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Hi Larry, I appreciates your feed back to edits that I have made to the Honourable Mr Jeremy Buckingham, MLCs wiki page. As you can tell I'm new to editing Misplaced Pages and so far, it has been a positive experience, however some parts are proving to be a nightmare such as replacing photos in the infobox.

You appear to know what's up so would it be too much to ask for directions to a simple step by step tutorial on replacing photos on Misplaced Pages. I've read through the official Misplaced Pages stuff but so far has not been fruitful.

thanks for your time CannabisCurator (talk) 02:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello - I am sorry for the slow reply. I have uploaded some of my own images to WP articles and at time replaced one image with another, but it can be a fairly complex area since it involves concepts like copyright, public domain, and fair use. I wouldn’t consider it to be one of my stronger areas, but here is a help page that may point you in the right direction. Larry Hockett (Talk) 15:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Larry really appreciate your guidance. I've been able to update the infobox image, so there is hope for me yet. CannabisCurator (talk) 03:51, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

"D-ring" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect D-ring has 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 Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 June 21 § D-ring until a consensus is reached. Thryduulf (talk) 13:38, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Freeway Series

Can you review it again obviously there is no score board number it was damaged by tied 2 or team lead number it doesn't look like 3-2 or 7-2 can you fix it please I was trying to fix and you declined my request I was trying to help? 2600:4808:4891:8E01:8C97:CD67:DD7F:2E78 (talk) 22:37, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your offer to help, and I'm happy to help you, but I can't quite make out your message. If you could, please tell me the first thing you would like me to fix, in a short but specific sentence. Then please put a period after that sentence. Then please list the next specific thing you would like me to fix, followed by another period. That way we can make sure we do not misunderstand each other.

Before my edit, it said that the next meeting of the teams would be two days ago. Larry Hockett (Talk) 23:04, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I fixed it anyway never mind. 2600:4808:4891:8E01:8C97:CD67:DD7F:2E78 (talk) 00:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Your 27 July 2024 edit on the Kamala Harris page

Dear Larry, I fail to understand your stated reason for reverting my edit regarding the name of Kamala Harris' law school alma mater; that institution is currently known as the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco, not "UC Hastings". To employ the old name simply sows confusion.

The major reason for using the new name on the Kamala Harris Wiki page is to comply with the actions of the State Bar of California. If you use the attorney search function on the State Bar's website at this time, you'd see that Harris' law school affiliation is listed as "UC, College of the Law, San Francisco". In fact, the California State Bar has changed the insitutional affiliations for all California attorneys who graduated from said institution to reflect the new nomenclature regardless of the year of graduation; this change is as official as it gets since State Bar actions are overseen by the California State Supreme Court and is also governed by statute. In other words, the law school's name-change, an action that required the explicit approval of the California Legislature due to the special nature of that institution's founding, is meant to be retroactive (the old name now merits only a historical footnote).

Finally, if we were to follow the logic of your July 27th edit, then we would need to refer to all graduates of the pre-1927 UCLA as alumni of the "Southern Branch of the University of California" rather than "UCLA", which is of course confusing to the point of being ridiculous. If you have no other valid objections, I will proceed to undo your revert tomorrow.

Cheers, Spotty's Friend (talk) 08:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Good morning. Misplaced Pages doesn't typically look to the styles utilized by licensing bodies to dictate our use of prose. When one searches for Kamala Harris on the state bar website, a simple last name, first name search gets us right to the correct individual; the name of the school does not help us in any way to locate the correct person. Generally, when we have doubts about the name of something, it can help to look at coverage of the subject in reliable sources.

With that said, I don't feel strongly enough about the issue to lose sleep one way or the other. You might just make sure that you clean up the remaining mention of UC Hastings in the lead section so that it doesn't stick out as inconsistent. Larry Hockett (Talk) 09:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)