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Semi-protected edit request on 30 June 2023

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Ginsburg is featured in a photograph in Law & Order: SVU’s Olivia Benson’s office, starting in season 20. 2604:3D08:1C7B:4000:A8B2:F64F:EA74:7628 (talk) 07:00, 30 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 08:09, 30 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Change first reference to simply "Obama" in first paragraph to "President Barack Obama". Breisnshine (talk) 20:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done 〜 Askarion ✉ 20:41, 5 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Conservative vs Right-wing vs Right of Center to describe Musk and Murdoch

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In characterizing the politics of Musk and Murdoch Jessintime changed the text from "conservative" to "right-wing leaning". That description is somewhat loaded and doesn't necessarily apply here. Both people are anti-trump, and Musk is socially liberal. I reviewed online sources and "Right of center" seems fair to me, so I made that edit with rationale in comments. Jessintime reverted the text saying "they're right wing". To avoid churn, I just reverted all edits and am opening this talk page topic.

While I'm liberal and I'd guess at least 90% of wikipedia editors are, we shouldn't be using our opinions to characterize everyone to the right of us as "right-wing". Characterizing people requires thinking in terms of population averages. Now adays right wing is means being a trumpist or in favor of dictators like Putin, which these two are not to my knowledge.

We could just leave characterization of those two people out of it entirely if that's easiest. I agree Musk is not traditionally conservative. Thoughts on that approach? Other ideas for consensus? Efbrazil (talk) 17:44, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

I struck the controversial text as nobody replied. Seems the easiest way to fix this. Efbrazil (talk) 16:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's refreshing to see a Wikipedia editor admit the left wing / Democrat bias that is so blatant here. Conservatives have largely been run off by excessive bias from Wikipedia controlling editors and influencers. 167.248.146.171 (talk) 05:00, 28 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Facts aren't biased 75.118.12.202 (talk) 00:32, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Can someone please fix the last sentence in the Death and Succession section of this page? Her replacement (Amy Coney Barrett) was confirmed on October 26, 2020 and was sworn in the next day (October 27). Can someone fix what I just said? Please. ~2025-37315-97 (talk) 23:49, 29 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Partly done: I'm adding a reference to the section, which shows that she was confirmed and sworn in on October 26. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:12, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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In the "Early life and education" section, Ruth's sister is mentioned twice with incorrect spelling. Change Marylin to Marilyn. ~2026-17170-94 (talk) 19:52, 18 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

@~2026-17170-94 Can you provide a source for this? Marilyn is mentioned only once in the article while Marylin is mentioned thrice. PieWriter (talk) 01:22, 19 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

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