifying the right of interscholastic(high school athletes) to enter into NIL Deals. Louisiana Attorney General Athlete Agent Registration also came from recommendations from Young’s task force.

https://lailluminator.com/2025/08/01/qa-with-rep-rashid-young-on-name-image-and-likeness/

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/louisiana-nil-high-school-college-sports-athletics/article_c2e9140e-054e-49c2-a53e-fab697f8c217.amp.html

https://www.wwltv.com/article/sports/local-sports/new-louisiana-law-allows-high-school-athletes-to-profit-from-nil-deals/289-7d293e99-0567-45e9-a858-629d0e5c3835 ~2026-41162-36 (talk) 02:42, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

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Hi Marquardtika, I created a draft (User:Matthewvillarreal/Kate Johnson (businesswoman) draft) for Kate Johnson, the CEO of Lumen Technologies who is one of 10% of Fortune 500 CEOs who are women. Given that you're a member of WikiProject Women in Red, would you be interested in reviewing the draft, editing as you see fit, and moving it to mainspace? Thank you very much, Matthewvillarreal (talk) 13:44, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I'll take a look. Marquardtika (talk) 14:57, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Reverting my edits to Sheldon Whitehouse

The tenture section that I edited is extremely biased, I mainly tried to introduce some neutrality and I expanded it with relevant information. Just reverting without any explanation is not done, no? As it stands right now, this tenure section makes it seem like this is an extremely disreputable Senator who's constantly been mired in one scandal after the other. Over half of the section about his 20 year tenure is about his stock trades and endorsement of Platner (how many Democrats endorsed and then removed their endorsement). Ranculos (talk) 16:27, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

You removed a lot of well-sourced material. You introduced content sourced to his own press releases, which are not reliable. Our job isn't to make it seem like someone is reputable or disreputable; it's to reflect what reliable sources have said about a subject. A subject's own self-authored press releases are not reliable. Marquardtika (talk) 16:48, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Fair point on the press releases—I agree, happy to swap those citations out. My main concern with the full revert is balance. Right now, over half of his 20-year Senate tenure section is dedicated to stock trade disclosures, an endorsement reversal, and an unadjudicated watchdog complaint. Focusing so heavily on those episodes while stripping out his actual legislative record makes the section feel completely one-sided. Instead of scrapping the whole overview, how about we keep the legislative history in there using independent news sources, while keeping concise, neutral coverage of the controversies? That way we fix the sourcing issue without making the section look like a hit piece. Ranculos (talk) 17:01, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

If you can find independent sources for new content, that's great and I'd have no objection to expanding the article. But I wouldn't remove well-sourced content. If there are due weight issues they can be addressed by adding content rather than removing it. Marquardtika (talk) 17:07, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

How about something like this:

Tenure

Whitehouse during the Munich Security Conference 2018

First elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 by defeating incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee, Whitehouse has served as junior senator for Rhode Island since 2007. He was subsequently re-elected in 2012, 2018, and 2024. Early in his tenure, the National Journal ranked him among the chamber's most liberal members.

Bush and Obama administrations (2007–2017)

In 2007, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Whitehouse participated in the investigation into the 2006 dismissal of U.S. attorneys, calling for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's resignation and telling NPR that Gonzales "had a hard sell to make to me, and he didn't make it." He subsequently voted to confirm Supreme Court nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

During this period, Whitehouse initiated his long-running "Time to Wake Up" floor speech series focusing on climate change and ocean acidification. He authored major bipartisan measures, including the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) with Republican Senator Rob Portman and the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. Following Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation in 2014 and the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, media speculation listed Whitehouse among potential administrative or judicial nominees.

Trump and Biden administrations (2017–present)

During the Trump and Biden administrations, Whitehouse focused his oversight on judicial ethics, campaign finance transparency, and international kleptocracy. On the Judiciary Committee, he delivered widely covered presentations during the 2018 Brett Kavanaugh and 2020 Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings, using detailed flowcharts to argue that conservative donor networks exerted covert influence over judicial selections.

