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I am thinking up to five nominations were made for District Courts in Texas today, but probably will have to wait for the morning to find out what they were. I have nothing better to do in the morning tomorrow, so I will probably knock them all out then. I see you got Ms. Sweet up in W.D.N.Y. Thanks. Safiel (talk) 06:04, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

• Further note Good job, but I just want to note that the Persondata template has been deprecated and should no longer be used in any articles. I have gone ahead and removed them. Safiel (talk) 02:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Just a note that I changed the hatnote on David C. Nye to other uses. I moved the old page that was at David Nye and created a disambiguation page, since there are now four different David Nye articles and none are a primary topic. Safiel (talk) 03:42, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hey there Snickers2686 - I recently posted some cited information about U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman on his article's talk page, with the hope that an editor might want to look it over/incorporate some it into the article. I do work for the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, which is why I do not wish to simply add the info to the article myself (we do want to honor Wikipedia's guidelines about conflict of interest/bias). Having noticed that you've edited his page in the past, I'm wondering if you'd be willing pop over there and give it a look? Even just a comment or some recommendations on how to proceed would be very helpful, as I am new to Wikipedia and know that there are sensitivities around credible editing. Thanks! ThorneEA613 (talk) 14:22, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for fixing these up,[1] it is appreciated. I've been trying to figure out who the committee-members will be (i.e. their names), when January 2017 rolls around and the confirmation-hearings begin. Is it true that we simply don't know that info yet, and that the repub-controlled Senate will figure out who the committee-chairs are, and each major-party caucus will figure out what the committee-assignments are, in January? Or do we have preliminary information already, on who exactly is going to be assigned to what exact committee? No problem if you don't know these answers, or if you'd prefer to wait until January when the official committee-assignments are formally annouced, of course. 47.222.203.135 (talk) 14:23, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

• 47.222.203.135: I'm going to guess most of the committee chairs won't change much, although the compositions might considering there will be some new Senators sworn in. Until the new Congress convenes and other personal websites go online, I don't think we'll know much until January. Snickers2686 (talk) 17:45, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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When citing an article that is translated from another language, how do I note the language of the original article in the citation?

Snickers2686 (talk) 22:36, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

From the documentation of Template:Cite news:

{{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title= |trans-title= |url= |language= |newspaper= |location= |access-date= }}

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{ec}}:This page has all the answers - Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia#Translating_from_other_language_Wikimedia_projects Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:59, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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WP:Referencing for beginners; the video on that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes by using citation templates like {{cite web}} (without bothering with the code); those templates have a "language" parameter you can use for the source's original language. Huon (talk

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(edit conflict)Like this^[1] or that^[2].

1. ^ "привет" (in Russian).
2. ^ привет (in Russian)

Documentation: {{cite web}}, {{cite book}}, {{link language}}.

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(edit conflict × 4)If you're talking about a reference being in a foreign language, then you'll want to use language icons. For example, {{fr icon}} shows (in French) and {{es icon}} shows (in Spanish). The language code is the two-letter abbreviation used by Wikipedia for the different languages. See the documentation and/or this list for the language codes. Primefac (talk) 23:04, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

I believe that the {{fr icon}} is an alias to {{link language}}. --Gryllida 23:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

If you are linking an English language citation, it does not matter whether it's a translation or not. (You can just put '(translated from French)' in its title to remark that.) --Gryllida 23:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

The documentation of {{es icon}} says "For citations, the language parameter of the various citation templates ({{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, {{cite journal}}, etc.) should be used instead." As I said originally. Elizium23 (talk) 00:30, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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