Whitehouse served as lead sponsor of the DISCLOSE Act and co-authored anti-corruption legislation including the Corporate Transparency Act and the REPO for Ukrainians Act. Alongside Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, he authored the Save Our Seas Act and Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to address ocean plastic waste. In 2023, he assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Budget Committee, where he held hearings on climate risk and introduced Supreme Court reform legislation advocating 18-year term limits.

During the 2026 Maine Senate campaign, Whitehouse initially supported nominee Graham Platner. When reports emerged in June 2026 regarding unsettling past behavior toward dating partners, Whitehouse dismissed the reports as "a lot of nothing" driven by right-wing operatives. However, on July 7, 2026, following allegations of sexual assault against Platner, Whitehouse withdrew his endorsement. Whitehouse subsequently expressed skepticism regarding the initial accuser on CNN and to The Dispatch, though reporting noted the accuser's claims had been corroborated by contemporary diary entries and friends.

Ethics complaints and financial disclosures

Following a closed-door briefing on September 16, 2008, regarding the impending financial crisis, Whitehouse drew public scrutiny for selling between $250,000 and $600,000 in stocks over the next six days. His office denied wrongdoing, stating his portfolio was managed independently by a financial advisor without his direct instruction.

In 2022, reporting indicated Whitehouse had violated the federal STOCK Act by failing to disclose personal stock purchases in Target Corporation and Tesla, Inc. within the required 45-day deadline, an oversight attributed to staffing transitions. A subsequent The New York Times report identified trades in companies subject to committee oversight.

In February 2025, the conservative watchdog group Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed an ethics complaint alleging potential conflicts of interest regarding $7 million in federal environmental funding awarded to the Ocean Conservancy, where Whitehouse's wife served as a paid consultant. Whitehouse's office denied wrongdoing, stating the funding involved non-earmarked environmental allocations.

Ranculos (talk) 17:18, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

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AI

Hi Marquardtika, can I ask if you've ever used LLMs (such as an AI chatbot) to write content? I can see you've triggered Special:AbuseFilter/1325 a couple times, and edits going back to at least early 2025 have utm_source=chatgpt in urls. The relevant guideline is WP:NOLLM. Thanks, Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 14:01, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kowal2701: Huh, that's strange. I have never used LLMs to write content. I rarely use them at all for anything, although when I do I use Claude, so I don't know why I would get "chatgpt" in my URLs. Have never been to that website. Is is possible these edits were me restoring previous edits of another editor who used those URLs? I'm quite curious about this because I've noticed more and more content here than seems highly likely to have been created by AI and it irks me to no end. Marquardtika (talk) 15:41, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

You're right, it was , though doesn't appear in the previous version? 1325 just catches phrases that show up more in AI writing, it was and . I don't see WP:AISIGNS in your creations so this does seem like a false positive overall Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 16:17, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kowal2701: got it. Appreciate you keeping an eye out in this area. One thing that worries me is that as AI writing becomes more prevalent, humans seem to be writing more like AI sounds. So it feels like we're kind of headed to a word salad singularity. Marquardtika (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

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If you believe that there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then submit a request through the unblock wizard or through your talk page.  Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 17:08, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

• Given it's been a near decade since you were originally blocked, and you have not been blocked or apparently socked in the interim, I have an offer. As an unblock condition, you:

1. Accept a one account "unblock" restriction, which means you'll only be allowed to edit under this account-- no alternate accounts, disclosed or otherwise. This also includes collaborating with others in a way that implies inappropriate coordination. The restriction would be listed at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Unblock conditions and can be appealed in six months, to the community (WP:AN) or my talk page.
2. Add a note on your userpage disclosing those two past accounts; you can link to this discussion in the note #Let notes be added to Safehaven and CS, noting your current account.

Do you understand and agree to these conditions? Let me know if you have any questions. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 17:14, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

@Moneytrees: Yes, I accept these conditions. Marquardtika (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

@Moneytrees:, does this note comply with your conditions? Let me know if I should tweak it, thanks. Marquardtika (talk) 16:18, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

That works just fine; feel free to move it down the page or edit it or whatever, just as long as it keeps the essence of that wording. There might be a userbox for editors in your situation, let me see if I can find it... I added a note to the other accounts userpages, you can edit those around (while keeping the essence) as well. Good luck in your future editing, and let me know if you have questions. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 16:29, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Welcome back

Welcome back, Marquardtika! Bishonen | tålk 16:21, 31 August 2026 (UTC).

Consensus to recreate article

Hi: The Randy Villegas article that was AFD'd had ~8 reliable sources, the version I recreated had ~30. You argue I should get WP:CONSENSUS before recreating the article. Where? CopyleftEverything (talk) 16:10, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

@CopyleftEverything: I would start with the article talk page. You could also use Wikipedia:Articles for creation or Wikipedia:Deletion review. Marquardtika (talk) 16:18, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Could you help me access a law360 article?

Hello! I was wondering if you could help me access a law360 article? I asked at Resource Request and WP:Law but I have not received a response. You added a law360 article to Jack Brewer in August, so hopefully you still have access to the service?

The article in question is:

• Donahue, Bill (3 March 2015). "Kimberly-Clark Settles Trade Dress Fight Over Pee Pads". www.law360.com. Law360. Retrieved 9 August 2026.

I'm hoping to use the content of the article to improve Goodnites.

If possible, could you email me the text of that article? JordyGrey _talk🧸 08:48, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

@JordyGrey: To get access to Law360 articles, I just needed to register an account and then I could see their articles for free (no subscription necessary!) Marquardtika (talk) 14:50, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Weird... when I first attempted to access the materials I could not create an account, and again when I tried this morning I couldn't... but when I reloaded and tried a second time it let me sign up!! I swear I used the same email both times...

Anyway, I registered, so I can read the article for myself. Ironically, someone else just emailed it to me lol

Thank you :) JordyGrey _talk🧸 01:29, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Gates Foundation, AGRA paragraph

I looked more closely at the source behind the paragraph you removed, Colin Todhunter's Food, Dependency and Dispossession, particularly Chapter I, “Toxic Agriculture: From the Gates Foundation to the Green Revolution.”

I agree with your point that the claims should not be presented as Wikipedia's own conclusions, and I think explicit attribution to Todhunter would address that concern.

I also wanted to clarify that Todhunter's discussion is not simply an unsupported assertion by the author. In the relevant section, he discusses the high-input, chemical-intensive Green Revolution model and its relationship to public health, monocropping, crop diversity and nutrition. He then specifically identifies and quotes a 2010 paper, “Zinc deficiencies in Agricultural Systems,” published in the International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development. The paper's authors state that Green Revolution cropping systems resulted in reduced food-crop diversity and decreased availability of micronutrients, and discuss micronutrient deficiency as a human-nutrition issue.

Todhunter also cites other material in the chapter concerning the health and environmental consequences associated with chemical-intensive agriculture.

Therefore, I think there are two distinct levels of attribution here: the interpretation of the Gates Foundation/AGRA is Todhunter's, while some of the underlying claims about crop diversity and micronutrient availability are explicitly attributed by Todhunter to the research he cites. ~2026-49683-83 (talk) 06:40, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-49683-83: Could you post this over on the Gates Foundation article talk page? Thanks. Marquardtika (talk) 14:51, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

I have done so. ~2026-49683-83 (talk) 09:22, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

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Hi Marquardtika. I noticed that you have previously edited the BLP for Kenneth Griffin. I wonder if you would not mind having a look at an edit request I posted, found here: Talk:Kenneth C. Griffin#Update to Early life and add new sub-heads to Career section. The edits add necessary updates to the article. If you agree, I'd appreciate you implementing them. Thanks so much. Cduffymul (talk) 17:01, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

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List of Judges/U.S. Attorneys needing articles

Hi Marquardtika. I stumbled onto your list of U.S. attorneys needing articles and saw Thomas Ferguson III of North Carolina. I'm pretty sure he goes by "Russ" just about all the time, so I'm suggesting you add "Russ" to his name in your list, so people can identify him easier. Cite:

Cheers. Underoke (talk) 16:34, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Ah, thank you, will do! Marquardtika (talk) 17:24, 5 October 2026 (UTC)